Reddit reviews On China

We'll go far :)
I'd recommend these two books that I'm reading:

On China - by Henry Kissinger

Etiquette Guide to China: Know the Rules that Make the Difference!


I learned a ton and the etiquette book had a bunch of useful phrases in the back

no fucking nation is benevolent, what you dont understand is that chinese people and our whole history is built upon being conquered internally over and over and over again and still surviving miraculously, and now you admit you have no direct experiences in china, im trying to explain to your own western ignorance of how chinese people think as a group, have you done business internationally? do you know how different it is to approach different subjects and ideas from cultural perspectives? no if you grow up asian youd fucking know exactly why and how authority strictly controls information, im not trying to explicitly tell you youre wrong, im trying to explain that theres a level of blindness that comes from being from only 1 culture, you're own perspective is built on one system and its up to you to discover and make judgments on your own experiences, but coming from someone raised on US history/patriotism/individualism AND chinese culture/values/history, you see disparaging differences in one is to approach basic universal truths, why is one culture superior to the other, no such thing


read this, this is the most comprehensible book by a westerner on china ive ever read
http://www.amazon.com/China-Henry-Kissinger/dp/1594202710

I'd recommend Henry Kissinger's book: On China on wich he explains that China's crop yields, and vast amounts of basicaly every resource made it easy on having big populations. Also on the subject of China being homogeneous on population, through all of china's classical era, they used sheer population size and china's cultural riches to lure in and then finally absorb completely foregin invaders (called barbarians), so that in a few generations, the whole population is again much like a bunch of Han chinesemen

Henry Kissinger: On China is a fantastic book. It gives you a sense of the typical Chinese mindset by quickly going into its history and then applying that to Communist China and beyond. Kissinger draws on his personal experiences and talks with Mao and other key figures.