Dreams are, as I claimed near the end of last Friday’s post, alive and well in China. If we needed any more evidence that dreams hold appeal in China as they do in the U.S., we’ve got some. First, this piece from Time, about lawyer Xu Zhiyong, who was arrested under false-seeming pretenses, and has [...]
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Time Orientation
Today we round out our discussion of Hofstede’s dimensions of culture. The fifth and final dimension — time orientation — was not discovered in Hofstede’s original surveys. Sensing that something was missing — something important about Asian cultures — Michael Harris Bond, a professor in Hong Kong, designed and carried out a separate set of [...]
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