Comments on: How the outsider looks http://www.gnxp.com/new/2010/03/13/how-the-outsider-looks/ Genetics Tue, 03 Apr 2018 05:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.27 By: AG http://www.gnxp.com/new/2010/03/13/how-the-outsider-looks/#comment-297 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:04:48 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=132#comment-297 Looking down on you own kind or humbleness is very much of Chinese tradition.
Unfortunately, such attitude is disaster for value transference or GPD.

]]> By: Yifan Yang http://www.gnxp.com/new/2010/03/13/how-the-outsider-looks/#comment-249 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:50:45 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=132#comment-249 Han Han is a writer, not a scholar. He might be pretty pissed if he is thought to be “confucian scholar”, or an elite. He consider himself a rebellion.

]]> By: John Emerson http://www.gnxp.com/new/2010/03/13/how-the-outsider-looks/#comment-240 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:47:49 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=132#comment-240 I don’t think it’s much of a stretch. China doesn’t really have a tradition of popular participation in government (short of rebellion), but they have a strong tradition of elite criticism of government.

]]> By: Mark Houston http://www.gnxp.com/new/2010/03/13/how-the-outsider-looks/#comment-237 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:09:15 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=132#comment-237 Let me add, that one day I was wondering where the company directors were receiving tips from, concerning management decisions, made by foreign managers, employed to save the company from bankruptcy. What we discovered, was that the so called owner of the company, a 70 yr. old, was having an affair with my 18 yr. old receptionist, who naturally passed on, on a daily basis, all of the talk. This girl was so frightened of loosing her job, she told be near the end of my term, that when she had nothing to report, she would just make-up gossip, to ensure her master was happy. Today, this same company is on the verge of closing down. I wonder why ?

]]> By: Mark Houston http://www.gnxp.com/new/2010/03/13/how-the-outsider-looks/#comment-236 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:03:04 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=132#comment-236 Well Mr. Han is not far from the truth. I worked on contract in Shanghai, Beijing and Chengdu, for 12 months, from Oct, 2006. This was my first long stay since 1989, and had hoped to see improvements, in the system. What I experienced was a worse situation, with government officials and their cronies all out to get rich as fast as possible, and at any cost. So, what did I achieve ? In truth, absolutely nothing. It was as if I was working with a tribe of monkeys, all with brain damage.

Mr. Ha is correct, the corruption is so bad its undescribable, and the confusion, of remembering who you have bribed, makes dealing with, everyone else, a nightmare, since, when government officials are transfered, the replacement is soon on site with his hands out.

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