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German wedding in a Chinese garden

By: Ulrich Sollmann
22-08-2012
intercultural, society

German wedding in a Chinese garden

By chance I had a visit to the Chinese Garden at the Bochum University. It is a bit more than one thousand squaremeters big and it seems to be a little diamond in the big industrial area where I live.

A special treasure within the Botanical Garden is the Chinese Garden Qian Yuan, a classical southern Chinese scholar’s garden donated to the Ruhr University in 1990 by Bochum`s partner university, the Tongji University of Shanghai.

The garden is shaped like a square surrounded by walls. At each side there’s a window like round hole in the wall, so that you can get a glimpse, a little …………..

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…it`s too hot to write

By: Ulrich Sollmann
19-08-2012
society

…it`s too hot to write.

I hope you will understand. So enjoy yourself. 😉

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GyN8RBUJ3gs/TAynD0-gnWI/AAAAAAAAIDM/C8fo_erPmBA/s1600/Joseph+watering.JPG

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Business Setting and nonverbal communication

By: Ulrich Sollmann
16-08-2012
intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

Business Setting and nonverbal communication

Here is a brief overview on specific aspects of :
How Chinese Nonverbal Communication Can Affect An International Business Setting

http://internationalbusiness.wikia.com/wiki/How_Chinese_Nonverbal_Communication_Can_Affect_An_International_Business_Setting

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Cultural etiquette in China – balancing between being society-bound and independent

By: Ulrich Sollmann
15-08-2012
intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cultural etiquette in China – balancing between being society-bound and independent

The People

Deeply rooted in Chinese society is the need to belong and conform to a unit, whether the family, a political party or an organization. The family is the focus of life for most Chinese. Age and rank are highly respected. However, to the dismay of older people, today’s young people are rapidly modernizing, wearing blue jeans and sunglasses, drinking Coke and driving motorbikes.

Meeting and Greeting

  • Shake hands upon meeting. Chinese may nod ……………
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Bis zur Selbst-Verleugnung – Olympia

By: Ulrich Sollmann
14-08-2012
News, science, society

 

 

 

 

 

Bis zur Selbst-Verleugnung – Olympia

heute aus aktuellem Anlass wieder etwas in Deutsch. Habe in meiner Kolumne beim Tagesspiegel das Spanungsfeld skizziert, in dem sich Athleten und der Spitzensport befinden. Ein Spannungsfeld, das als solches nicht sorgsam genug und körpergerecht behandelt wird.

http://www.tagesspiegel.de/sport/der-koerperleser-bis-zur-selbst-verleugnung/6995336.html

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Cultural Etiquette in Germany – a balancing act between guide and stereotype

By: Ulrich Sollmann
13-08-2012
intercultural, society

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cultural Etiquette in Germany –

a balancing act between guide and stereotype

well, people here in Germany aren`t like this in everyday life. 😉

Though this etiquette mirrors some German principles, we nowadays have defined th things down. Fortunately. 😉

The People

Germans value order, privacy and punctuality. They are thrifty, hard working and industrious. Germans respect …………..

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Bound to the context or the individuum?

By: Ulrich Sollmann
10-08-2012
intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

Bound to the context or the individuum?

In June I wrote about my impression that Chinese language is a body language. A conclusion out of this issue can be the following:

On the one hand Chinese people are bound to each other by society, family or group identity but they show up within this context as some kind of only related person on the interactional level. When the person shows up individually when the person interacts it relates to the context. We in the Western countries call this: bound to family and social life or structures. We also have the opinion that this is a sign of social / cultural bound identity.

In contrast to that we in the western countries……………..

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Chinese language is body-language (6)

By: Ulrich Sollmann
09-08-2012
Body language, intercultural, society

Chinese language is body-language (6) – an apple is not an apple –

When remembering the experience in Düsseldorf I begin to understand one important difference between the German and Chinese way of writing / painting graphics and letters. We know about the meaning of a letter and a word, independent from writing this letter or word in a proper way. So we do not feel any necessity to write in a proper way, with concentration or full awareness. We know: an apple is an apple. And if we write this word in a readable way it is ok to do so.

To me it seems that this is quite different to ………..

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Let’s think about relationship

By: Ulrich Sollmann
08-08-2012
Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let’s think about relationship

Let’s think about being a little girl, a little child and being old and growing down to the earth. These two people, the smart little girl and the old (bowed?) woman represent relationship in so far as the child is aware of the people around her but does not have to be always engaged with these people. The child goes out to his own future and …………

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An aesthetical analysis of body language in conversation

By: Ulrich Sollmann
26-07-2012
Body language, psychology, society

An aesthetical analysis of body language in conversation

HUANG He 1, ZHAN Qi-yi 2, ZHANG Yi-jun 1 (School of Liberal Arts, Kunming Science and Engineering University, Kunming 650224,China)  
Aesthetical analysis of body language in a conversation is an important part of the aesthetical judgment analysis of conversational discourse, which includes the nice look of facial expression as its outer form and the meaning implied in such expression, the outer beauty of posture expression and meaning conveyed by such language. The role played by both facial expression and posture expression in discourse, during a conversation, is to aid, verify, impress or remove. Facial expression and posture expression, which is of aesthetical evaluation should be conformed to discourse and context. The relationship between signifier and the signified of body language is an expressive one. $$$$
 
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