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Comment on The Chinese Mind: Understanding Traditional Chinese Beliefs and their Influence on Contemporary Culture by Ann Bingley Gallops "Ann"

Ann Bingley Gallops "Ann" — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:08:35 +0000

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

A realistic look at the future of world culture, April 2, 2009

Ann Bingley Gallops "Ann" (New York City) -

This review is from: The Chinese Mind: Understanding Traditional Chinese Beliefs and their Influence on Contemporary Culture (Paperback)

As a Feng Shui consultant (openspacesfengshui.com) I'm fascinated with how Chinese culture is influencing the world right now and into the future. An easy read, this short book is bringing me up to speed in a hurry. Very highly recommended for its well-informed viewpoint, the cultural background it supplies, as well as the thoughtfully crafted discussion points the author provides at the end of each chapter.

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Comment on The Chinese Mind: Understanding Traditional Chinese Beliefs and their Influence on Contemporary Culture by Yeo Heng Yap

Yeo Heng Yap — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:21:48 +0000

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Brief and precise, November 14, 2009

Yeo Heng Yap (Toronto,Canada.) -

This review is from: The Chinese Mind: Understanding Traditional Chinese Beliefs and their Influence on Contemporary Culture (Paperback)

A good starter for anyone who wants to have a first hand knowledge of what's meant by " Chinese".
The Chinese have a language which is difficult to learn. Each Chinese character has its own distinctive meaning.
Chinese civilisation's a recorded history of about five thousand years.
The authors have patiently go through all aspects of Chinese culture in this comprehensive book.
If you think the Chinese are inscrutable, hard to understand, get a copy of this book.

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Comment on The Chinese Mind: Understanding Traditional Chinese Beliefs and their Influence on Contemporary Culture by Bas Vodde

Bas Vodde — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:01:49 +0000

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

Useful introduction to Chinese Culture, March 12, 2010

Bas Vodde (Singapore) -

This review is from: The Chinese Mind: Understanding Traditional Chinese Beliefs and their Influence on Contemporary Culture (Paperback)

"The Chinese Mind" is a short introduction to today's Chinese culture and thinking. I felt it was a fair and accurate description of modern China and how/why things are the way they are (I've myself lived many years in China). This would be one of my recommended books if someone asks me for more information about China. Yet, I was disappointed with the final chapter, hence decided to go for 3 stars (more about that later).

The book consists of four parts, which do not really contain sub-chapters, but rather sub-sections. The first of the parts is about the language and its relationship to culture. The second part covers traditional China and the next part modern China. The last part is a list of "codewords" from the author to help understand the culture.

The author is of opinion that language conveys culture and thus an understanding of language is essential for understanding its culture (which I don't disagree). He considers some words/concepts in a language to be essential for understanding the culture, thus explaining these words/concepts a person can within a short time get a deep dive in the culture. He calls these codewords. The first part introduces this concept and the fourth part lists important codewords.

Part two covers a more traditional view of Chinese culture. It explains current cultural values and practices but in its traditional context. The next part covers more of the modern China and how it has changed over the years. China has had a roller-coaster ride from tradition, to no tradition but instead communism and cultural revolutions and then back to tradition again. This roller-coaster ride has deeply influenced the modern China. The author does a good job in describing this.

The last part consists of code words or key words which give an deep insight in Chinese culture. From my experience, some of these code words are right on, some of them are perhaps a little old and of less influence in modern day China. I felt the code word approach only partially useful, but the chapter could be greatly improved. The code words are sorted alphabetically, which is really too bad because some of them strongly relate, whereas some don't relate at all. This makes reading this chapter like jumping constantly from one concept to the other. It would have been much nicer reading if the author would have grouped them together, perhaps explained the groups and the relationship between the code words which cover similar aspects of the culture. He could provide an alphabetical index for when people are search for a particular code word. Also, the author stressed the importance of pictograms in the Chinese language a lot, yet he doesn't show the traditional (or simplified) Chinese characters but instead pinyin. It would have been so much more interesting to add the characters to the code words. For me, these points were causing me to be slightly disappointed in this chapter.

All in all, The Chinese Mind was a useful book, especially if you are not very familiar with modern China. It does a good job explaining how and why things are the way they are (in such a short text at least). I disliked the structure (especially the "discussion topics & questions sections). I disliked the way the last part was written, it had so much more potential. My initial rating would have been 4 stars, but due to the above mentioned annoyances, I'd lower that to 3.5 stars and chose 3 stars in the Amazon review to reflect this. This doesn't mean this is a bad or average book, it is good, yet it could have been even better. A reasonable good overview of modern China.

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Comment on How to Attract Asian Women by twistedbrick

twistedbrick — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:48:07 +0000

18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

effing hilarious, November 13, 2005

twistedbrick (Melbourne, Australia) -

This review is from: How to Attract Asian Women (Paperback)

As an ABC (Australian Born Chinese), if I found out that a guy I was dating was reading this book, I'd dump him in an instant. Why? I'd rather be viewed as an individual than categorized into this exotic, shy, submissive, tea-drinking, rice-making, family-respecting, money-hungry "Asian female". Congratulations on making a quick buck out of perpetuating this stereotype, objectifying Asian females, and playing into Asian fetishists.

My challenge is trying to get people to see BEYOND my race - this book simply thwarts this.

Anyway, this was the funniest thing I've come across in a long-time. Oh, my white boyfriend is calling me from downstairs. He wants me to cook rice for him. I better go, because, after all, I am an Asian female and it is my role on earth to serve men.

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Comment on How to Attract Asian Women by consumer123 "dnaeye"

consumer123 "dnaeye" — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:29:16 +0000

40 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

1% success rate, November 11, 2005

consumer123 "dnaeye" (Los Angeles, CA) -

This review is from: How to Attract Asian Women (Paperback)

The tips in this book work on only one woman - the author, Ming Tan.

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DDL — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 04:47:20 +0000

45 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

yeah whatever, September 21, 2004

DDL -

This review is from: How to Attract Asian Women (Paperback)

You be amazed about what you can write about. This book is just nothing but cheap stereotypes. The world is simply too broad and has too many types of people for one single personality to come out. Unlike most asians i'm not going to go onto a Tirade saying "Yeah those Asianphiles they are rejects from White society that's why they have to hit on our women" It's just not an accurate book. This dating guide is like a lot of business books out there. They will give you strategies but no book can ever help you get a date or make money. It's all you and your confidence. This is just as inaccurate and low depth as the Asian men guide to dating white women. Books like this are going to offend people no matter what. If anything this book is more of a joke gift for a friend. It really shouldn't be taken seriously.

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