Cheng Decheng and his son Cheng Linshen were well known among Anhui merchants for their honesty and scrupulous values when conducting business. The Anhui merchants, who followed the teachings of Confucius, used these values to guide their business principles. They emphasized honesty, trustworthiness, righteousness, and above all quality when doing business with others. During the Tongzhi period of the ...
Buddhism has a long tradition of including animals, including stray dogs and cats, as sentient beings when making decisions, which goes back to the very earliest days of Buddhism. Ashoka, the first Buddhist King of India, turned his thoughts to the behavior of a ruler. According to Ashoka, a ruler should protect all people, animals, ...
This novel chronicles the experiences of a small foreign community living in Shanghai in the 1980s, when memories of the Cultural Revolution were still fresh. This period was the heyday of China’s state-run Friendship Stores, which sold Western goods and souvenirs to tourists, foreign residents, and diplomats. Nowadays, only a few of these stores remain. ...
Friends All Over the World, from Susan Ruel’s novel Shanghai Friendship Store, portrays the claustrophobic social lives of a small, insular “foreign expert“ community in the 1980s. Shanghai had long been known as China’s most Westernized city. Yet, during this period following the normalization of Sino-U.S. relations, the city’s few foreign residents were discouraged from ...
Deep Impressions, from the novel The Shanghai Friendship Store (Chapter 4), introduces some Chinese college students (circa 1982) who exemplify their nation’s next generation of scholars. From the Beijing collegians who launched the historic May 4th Movement of 1919 to those who took part (and, in some cases, gave their lives) in pro-democracy demonstrations on ...
Shanghai is one of China’s largest and most prosperous cities. As such, anyone who travels the world or plans on visiting China should have Shanghai on their must-visit list. Once in Shanghai, be sure to check out these 6 things 1. Yuyuan Garden Located in the northeast of the Old City of Shanghai, Yuyuan is ...
The following is an excerpt from the novel The Shanghai Friendship Store* by Susan Ruel. It chronicles the experiences of a small foreign community living in Shanghai in the 1980s (the heyday of Friendship Stores). These state-owned stores used to be quite an exotic thing in China — one of the only places where foreigners traveling ...
Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station has teamed up with Huawei Technologies to launch a 5G network, bringing ultrafast Internet speed to the city. Passengers will experience a data speed that is 100 times faster than 4G. This development makes Shanghai a dual-gigaband city. “Hongqiao Railway Station is leading the 5G commercial deployment in Shanghai… The 5G ...
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