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Pioneers of modern China : understanding the inscrutable Chinese
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ISBN: 1281372625 9786611372620 9812700900 9789812700902 9789812564641 9812564640 9789812566188 981256618X 9781281372628 9812564640 981256618X 6611372628 Year: 2005 Publisher: River Edge, NJ : World Scientific Pub.,

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Amongst the Chinese exists great cultural variety and diversity. The Cantonese care more for profit than face and are good businessmen, whereas Fujian Rén are frank, blunt and outspoken but daring and generous. Beijing Rén are more aristocratic and well-mannered, having stayed in a city ruled by emperors of different dynasties. Shanghai Rén are more enterprising, adventurous and materialistic but less aristocratic, having been at the center of pre-war gangsterism. Hainan Rén are straightforward, blunt and stubborn. Hunan Rén are more warlike and have produced more marshals and generals than an

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