Nobody likes to be reminded of death — especially during dinner. Take Chinese as an example, they don’t leave chopsticks pointing upward in a bowl of rice, because it resembles incense sticks burned at funerals. people who know this and concept of “face” will likely make a good first impression. But closing a deal takes more than avoiding offensive gestures. It requires fostering informal relationships.

So how to do business with Chinese? “People in China do not communicate or do business in a direct manner.” Most of the people will agree on this point of view. And indeed it is the true. In China, restaurants can be a good place for casual discussions. But how to endear yourself? Do a night of karaoke following the meal would be a good choice. Although Most of the westerners won’t do that, it is really welcomed in China.

And another important point is that relationships in China are person-to-person. If the person leaves, those relationships don’t stay with the company. In the meantime, Sharing enjoyable times with Chinese partners helps form relationships.

When it comes time to dissolve a Chinese partnership, blame must not be assigned, and the possibility for future deals should remain open. That ensures everyone saves face. This approach may lack closure by western standards, but for the Chinese it’s perfectly normal.

First of all, you need to get a temporary resident card. How to get a temporary resident card? Just go to your local police department and register there. This is probably the first thing you will do when you land in China.

And now there are two options. If you already have a drive lisense of your country. This will be a lot more easier. What you need to do is bring your remporary resident card and drive lisense to local Foreign Affairs Office and take a driving test ( paper test). The test will cost you 500 kuai and its in English. If you pass the test, just do some paper work then you are good to go. The whole process will cost you about 2000 kuai in total.

If you don’t have drive lisense of your country, you will have to take a driving test like other Chinese does including a paper test(not translated, you have to pay for the translated version)  and a road test. It will cost you about 3000 kuai in total.

(photo took by lfom5608 from flickr.com)

As we know China has imposed strong censorship on the internet. Since we already promised that we won’t publish any politics related materials, here we just offer you a way to look outside the window.

if you want to know what life behind the Great Firewall of China is like, then the Firefox plug-in China Channel (click to download) is the cheapest and fastest way to experience using the Internet in China without actually being there.

First off, you need a Firefox Browser (click to download) installed. After installation, getting to experience Web surfing the way the Chinese do isn’t hard at all. Users have three ways to activate China Channel: via the China Channel toolbar, a navigation bar button that you must drag and drop onto the bar to get access to, and a status bar button. The buttons function by opening a menu, from which you choose to switch from None to the China Channel. Much like the IE Tab extension, the page will then render as if your IP address is inside China.

The toolbar is interesting for a slightly different workflow that results in a Web page that informs you of your IP address and its country of origin. Choose the China Channel from the drop down, and then hit the big red Go button. With China Channel activated, the page will declare that the plug-in has been activated. Switch back to None and refresh the page, and it changes to reflect your proxy server-free surfing experience.

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QQ games and OUR games(联众) are the most popular online gaming services in China. Since our games’ register process is too complicated to be done, here i’m writing a review about how to get QQ games to work. I assume you already have a QQ number. If not, please check our early post.

download and install

http://qqgame.qq.com/download.shtml click the link and click any 2 of those green buttons in the middle

download will be started, then run it and install. you will see a screen like this:

enter your QQ number in first bracket and password( same as your QQ password) in the second bracket. Then click the green button to login.

Play

On your left side, there is a list of the games. The games you’ve installed will show an icon with color. The grey icons mean you haven’t installed them. You can double click those grey icons to install the game. Once you’ve installed those games, just double click the icon and it will show you a list of available rooms. Click in and sit, press start then you are ready to go.

Is this ever happen to you? If you use an English version windows, most likely you will be involved with this kind of problem. So how to fix these corrupt codes? Here is how.

Step 1: Enable Asian language support.

1. click start button,then click control panel

2. click date, time, language, and regional option

3. click regional and language options

4. click the language tab,  under Supplemental language support section, there is a checkbox “install files for fast asian languages”.  If its unchecked, check it. you will need windows CD in this phase.

5. click the advanced tab, change the pull down menu to Chinese(PRC)

Then click OK. restart your computer.

Now your system will display Chinese perfectly.

Step 2: input Chinese

1. After East Asian Languages pack is installed, click “Details” button under the Languages tab of Regional and Language Options.

2. On the Settings tab of the new window, Click Add.

• In the “Input language” list, select Chinese (PRC) for simplified characters. You can add other input languages as well
• In the same window, from the “Keyboard Layout/IME” list, select:
  • Chinese (PRC)- Chinese (Simplified) – Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0 for Simplified Chinese input.

  These are the basic phoenic input methods where you enter pronunciations to obtain characters.

• Click Apply

3. Check old post for google Chinese input

Now you can input Chinese in your Windows. Enjoy your typing!

What’s the most popular instant message program in China? It’s not MSN messager or yahoo messager, or whatsoever. It’s QQ messager. When someone wants to add you as a friend on QQ messager, they don’t ask you for your emails. They will ask you for a QQ number. So How you get a QQ number?

First off,  download the program.  Click here.

Since the whole register process is Chinese and they change register form from time to time, it’s not worth the time to write a 3 pages long “how to” guide. The easiest way to do this is register it by cellphone.

If you are China Mobile user,  send 8801 to 10661700

If you are China Unicom user, send 8801 to 10621700

Other users send 8801 to 10661700

It will cost 1 yuan to register qq number by cellphone.

You will get a reply by SMS which has the number and the password. I am sure your Chinese friends will tell you how to use QQ messager. Now enjoy your online chatting!!

Off topic link here: QQ number sold for record price