Hong Kong - Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
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Hong Kong - Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture: (Culture Smart!)


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Avoid being offended, or worse offending Hong Kong locals, instead familiarise yourself with local customs and cultures by reading Culture Smart! Hong Kong. This handy, pocket-sized book will help you to ease your way into a different culture and will ass

Table of Contents:
Brief History Politics - Economic Life Traditions - Friendships & Family Relationships Bureaucracy Religion Humour - Local Holidays Taboos Invitations Gifts Dress - Business etiquette - Punctuality & Appointments - Team working Commu

About the Author :
Clare Vickers is an English writer who lived in Hong Kong for eighteen years, from 1979 to 1997. Her husband was a member of the Hong Kong Government, and collaborated with her on the history and government chapters of this book as well as other historical books and articles on Hong Kong. She has a degree in modern languages, and has written several dictionaries and textbooks for Hong Kong schools, had a column in the educational section of the South China Morning Post, and is the author of Escape, a Story of Wartime Hong Kong, written for Hong Kong teenagers. She last worked in the territory in 2004.

Review :
Culture Smart! has come to the rescue of hapless travellers, Sunday Times Travel the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries, Global Travel - full of fascinating, as well as common sense,


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781857333688
  • Publisher: Kuperard
  • Publisher Imprint: Kuperard
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Culture Smart!
  • ISBN-10: 1857333683
  • Publisher Date: 29 Oct 2004
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 168


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