#61 Wrapping your head around China's hongbao and gift giving culture
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese
English - February 16, 2015 17:00 - 26 minutes - 12.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsBusiness Society & Culture beijing china chinaculture chineseculture educator entrepreneur executive expat foreigner guangzhou Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: #60 Get your Chinese New Year on – the basics you should know
It's no secret: gifts make China go 'round. As 'laowai', we can choose to play by the cultural norms of the land, or choose to dig our heels in and, well, not! There's loads of grace to go around for the unknowing foreigner, but why choose to be that laowai if we don't have to be. I truly believe that the basics of gift-giving (understanding and avoiding what is sure to offend at all costs) is actually attainable and is a worthy endeavor during our time in China. In this episode, we check out a couple of my own favorite cultural gift-giving failures and successes to get to the bottom of the basics that you need to know.