【龙腾网】你对中国最感兴趣的是什么？
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What are you most interested in China?
你对中国最感兴趣的是什么？
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Waqas Khan
, Full Stack Web Developer
I’m interested in China because it seems to me to be a country of great diversity, in terms of people, way of life, geography, festivals, etc.
I lived in Shanghai, China for six months. I have a really great experience. There are so many things I like about Chinese culture.
1. Kind and friendly people
The Chinese welcome foreigners coming to China to live and do trade and business. They are friendly and accommodating to foreigners. They are not aggressive to others because, in Chinese philosophy, they believe 和为贵. That is peace and harmony are the best. I have always found everyone to be very helpful and polite. Quite a contrast to my own country. They treat all tourists like guests.
Daniel Lee
, It is just a matter of time
I like the interaction between people. Not actually the Chinese people but the interaction. People are so so complicated in China which makes socialising really really challenging and fun at the same time.
There would be a lot of time you have to ask others for help if you live and work in China. They might be your friends, friends’ friends, or even complete strangers that you have never met before. They might be easygoing, unpredictable or hard to approach. You might have to eat a lot of business meals or even get drunk if necessary. But you will learn how to praise others without sounding like bootlicking, how to Manage long term relationship with certain critical personnel you might need help from in the future, how to ask for help without annoying them and most importantly, how to sacrifice now for a better good in the long run. You will learn how to listen without looking like you are not paying attention, how to talk so that you can display your “assets” which others can make use of (no one will help you without getting something out of you) without sounding like you are showing off or exchanging something with them (even if it is).
If you master these technics, you will be someone like my mum who is only a MIDDLE SCHOOL GRADUATE but with over 2500 people in her contact list including some really impactful managers/doctors/physicians in top hospitals in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. She single-handedly opened a health examination centre earlier this year in Shenzhen CBD with a little less than 2000 square meters. And you will get to accomplish a lot of things with the help of others even if they look unachievable even unlawful.
Nothing is impossible. This is why I like China.
我喜欢在中国人与人之间的互动。其实不特指中国人，而是人与人之间的互动。在中国，人们是如此的复杂，这使得社交真的非常非常具有挑战性，同时也很有趣。
如果你在中国生活和工作，你会有很多时间需要向别人寻求帮助。他们可能是你的朋友，朋友的朋友，甚至是你从未见过的陌生人。他们可能平易近人、难以预料，也可能很难接近。你可能要吃很多商务餐，必要时甚至会喝醉。但你将学会如何赞美别人而不像拍马屁，如何管理与某些关键人员的长期关系，你将来可能需要他们的帮助，如何在不惹恼他们的情况下寻求帮助，最重要的是，如何为了长远的利益而牺牲现在。你将学会如何倾听而不显得你不专心，如何说话，以便展示你的"资产"，让别人可以利用（没有人会在不从你身上得到东西的情况下帮助你），而听起来又不像你在炫耀或与他们交换东西（即使事实是这样）。
如果你掌握了这些技术，你就会成为像我妈妈这样的人，她只是一个中专毕业生，但她的联系人名单里有2500多人，其中包括广州和深圳顶级医院的一些非常有影响力的经理/博士/医生。最近，她一手在深圳CBD开了一家不到2000平米的体检中心。而且你会在别人的帮助下完成很多事情，即使这些事情看起来无法实现甚至是违法的。
没有什么是不可能的。这就是我喜欢中国的原因。
Yugan Talovich, Live in Taiwan, study Chinese lit and history.
Originally Answered: What intrigues you the most about China?
This is a hard question to answer, because there is so much intriguing about China.
But I guess it all comes back to what interested me in China in the first place: the writing. In junior high school in California, I saw Chinese writing for the first time, and was fascinated: you mean people can actually read this? and write it? Thus began a long journey that has continued for 50 years now.
Writing, especially traditional characters, is aesthetically beautiful, has endless variation, and has deep meaning that is often not apparent on the surface. Lest I write a book to answer, let me confine myself to two examples: 黑 and 夢, for no more reason than that these are the first two that popped into mind.
黑 means black, but it’s hard to see that it was originally a picture of a criminal whose face was tattooed black to shame him and warn others. In the original, you can see 大, usually means big, but is a pictograph of a person. You see the tattoos on the face; the other marks around him may be emphasis, or just for design.
夢 means dream. This character has changed quite a bit, but you can still see the 目/eye, sideways, and the ㄇ that was originally a 人 person, the dreamer. The original had 爿 on the left, half of 木, wood, being the bed on which the person was dreaming. The person is wide-eyed, holding up a hand in surprise. In the modern form, the 爿 has been replaced with 夕 moon, night, because people usually dream at night.
I could go on and on, but you get the idea.
这是一个很难回答的问题，因为中国有太多令人感兴趣的地方。
但我想这一切都要回到我对中国感兴趣的初衷：文字。在加州上初中的时候，我第一次看到了中国的文字，我被深深地吸引住了：你是说人们真的能读懂这个，而且会写？于是开始了一段漫长的旅程，至今已有50年。
文字，尤其是繁体字，具有美感，具有无穷的变化，具有表面上往往看不出的深意。为了避免我写一本书来回答，我只举两个例子。黑和梦，原因无他，这两个是最先出现在我脑海中的。
黑是黑色的意思，但很难看出这原本是为了羞辱一个罪犯而给他纹身，以及警示别人。在这个字的原始版本中，你可以看到“大”字，通常是大的意思，但在这里却是表示一个人的象形文字。你可以看到刺在他脸上的纹身；他周围的其他痕迹可能是强调，或者只是为了设计感。
夢的意思是梦。这个字变化挺大的，但你还是可以看到目/眼睛的意思，侧躺着，还有原来表示人的ㄇ，做梦的人。原本左边有爿，半边有木，木，是人做梦的床。此人瞪大眼睛，惊讶地举起一只手。在现代的版本中，爿被换成了夕，就是月夜的意思，因为人们通常在晚上做梦。
我可以继续说下去，但你们应该已经明白我的意思了。
Xane Feng
Honestly that looks more like a pillow than being wide eyed.
老实说，这看起来更像一个枕头，而不是睁大眼睛。
Yugan Talovich
Haha, I had never looked at it that way. But that is how 目/eye was written; our modern version is turned 90 degrees.
哈哈，我从来没有这样想过。但这就是目/眼睛的书写方式；我们的现代版本是90度倒过来。
George Hsia
, studied Philosophy & Psychology
The most interesting thing about China is that the real China, save for “made-in-China” products, is largely invisible to people in the West/US. As a matter of fact, Western politicians, journalists, and intellectuals have, quite successfully, fabricated a demonized China by reiterating and recycling the same lies about China on a daily basis. Of course, behind their lies are some stereotypical misconceptions about China, such as the “Yellow Peril”, “Oriental Despotism”, “communism”, “authoritarianism”, “dictatorship”, etc.
TRuth is, China today is one of the most progressive countries in the world. China’s extraordinary development is good for China and good for the rest of the world.
The Sinophobia that is prent in the West/US is a cultural disease named Western-centrism and also a significant symptom of the decline of Western civilization.
Chinese civilization has been around for thousands of years. China counts for nearly 1/5 of humanity. Demonizing China makes no sense. Why can't the West/US just honestly face the real China?
关于中国最有趣的事情是，除了"中国制造"的产品之外，西方/美国人基本上看不到真正的中国。事实上，西方的政治家、记者和知识分子已经相当成功地捏造了一个被妖魔化的中国，他们每天都在重申和回收同样的关于中国的谎言。当然，在他们的谎言背后，是对中国的一些刻板的误解，如"黄祸"等等。
事实是，今天的中国是世界上最进步的国家之一。中国的超常发展对中国有利，也对世界其他国家有利。
西方/美国盛行的恐中症是一种名为西方中心主义的文化病，也是西方文明衰落的重要症状。
中华文明已经有几千年的历史了。中国人数算得上是人类的近1/5。妖魔化中国是没有意义的。西方/美国为什么不能坦然面对真实的中国？
Annie Ruth Harrison
Yes!! A thousand times yes!
America can’t face China as she is because the politicians don’t want to admit that China has surpassed us on the world stage. They don’t want to easily accept defeat. Like Donald Trump hiding and not wanting to concede the election, that spirit is alive in our government. Sooner or later though, everyone has to face TRuth.
是的！一千次的是的!
美国无法面对现在的中国，因为政客们不愿意承认中国在世界舞台上已经超越了我们。他们不想轻易接受失败。就像唐纳德-特朗普躲起来不想认输一样，这种精神也存在于我们的政府之中。不过，每个人迟早都要面对真相。
David Barry
Its surprising how babyish some world leaders can be.
令人惊讶的是，一些世界领导人竟然如此幼稚。
David Barry
Thats the TRuth and known to those who have lived there.
这是事实，也是那些住在那里的人所知道的。
Otto Willum Nielsen
I agree, with you, I think they are jealous of China’s huge achievement and technology advancement, I have seen with my own eyes how China has pulled millions out of poverty, and how fast China has developed, I have seen what the government are doing for the people, each day better and nicer than the day before, where the West in going backwards, and that hurts their pride to see China moving so fast ahead of the west.
我同意你的观点，我认为他们是嫉妒中国的巨大成就和科技进步，我亲眼看到中国如何让数百万人摆脱贫困，中国发展的速度有多快，我看到了政府为人民做的事情，每一天都比前一天好，而西方在倒退，看到中国比西方发展的这么快，这伤害了他们的自尊心。
Vivianne Chin
Why can't the West/US just honestly face the real China?
they have a reputation to keep, and most of them are fighting against their own peers not to run the country, but to run over the country. It is the fight to keep power the one that drains most energy and resource. So now they have to make a common enemy to reduce the growing burden.
many people at that level of pyramid do that. The only difference is the subject they choose to be made as common enemy and the timing of the choice. China have a habit of seeing internal threats bigger than external ones, USA the opposite and what we are witnessing now is the result of the two countries’ own sextion, out of their very own thinking habit.
西方/美国为什么就不能老老实实的面对真实的中国？
他们要守住名声，他们大多不是为了管理国家，而是为了凌驾于国家之上，与自己的同僚对抗。保住权力的斗争才是最耗费精力和资源的。所以，现在他们必须树起一个共同的敌人，以减少越来越大的内斗负担。
很多金字塔那个层次的人都会这么做。唯一不同的是他们选择作为共同敌人的对象和选择的时机。中国有一个习惯，认为内部威胁大于外部威胁，美国则相反，我们现在看到的是两个国家自己选择的结果，是出于他们自己的思维习惯。
Peter Ling
The contrast of culture- Eastern to Western, behind the historical development. The richness & mystical history is fascinating to understand the modernisation of China, as to how it eventually opens its door to the West and assumes it’s present role as a global citizen. It’s remarkable to see the miraculous transition of a poor impoverished closed society to a well to do modern society, particularly its transformation to a market economy with capitalist character, under a socialist frxwork.
China urban areas are well developed & its many modern cities are impressive with their utilities & infrastructure that could rival if not surpass many other global cities. It’s overall technological advancement is remarkable in a socialist consumer society where tourists can enjoy paradise shopping and travel around safely.
Apart from the impressive built up environment, tourists can easily enjoy many beauties of its natural environments in its rural areas to experience this vast ancient land, just like America.
在历史发展的背后，东方与西方文化的对比。丰富&神秘的历史，对理解中国的现代化，至于它最终是如何向西方敞开大门，承担起现在的世界公民角色，是很吸引人的。从一个贫穷封闭的社会到一个安居乐业的现代社会，特别是它在社会主义框架下向具有资本主义特色的市场经济的转变，其奇迹般的转变令人瞩目。
中国的城市地区发展良好，许多现代化城市的公用设施和基础设施令人印象深刻，可以与许多其他全球城市相媲美甚至超越他们。在社会主义消费社会中，它的整体技术进步是显著的，游客可以享受天堂般的购物和安全的旅行。
除了令人印象深刻的建筑和环境外，游客还可以在乡村地区轻松地欣赏到许多自然环境的美景，体验这片广阔的古老土地，就像美国一样。
Sthitapragnya Deshpande
, worked at China
This is what I like about China
- The fact that there are no communal riots despite so many religions and ethnicities (I come from India and while we have had large scale communal riots resulting in mass killings since the 1900s - they have increased since 1984)
- The fact that it is more of a meritocracy than most other countries
- The fact that nearly everyone is keen on working hard and making a better life for themselves
- The fact that the government seems to help people genuinely (unlike India and UK - two countries where I have spent a large part of my life)
- The fact that it is safe
PS: I am from India and have lived in UK (and a few other countries) - this has formed my above answer and the impressions / comparisons that have resulted in the above .
下面是我喜欢中国的原因
- 尽管有这么多的宗教和种族，却没有发生社区暴乱（我来自印度，虽然我们自1900年代以来就有导致大规模杀戮的社区暴乱----但自1984年以来还是继续有所增加）。
- 事实上，它比其他大多数国家更多的精英领导体制。
- 事实上，几乎每个人都热衷于努力工作，为自己创造更好的生活。
- 事实上，政府看起来真正在帮助人们（不像印度和英国--这两个国家，我在那里度过了我生命中的大部分时间）。
- 事实上，它是安全的
PS：我来自印度，曾在英国（和其他几个国家）生活过--这形成了我的上述回答和印象/比较。
Thomas Snerdley
, No one is promised tomorrow. TODAY is the day.
Thanks for the A2A!
I'm most interested in China to travel across the country, view the remarkable geography and architecture and meet and learn from the diverse peoples.
Mainland Chinese people have a skewed idea of what America is like. I am quite certain that my idea of what China is like is equally skewed.
Only by traveling, seeing with my own eyes and meeting and talking with people can I discover what a huge, diverse nation like China is really about.
谢邀!
我对中国最感兴趣的是去中国各地旅行，观赏非凡的地理和建筑，认识和学习不同的民族。
中国大陆人对美国是什么样的的想法是有偏差的。我很确定，我对中国的想法同样也是如此。
只有通过旅行，亲眼所见，并与人们见面交谈，我才能发现像中国这样一个庞大的、多元化的国家到底是什么样子。
William Regan
, I've been living in China for ten years.
large variety of food
super cheap public transportation
pace of change is extremely quick
big city living and vibe
Chinese people’s entrepreneurial spirit
the police’s laid-back attitude
ubiquity of mobile payments
night owls (everyone is up quite late)
anything can be delivered to your home/office (and extremely quickly)
China’s lack of political correctness (refreshing!)
1.食物种类繁多
2.超便宜的公共交通
3.变化速度极快
4.大城市的生活和氛围
5、中国人的创业精神
6.警察的悠闲态度。
7.移动支付的普遍性
8.夜猫子(大家都很晚才睡)
9.任何东西都可以送到你的家里/办公室（而且速度极快）。
10.中国没有政治正确（令人耳目一新！）
Sheri Fresonke Harper
, Sheri has traveled extensively since she turned 21, participating in Earthwatch.org projects, and has been to…
I'm interested in local cultural practices, businesses, and the confines of the Chinese geography.
I'm sort of interested in the language but have had to limit myself to common expressions and simple roots.
I'm interested in how Chinese have fun, plan, work, and what they are most interested in.
I'm interested in the Chinese Space Program and hope they will continue to share what they learn.
我对当地的文化习俗、商业以及中国地理的局限性感兴趣。
我对他们的语言有点兴趣，但自己不得不局限于常见的表达和简单的词根之中。
我对中国人如何娱乐，如何计划，如何工作，以及他们最感兴趣的东西感兴趣。
我对中国的航天计划很感兴趣，希望他们能继续分享所学。
Simon Binks
, Composer, guitarist, song writer, producer at Australian Crawl, Simon Binks Productions (1975-present)
I have never been to China but would love to go. My mother was fascinated with China, learned calligraphy and other Chinese cultural wonders.
As one of the oldest cultures we have, China was home to many innovations that shape the world. I would particularly love to go to Shanghai but also explore some of the magnificent forests and rocky terrain of which I have seen photos.
The more we all learn about each other, the better we will understand one another. That sounds simplistic but none-the-less true and never more important as it is today.
我没有去过中国，但很想去。我的母亲对中国非常着迷，学会了书法和其他中国文化奇迹。
作为我们最古老的文化之一，中国是许多创新的发源地，塑造了世界。我特别想去上海，但也想去探索一些我曾经在照片里看到过的壮丽的森林和岩石。
我们大家互相了解得越多，就越能更好地理解对方。这话听起来很简单，但做起来却不易，而且这一点从来没有像今天这样重要过。
