Mid-Autumn Festival is the time for eating moon cakes, watching the full bright moon and getting out those lanterns! Happy Moon Festival too all. Mooncakes prepared and photographed by Shasha Liu/Treasurer of Guanxi.nu and owner of chinesekookworkshop For a nice overview about the origin and the legends surrounding Moon Festival, please click here.
“Dear Lilian, Thank you so much for coming along and writing a terrific review! It is superb, I am very grateful. All best wishes, Frank” Review written following professor Frank Dikotter’s lecture in Amsterdam on 10 September 2013 re “The Tragedy of Liberation.’ For complete review please with to this link.
Yesterday evening one could hear pins drop. Speaking in front of a packed house in Amsterdam was Professor Frank Dikötter. His latest book “The Tragedy of Liberation, a History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-57“ depicts the atrocities deliberately inflicted on the Chinese people by the Chinese Communist Party well before 1949 and following the fleeing […]
ChinaMoves has been asked by Bencham to provide an intercultural training session for the third year in a row. Target audience: Chinese employees at mid-managent level who work for Benelux companies in Shanghai. Lilian Kranenburg is scheduled to kick off October 10th with the first of six modules of the ‘Best of Both Worlds’ training […]
For the third year running, ChinaMoves has been asked by Bencham Shanghai to provide an intercultural training module for Chinese staff that work for Benelux companies. Lilian Kranenburg will kick off with the first of six modules titled: Best of Both Worlds, on October 11. Her module is titled: Understanding your Benelux Colleagues/Intercultural Competencies. For […]
Dear Lilian, We would like to make use of this opportunity to thank you for leading the very interesting Young Entrepreneur section of Bencham Shanghai evening regarding multi-cultural communications. A few of the tips suggested we have already put into use here at Pactics, like providing more surrounding information regarding a sample/project to our workers […]
Last week I was asked by the Young Bencham Entrepreneurs section of Bencham Shanghai to co-moderate a debate about intercultural challenges experienced by young businesspeople from the Benelux and their Chinese counterparts who work together on Chinese soil. Although it was envisaged that a balanced group of Chinese and Western nationals would attend this informal […]
The following report was just published this week: China- ICT Sector Opportunities for Dutch SME Companies This report is the product of a joint effort between Dutch government posts in China, Dutch and Chinese academia and the China related world of Dutch businesses. The publication was written specifically with SME’s in mind. ChinaMoves was asked […]
Midnight in Peking- The murder that haunted the last days of old China* A friend in China recommended this book and it was spot on. It is the true story of a British teenage girl growing up in Beijing in the thirties of the previous century. She was brutally murdered. Pamela Werner was the daughter of […]
Getting to grips with the Dutch way of doing things in Dutch-Chinese work environment lead to BenCham Shanghai, De Baak and ChinaMoves organizing the following workshop: “Understanding the Dutch Mind.” The event was held on 21st of October, especially for Chinese employees working for Dutch companies. It was a big success. Thirty enthusiastic and active […]
