Comments on: Chinese President Visited Microsoft

By: panasianbiz

panasianbiz — Tue, 30 May 2006 18:45:35 +0000

Joyce,
Thank you for visiting my site and leaving a comment.

I admire your ability to communicate in a second language. Great job!

I have been to China many times and have seen the products you speak of.

I plan to go again in the near future.

As for the Da Vinci Code...basically and first of all it is fiction - that is, it is NOT true. The writer borrowed facts and distorted some of them to make an interesting story. The Da Vinci code is NOT true history.

If you have more detailed questions, I would be happy to help.

Thank you again for reading.

By: JOYCE

JOYCE — Tue, 30 May 2006 18:40:56 +0000

here in china we have many other american products,and actually most of them are very popular,such as kfc,pizza hut,coffee,pessi,coca,and hollywood films are rather popular here,especially The Da Vinci Code these days.i have both read the book and watched the movie version,but it’s still hard for me to understand the religion.papistry and Christianity are quite complicate for me,and i can tell the apart what’s the truth and what’s the fiction in the book.

By: panasianbiz

panasianbiz — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:22:22 +0000

Samnut,
Can you tell me other elements of American culture that the Chinese are embracing?

How about Pizza Hut and ???

By: Samnut

Samnut — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:52:39 +0000

How funny!

Chinese people are trying to understand American culture as well. At one of his speeches yesterday, President Hu mentioned that he likes Starbucks coffee, and he wish that he could go to the shop often if he had time. Starbucks opened its first shop in Beijing several years ago, and has been extremely successful – there are about 200 shops in China now. I think it’s not because Chinese people love coffee, no they didn’t even know what coffee was 10 years ago, but they’re sincerely embracing Western culture.

Starbucks CEO responded to President Hu’s speech that they did their homework too – they knew the key to a successful business in China is to show respect to the Chinese culture.