Culture of Taiwan

To many Americans, Taiwan is an island full of myths. Taiwan is a country in East Asia, next to China, above the Philippine and below Japan. Being surrounded by different countries produced multiple cultures in Taiwan. It is located in a different weather zone from the United States. Due to the difference in weather, food in Taiwan is also very different from the US. Compared to the US, Taiwan is a very small country. The area of Taiwan is 35,882 square kilometer while the US is 9,833,517 square

China and Taiwan beginning in 1683 and ending in 1895. In this work she presents and defends the crucial role of travel writing in the Qing Empire moving past seeing Taiwan as a “ball of mud” without worth to incorporating the island into the Chinese empire. The majority of the book is a summarization of the history of Taiwan after it was conquered by China, as well as the way in which travel writing was used in developing the Chinese’ early beliefs about Taiwan. Despite having captured Taiwan the Xangqi

kickstarting the Korean wave (Huat, 2012). In the early to mid-2000s, two more dramas, Winter Sonata (2002) and Dae Jang Geum (2003), catalyzed the Korean wave by shattering ratings records, not only in South Korea, but also in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam (Chen, 2016). In Japan, the single Korean drama that made a huge impact was Winter Sonata starring Bae Yong Jun shown in 2003 (Chua, 2008). The drama specifically Bae Yoong Jun was able to establish a strong fan base of middle-age women

China’s culture saw some drastic changes during the 19th and 20th centuries, from the influx of new influences from the West to the more culturally sterile regime of Mao Zedong. In the early 20th century, Shanghai was a top cultural center in the East, and its achievements, although almost lost due to decades of conflict and political struggle, were preserved and built upon in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Following the social reforms, post-Mao China was ripe for reintroduction of culture, and Taiwan’s close

1- What are the major challenges of working in a country with a different culture (give examples from the case)? There are four main challenges for Sealed Air when they expanded their business into Taiwan. i. The first challenge is culture differences. At the beginning of the case. When Paul Huang was in the training course he was too quiet. He didn’t even want to participate the group presentation. Furthermore, he didn’t like the meal provided, he would rather than eating just candy bars

trying to stimulate the economy by offering subsidies supporting household purchasing power, in addition to tax benefits to companies that increased their staff wages (Coface, n.d.). Despite the economic slowdown, the budget deficit and public debt of Taiwan is expected to continue to decline, as well as help the development of infrastructure, for transport in particular. The trade and service surplus that the country has enjoyed because of resuming their relationship with China may be affected by the

external and internal environment in Taiwan, the business and mission for the particular market have to be defined. During the process Berri has to set its objectives for the market, quantify its goals and, based on this, decide on their strategy and tactical plan. Having chosen an international expansion to Taiwan the company has to decide how it wants to position itself in the Taiwanese market. Based on this decision

Methods The information was collected on Internet. The five dimensions of national culture were collect from geert-hofstede.com It was a valid website which contained lots of information about Greet Hofstede’s idea. The leadership styles information about Russia and Brazil was clearly found in Google. Therefore, the management style was typed as the key word. The data about the management styles in Russia, Brazil and Taiwan was found in this website, kwintessential.co.uk. What’s more, the data of this

In this case, the leadership style in Taiwan is considered to be somehow paternalistic. The company Unilever used different strategy in Brazil and Russia. Unilever used three different kinds of strategy in Russia. Before applying their strategy to the market, they did the research about

Joseph DeVito, in his book The Interpersonal Communication Book (2016), wrote that “masculine cultures value aggressiveness, material success, and strength” (p.39). Masculine cultures are ego oriented. Conflicts are solved by fighting. DeVito (2016) also stated that “feminine cultures value modesty, concern for relationships, and quality of life and tenderness” (p. 39). Feminine cultures are more relationship oriented. People are important to them and conflict is resolved through negotiations. Wu