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The most popular class at the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade does not teach wannabe entrepreneurs the secrets of accounting or international law. Instead, Professor Li Zhiguo instructs his 1,600 students on a graver subject: manners. A line, he lectures, should be an orderly procession, not a rowdy scrum...
China may claim 5,000 years of civilization--as locals often remind visitors from younger nations--but over the past half-century most of the country forgot its collective manners. Mao Zedong, the founder of the People's Republic, considered teeth brushing a Western affectation and thought nothing of greeting...
As China prepares to be host to the Olympics in 2008, officials have begun to acknowledge the need to raise the level of public civility in order to show the world the country's advances after just three decades of economic reform. Once the flood of foreign visitors recedes, bureaucrats...
Many Chinese etiquette instructors and authors of best-selling manners manuals are progeny of the high-class aesthetes Mao tried to eradicate. Professor Li of the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade is the descendant of a cotton tycoon, and grew up eating Western fare like rye bread and cheese for...
10 The Fans vs. Miss Manners The Fan Man parachutes onto the ropes during the Bowe-Holyfield brawl. University of Wisconsin partisans run amuck after their football team beats Michigan. New Orleans quarterback Wade Wilson collapses in pain with a knee injury, and the hometown boors cheer. Now behave, people...