China

China! A vast land of many different and often conflicting cultures, languages and religions. It's a mistake to think of China as a single culture or identity, but you can’t watch the news for more than 15 minutes without seeing stories about China stealing our jobs or China stealing our iPhones or China coming to destroy us all with their unbeatable Buddha Palm kung-fu technique. On the other hand, a basic familiarity with what can broadly be called Chinese culture is necessary, considering that within the next year or so they will have purchased every resource, business and human being in America in order to ...