China, from the A to the Z

Xulio Rivers. - China, from the A to the Z. - general Dictionary of Chinese expressions. Popular publishing house, Madrid 2008, 235 pgs.

From the Observatory of the Political China, Xulio Ríos already takes a few years trying to make understandable for the Spanish citizen the complex world of the políticia and the actuality Chinese. Although in other works (Foreign policy of China. The diplomacy of an emergent potency (2008), Market and political control in China. The transition towards a new system (2008)) has devoted itself to analyze in depth diverse aspects of this reality, in this work it realizes a tangential approach to the present reality analyzing some of the expressions that with her have been born.

China is provided with an enormous cultural heritage in his expressions, proverbs, maxims, judgments and the called concepts. Beyond a simplification of the reality, there constitute the whole philosophical exercise that condenses the experience of the different times of his civilization, contributing keys that they invite to the dialogue and the reflection, facilitating the comprehension and the communication.

China is fashionable. The immense transformation through that the oriental giant lives wakes up the curiosity and the interest in the exterior. The above mentioned process is faced to achieve a renaissance that not only attends on the economy, the science or on the international relations, but also on the culture. And it is across this one as better it is possible to go so far as to comprise the identity, the nature and targets of the long Chinese transition.

This book ordered in the shape of dictionary, gathers those expressions and concepts that have shaped the China that arises in 1949, someone of whose essential bases are still current in the today China, but that sink his roots in the everlasting China. All of them impregnate the language and the modus vivendi of the contemporary Chinese society and can help us to understand better his way of thinking and of acting.

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