Kathy Flower
Kathy Flower is a radio and television producer, scriptwriter, and trainer who has specialized in the teaching of English as a Foreign Language. After training teachers for the British Council in Paris, she worked in Beijing from 1981 to 1983 and presented China’s first major English-language teaching series, Follow Me, on Chinese TV. She is still known to millions of viewers as laoshi, or teacher.
All Books By Kathy Flower
China – Culture Smart!
- By: Kathy Flower
- Narrator: Peter Noble
- Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: August 30, 2016
- Language: English
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3.66(61 ratings)
The spectacular Beijing Olympics of 2008 signaled China’s arrival as a superpower on the world stage. The global economic crisis that followed in 2008-9 saw it become banker to the West, poised to eclipse the United States. This new edition of Kathy Flower’s bestselling Culture Smart! China has been revised and updated by the author to take on board the transformation in China’s fortunes and the changing face of Chinese society. This edition of Culture Smart! China is the indispensable visitors’ guide to the complexities of a rapidly changing world power whose ancient culture and traditions owe little to the West.
... Read moreChina – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- By: Kathy Flower
- Narrator: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 3 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: March 15, 2021
- Language: English
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3.66(11 ratings)
For thousands of years, the Chinese believed that they had created a perfect social system based on Confucian values and tempered by the Mandate of Heaven. Dynasties came and went, but the essence of being Chinese remained essentially unchanged until the twentieth century. Since then, change has taken place in Chinese society at an unprecedented speed: the country experienced the turmoil of civil war and revolution and then emerged on to the world stage as a global superpower. This book aims to put these changes into a historical context, explain deep-seated cultural attitudes, and guide listeners through a maze of unfamiliar social situations, in order to help them discover the pragmatism, genius, warmth, and humanity of this extraordinary people.
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