Some tips:
- (1) Moderate your drinking habits. Please try not to be a nuisance to other people, the book urges. In the past there has been trouble because of sake (rice wine) drinking. In Japan, the excuse “under the influence of sake” is acceptable, but this is not so in China.
- (2) Treat Chinese women as equals, the book warns Japanese men - So do not hurt women's feelings by teasing them or making improper jokes. Avoid undue familiarity and do not touch their persons with your hands, which is a most impolite thing to do.
- (3) Do not talk to Chinese people with a cigarette in your mouth.
- (4) Do not walk around your hotel wearing only underwear or pajamas and slippers, the book advises. Treat hotel employees not as servants but in a friendly manner, as equals.
- (5) When you take a photograph, always ask permission of bystanders. When photographing public monuments, be careful to frame the entire subject. The Chinese will inspect your film before leaving the country, and do not look kindly on headless or legless photos of their leaders.
- (6) Never speak of “Red China” or “Communist China.” The proper appellation is “The People's Republic of China.”– San Bernardino Sun, 1972
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