Hahaha?? You sound very knowledgeable here. It was actually the C.R.A.P. poster that brought his supposed corporate structure information into this thread. So the Chinese culture in general has only learned business practices from the present West? Let's try this one: Scholarly achievement as the main means of upward mobility in government civil service. Is this another "western" concept borrowed by the Chinese just like business practices are? I thought Linguists were supposed to be of a descriptive bent, not a prescriptive. Can anyone really be arrogant as to think the west has introduced the concept of capitalism to the Chinese?

Are you sure you have a PHd in linguistics? You must be a little more into ancient history than what your posts seems to indicate.

Hmm..Am I really "another" interested party or is this board being infiltrated?