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  • 18 Dec 2025
    Photo of a crowd of people walking in Hong Kong
    Julianne House, Dániel Z. Kádár

    Politeness in Chinese Social Interaction

    2: How the Chinese Greet One Another? The title of this entry may sound like the title of a beginner’s Chinese language course featuring the expression ni hao 你好 as a simple greeting. However, we will show that that greeting one another in Chinese is far more complex than what meets the eye, and appropriately […]

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  • 10 Dec 2025
    Photo of a crowd of people walking in Hong Kong
    Julianne House, Dániel Z. Kádár

    Politeness in Chinese Social Interaction series

    1: Overview In this blog series, we will provide an overview of the representative features of Chinese politeness in daily interaction. Instead of discussing conventional topics, such as the use of honorifics in business meetings, the famous concept of ‘face’ and other phenomena typically mentioned regarding Chinese politeness, we intend to draw attention to seemingly […]

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