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Useful vocabulary

Step 1: Use the research bar.

In the search bar (circled in green in the picture), write what you are looking for.

In our example, we are looking for the TV show Lost.

Step 2: Understanding the results.

The first line is the season number

The second line is the episode number

Step 3: Watch your video.

Just click on what you want and enjoy!

The problem with recharging your phone with this kind of card is that the English instructions aren’t very clear.

Follow these instructions on how to add credit with a pre-paid card. Don’t try to understand what is being said…just follow these instructions:

1. Purchase a China Mobile pre-paid recharge card

2. Scratch off the coat to get the PIN number

3. Dial 13800138000

4. The automated service will begin. Press 2 for English, then press 2, then press 1#, and then 1 to confirm.

5. You will now be prompted for the PIN number which is the scratched off bit on your card. After entering it hit the # key.

6. It will say something like ‘wait a minute’ before it confirms that your card is now charged and ready to go.

That’s it. At any time you can send “YE” to 10086 and find out how much credit you have left on your phone. Normally you’ll get 1-2 txt messages a day warning you before it’s over as well. If you’re expecting important calls it’s noteworthy to not let it expire as people won’t be able to call you if you don’t recharge the card.

First of all, making sure you are single and older than 22 if you are male or 20 if you are female, before you decide to get married in China. And you are not supposed to be the close relative of your soon to be bride or groom.

Getting married in China can be easy, if you really think it’s time to do so: appearing together for registration at the relevant authority (usually, the civil affair department) with the required certificates and documents. You should present a certification certifying that you do not have a spouse at the time of marriage, which shall be issued by a notary institution or competent governmental authority in the state of your origin and be authenticated by the Chinese embassy or consulate in that state.

From the date of your marriage, you are “half Chinese”, as some people usually say. You enjoy rights hereafter, and you hold responsibility at the same time. Briefly, they are as following:

Right of Equality: Husband and wife have equal status in the family. Both husband and wife have the right to use his or her own surname and given name, and have the freedom to engage in production and other work, to study and to participate in social activities. And either husband or wife has the power to dispose of the community property for their daily needs of life without having to obtain the consent of the other, but on the other hand, the couple shall have to, through consultation, reach an agreement on significant disposition of the community property for non-daily needs of life.

Duty of loyalty: One spouse owes a duty of loyalty to the other. A serious breach of this duty, for instance bigamy and cohabitation with any third party, will entitle the other to claim damages upon divorce. Damages are generally granted by courts to compensate the emotional distress and material losses suffered by the non-breaching spouse.

Duty to Support: Husband and wife have the duty to maintain each other. If one party fails to perform this duty, the party in need of maintenance shall have the right to demand maintenance payments from the other party.

Right of Succession: Upon decease of one spouse, the surviving spouse has the right to inherit the properties of the decedent spouse at the time of death.

In China, one of the most important principle about marriage is that all the assets gained before marriage are individual property, and all the income gained after marriage are community property if there is no marital property agreement stipulates otherwise. Therefore, a couple may enter into an agreement in writing providing that properties acquired during or prior to marriage are separately owned by each, or concurrently owned by both, in each case, in part or in whole. In absence of such agreement, properties shall be owned by spouses according to statutory rules.

May you always have everything you wish for a rich life together!

In most cases the right way to face is the way where the door is. Standing with your feet placed on the left and right side of the toilet

First bend down as on the picture and pull down your pants and underwear until there under your knees, as it might be hard to get into the squat position if you do it otherwise.

Watch out for splashing water as it might hit your clothes. You can avoid this by bending more towards the toilet and decreasing the distance between you and the water.

If there is a garbage bin next to the toilet which is filled with some toilet paper in most cases, you might want to throw yours in there as well if you don’t have any intentions in clogging the toilet.

Be aware that in a lot of cases there is no toilet paper in the toilet. First check if there is, if not there should be some in the restroom. If this is not the case they might not have it as people tend to take it along with them, it is wise to bring your own along as well. In the worst cases you can ask someone else if he can spare some.

What kind of fapiaos exist?

Fapiao is the receipt for buying goods, services and other sales. There are three kind’s fapiaos: common tax fapiao, value-added tax fapiao ; specialty tax fapiao.  We normally use common tax fapiao, ie: taxi fapiao, air-ticket, bus ticket, food fapiao, etc.

How does it work?

When you buy goods, services and other sales, you can request to the seller to give you a fapiao.

Why did the government create this fapiao system?

In China, a lot of sales are cash sales, making it very difficult for the government to track the taxes, so they created the fapiao system.

How the scratch game works? How much can we earn?

The fapiaos of entertainment have scratch games. It is in the bottom right corner. You can scratch it, there have different prize: non-prize, 5 yuan, 10 yuan, 20 yuan, 50 yuan, 100 yuan, etc.

How does the lottery games work? How much can you win?

The fapiaos of entertainment have second prize – lottery prize. You can check the lottery prize detail on website: http://www.cdlocaltax.chengdu.gov.cn/CMS/template.go?_template=1461

What can we do if a restaurant refuses to give you a fapiao or wants you to pay for it? Is there a phone number you can call?

Some restaurants instead of wanting to go through the legal process of paying taxes (20% of the amount spent) will offer you free gifts to settle the fapiao situation. If you request for a fapiao, but they keep on refusing you one, you can call 12315 (the hotline of Customer Guarantee Center) for Chengdu.

How to understand Guanxi

Whenever you read or hear about China you cannot get around the Chinese word Guanxi (关系).

For non- Chinese it is difficult to understand what this little word really stands for.

The original meaning is “relationship”. But most dictionaries mention that it can also mean “concerning something”, “condition” or “involvement”. And that is where most foreigners have trouble understanding how relationship can also mean “condition”.

Guanxi is used as a term for a personal network. Those networks influence almost all decisions made in China while contracts and agreements are seen as guidelines which can be questioned or changed.

Most foreigners find it hard to believe that Guanxi is not a synonym for the Western term “corruption”. In China they use the word Huilu (贿赂) for this illegal process.

So what is Guanxi, if it doesn´t mean corruption?

Guanxi- Relationships are unlike corruption not based on unions, groups or institutions but are concerning the link between two individual persons. From there on the network can be expanded to the people the other one has Guanxi with.

The dangerous thing about introducing other people to the people you have Guanxi with, is that you could lose your face (honor, credibility) in case the introduced person is not trustworthy or reliable.

This kind of relationship needs a long time to be built up but when established it can be on a very high level. Some of the relationships are based on living together in the same village or because two people were studying in the same university.

But unlike the western definition of friendship or companionship, Guanxi can only exist if the help one gives to the other is equal to the received favor. Eventually you have to “pay back” your Guanxi- Partners.

Time and consistence play an important role in this process which involves work and caretaking. It could be compared to a fire. You have to put wood into the flames to keep it going.

People you have good Guanxi have the skill to know when to get new wood and when it is time to use the fire. That’s why it is very important for Chinese to categorize people as family, friends or foes.

All this is normally unnoticeable for foreigners who are most of the time outside of this very Chinese network.

Interesting enough “Mei Guanxi” which could be wrongly translated as “no relationship” means actually “don´t worry”, “never mind” or “doesn´t matter. So don´t be insulted if someone on the street appears to tell you “We have no relationship”.

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