A Comparison of the Origins of Sino-US Commercial Culture
Abstract
The business culture is a kind of culture which can rise in value and accelerate the development of commercial civilization and social civilization. The commerce and culture mix together to advance each other. As we known, the well-established Chinese culture is impacted by the Confucian ethics and has close relative with the Chinese tradition culture. Therefore, learning the Chinese business culture must first look upon the point of the Confucian ethics and the Chinese traditional culture. On the other side, the American culture is the model of modern times. Its business culture has merged with the industry factors of the western developed countries and the features of modern times. With the lapse of time, it has become a unique one, even blown through the whole world. But these two different kinds of culture often conflict. To learn more about the differences between these two styles of culture, which is to advance the culture blending, decrease the conflicts and accelerate the cooperation and development, the paper emphasizes to study and compare the business culture of both two countries, in the hope of offering some new and valid cooperation evidences for their trade development.
Key Words: China; America; business culture; origination; differences; impact
摘 要
商業文化是1種文化，1種可以增值，可以促進商業文明和社會文明發展的文化。商業與文化相互融合，相互促進。中國文化1直深受儒家思想影響，並與傳統儒家文化有著密切的聯絡。要了解中國商業文化的特色，必先從其傳統文化的角度觀察研究。美國文化則是時代的代表，其商業文化融合了西方各已開發國家的工業元素和近現代的社會特徵，隨著時間的推移，逐漸形成自己獨具特色文化潮流，風靡世界。而這兩種截然不同的文化也時常發生衝突。為更進1步的瞭解兩國文化間的差異，以促進彼此間文化融合，減少摩擦，增強合作與發展。本文著重就中美商業文化的'差異進行研究比較，為兩國的商業貿易往來提供新的有效的合作依據，促進兩國貿易的發展。
關鍵詞：中國、美國、商業文化、淵源、差異、影響