Chinese Business Dinner Culture

Follow This Guide to Master Chinese Dinner Etiquette

-Where to Sit

-Gaining Face

-Toasting and Drinking

-How to Use Chopsticks

-Mistakes to Avoid

-Do I have to Smoke

-Eating Etiquette

-BONUS: Tea Ceremony Overview Navigating Chinese businesspeople and how they differ from Western-based societies would take reading multiple books or an entire university degree. That realm of business is not my specialty, but what I do know about is the business dinners and lunches that follow meetings. I've been the only foreigner in a city for five years.

As the chiropractor in the best hospital in town, I would get invited to many dinners with important people in the city as well as special guests flown in from around China. My unspoken role was to make my boss, the city and I look good at these dinners, which is why I kept getting invited.

China business meals can seem foreign and rightfully so because it's a completely different culture and no one would blame you for being confused. I guarantee that after reading this book, you are going to be well advanced in your business dinner etiquette for Chinese culture. You will be able to impress them and look amazing compared to their past dealings with foreigners.

You will be able to avoid the common mistakes that many people make that could undermine your credibility in their eyes. Chinese people talk about gaining and losing face and after finishing this short book, you can rest assured that gaining face is what you and your soon to be colleagues will experience. So trust the words that are written here based on my many experiences.