Exploring Global Change And Chinese Philosophy At The Yenching Global Symposium

Benefits of attending the Yenching Global Symposium

Questions:

1.How will attending the Yenching Global Symposium help you achieve your goals?

2.What is the most interesting thing you’ve done in the past two years?

3.Renaissance, this year's theme, identifies four different expressions of ren. Please select one that resonates with your field of interest and discuss how it relates to China's place in a global future

4.It’s the second day of the Yenching Global Symposium. You’re waiting in line for lunch. What are you chatting about with the person next to you?

5.A journalist visits the organization you work for in 2022. She says she has an opportunity to ask the Chinese premier a question at the annual “Two Sessions” gathering, and asks for your advice on what to ask. What do you tell her and why?

1.The global symposium will help in achieving my gaols in many ways because it will be a rewarding experience for me.

First, the conference will be helping me to sharp my ideas as well as approaches which will make me more efficient and operative.

Secondly, in this global symposium, I will be meeting experts and influencers whose extremely valuable designs will help me in improving my approaches.

Thirdly, the conference has a great prospect of providing immense exchange of goods as well as ideas. Therefore, it will help me in forming new perspectives regarding journey to a global future.

Fourthly, in this internet generation, people think that they can get knowledge about everything through internet but such a conference will be helping me to curate new methods to improve approaches.

Fifthly, as china is a land of ancient tradition, the global symposium will make me know the flip side of study that is the relearning classic practices.

Sixthly, the conference creates rooms for like-minded folks. Through the global symposium, I can meet people who will be interested to learn new things though discussion. For own betterments it will provide scope to quench my desire to improve my existing skills and apply them in future job.

Seventhly, such conference teaches one to learn investing oneself. It helps recognising the strength or capability of people. On the other hand, it also helps to find the weak points that need to be improved. Investment for own growth is the chief concern for attending the Yenching Global Symposium.

2.As a result of working in a casino in Vancouver, I gathered a lot of experiences regarding public dealings. As all casino dealers find difficult to pacify people who lost their money in game but that was the chief challenge I always enjoyed. I found casino industry to be most different from others where I met people from different culture and ethnicity. Dealing with the customers and face their grievances have helped me to build an endurance capacity which is much needed in a business.

China's place in a global future through philosophy and culture

The other interesting things were the working condition and scheduling. The casino offers excellent dining rooms as well as meals for its employees for meagre amount. The scheduling in the casino was most fitted for me. I am attending masters in Canada after graduation and as the casino offers 24 hours of gaming facility, it gives me opportunity to work in any shift. It offers easy time offs as well as early out in case of any emergency. This is why I can balance my education along with my job.

Payment is one of the attractive aspect I found while working in a casino. As the casino industry pays the dealers according to their tips, my tips had a great impact on my earning. The more I worked in being friendly with the gusts and taking care of them, the more I earned.

In the casino I used to get flexible time off as well as vacations. Therefore, I used to get opportunity for attending colleges and education excursions.

The most important thing I learnt while working in a casino was to build network of people. The customers were from different countries and had different backgrounds. For my good conduct, I was offered variety of jobs both from the customers as well as the authority

3.One of the resonates interested me and discuss China's place in a global future is the ‘Benevolence’ (Yenchingsymposium.org. 2017). This discusses the influence of Chinese philosophy and culture on China's increasing soft power.

The term Soft power was coined by Joseph Nye in the nineties which has been greatly used in the arenas of academics and politics. Chinese scholars discuss and interpret the term soft power in broader sense which goes beyond the discussion of soft power by Nye. Soft power in the Chinese dissertation focuses mainly on the domestic situation of China (Yang, 2015). Following the discussion by Chinese scholars on the soft power the politicians of china used its culture of the chief source of soft power building. Confucianism has been resurged to be the primary characteristic of china’s culture exportation (Stambach, 2015). The government has taken initiatives to export Chinese culture through different cultural events. It is a great deal of effort on the part of the Chinese government and it is aggressive in the soft power projection. The scholars compare between the soft power projection of USA and China and found various limitations of originated due to Chinese political system. Despite the fact that both the countries feel threatened by each other, USA’s culture is more popular worldwide (Sundararajan, 2015).  therefore, it plays dominance over Chinese culture. The soft power projection however is a way for increasing the counties’ mutual understanding and will help in avoiding future conflicts (Lo & Pan, 2016).

Valuable experiences working in the casino industry

4.The Yenching global symposium offers opportunity to explore the global change. The audience attending the conference will be grad students like me. Some can be from different nations and some can be locals (Nie et al., 2015). While standing in the que for lunch I may come across a student from a European country. As I a Chinese by birth and spend a lot time in Canada, I have explored and experienced both cultural perspectives. The small talk can be started with the weather as most of the European discussion begins with weather. After we discuss about our cultural backgrounds, the next topic can be our educational as well as professional backgrounds. As the second day topic of the conference will be on people and culture, the discussion on both the cultures will be dominant in our discussion. I shall gain knowledge about his point of view regarding profession.

 For being a Chinese by birth, family plays very important role in our discussions. Therefore, we can talk about our families and local celebrations. There is a popular myth about my culture that Chinese people are shy and do not exchange eye contact and indulge in firm shake hands, I will be flexible and prove these myths wrong (Gong et al., 2016). Our discussion will be full of humour and as we both were waiting for lunch; food can be a good topic to be discussed. I shall gain knowledge about his or her liking of Chinese food which represents the culture as well.

5.The journalist can ask for my advice about selecting the best topic to ask the Chinese premier at the annual ‘Two Sessions’ gathering. As a people of Chinese origin and working in a foreign country, my perspectives will be reflected in my question. In case I am working in a north American country, my subject will be based on the foreign policies of China and US- China relationship.

America has been the largest economy followed by China though the latter has larger GDP that the former. America has been the super power in terms of its national wealth and regulate world economy and peace (Zhao, 2015). China and US have mutual economic, political and security comforts. People living in China as well as Chinese working in USA or neighbouring countries are first to face the impact of the relationship changes between these two states (Huang, 2016). Therefore, asking the Chinese premier about questions regarding their goal to work mutually to fulfil their responsibilities by building a community of shared future is important (Ku, 2015). Their decisions are important to overcome difficulties and create a better world by offering better lives for people.

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