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if you lead people "with excellence and put them in their place through roles and ritual practices, in addition to developing a sense of shame, they will order themselves harmoniously” ------ Confucius
Two "face"-related concepts in Chinese social relations are guanxi "connections; relationships" and ganqing "feelings".
The term "face" keeps cropping up in our conversation, and it seems such a simple expression that I doubt whether many people give it much thought. Recently, however, we have heard this word on the lips of foreigners too, who seem to be studying it. They find it extremely hard to understand, but believe that "face" is the key to the Chinese spirit and that grasping it will be like grabbing a queue twenty-four years ago [when wearing a queue was compulsory] – everything else will follow.
Advice
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First of all, foreigners are not always expected to adhere to the same exacting standards of respect and prestige as locals in China are. The influx of Western culture into many of the larger Chinese coastal cities (and other more developed areas), along with greater numbers of local Chinese with experience dealing with Westerners, has led to more flexible interpretations of business and social etiquette.
efination
The term face idiomatically refers to one's own sense of dignity or prestige in social contexts.
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The origin of “face”
林语堂
Interesting as the Chinese physiological face is, the psychological face makes a still more fascinating study. It is not a face that can be washed or shaved, but a face that can be "granted" and "lost" and "fought for" and "presented as a gift". Here we arrive at the most curious point of Chinese social psychology. Abstract and intangible, it is yet the most delicate standard by which Chinese social intercourse is regulated.
in Englishspeaking
definition
The English semantic field for "face" words meaning "prestige; honor" is smaller than the corresponding Chinese field, but historical dictionaries more accurately record its history. The Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed., 1989) documents hoew the English community in China originated lose face and save face in the late 19th century, and how morphological variants like face-saver subsequently developed.
the expression "To save face" describes the lengths that an individual may go to in order to preserve their established position in society, taking action to ensure that one is not thought badly of by their peers. It is a fundamental concept in the fields of sociology, sociolinguistics, semantics, politeness theory, psychology, political science, communication, and face negotiation theory, and translates at least somewhat equivalently into many world languages, both Germanic and otherwise.
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Gaining and losing face
Examples
人活一张脸，树活一层皮 Men can’t live without face, trees can’t live without bark.
家丑不可外扬
A family’s ugliness (misfortune) should never be publicly aired
But from the Chinese point-of-view, it was deeply insulting to see their nation’s leader being tugged at and treated like a small child. In fact, the whole affair was so disastrous from a Chinese face-losing perspective, that the Chinese state media downplayed the visit– preferring instead to focus on Hu’s visit to Bill Gates’ mansion and to Boeing’s massive facilities in Washington State.
How face is important to a culture?
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CONTENT
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What is “face”?
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The origin of “face”
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Gaining and losing “face”
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Reasons why face is formed
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what is face?
Role-playing
中国餐桌吵架
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Reasons why face is formed
To Chinese, the concept of face is formed due to the Chinese traditional thinking which include feudal thoughts、Confucianism、the values of Chinese people and so on. In China, face not only represents politeness but also dignity or vanity. For example, Xiang Yu felt he lost his face, so he suicided himself but not had a try again. In the same time, face affects all aspects of Chinese people life which embodies culture. And in Chinese view, face shows his personal image. So Chinese always think about getting face and avoid losing face. Just as buying a car, different from westerners, Chinese think both his needs and other's view. The car means his face. On the contrary, westerners only consider their needs. As an old saying said tree live a skin that people live a face(树活一层皮人活一张脸),Chinese value face a lot and face impress Chinese actions.