The case of China

"The sleeping lion" the other name that describes this Asiatic country. The same lion that waked up and reached an incredible and unexpected economic growth.

This country that lived so many years under a communist ideology, decided to mixture all their beliefs, customs and religions with capitalism tendencies that influenced their economic policy, in a way that is perceivable in their infrastructure seen in cities as Shanghai and Beijing with their skyscrapers, and when they affirm that their Chinese national bird is the lift, machinery used for construction. Also, is possible to see many expensive car stores as Alfa Romeo, Lamborghini, Ferrari among others, which indicates that now days is a market more able to buy this non cheap cars.

[Guangzhou, Shanghai China]

This economic tsunami generated a new economic class, named the "new rich" located in the coasts and at the same time, as every progress conducted to less medical access for poor. And while others still scared about China's progress and competitive import product's prices, this country internally is leaving a contradiction between capitalism and communism. A controversial topic that Chinese are living. A country that supports its competitive advantage in low prices sustained by its labor force because has the largest population in the world, but in the other hand is the way that they have been treated, just as workers of XIX century of the industrial revolution, where workers had their time counted and the goal was the maximum quantity of production but no their rights and duties. The Chinese employees are living in the factories, earning more than working in rural terrains of course (to argue the movement of young people to the main cities), but with a controlled life, where the company is mostly the possessor of their time also in weekends with prepared activities of "entertainment" sponsored by them.
But the most strange thing of all of these is that the majority of Chinese are used to it and do not complain about that lifestyle, it seems to be very normal. The same thing happens with the information domain that government has over Chinese, the recognized Google case, the prohibition of having a Gmail account, blogs, free press, only for the benefit of the Government, so they only see one truth, theirs.

Is reason of all of these the high collectivism that Chinese have? the argument of sacrificing themselves for next generations in order to accomplish the objective of having a medium class?
I really do not have an explanation for these questions and no academic resource will give me the answer.
The other day, in the International management class a Chinese girl went to explain us more of their national culture, what we should do or not in a negotiation with Chinese and other details, too and when one of us asked her, what do they think about the censured information from government, she didn't answered. She just began to talk about other issues, so again, do they support this idea? or just she didn't wanted to talk about it?

Bibliography

• Gonzalez, M.A. 2009. Presentation "China" Organization and Cultures Subject, Universidad EAFIT.
• Video: How Does Google Work and Google in China. Retrieved on March 18, 2009. http://interactiva.eafit.edu.co/ei/
  
• Kelly, S. (2006) La Revolución China se vuelve tecnológica. BBC News. Retrieved on March 29, 2009. http://lnx.videotutoriales.com/revolucion.htm.