Why do Chinese people do so much voluntary overtime at work? Who is the key mastermind behind traditional marriages, and how come their jokes are funny but yours are not? 50 Useful Tips helps to unravel the many mysteries of the Middle Kingdom. The author, Ralph Jennings, isn't Chinese and while that gives him a certain objectivity, it also inevitably leaves him partly in the dark. He put in his time, but how far did he really get in figuring things out? A lot further than most.
