Cultural Exchange between Chinese
My work schedule has been full of meetings in the past weeks. On Monday morning, I went to Alibaba's office in Hong Kong for a meeting. They're located in Fenwick Road / Gloucester Road with a very good Victoria Harbour view. It's no surprise given their recent highly successful IPO.
Five people were in the meeting - my boss and I + 3 people from Alibaba, altogether 5 Chinese sitting in a meeting room of an indigenous Chinese company. But guess what, the meeting was conducted in English!? I'm sure everybody speaks Putonghua (though my Putonghua is pretty basic), if not Cantonese, well. It's kind of funny to be in that meeting.
Five people were in the meeting - my boss and I + 3 people from Alibaba, altogether 5 Chinese sitting in a meeting room of an indigenous Chinese company. But guess what, the meeting was conducted in English!? I'm sure everybody speaks Putonghua (though my Putonghua is pretty basic), if not Cantonese, well. It's kind of funny to be in that meeting.
posted by Brad at
12:20 AM
1 Comments:
given the fact that alibaba is opening shop in geneva, i think it's actually surprising that the preferred language was not french *sfg*
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