Chinese Perception of Face (Mianzi) and Its Influence on Communicating with the Japanese

Sueda, Kiyoko

doi:10.5690/kantoh.1993.191

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“…The Japanese language has a similar word and shares a similar concept, but concerns about mientzu among them might be weaker than among the Chinese. Sueda (1993) argued that the Chinese are concerned about mientzu more than the Japanese especially in the situation related to actual benefits. Therefore, when judging the trustworthiness of indirect friends, the Chinese might be more likely to assume that indirect friends would be concerned with their own mienztu and the mienztu of an intermediary(s); thus, they would be forced to be trustworthy.…”

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The Mystery of the Difference in the Level of General Trust in China and Japan

Ozono

2018

PSYCHOLOGIA -An International Journal of Psychological Sciences

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Previous studies show that the level of general trust in China is higher than in Japan, but the reason has not been explained sufficiently. In this study, I seek to explain this cultural difference in terms of trust among indirect friends and expectations of self-disclosure. I predicted that trust among indirect friends and expectations of self-disclosure would be higher in China, which would result in a higher level of general trust. Eighty-eight Chinese high school students and 63 Japanese undergraduate students completed my questionnaire. I replicated the cultural differences in the level of general trust. However, relational mobility, which explained cultural differences in the level of general trust in previous studies, did not explain my data. There were no cultural differences in trust among indirect friends, and expectations of self-disclosure were not higher in China. Ultimately, I failed to find an explanation for the cultural difference of general trust.

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