At 01:31 PM -0700 4/2/07, patrick wrote:
>In China, the word for "crisis" is the same as the word for "opportunity".
>
This is not really true. The conventional Western characterization of this
idea holds that the Mandarin character for crisis is an amalgam of two other
characters signifying danger and opportunity. A whole cottage industry has
grown up around this notion. Turns out to be a more complicated story after
all. Run a search in Google for <chinese character for crisis opportunity>, or
take a look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_translation_of_crisis
Cheers,
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Ashwani
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