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Brought to you by Dr Helen Zhang of Cambridge UK and Darren Fooks from Thomson Geer Lawyers Australia ...

Western communication follows deductive logic (premise + premise = conclusion), is sequential (i.e. each statement builds on the previous statement) and is direct (say what you think and think what you say), often referred to as "Speaker Dominant Linguistics".  Chinese communications can easily include internally conflicting views at the same time (Yin Yang), is multi-sequential or non-sequential (Rushidao) and is indirect and for may westerners, elusive (to accommodate mianzi, hierarchy, harmony and many other cultural requirements.

Today we use the Baker-Zhang model to compare these communication styles with example and war stories from the past for Dr Helen and Darren.

Sit back, relax, take your vertigo pills ...