Since most of these teachers have started their own classes around the island, Lin estimates that 50, 000 people are now learning the Chinese classics.
While many have visited the sprawling Dragon Mart complex where low-cost Chinese goods are sold wholesale, an estimated 180, 000 Chinese people reside in the country, including senior figures for state-run banks who negotiate joint investment opportunities in Africa with Western companies.
The latest estimates suggest there are more than a million Chinese people living and doing business on the continent.
Those are people that the Chinese can look up to, and learn the mastery of the craft.
This is extremely important to them because the Chinese are very status-conscious people.
Making the environment even tougher, Chinese companies with global ambitions increasingly are looking for the same kind of people as those sought by major Western companies trying to expand in China.
While the program is open to all, Chinese nationals are likely to be among the biggest takers, according to people involved with the program.
But, of course, most Chinese people are now mesmerized by the new and the fashionable.
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Hong Kong's 6.3 million people are 95% Chinese, the majority speakers of the Cantonese dialect.
More than half its people are Han Chinese, but the area is home to more than 40 different ethnic groupings, including Tibetans, Hui and Mongols.
Bill Gates and the Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) boys are still heroes to millions of Chinese and Indians, if not to the French or Bolivians.
Once Chinese money and people enter the U.S., they are subject to rule-of-law.
Now, he said, Chinese people are encouraged to talk to foreigners because the government wants them to learn about the world outside China.
The island's people are a mix of Indian, European, African and Chinese.
Many people in China are eagerly awaiting the day when the first truly global Chinese brand enters the top-10 ranking of the world's most valuable brands.
As Chinese New Year approaches on 10 February, people returning to their hometowns for the holidays are dreading "interrogations" by parents about their marital status and salaries, Xinhua reports.
China's airwaves have been dominated by Chinese-language "Mandopop, " but tastes are evolving as the internet gives young people access to different types of music, says Nathaniel Davis, operations director of China-based music industry consultancy Splatter.
Why should people be as enthusiastic about Chinese investment in the U.S. in energy as you are?
People are being warned to stop using a weight loss pill sold over the internet and in Chinese medicine shops.
James Bell, director of international survey research at Pew, said Chinese people who said they like American ideas about democracy were more likely to say they are closely following the election.
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