Professionals find appetite for etiquette

Crossing the cultural divide can be a real education, Zhang Yuchen reports in Beijing.

'If one does not learn good manners, one can never succeed," states a verse from The Analects written by Confucius in about 500 BC.

Although the works of the great sage and philosopher were the cornerstone of Chinese education for millennia, especially in the training of intellectuals and civil servants, they have become indispensable reading for businesspeople both in the East and West in an era of rampant globalization.