German Chancellor Angela Merkel is making her eighth visit to China this week. As with political and economic points of view, there are many cultural differences between the two nations. Chinese-born artist Yang Liu moved to Germany at the age of 14. Drawing on her experience, she has created a series of minimalist infographics to highlight how people see their world from a Chinese versus German perspective in her piece ‘East Meets West’. The blue side represents a German point of view, the red represents Chinese.
Angeranger
The boss
chef
Connections and contactscontacts
Three meals a daydrei-mahlzeiten
How Germans and the Chinese see one anothereast-vs-west
Ego
eastwest-ego
Elderly in day to day life
elderly-in-day-to-day-life
Lifestyle
lebensstil
Complexity of self-expression
meinung
Moods and weather
moods-and-weather
At a party
party
Attitude towards punctuality
puenktlichkeit
How to stand in line
queue
Noise level inside a restaurant
restaurant
Ideal of beauty
schoenheitsideal
Animals
tiere
Traveling and recording memories
traveling
Problem-solving approach
umgang-mit-problemen