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.
Anger
The boss
Connections and contacts
Three meals a day
How Germans and the Chinese see one another
Ego
Elderly in day to day life
Lifestyle
Complexity of self-expression
Moods and weather
At a party
Attitude towards punctuality
How to stand in line
Noise level inside a restaurant
Ideal of beauty
Animals
Traveling and recording memories
Problem-solving approach
