In China, white people can be rented。
在中国,白人是可以被“租用”的。
For a day, a weekend, a week, up to even a month or two, Chinese companies are willing to pay high prices for fair-faced foreigners to join them as fake employees or business partners。
有些中国公司会愿意高价请一些面相好的白人来冒充他们公司的雇员或者生意伙伴,根据需要“租期”可以是一天、一周甚至一两个月。
Some call it a "Face Job."
这种情况就叫做“面子工程。”
And it is, essentially, all about the age-old Chinese concept of face. To have a few foreigners hanging around means a company has prestige, money and the increasingly crucial connections -- real or not -- to businesses abroad。
这是中国人一种由来已久的观念观,一个公司里要是有外国人就意味着整个公司有威望、财力雄厚并且“或真或假”的有着外国商贸业务。
"Face, we say in China, is more important than life itself," said Zhang Haihua, author of "Think Like Chinese." "Because Western countries are so developed, people think they are more well off, so people think that if a company can hire foreigners, it must have a lot of money and have very important connections overseas. So when they really want to impress someone, they may roll out a foreigner. Or rent one."
“在中国,面子比生活本生更重要,”《像中国人一样思考》的作者Zhang Haihua说:“因为西方国家经济发达,人们认为西方人更富裕,他们觉得如果一个公司请得起外国雇员的话,那这个公司肯定很有钱并且与海外有着重要联系。所以如果想给人家留下深刻的印象,他们就可能会请出外国人。没有就干脆租一个。”
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