In China, if you’re offered tea during a business discussion, just drink it and shut up. That’s not exactly what the etiquette experts there advise. But sort of.

To hand comes a dubious report that “the typical American man can run a mile in 12 minutes and do 33-1/2 situps in one minute.” Typical? Great! I’m unique.

Family members of the sedate Chinese emperors were supposed to move with a measured slowness befitting the dignity of their social status. They wore jade ornaments on their robes. House rule: If your jade clinked, you were going too fast.