The Chinese Way is a 2014 social psychology book by Min Ding and Jie Xu. This book takes an anthropologist's perspective, and covers 51 topics central to Chinese around 2014. It identifies nine core concepts that best represent the Chinese way of life: Doctrine of Mean, Wealthism, Tribalism, Hierarchicalism, Polymorphism, Usefulism, Emotionalism, Effortlessism, Cynicism.