Off the Great Wall: The Complicated Chinese Family Tree

By jozjozjoz | Sunday, March 10, 2013 | 2 Comments

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Did you know that every member of a Chinese family is called something different depending on whether it’s from one’s mom’s side or dad’s side and their seniority?

It gets quite confusing, so the folks at Off the Great Wall drew it out for us in a massive Chinese family tree.

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EastAsianNationalist

Hm. All my grandparents are dead and my parents don’t know squat about our origins except that it’s somewhere in Shandong. Oh well.
Guest

It’s quite funny how they’re not even famous, yet this author desides to put these Fulong Gong people on 8Asians. Which if you visite their page, this video clearly got an view bost. Too much politic mate.

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