Practical, plain-language references for the parts of a Chinese family tree that are easy to get wrong — what to call each relative, why cousins split into two families of words, and how to trace a lineage back through village and clan records.
A complete reference to Chinese family titles — grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces, nephews and in-laws — in written Chinese with Mandarin and Cantonese pronunciation.
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Chinese splits cousins into two groups — 堂 and 表 — along a line drawn by surname and lineage. Here is the rule, the reasoning behind it, and the cases people get wrong.
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Where Chinese family history is actually recorded — elders, clan genealogies, generation poems, ancestral villages and surname origins — and a workable order to approach them in.
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