The House of Lim

Title: The House of Lim
Category: History
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The House of Lim

Wolf, Margery 1968 The House of Lim. Englewood Cliffs. Prentice Hall Reviewed by: The House of Lim by Margery Wolf is a first hand account of the daily lives and family structure of a Chinese family living in Taiwan in the early 1960s. Margery Wolf, a wife of an anthropologist who specializes in Chinese studies, declares herself as not being an anthropologist but in the book she wanted to accomplish three things: “to present a case …showed first 75 words of 1302 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1302 total…really well. As I got further into my reading I discovered this book to be very interesting. I was amazed at the difference in culture that took place in Taiwan and the United States. It was also interesting to compare and contrast what was acceptable behavior in the Chinese culture and the culture that we live into today. I would diffinitely recommend this book as a tool for anybody interest in learning about another culture.

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