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China, Japan, Korea: Culture and Customs

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Great read, provides a real world present day knowledge of Eas Asia, from a hands on perspective of a person who has lived there, without any political agenda. This book is perfect for those yearning for more indepth knowledge of what East Asis is really like and how it got to be this way, as well as for those planning to travel to the region. Finally, a book that can serve as a handy reference and a guide that is an easy and enjoyable read that will keep you turning pages. Highly recommended.

This book is pathetic, the author is bizarre, Like who cares about what length of rice people eat

in various Asian countries or the length of chopsticks. This is a cut and paste piece of crap.

This book is the biggest waste of money possible. This book trumps her other pieces of junk.

Here are some of the "Culture" things you will learn comparing the three countries;

shape of dining room table

how to pronounce "rice"

length and material of chopsticks

use of chopsticks

whether or not you pick up your rice bowl

whether or not you pick up food for other people

how your glass of alcohol is refilled

whether or not they have separate breakfast food

In keeping with her other books, many things are highly inaccurate

last time I was in Japan I had "Fruit Loops" for breakfast.

The formal names of all three countries she supplies is incorrect,

they don't use English for their country names.

She repeats errors from her first three books, one of my favorites is;

"The use of pictographs as seen in Chinese characters has remained relatively intact

with few changes over the centuries"

Chinese characters have not been pictographic for thousands of years.

Many statistics she uses are years out of date.

There is in fact very little useful cultural tips in this book.

You would find the "Lonely Planet " books immensely more useful than this

piece or krap.