|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
1 Review
|
Average Customer Review
Share your thoughts with other customers
Create your own review
|
|
Most Helpful First | Newest First
|
|
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
if you want to understand Chinese, this is the book for you,
By
This review is from: Watching the Tree (Paperback)
This book is so chinese. i mean if you want to understand why we behave the way we do. this is the book for you. our obedience towards our parents. our family value over anything except our obedience of our parents. why in general chinese do not care about social cause. why our public places are in general not so clean.our love with food. our view towards education. i can so understand the terrible stepmom the author has. in fact, my best friend's mom was in the same situation. Also the case where her sibling conspired to deprive her inheritance, the same situation with my best friend's dad family. Although the kids in China are in different situation than my time. Since they have no siblings. (it is going to be so strange in 100 years if this continue, no family when family value is central to the Chinese culture) the author is a doctor from oxford. she mentioned our chinese herbal med culture. i think after reading this if you ever go to china or Hong Kong. try out our herbal tea. we have a saying " the more bitter it is, the more beneficial to you" you would then understand why we have such faith in our herbs. they have been tested for thousands of years! I look very young for my age. I am close to 40 but people still ask to see my ID when i buy wine. i have never had any plastic surgery or any frequent beauty salon visit. i think i attribute this to my chinese diet , chinese herbs and Tea. this should be an eye-opener to non-asian culture for foreigners. I highly recommend this little book. |
|
Most Helpful First | Newest First
|
|
Watching the Tree by Adeline Yen Mah (Paperback - September 3, 2001)
Used & New from: $0.01
| |
| ||
