Chinese Family Titles
Joachim
November 25, 2007 at 11:00 AM posted in General DiscussionThis is basically just a link to this website http://www.mandarintools.com/family.html which let's you explore the intricacies of Chinese family relationships terms. So, next time you meet your wife's father's younger brother, be prepared to address him properly!
henning
November 25, 2007 at 11:16 AM
That page led me directly to the uber-family-title-collection:
http://www.kwanfamily.info/familytitles/familytitle.html
It goes all the way to the Great-great-grandparents Generation. Do not think you will never need those words.
goulnik
November 25, 2007 at 05:37 PMhenning, your link is great for terms but there's supposed to be a chart which doesn't seem to come up. A chart (i.e. a double tree) is really best to show those terms, I have one in a book and it does show the logic of the names - albeit convoluted, there is a logic !