Family Across China and Germany
Essays on family life, responsibility, boundaries, intergenerational relationships, and everyday cultural differences between Chinese and German ways of understanding “family.”
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For a Long Time, I Held Deep Resentment Toward My German Mother-in-Law. Later, I Slowly Came to Understand
For years, I carried resentment toward my German mother-in-law, until I slowly realized that I had been judging her through the expectations of a Chinese family system. What once looked like coldness was, in her world, often a matter of… Continue reading
Jane Sonnenschein | A Chinese Way of Seeing 