- Paperback: 194 pages
- Publisher: Booksurge Publishing (October 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1419648934
- ISBN-13: 978-1419648939
- Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,395,860 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
This book takes an unprecedented comparative approach in examining East Asia. Part in-depth reference, part handy guidebook this manual serves both travelers and students of Mainland China, Japan, and South Korea. Blending detailed maps with history and contemporary cultural similarities and differences, this book provides the most up-to-date information on the pulse of East Asia.
About the Author
Author Ju Brown holds a PhD in Chinese Literature and Languages, and has spent over 12 years working and studying in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. She and her husband John are co-authors of China, Japan, Korea Culture and Customs, and both work together on East Asia related publications. They also own and operate mycjk.com, a website dedicated to East Asia culture and languages.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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China, Japan, Korea Culture & Customs, Nov 8 2006
By James Lawrence "I travel via books" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: China, Japan, Korea Culture and Customs (Paperback)
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.
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Terrible Book, Jan 27 2011
By Dà Máo Hóuzi "Dà Máo Hóuzi" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: China, Japan, Korea Culture and Customs (Paperback)
This book is pathetic, the author is bizarre, Like who cares about what length of rice people eatin 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.
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