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The house of LimBook 1968 • Wolf, Margery
Taiwan Hokkien • Asia > East Asia
This book presents a case study of an ideal Hokkien extended family from a small community near the market town of Hsulin on the southwest edge of the Taipei plain. The family under scrutiny had been hosting the Wolfs during the period of the field w...Women and the family in rural TaiwanBook 1972 • Wolf, Margery
Taiwan Hokkien • Asia > East Asia
This work gives a seasoned view of the life stages and paths available to rural Taiwanese women of the period (ca. 1960). Wolf's focus on women's lives allows the reader to see many aspects of family and kinship in a light not presented in other stud...Child training and the Chinese familyessay 1978 • Wolf, Margery
Taiwan Hokkien • Asia > East Asia
This is an analysis of socialzation and child-rearing practices as observed by the author in a village which she calls 'Peihotien'. Wolf considers differences in practices and in the treatment and expectations of children by their parents according t...