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           There are multiple sites on Chinese culture, but few on the Chinese family specifically.  Looking at all the Chinese culture sites, I see short sections on many subjects, and therefore my site for those interested in the Chinese family specifically is superior to the culture sites in terms of information and depth on the Chinese family.  Therefore, I will focus on the sites with substantial information about the Chinese families as my main competitors in “the Chinese family information” space.

            The two main competitors I have thus found via Google search are Brookfield High School’s Cara Abraham’s “The Chinese Family in the Twentieth Century” site and UCSD’s Professor Emeritus David K. Jordan’s “The Traditional Chinese Family & Lineage” site.  Cara Abraham’s site, however, while on the Chinese Family, is a lesson outline/plan site.  It lists major important topics for the Chinese Family and also has a bibliography, which is a good resource for sources on the Chinese family.  Therefore, my site is differentiated from it in terms of information and making connections between various subtopics within the Chinese family.  I offer readers much more on that front, while Cara Abraham’s site has little to none of that. 

            David K. Jordan’s site, however, covers important concepts of the traditional Chinese family: the family itself, lineage, people not in the family, marriage, sexuality, and adoption.  With many subtopics that he explores in his site, he covers much of the traditional Chinese family in-depth.  Since he focuses on the traditional Chinese family, the amount of information he presents and subtopics within the traditional Chinese family is most definitely more than mine.  Also, he explores many specific concepts as well, so readers get an even fuller understanding of the traditional Chinese family. 

However, my site covers the traditional Chinese family and then the modern Chinese-American family, so it will give much more information to those interested in the transition of the Chinese family in modern America.  I cover a larger breadth of the Chinese family, from historical China to modern America, while Jordan only covers historical China.  The advantage to my approach, as said before, is that it allows audiences interested in Chinese-American families to understand it based on historical background and modern American existence.  Jordan's site would only allow those people to better understand the Chinese family’s history, but it wouldn’t give as much explicit information nor insight into the modern Chinese-American family.

One more distinction is that Jordan's site setup is not ideal for the internet.  He has large, long blocks of information all on a single page.  While he has links and anchors to different subtopics of the website, the fact that it is all on the same page makes it hard to read; readers may feel discouraged from reading the site because its structure gives the impression that each section builds on the other and there seems to be too much information all at once.  My site is instead broken up by tabs into different topics of the Chinese family, and then within those topics broken up further down into manageable subtopics that each have their own page.  This way, readers feel each part is stand-alone and can just go straight to the topics that interest them and will be more motivated to read and browse on my site. 

One more thing about my site compared to both Jordan and Abraham’s sites is that my site has room to grow.  Their sites are both very contained and seem like they will not be expanding much in way or another.  They may do occasional updates, but not much else.  My site has potential to be much bigger and give much more in-depth information as I obtain grants and workers to help develop the site.  I would be able to cover more topics and find more details and research.  Also, my site is structurally set up so that adding more topics is easy; there’s no need to change other parts of the site other than coding to adjust to adding in more information. 

At this point, however, my site obviously will not have the depth of information it can have in the future; with just me researching and writing, I will only be able to hit upon the most important, substantive points in each subtopic.  Therefore, I will point readers to both Jordan’s and Abraham’s sites, as they are good complements to mine.  Jordan’s site can give readers an even better understanding on the history of the Chinese family and Abraham’s site can give readers other sources to follow up on and help them identify important ideas and areas they can further research.