Filial piety : practice and discourse in contemporary East Asia / edited by Charlotte Ikels.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ikels, Charlotte.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kinship--East Asia.

Kinship.

Families--East Asia.

Families.

Households--East Asia.

Households.

Parent and adult child--East Asia.

Parent and adult child.

Filial piety--East Asia.

Filial piety.

Adult children of aging parents--East Asia.

Adult children of aging parents.

Aging parents--Care--East Asia.

Aging parents.

East Asia--Social life and customs.

East Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How have rapid industrial development and the aging of the population affected the expression of filial piety in East Asia? Eleven experienced fieldworkers take a fresh look at an old idea, analyzing contemporary behavior, not norms, among both rural and urban families in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Each chapter presents rich ethnographic data on how filial piety shapes the decisions and daily lives of adult children and their elderly parents. The authors’ ability to speak the local languages and their long-term, direct contact with the villagers and city dwellers they studied lend an immediacy and authenticity lacking in more abstract treatments of the topic. This book is an ideal text for social science and humanities courses on East Asia because it focuses on shared cultural practices while analyzing the ways these practices vary with local circumstances of history, economics, social organization, and demography and with personal circumstances of income, gender, and family configuration.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Tables and Figures

List of Contributors

Introduction

1. Ritualistic Coresidence and the Weakening of Filial Practice in Rural China

2. Filial Daughters, Filial Sons: Comparisons from Rural North China

3. Meal Rotation and Filial Piety

4. “Living Alone” and the Rural Elderly: Strategy and Agency in Post-Mao Rural China

5. Serving the Ancestors, Serving the State: Filial Piety and Death Ritual in Contemporary Guangzhou

6. Filial Obligations in Chinese Families: Paradoxes of Modernization

7. The Transformation of Filial Piety in Contemporary South Korea

8. Filial Piety in Contemporary Urban Southeast Korea: Practices and Discourses

9. Culture, Power, and the Discourse of Filial Piety in Japan: The Disempowerment of Youth and Its Social Consequences

10. Curse of the Successor: Filial Piety vs. Marriage Among Rural Japanese

11. Alone in the Family: Great-grandparenthood in Urban Japan

Glossary

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8047-6716-5

1-4175-1944-4

OCLC:

70771965