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Book SynopsisHow has rapid economic 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, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan.
Trade Review" . . . [T]his is a compelling volume." --
The China Journal"This valuable volume is a must for teaching and learning about this key topic affecting intergenerational relations whether in Asia or elsewhere." --
Candian Journal of Sociology Online"This volume presents clear and riveting perspectives from the trenches of ethnographers on the front lines. Its substantive ethnographic data admirably fills a void in our understanding of social realities in contemporary East Asia by registering the pulse of filial practice in the global age." --
Japan Studies Review"This valuable volume is a must for teaching and learning about this key topic affecting intergenerational relations whether in Asia or elsewhere." --
Canadian Sociology Journal OnlineTable of ContentsTable of Contents for Filial Piety List of Tables and Figures List of Contributors Introduction, by Charlotte Ikels 1. Ritualistic Coresidence and the Weakening of Filial Practice in Rural China, by Danyu Wang 2. Filial Daughters, Filial Sons: Comparisons from Rural North China, by Eric T. Miller 3. Meal Rotation and Filial Piety, by Jun Jing 4. "Living Alone" and the Rural Elderly: Strategy and Agency in Post-Mao Rural China, by Hong Zhang 5. Serving the Ancestors, Serving the State: Filial Piety and Death Ritual in Contemporary Guangzhou, by Charlotte Ikels 6. Filial Obligations in Chinese Families: Paradoxes of Modernization, by Martin King Whyte 7. The Transformation of Filial Piety in Contemporary South Korea, by Roger L. Janelli and Dawnhee Yim 8. Filial Piety in Contemporary Urban Southeast Korea: Practices and Discourses, by Clark Sorensen and Sung-Chul Kim 9. Culture, Power, and the Discourse of Filial Piety in Japan: The Disempowerment of Youth and Its Social Consequences, by Akiko Hashimoto 10. Curse of the Successor: Filial Piety vs. Marriage Among Rural Japanese, by John W. Traphagan 11. Alone in the Family: Great-grandparenthood in Urban Japan, by Brenda Robb Jenike Glossary Notes References Index
