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The fate of filial obligations in urban China
China journal • 38 • Published In 1997 • Pages: 1-31
By: Whyte, Martin King.
Abstract
This study tests coded data from interviews to explain why filial piety persists today in China despite the country's industrialization and modernization which were developments that favored the rise of individualism and independent conjugal families in the West. While such modern attitudes and trends do appear among higher educated and political cadres, most families, especially rural ones, continue to care for their aging parents, reciprocating the parental care they had growing up.
- Subjects
- Mutual aid
- Age stratification
- Ethics
- Household
- Family relationships
- Extended families
- Infant care
- Child care
- Status and treatment of the aged
- culture
- Han Chinese
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field Date
- 1994
- Coverage Date
- 1994
- Coverage Place
- Baoding City, Hebei Province, People's Republic of China
- Notes
- Martin King Whyte
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 96645876
- LCSH
- China--Social life and customs