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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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Mutual aid
- Age stratification
- Ethics
- Household
- Family relationships
- Extended families
- Infant care
- Child care
- Status and treatment of the aged
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Han Chinese
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1994
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1994
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Baoding City, Hebei Province, People's Republic of China
- NotesAdditional notes
- Martin King Whyte
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 96645876
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- China--Social life and customs