Implications of China's Open-Door Policy for Families

Quach, Andrew S.; Anderson, Elaine A.

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“…Against the backdrop of a notable recent rise in divorce rates in China (Davis 2010;Quach and Anderson 2015), our participants' couple relationships do not seem precarious in the sense that they are more likely to fail than relationships among Chinese nationals. This conclusion is supported by the limited extant quantitative research on divorce rates among transnational couples (Gao et al 2013).…”

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Making transnational intimacies: intergenerational relationships in Chinese-Western families in Beijing

Nehring

Wang

2016

J. Chin. Sociol.

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In this study, we explore intergenerational relationships in Chinese-Western transnational families. Our argument draws on 28 life story interviews with Chinese middle-class professionals and their Western partners in Beijing. In the context of their living arrangements in Beijing, many of these couples had close ties with their Chinese parents or in-laws, in some cases living together under the same roof. We draw on our participants' interview narratives to ask how their culturally situated, sometimes disparate, understandings of intimacy shaped their relationships with their parents or in-laws. In this context, our analysis focuses on the ways in which our participants negotiated understandings and practices in their families. We conceptualise our participants' transnational families as an individualised intimate space, within which meanings of family, filial piety, and marriage cannot be taken for granted and require an ongoing process of reflexive negotiation to become and remain mutually acceptable. With this study, we seek to add to academic debates about parent-child relationships and filial piety in Chinese society. While there is a sizeable literature on this subject matter, the ways in which the quickly growing number of transnational marriages in China may rework intergenerational relationships remain poorly understood.

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Section: 'They Are Independent Compared To Other Women'mentioning

confidence: 78%

Making transnational intimacies: intergenerational relationships in Chinese-Western families in Beijing

Nehring

Wang

2016

J. Chin. Sociol.

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“…In sum, socio-economic development in China, including changes in family structure, living environment, housing, employment and economy, declining total fertility rates and decreasing family size (Palmer and Deng 2008), the younger generation's mass migration for work resulting in dwindling co-residence with their older parents (Asis et al 1995; Quach and Anderson 2008), and the increasing child-centred resource flows because of the erosion of traditional filial piety (Croll 2006), have made it increasingly difficult for parents to receive family support (Croll 2006; Quach and Anderson 2008; Zavoretti 2006). This huge socio-demographic transformation suggests that family-centred services should be encouraged when community care is developing, with the extended family as its main target in order to stimulate family care resources.…”

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The need for community care among older people in China

Zhou

Walker

2015

Ageing and Society

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“…As a result of institutional reforms urban individuals have more autonomy to seek employment in other cities, and rural people have more opportunities to join the urban labour force (Quach & Anderson, ). Those adult children who leave home in rural areas will not be able to visit their parents regularly or perform duties of care in person.…”

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Filial Obligation in Contemporary China: Evolution of the Culture‐System

2014

J Theory Soc Behav

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Family obligation, which has an exceptionally high salience in traditional Chinese society, continues to be significant in contemporary China. In family relations in particular sentiments and practices morphologically similar to those associated with xiao (filial piety) remains intact in so far as an enduring set of expectations concerning age-based obligation continues to structure behavior toward others. Researchers pursuing the theme of "individualization" in Chinese society, on the other hand, argue that family obligations and filial sentiments have substantially weakened. The present paper will show that under conditions of cultural and social change in China filial behavior through family obligation continues to play an important role even though the conventions associated with the relevant expectations, attitudes and emotions have undergone significant change. The paper argues that the culture-system develops not merely through an internal dynamic and that family obligation must be understood in terms of the social and material context in which it operates and the nature of the motivations and imagery of the people that practice it. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Filial Obligation in Contemporary China: Evolution of the Culture-SystemXiaoying Qi Abstract Family obligation, which has an exceptionally high salience in traditional Chinese society, continues to be significant in contemporary China. In family relations in particular sentiments and practices morphologically similar to those associated with xiao (filial piety) remains intact in so far as an enduring set of expectations concerning age-based obligation continues to structure behavior toward others. Researchers pursuing the theme of "individualization" in Chinese society, on the other hand, argue that family obligations and filial sentiments have substantially weakened. The present paper will show that under conditions of cultural and social change in China filial behavior through family obligation continues to play an important role even though the conventions associated with the relevant expectations, attitudes and emotions have undergone significant change. The paper argues that the culture-system develops not merely through an internal dynamic and that family obligation must be understood in terms of the social and material context in which it operates and the nature of the motivations and imagery of the people that practice it.

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Implications of China's Open-Door Policy for Families

Cited by 26 publications

References 22 publications

Making transnational intimacies: intergenerational relationships in Chinese-Western families in Beijing

Making transnational intimacies: intergenerational relationships in Chinese-Western families in Beijing

The need for community care among older people in China

Filial Obligation in Contemporary China: Evolution of the Culture‐System

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