Life Course, Culture and Aging #06: Beyond Filial Piety

Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies

Life Course, Culture and Aging #06: Beyond Filial Piety
Hong Zhang, Jeanne Shea, Katrina Moore
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16 Jun 2020 UK
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9781789207880
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East Asia is home to some of the oldest and most rapidly aging populations on earth. Known for Confucian filial piety and adult children caring for elderly parents at home, these societies are experiencing unprecedented social challenges to traditional forms of eldercare. This volume explores emerging cultural meanings and social responses to population aging in contemporary East Asian societies. Drawing on ethnographic, demographic, policy, archival, and media data, the authors trace both common patterns and diverging trends across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, and Korea.

Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies

"This is an excellent volume that is particularly timely given the significant demographic challenges that East Asian societies are facing related to population aging and population decline. It is an outstanding collection by a group of excellent scholars." John Trapaghan, University of Texas"This is an excellent book... The editors describe their manuscript as in dialogue with my 2004 "classic volume" on filial piety. [It] is more than just a timely update." Charlotte Ikels, Case Western Reserve University
Jeanne Shea is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Health and Society Program and the Global Health Concentration in Anthropology at the University of Vermont. She has published her research in many scholarly journals and edited volumes.Katrina Moore is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Her most recent publications include The Joy of Noh: Embodied Learning and Discipline in Urban Japan, and an article on retirement and interdependence among Japanese baby boomers in Anthropology and Ageing (SUNY, 2014).
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ISBN-13: 9781789207880
Published: 16 Jun 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 462

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