ISBN:
9789811618802
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (282 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
362.140951
Keywords:
Caregivers-China-Social conditions
;
Internal migrants-China-Social conditions
;
Filial piety-China
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 The Care Burden of Chinese Migrant Peasant Workers -- Introduction -- Increasing Need for Care of Elderly Cancer Patients in China -- Informal Care -- Insufficient Welfare System Provisions for Rural Families -- Pension Schemes -- Social and Health Insurance in Rural China -- Other Governmental Support Policies -- The Burden of Care for Informal Caregivers -- Decline in Care Practice and Governmental Response -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 A Historical Trajectory of Filial Piety -- Introduction -- Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, and the Contention of a Hundred Schools of Thought (770-221 BCE) -- Confucianism -- Taoism -- From the Song to the Qing Dynasty (960-1912 CE) -- Neo-Confucianism -- Wrongdoing/Negative Effects of Neo-Confucianism and Filial Piety -- From the End of the Qing Dynasty (Late Nineteenth Century) to the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) -- New Culture Movement (1910s-1920s) and New Confucianism (from the Early Twentieth Century) -- New Confucianism -- From the People's Republic of China to Economic Reform in 1978 -- The Great Leap Forward (1958-1962) and the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) -- Autonomous Individual Propaganda and the Modernisation Project -- Filial Piety After Economic Reform (1978) -- (Neoliberal) Contextual Changes in Relation to the Perceived Decline of Filial Piety -- Neoliberalism as Culprit? -- The Government's Response to Claims of Diminishing Filial Piety: Re-Embracing Chinese Traditional Cultural Norms and the Parent-Visiting Law -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Research on Care and Filial Piety in China and Lack of 'Localised' Theoretical Grounding -- Introduction -- A Review of Existing Research on Filial Care -- Care and the Concept of Filial Piety in Relation to Care.
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