Striving for comfort: “Positive” construction of dating cultures among second-generation Chinese American youths

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 867-888 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baozhen Luo
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Chinese American

The Li of Chinese American Familism

2019 ◽  
pp. 127-156
Author(s):  
Russell M. Jeung ◽  
Seanan S. Fong ◽  
Helen Jin Kim
Keyword(s):  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Chinese American ◽  
Chinese Americans ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Cultural Scripts ◽  
The Family ◽  
Tea Ceremony ◽  
Over Time

Chapter 6 identifies how Chinese Americans maintain the value of family through rituals, including rites of passage, ethnic routines, and table traditions. Rites of passage such as the wedding tea ceremony provide individuals with distinct responsibilities within the family. Ethnic routines, including family meals, transnational visits, and reunions, inculcate the norms of hospitality, reciprocity, and face/shame. They also teach the cultural scripts of familism through table traditions, such as pouring tea. Traditions and rituals change over time, however, and second-generation Chinese Americans pass on their liyi values and ethics differently than their immigrant parents did. The second generation lack a migration story of family sacrifice and have an attenuated knowledge of Chinese liyi traditions, and racialized multiculturalism further reduces ethnic traditions to what is marketable and consumable. Chinese Americans therefore hybridize and Americanize their ethnicity, which results in a new liyi Chinese American identity that consists of food and fun.

Translation

2019 ◽  
pp. 72-95
Author(s):  
Russell M. Jeung ◽  
Seanan S. Fong ◽  
Helen Jin Kim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Popular Religion ◽  
Chinese American ◽  
Chinese Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Chinese American Families ◽  
American Children

Chapter 4 reveals that immigrant parents had mixed success in translating the liyi practices of Chinese Popular Religion to their Chinese American children due to four major barriers. First, Chinese American families transmitted practices by modeling rituals without explaining them. The second generation performed customs without fully understanding the symbols and meanings. Second, the dissonant acculturation between parents and children led the second generation to be more Americanized and less receptive to traditional, hierarchical values. Third, Christian dominance and privilege in the United States rendered Chinese practices exotic and superstitious. Fourth, gendered and racialized experiences “othered” Chinese traditions as foreign and outdated. In spite of these barriers, Chinese Americans distilled and hybridized what was most important to them from these practices to sustain familism.

Second-generation Chinese American female undergraduates: Psychosociocultural correlates of well-being.

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 246-258
Author(s):  
Tracy C. Guan ◽  
Alberta M. Gloria ◽  
Jeanett Castellanos
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Chinese American ◽  
Well Being
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