scholarly journals The Cinematic Depiction of Conflict Resolution in the Immigrant Chinese Family

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-159
Author(s):  
Qijun Han
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Chinese American ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
American Family ◽  
Cultural Specificity ◽  
Chinese American Families ◽  
Wedding Banquet ◽  
To Come

Both emphasising dilemmas that have been confronted by the Chinese- American family, Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Alice Wu’s Saving Face (2004) highlight the image of homosexuality as incompatible with traditional Chinese family values. Through detailed narrative analyses of these two films with a focus on the structure of the plot, the key characters, and camera work, this article aims to answer the questions of how traditional Chinese culture continues to play into and conflict with the experiences of modern Chinese American families and how each film presents and resolves the tensions arising from a culture in transition. The article argues that the importance of studying the ways in which the protagonists try to come to terms with incompatible value systems, lies in the capacity of film to reveal the complex negotiation between tradition and modernity, as well as the socio-cultural specificity of the conceptions of modernity.

The Psychosocial Needs of the Chinese Elderly

1980 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doman Lum ◽  
Lucia Yim-San Cheung ◽  
Eric Ray Cho ◽  
Tze-Yee Tang ◽  
How Boa Yau
Keyword(s):  
Chinese American ◽  
Psychosocial Problems ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
Psychosocial Needs ◽  
Chinese Elderly ◽  
Family Patterns ◽  
Chinese American Families ◽  
American Families

Changing Chinese family patterns caused by immigration have contributed to the breakdown of traditional community and familial control in Chinese-American families. As a result, the Chinese-American elderly are faced with unique psychosocial problems that workers must consider when providing services to this population.

scholarly journals Grandparenting and the Receipt of Filial Piety From Adult Children in Chinese American Families

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 345-346
Author(s):  
Jeung Hyun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Social Exchange ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Filial Piety ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
Role Theory ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Chinese American ◽  
Chinese American Families ◽  
Grandparent Caregiving ◽  
American Families

Abstract The current study explores the association between grandparent caregiving by Chinese American elders and their perceived receipt of filial support from their adult children, called filial piety (xiao). Many studies find a correlation between grandparent caregiving and filial behaviors from their adult children, which is notably higher among minority families, especially among Asians than among white families, stimulated by the norm of reciprocity, familism, and extended kinship. Drawing from the theory of intergenerational relationships, social exchange theory, and the role theory, this study questions whether a more active engagement in grandparenting renders higher levels of filial piety returns from adult children. It uses the PINE data, a survey on the wellbeing of Chinese American elders in Chicago. The results show that more hours of grandparent caregiving relate to higher returns of filial piety perceived by older parents. Correspondingly, though with a marginal significance, more pressures to take care of a grandchild from adult children reduce the elders’ perception of filial piety receipt. No interaction effect is found between the grandparenting hours and the pressure from adult children. Additionally, Chinese American elders possessing higher levels of education, mastery, and longer stays in the US perceive lower levels of filial piety receipt from adult children. Discussion will focus on how grandparent caregiving can be mutually beneficial and strengthen intergenerational relationships among Chinese American families.

Institutional complexity and family business development: a case study of the Charoen Pokphand group

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Wang ◽  
Qiang Liang ◽  
Lihong Song ◽  
Erming Xu
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
Institutional Complexity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Equal Importance ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Dominant Period

Purpose With features of both “family” and “business,” family businesses must seek a balance between the emotional aspect of “family” and the economic aspect of “business” in its organizational and decision-making processes to ensure the sustainability of the family’s entrepreneurship. This study aims to focus on how internal institutional complexity combined evolves alongside the growth of the family business. Design/methodology/approach The research looks, from the perspective of institutional logic, into the Charoen Pokphand Group, which is an epitome of overseas Chinese family businesses and proceeds to build a model of family business growth in the context of institutional complexity. Findings The research finds that as a family business grows, institutional complexity inside the organization would change from aligned period to sustaining period and then to dominant period. Then further elucidates the process of proactive response in different stages of the development of a family business. Attaching equal importance to the cultivation of entrepreneurship and to the continuation of family values and culture is the crucial mechanism by which Chinese family businesses seek a balance between family logic and business logic. Originality/value This paper unveils the change of institutional complexity in the evolution of family businesses and the process of action of its agency as an organization, and simultaneously partly reveals the features of entrepreneurship that overseas Chinese family businesses have as they grew, which is of positive significance for exploring and building a path of growth unique to Chinese family businesses.

scholarly journals Material Hardship and Stress from COVID-19 in Immigrant Chinese American Families with Infants

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Duh-Leong ◽  
H. Shonna Yin ◽  
Stella S. Yi ◽  
Sabrina L. Chen ◽  
Angel Mui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chinese American ◽  
Material Hardship ◽  
Chinese American Families ◽  
American Families

Le bon voisin, le mauvais voisin: ébauche d'une sociologie de 1'6thos de voisinage

1981 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Michel
Keyword(s):  
Value Systems ◽  
To Come ◽  
Rela Tions

In this article, the author sets out to study how inhabitants of a neighbourhood invest part of their social stakes in neighbourly relations and realize a miniaturization of the play of conflict and integration. The neighbourhood scene is the opportunity or the pretext for expressing or trying out value systems in play in social rela tions. The author has not started out by studying these values themselves. She has preferred to come to them at the end of her study. Through concrete study, she has brought out the set of relations which make up a system and which involve general value-forming mechanisms.

Home and the Range: Spencer’s Mountain as Revisionist Family Melodrama

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Pomp
Keyword(s):  
Values Education ◽  
Family Values ◽  
The Novel ◽  
American Family ◽  
John Ford ◽  
Female Audience

Joseph Pomp offers an analysis of Spencer’s Mountain, a film Daves’ adapted from the novel by Earl Hamner Jr. He observes that Daves’ lack of recognition by auteur theorists was that he often delved into melodramatic themes in his Westerns, themes out of favour with those who preferred the course masculinity of a John Ford or a Raoul Walsh, and who associated the melodrama with a female audience. Pomp suggests that Spencer’s Mountain provides a key window into Daves’ views on American family values, education, and class, arguing that Daves deconstructed melodrama’s ‘classic realist’ paradigm by considering a nascent feminist agenda that undermines the patriarchal underpinnings of the source novel. This, argues Pomp, creates an unusual mix – rendering Spencer’s Mountain different from most other Westerns of the period but also different from most melodramas. Ultimately, Pomp argues, Spencer’s Mountain suggests that fierce, heroic individualism has no place in Daves’ cinematic universe.

scholarly journals Analysis of Sino-American Family Education Differences: Collectivistic or Individualistic?—Taking the Glass Castle as an Example

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Liu Yang ◽  
Yang Congzhou
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Family Education ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
The Novel ◽  
American Family ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Core Content ◽  
Individualism And Collectivism

Family education is the earliest, longest and the most common way of education, which has a deep influence on the growth of human beings. Due to the differences in value between China and the United States, the concepts of family education in both countries are also different. Value is one of the important parts of culture, whose core content is individualism and collectivism. Based on the two kinds of value, this paper takes the novel Glass Castle as an example to compare Chinese family education with American family education and finally proposes ways to improve Chinese family education.

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