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How have rapid industrial development and the aging of the population affected the expression of filial piety in East Asia? Eleven experienced fieldworkers take a fresh look at an old idea, analyzing contemporary behavior, not norms, among both rural and urban families in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Each chapter presents rich ethnographic data on how filial piety shapes the decisions and daily lives of adult children and their elderly parents. The authors’ ability to speak the local languages and their long-term, direct contact with the villagers and city dwellers they studied lend an immediacy and authenticity lacking in more abstract treatments of the topic. This book is an ideal text for social science and humanities courses on East Asia because it focuses on shared cultural practices while analyzing the ways these practices vary with local circumstances of history, economics, social organization, and demography and with personal circumstances of income, gender, and family configuration.

Kinship --- Families --- Households --- Parent and adult child --- Filial piety --- Adult children of aging parents --- Aging parents --- Aging parents' adult children --- Children of aging parents --- Sandwich generation --- Filial love --- Piety, Filial --- Conduct of life --- Parent and child --- Piety --- Adult child and parent --- Adult children and parents --- Parent-adult child relations --- Parents and adult children --- Adult children living with parents --- Population --- Home economics --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Kin recognition --- Care --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- East Asia --- Asia, East --- Asia, Eastern --- East (Far East) --- Eastern Asia --- Far East --- Orient --- Social life and customs.