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Introduction,ices approach—might help advance understandings of changes to intergenerational relationships and patterns of elderly care in rural China over the past half-century. In this chapter, I also introduce my use of ethnographic methods and semi-structured interviews in Dougou village, where I conducted my fieldwork.

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Setting the Scene: Dougou Village,ird section elaborates on the local implementation of policies and practices related to elderly care in Dougou. The background information provided in this chapter facilitates deeper understanding of the ethnographic and interview data presented later in the book.

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Parental Duties: The Burden of Sons,and how they have changed helps the reader to gain a better understanding of intergenerational practices in general. Structural change since 1949 has played a key role in shaping how parental obligations are understood and performed. The increasingly heavy burden for parents is largely a result of these political and economic changes.

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s in China, through the application of new theoretical approThis book investigates how rapid socio-political-economic change in China since 1949 has affected intergenerational relationships and practices in rural areas, specifically the care provided to elderly parents by their adult children. It fo

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,Auflösung, Liquidation und Löschung,t filial piety is essential to one’s ‘face’ (reputation) in the local community, as the loss of ‘face’ for villagers can have a pervasive and long-term effect on how they are regarded by others; and finally, present the picture of the ideal ‘fortunate’ life that elderly people should be living as a result of having dutiful children.