Table of Contents:
  • Ritualistic coresidence and the weakening of filial practice in rural China / Danyu Wang
  • Filial daughters, filial sons : comparisons from rural north China / Eric T. Miller
  • Meat rotation and filial piety / Jun Jing
  • "Living alone" and the rural elderly : strategy and agency in post-Mao rural China / Hong Zhang
  • Serving the ancestors, serving the state : filial piety and death ritual in contemporary Guangzhou / Charlotte Ikels
  • Filial obligations in Chinese families : paradoxes of modernization / Martin King Whyte
  • The transformation of filial piety in contemporary South Korea / Roger L. Janelli and Dawnhee Yim
  • Filial piety in contemporary urban southeast Korea : practices and discourses / Clark Sorensen and Sung-Chul Kim
  • Culture, power, and the discourse of filial piety in Japan : the disempowerment of youth and its social consequences / Akiko Hashimoto
  • Curse of the successor : filial piety vs. marriage among rural Japanese / John W. Traphagan
  • Alone in the family : great-grandparenthood in urban Japan / Brenda Robb Jenike.