Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-289) and index
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
