Journal articles: 'Chinese family life'

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Whyte, Martin King. "Continuity and Change in Urban Chinese Family Life." China Journal 53 (January 2005): 9–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20065990.

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Ren, Xiaoni, and Darren John Caudle. "Balancing academia and family life." Gender in Management: An International Journal 35, no. 2 (February 20, 2020): 141–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/gm-06-2019-0093.

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Purpose This paper aims to explore and compare academics’ experiences of managing work-life balance (WLB) in the British and Chinese contexts. The authors have three specific purposes. Firstly, to investigate whether there are marked gender differences in either context, given female and male academics’ work is considered fully comparable. Secondly, to examine contextual factors contributing to gender differences that influence and shape decisions in WLB and career paths. Thirdly, to explore the gendered consequences and implications. Design/methodology/approach A cross-national and multilevel analytical approach to WLB was chosen to unpick and explore gender land contextual differences and their influence on individual academics’ coping strategies. To reflect the exploratory nature of uncovering individual experience and perceptions, the authors used in-depth, semi-structured interviews. In total, 37 academics participated in the study, comprised of 18 participants from 6 universities in the UK and 19 participants from 6 universities in China. Findings This study reveals gendered differences in both the British and Chinese contexts in three main aspects, namely, sourcing support; managing emotions; and making choices, but more distinct differences in the latter context. Most significantly, it highlights that individual academics’ capacity in cultivating and using coping strategies was shaped simultaneously by multi-layered factors at the country level, the HE institutional level and the individual academics’ level. Originality/value Very few cross-cultural WLB studies explore gender differences. This cross-national comparative study is of particular value in making the “invisible visible” in terms of the gendered nature of choices and decisions within the context of WLB. The study has significant implications for female academics exercising individual scope in carving out a career, and for academic managers and institutions, in terms of support, structure and policy.

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CHAO, Fanglin. "Elderly’s Family Life Supplies - Innovative Chinese Checkers Game Board." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 234 (September 2017): 012024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/234/1/012024.

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Zhao, Yang, Yuka Fujimoto, and Sanjaya Singh Gaur. "Life enrichment for workers in contemporary China." Journal of Organizational Change Management 31, no. 1 (February 12, 2018): 173–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jocm-06-2017-0239.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify key antecedents of work-family enrichment (WFE) for Chinese workers in China. The paper adopts the Chinese cultural perspectives (i.e. philosophy of Confucian: Chinese family orientation and collectivism) as well as traditional Chinese philosophies of life as a whole. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper. Therefore, this section does not apply. Findings The key antecedents of Chinese WFE have been identified and presented in the conceptual framework. Testable propositions have also been developed and presented in this paper. Practical implications The conceptual framework showing the identified key antecedents of Chinese WFE highlights the necessity for the corporate leaders to rethink the ways to promote well-being and productivity of Chinese workforce in China. Meanwhile, managers should rethink about WFE among Chinese employees and regard employees as a whole person rather than just a worker with certain skills or abilities. Originality/value This is the first paper to propose the concept of life enrichment by examining the antecedents of WFE particularly from the Chinese philosophical and cultural perspective.

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Wang, Kaipeng, Yanqin Liu, Fei Sun, Dexia Kong, and Bei Wu. "Attitude Toward Family Involvement in End-of-Life Care Among Older Chinese Americans." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1638.

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Abstract Family involvement is critical to end-of-life (EOL) care of older adults. Attitude toward family involvement in EOL care can be influenced by family relationship. Yet, mechanisms explaining such influence have not been examined among older Chinese Americans. This study aims to examine the association between family relationship and older Chinese Americans’ attitude toward family involvement in EOL care and explore pathways of this association. Potential mediators include self-efficacy, perceived benefits, and perceived barriers of discussing EOL care with family members. Data were collected from 276 Chinese Americans aged 55+ in two metropolitan areas in 2018. Participants’ average age was 74 years (SD=9.6). Approximately 64% of the sample were female. Most participants (57%) held positive attitudes toward family involvement in EOL care. Using the Structural Equation Modeling method, we found that family relationship had a significant positive total effect on positive attitude toward family involvement in EOL care (z=5.57, p<0.001). Indirect direct of family relationship on attitude toward family involvement in EOL care through both self-efficacy (z=3.13, p<0.01) and perceived barriers (z=2.30, p<0.05) of discussing EOL care with family members was significant. Results suggest that improving family relationship may increase elder’s self-efficacy and reduce barriers of discussing EOL with family members, which is associated with more positive attitude toward family involvement in EOL care. Findings provide empirical evidence of how family relationship affects older Chinese Americans’ attitude toward family involvement in EOL care and underline the need for family-centered interventions for older Chinese Americans.

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Ngan, Raymond, and William Wong. "Injustice in Family Care of the Chinese Elderly in Hong Kong." Journal of Aging & Social Policy 7, no. 2 (January 29, 1996): 77–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j031v07n02_06.

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Ownby, David, and Frank Ching. "Ancestors: 900 Years in the Life of a Chinese Family." Pacific Affairs 62, no. 3 (1989): 390. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2760634.

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Wang, W., and T. McDonald. "Patient, family, nurse perspectives on Chinese elders' quality of life." International Nursing Review 64, no. 3 (November 11, 2016): 388–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/inr.12333.

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Choi, Jaepil, and Chao C. Chen. "Gender Differences in Perceived Work Demands, Family Demands, and Life Stress among Married Chinese Employees." Management and Organization Review 2, no. 2 (July 2006): 209–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-8784.2006.00041.x.

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Although gender-based division of labour and the identity theory of stress suggest that the relationship between work and family demands and life stress may vary as a function of gender, it is largely unknown whether these arguments are also valid in China. To address this gap in the existing literature, the current study investigates the gender differences in perceived work and family demands, and the effects of these perceived demands on the life stress of Chinese male and female employees. The study of 153 married Chinese employees found that Chinese women perceived a higher level of family demands than did Chinese men, whereas there was no significant gender difference in the perception of work demands. In addition, while perceived family demands were similarly related to life stress differently for men and women, perceived work demands were associated more strongly with the life stress of men than that of women.

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Pei, Yaolin, Wei Zhang, and Bei Wu. "Advance Care Planning Engagement and End-of-Life Preference Among Older Chinese Americans." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 750–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2704.

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Abstract The study aimed to examine how immigrant status and family relationships are associated with advanced care planning (ACP) engagement and end-of-life (EOL) preference over burial plan among older Chinese Americans, the largest subgroup of Asian Americans. Logistic regressions were used to analyze data from a survey of 430 older Chinese Americans aged 55 and older living in a Honolulu, Hawai’i. Results show that U.S.-born Chinese Americans were more likely to engage in ACP, including willingness thought of EOL care, and discussion about EOL care, and having preference over burial plan, than the foreign-born Chinese American. Family cohesion was not associated with ACP engagement and EOL preference over burial plan. Family conflict increased the possibility of ACP engagement, indicated by willingness thought of ACP, willingness discussion on ACP, and EOL preference over burial plan. The culturally sensitive educational intervention is needed to increase ACP engagement among older Chinese Americans.

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Yu, Jun, Mark Roberts, Yongqiang Shen, and Maria Wong. "Behavioral Family Therapy for Chinese Preschoolers with Disruptive Behavior: A Pilot Study." Journal of Child and Family Studies 24, no. 5 (February 26, 2014): 1192–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-014-9927-2.

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Wei, Lan. "Materialisation of the Good Life in the New House." European Journal of East Asian Studies 20, no. 1 (April 13, 2021): 219–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700615-20211012.

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Abstract Over the past two decades, Chinese rural architecture has experienced dramatic changes through the Building the Chinese Socialist New Village movement. Thousands of new houses, particularly in the model of the New Village, have risen abruptly out of the ground. These Western-style new houses with a garden (huayuan yangfang), which often appear in the media as typical family houses in Western society, largely represent the image of the good life of the state and the peasant in contemporary China. In this article, I focus on how the family house is produced and consumed in Baikou New Village in south China. By presenting the materiality of the dwelling space, this paper probes the intertwined processes of the materialisation of the blueprint of the good life and how the new houses influence family life (especially intergenerational relationships) in post-socialist Baikou New Village.

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Eber, Irene. "Social Harmony, Family and Women in Chinese Novels, 1948–58." China Quarterly 117 (March 1989): 71–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741000023651.

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In the 1920s and 1930s intellectuals and writers led the attacks on the tyranny of the Chinese family and the power of patrilineal authority. Their essays and fictional works, particularly such novels as Ba Jin’s Family (Jia), were avidly read by a younger, radicalized and iconoclastic generation. By the late 1940s and after Liberation in 1949, however, mainland leftist and communist writers had retreated from attacks on the family, emphasizing instead its centrality in social life. Two major reasons may account for this. The Chinese Communist Party, needing the peasantry’s support in its climb to and final assumption of power, chose the road of reforming obvious abuses rather than assaulting family and patriarchal institutions. The second reason served to reinforce the Party’s concern. After decades of turmoil, conquest and war, writers envisaged peace as order and as a return to familiar ways of life. In their short stories and novels, socialist transformation, therefore, consisted not of the disruption of family life and patrilineal authority, but of the reconstitution of the family, now stripped of its abusive features.

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Chang, Lei, Catherine Mcbride-Chang, Sunita M. Stewart, and Ernest Au. "Life satisfaction, self-concept, and family relations in Chinese adolescents and children." International Journal of Behavioral Development 27, no. 2 (March 2003): 182–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01650250244000182.

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Subjective well-being across the life span may be affected by both age-specific and age-general factors within a cultural context. Thus, this study explored both developmentally invariant and variable predictors of life satisfaction among 115 second-graders and 74 eighth-graders from Hong Kong. In a regression model, general self-concept and ratings of parental warmth and autonomy/detachment predicted life satisfaction equally across the two age groups. However, social self-concept was a strong predictor of life satisfaction among adolescents only, whereas actual academic test scores predicted life satisfaction only among the children. Mean group differences emerged as well, with adolescents scoring significantly lower in life satisfaction and self-concept and higher in emotional detachment than children. Results are explained in relation to both development and culture.

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Yao, Jun, Li Zhang, and Peiyi Lu. "Family Value Matters: Intergenerational Solidarity and Life Satisfaction of Chinese Older Migrants." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 345. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1109.

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Abstract The number of older adults who migrate due to family reasons has been increasing rapidly in China in the past decade. However, few empirical studies have focused on this group. This study focused on them and explored the association of intergenerational solidarity with older migrants’ life satisfaction when they were adapting to the new environment. We surveyed 340 older adults who migrated to Nanjing with their children either to help care for the grandchildren or enjoy retirement life. Respondents were recruited from the community. Structural equation modeling was adopted to analyze the associations among intergenerational solidarity, loneliness, aging perception, and life satisfaction. Results showed intergenerational solidarity was negatively correlated with loneliness (r=-0.304) but positively correlated with life satisfaction (r=0.386). Loneliness was linked to lower life satisfaction(r=-0.517). Path analyses showed that loneliness played a partial mediation role on the relationship of intergenerational solidarity and life satisfaction. Aging perception negatively moderated the association between intergenerational solidarity and loneliness, and also negatively moderated the mediating effect of loneliness on intergenerational solidarity and life satisfaction. It is concluded family values played important roles in Chinese older migrants’ mental health. When they migrate to a new city, intergenerational solidarity can help ease their loneliness and subsequently improve their life satisfaction, which finally help them adapt to the new environment. Positive perception towards aging also helps improve their well-being after migration. Based on these findings, we suggest practitioners design education program to promote family values among the family with older migrants.

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Williams (韋邁高), Michael. "Holding Up Half the Family." Journal of Chinese Overseas 17, no. 1 (April 8, 2021): 179–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341438.

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Abstract The Chinese diaspora seen as a movement, at least in the years before the mid-twentieth century, is characterised largely as one of men. But the majority of these men stayed in close connection with an equally great, if not larger, group of women who remained at home in their south China villages. It is argued here that the role and significance of these women of the villages in the Chinese diaspora has been greatly under-researched. It is also argued that such neglect has meant that too great an emphasis has been put in the literature on leaving and settlement, as opposed to remaining and returning. Life for these women in the villages was one dependent on remittances, which in turn was a mixture of relative wealth and poverty, dependence and independence, authority and anxiety, and loneliness and freedom. It is concluded that the integration of half the participants in the Chinese diaspora – in so far as our largely male-based sources allow – into the literature of the Chinese overseas has much to offer in terms of our interpretation of the impact of the restrictive laws of the white-settler nations and of the motivations of those who returned to the villages and of those who did not.

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Hu, X., M. Wang, and X. Fei. "Family quality of life of Chinese families of children with intellectual disabilities." Journal of Intellectual Disability Research 56, no. 1 (March 3, 2011): 30–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2788.2011.01391.x.

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Bell, Eona. "Heritage or cultural capital: ideologies of language in Scottish Chinese family life." Asian Anthropology 12, no. 1 (June 2013): 37–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1683478x.2013.773602.

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Wang, Jing, and Bei Wu. "Caregiving Arrangements and Health Outcomes of Chinese Older Adults With Disability in Cross-National Settings." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 750. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2702.

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Abstract This symposium focuses on the wellbeing of older adults with disability/cognitive impairment and their family caregivers. More specifically, it aims to understand how familly support, community resources utilization, internal migration, and immigrant status impact older adults’ caregiving arrangement, health outcomes and end-of-life preferences and family caregivers’ caregiving burden in China and the U.S. The first study explored how perceived spousal relationships and support impact dyadic experiences of living with cognitive impairment through a person-centered care lens during a three-year period. The second presentation examined the association between adult children’s support and the trajectories of depressive symptom level among Chinese older adults with disabilities. The third investigated how family relationship and immigrant status matter in advanced care planning (ACP) engagement and end-of-life preferences over burial plan among US-born and foreign-born older Chinese Americans living in Honolulu, Hawaii. The fourth study study explored family caregivers’ caregiving burden for community-dwelling patients with dementia and its associated factors. The last study conducted an inventory of longitudinal aging survey datasets to stimulate research on intersection of migration and caregiving arrangement. It paved the way to use existing high-quality datasets to examine the significant impact of massive rural-to-urban migration on caregiving arrangement among Chinese older adults. This symposium presents empirical evidence of the impact of family, migration and culture-related factors on caregiving arrangement and health outcomes of Chinese older adults. The presenters emphasize the importance of providing family-centered care and design culturally sensitive interventions to improve the health outcomes of older adults.

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Li, Yuli, Yang Zhao, Jie Zhang, Fenglan Lou, and Fenglin Cao. "Psychometric Properties of the Shortened Chinese Version of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale." Journal of Child and Family Studies 25, no. 9 (May 5, 2016): 2710–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-016-0432-7.

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Cheung, Chau-Kiu, Ngan-Pun Ngai, and Steven Sek-Yum Ngai. "Family Strain and Adolescent Delinquency in Two Chinese Cities, Guangzhou and Hong Kong." Journal of Child and Family Studies 16, no. 5 (January 4, 2007): 626–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-006-9112-3.

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CHUNG, STEPHANIE PO-YIN. "The Transformation of an Overseas Chinese Family—Three Generations of the Eu Tong Sen Family, 1822–1941." Modern Asian Studies 39, no. 3 (July 2005): 599–630. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x05001873.

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Architecture can be viewed as a reflection of value placed on life. In colonial Hong Kong, a distinctive Gothic-style castle, Euston, was built by tycoon Eu Tong Sen (1877–1941) as his family's grand residence. Eu was a prominent figure in South China and Southeast Asia and remains a local legend decades after his death. Eu's castle, being built in 1928 and demolished in the 1980s, was and still is one of the most recognizable monuments in the region. Although Eu did not leave behind any autobiography or memoirs, the monumental castle can be regarded as a symbolic manifestation of his life story. The design of the castle is of mixed ancestry—it is a reconciliation of traditional Chinese design based on feng shui (Chinese geomancy) with European architectural elements. The fusion of East-West architectural building elements, as symbolized by the Eu castle, was a significant achievement symbolizing general social and cultural changes spanning more than a century.

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Shek, Daniel T. L. "Paternal and Maternal Influences on Family Functioning Among Hong Kong Chinese Families." Journal of Genetic Psychology 162, no. 1 (March 2001): 56–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00221320109597881.

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Zhang, Zhuoni, Tianzhu Nie, and Duoduo Xu. "Family background, parenting practices, and child outcomes: Chinese migrants’ offspring in Hong Kong." Chinese Journal of Sociology 5, no. 3 (February 21, 2019): 263–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0018726718823149.

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Using data from the 2011 population census and the Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics, this paper examines the academic performance and non-cognitive skills of the children of Chinese migrants in Hong Kong aged 14 and below. Our analyses show that the poorer academic performance of Chinese migrants’ children results mainly from disadvantageous family background and parenting practices. Children of cross-border and migrant families do not differ from children of natives in Chinese, mathematics, or English, once parental education and parent–child communication about school life are controlled for. Children from migrant families have significantly higher levels of non-cognitive ability than children of natives. Our analyses also show that parental education is positively associated with Chinese and English performances; parents talking with children about school life significantly improves children’s performance in Chinese, mathematics, and English; and parental migrant status and parenting practices have positive effects on non-cognitive skills.

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Shek, Daniel T. L., and T. Y. Lee. "Family Life Quality and Emotional Quality of Life in Chinese Adolescents with and Without Economic Disadvantage." Social Indicators Research 80, no. 2 (July 20, 2006): 393–410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-006-6624-6.

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Wu, Hao, Mei Li, and Victor Meddalen. "Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Chinese Immigrants: Experience of Chinese Family Caregivers: A Phenomenological Study." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 56, no. 6 (December 2018): e95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2018.10.325.

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Choi, Jaepil. "Work and family demands and life stress among Chinese employees: The mediating effect of work–family conflict." International Journal of Human Resource Management 19, no. 5 (May 2008): 878–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09585190801993885.

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Aijmer, Göran. "A Family Reunion The Anthropology of Life, Death and New Year in Soochow." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 15, no. 2 (July 2005): 199–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1356186304004705.

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AbstractFor a long time students of China have held the view that ancestral cults formed one of the pillars of the Imperial state, that they were the backbone of family life and provided the ideological source for the political class. In a vague and general way this is no doubt true. However, from an anthropological perspective, the position of the dead in Chinese society is not well known. China is a vast country with a great variety of ecological circumstances and ethnic substrata, which have contributed to differences in ritual articulation. The most important of the regional differences may have been the divide between the rice-producing areas in the south and those producing wheat and millet in the north. China was sinicised in a slow process by the acceptance of hegemonic influences under shifting political conditions, and we must expect rich and diverse strands within the substrata lingering in the mix that we sometimes superficially designate ‘traditionally Chinese’. Furthermore, we must realise that there have been shifts in these ancestral cults through the ages, and that what was conducted in earlier dynasties might in some important aspects have been rather different from what went on in the later days of the Empire. In this article I wish to continue earlier work on the Chinese cult of the dead in terms of time – cyclical, calendrical and linear.

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Luo, Meng Sha, and Ernest Wing Tak Chui. "Gender Division of Household Labor in China: Cohort Analysis in Life Course Patterns." Journal of Family Issues 39, no. 12 (May 21, 2018): 3153–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x18776457.

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Using hierarchical age–period–cohort growth curve models, this study assesses changes in gender disparities in housework time across Chinese adults’ life course and across different birth cohorts. The results revealed three key findings. First, inconsistent with convergence theory, the Chinese family is still a male-dominated but male-absent family, with women still doing the majority of domestic work and showing no signs of decline with age. Second, as they age, Chinese women and men present diverging tendencies toward time spent on housework: Women tend to dedicate more time to it, and men less, resulting in a widening gender gap in housework with age. Third, although recent cohorts present lower levels of housework time than previous cohorts, this is because men from recent cohorts are doing less housework, while their female counterparts are doing almost as much as women from earlier cohorts.

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Emery, Thomas, Pearl Dykstra, and Maja Djundeva. "Chinese parent-child relationships in later life in the context of social inequalities." Zeitschrift für Familienforschung 31, no. 1-2019 (April 9, 2019): 105–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3224/zff.v31i1.06.

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This paper examines how parent-child relationships vary against the backdrop of socio-economic inequalities evident in China. China is both an increasingly unequal and rapidly ageing country. Understanding how the relationships that older Chinese have with their children are associated with social inequalities is therefore of paramount importance. We do this by examining the effect of socio-economic indicators of the parent and child on their relationship in a multilevel, multinomial logit model of parentchild dyads using data from the Chinese Family Panel Study. First, the relationships we observe are not unidimensional and display complex patterns which deviate heavily from a ‘strong versus weak’ description of family ties. The results do not support a family displacement perspective of parent-child relationships but instead suggest that educational and financial resources facilitate support that is associated with greater emotional closeness and negates the need for support which places an emotional strain on the parent-child relationship.

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Zhang, Hao, Zhaoxia Zeng, Zhigang Zou, and Fuping Zeng. "Climate, Life Form and Family Jointly Control Variation of Leaf Traits." Plants 8, no. 8 (August 14, 2019): 286. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants8080286.

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Variation in leaf traits may represent differences in physiological processes and environmental adaptative strategies. Using multivariate analyses, we investigated 13 leaf traits to quantify the trade-off in these traits and the trait–climate/biome relationships based on the China Plant Trait Database, which contains morphometric and physiological character information on 1215 species for 122 sites, ranging from the north to the tropics, and from deserts and grasslands to woodlands and forests. Leaf traits across the dataset of Chinese plants showed different spatial patterns along longitudinal and latitudinal gradients and high variation. There were significant positive or negative correlations among traits; however, with the exception of the leaf 13C:12C stable isotope ratio, there were no significant correlations between leaf area and other traits. Climate, life form, and family jointly accounted for 68.4% to 95.7% of trait variance. Amongst these forms of variation partitioning, the most important partitioning feature was the family independence of climate and life form (35.6% to 57.2%), while the joint effect of family and climate was 4.5% to 26.2%, and the joint effect of family and life form was 2.4% to 21.6%. The findings of this study will enhance our understanding of the variation in leaf traits in Chinese flora and the environmental adaptative strategies of plants against a background of global climate change, and also may enrich and improve the leaf economics spectrum of China.

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Lan, Xiuyan, Huimin Xiao, and Ying Chen. "Psychosocial Reactions to Relocation to Nursing Homes in Chinese Older Adults." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 385. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1240.

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Abstract This study aimed to elicit psychosocial reactions to relocation to nursing homes from older adults’ perspectives with a qualitative interview design. Narratives from 23 Chinese nursing home residents from Fuzhou, China in a life review program were recorded, transcribed into sentences, and analyzed with the qualitative content analysis. It revealed five stages of psychosocial reactions to relocation to nursing homes as fear, struggle, compromise, acceptance, and contribution. The first stage resulted from negative labels attached to nursing homes, disconnection to the society, difficulties in establishing new relationships, and being abandoned by their families. The second stage described the behaviors of struggle: complain about family members, think of going back home, pray to have a change, and take action to leave. The third stage described the keys to compromise: choices between maintaining the harmony in family relation and companionship of relatives, choices between professional care and family care, and choices between costs and effects of family care and nursing home care. The fourth stage described how they accept nursing home life: accept the life and yet with worries, affirm benefits of living in nursing homes, and embrace the nursing home life. The last stage resulted from sense of ownership and giving full play to self-worth. This study generated new insights into the knowledge on psychosocial reactions to relocation to nursing homes and provided both family members and nursing home staff with a direction for how to promote a smoother relocation process.

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Lu, Chang-qin, Oi-ling Siu, Wei-qing Chen, and Hai-jiang Wang. "Family mastery enhances work engagement in Chinese nurses: A cross-lagged analysis." Journal of Vocational Behavior 78, no. 1 (February 2011): 100–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2010.07.005.

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Yeung, Gladys T. Y., and Helene H. Fung. "Social support and life satisfaction among Hong Kong Chinese older adults: family first?" European Journal of Ageing 4, no. 4 (October 11, 2007): 219–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10433-007-0065-1.

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Liu, Jinyu, Bei Wu, Ada Mui, Yifan Lou, Wenxing Wei, and Jiyun Jiang. "ALWAYS TRY TO DO MY BEST: A THEMATIC ANALYSIS OF CHINESE AMERICAN DEMENTIA CAREGIVERS." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S676. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2499.

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Abstract Objectives: Given the increasing prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia (ADRD) in the United States and the rapid growth of the older Chinese American population, many older Chinese Americans are expected to need intensive care because of cognitive impairment. Prior studies on Chinese ADRD caregivers lack comprehensive examinations from a life course perspective that emphasizes the importance of time, context, process and meaning on human development. Using the life course perspective, this study aims to identify challenges and strength of caregiving experience for this population. Methods: We conducted semi-structured face-to-face interviews with 28 Chinese family caregivers of persons with ADRD in New York City. Thematic analysis method was used to assess the interview data. Results: Seven life-course themes emerged from the data. In the domain of challenges, four themes were identified: (1) physical and emotional exhaustion, (2) limited understanding on cognitive health, (3) difficulty in accessing effective and culturally-sensitive health care services for care recipients, and (4) caregivers’ inability to do self-care. Other three themes were found in the domain of strengths: (1) commitment to care due to cultural and religious values, (2) emotional closeness as resource to sustain caregiving, and (3) family support and cohesion. Conclusion: This study indicates that the life course perspective is an important lens to understand challenges and strengths of Chinese American caregivers. This study also suggests that health professionals could incorporate the life course perspective into assessment and intervention development when working with minority and immigrant ADRD family caregivers.

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Li, Wenjun, Haiyan Sun, Wen Xu, Wenyuan Ma, Xin Yuan, Yaling Niu, and Changgui Kou. "Individual Social Capital and Life Satisfaction among Mainland Chinese Adults: Based on the 2016 China Family Panel Studies." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 2 (January 8, 2021): 441. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020441.

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Background: At present, most Chinese adults are under great psychological pressure, which seriously affects the improvement of life satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to shed light on the associations between individual social capital and life satisfaction among mainland Chinese adults. Methods: We used a nationally representative dataset called 2016 China Family Panel Studies, and a total of 26,009 people suited our study requirements. Chi-squared test and binary regression analysis were used to determine the relationship between individual social capital and life satisfaction among mainland Chinese adults. Results: The results indicated that cognitive social capital had significant effects on life satisfaction (p < 0.05), but the impact of structural social capital on life satisfaction became less significant when combined with sociodemographic variables and socioeconomic status (SES) (p > 0.05). Moreover, we also found that life satisfaction was better in married/cohabited (p < 0.05) and in over 65 age group people (p < 0.05). Self-rated income level, self-rated social status, and self-rated health all had positive effects on life satisfaction (p < 0.001). Conclusions: Given the stabilizing effect of cognitive social capital at the individual level on life satisfaction, the government should attach great importance to this aspect when trying to improve adults’ life satisfaction.

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Li, Wenjun, Haiyan Sun, Wen Xu, Wenyuan Ma, Xin Yuan, Yaling Niu, and Changgui Kou. "Individual Social Capital and Life Satisfaction among Mainland Chinese Adults: Based on the 2016 China Family Panel Studies." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 2 (January 8, 2021): 441. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020441.

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Background: At present, most Chinese adults are under great psychological pressure, which seriously affects the improvement of life satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to shed light on the associations between individual social capital and life satisfaction among mainland Chinese adults. Methods: We used a nationally representative dataset called 2016 China Family Panel Studies, and a total of 26,009 people suited our study requirements. Chi-squared test and binary regression analysis were used to determine the relationship between individual social capital and life satisfaction among mainland Chinese adults. Results: The results indicated that cognitive social capital had significant effects on life satisfaction (p < 0.05), but the impact of structural social capital on life satisfaction became less significant when combined with sociodemographic variables and socioeconomic status (SES) (p > 0.05). Moreover, we also found that life satisfaction was better in married/cohabited (p < 0.05) and in over 65 age group people (p < 0.05). Self-rated income level, self-rated social status, and self-rated health all had positive effects on life satisfaction (p < 0.001). Conclusions: Given the stabilizing effect of cognitive social capital at the individual level on life satisfaction, the government should attach great importance to this aspect when trying to improve adults’ life satisfaction.

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Zhang, Yan Bing, Yi Song, and Leilani Jensen Carver. "Cultural values and aging in Chinese television commercials." Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 18, no. 2 (July 31, 2008): 209–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/japc.18.2.06zha.

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This study examined commercials (N = 141) featuring older adult(s) shown on three Chinese TV stations (i.e., national, provincial, and local) in the fall of 2005 to uncover the dominant value themes, the major product categories, and the association between value themes and product categories. Content analysis results revealed that three dominant value themes (i.e., health/life, product effectiveness, and family) appeared frequently in the Chinese television commercials featuring older adults, in which some major product categories such as food/drink, food/health supplements, and medicine were promoted. Results also indicated that the value of health/life was presented frequently in commercials for medicine and food/health supplements and that the family value appeared frequently in food/drinks commercials. Altogether these results demonstrated the importance of health and a lack of emphasis of modern values in Chinese television commercials which feature older adults, indicating a mixed view of aging (i.e., passive and negative). Findings are discussed in the context of the Chinese culture, aging, and television advertising.

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Chan, Wallace C. H., Siu M. To, and Karen L. Y. Wong. "Intimacy as a Distinct Construct: Validating the Intimacy Scale among Older Adults of Residential Care Homes in Hong Kong." Open Family Studies Journal 7, no. 1 (July 30, 2015): 60–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874922401507010060.

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Objectives: Intimacy is a construct that has received limited attention in the Chinese context. This study aimed to validate the Intimacy Scale among older adults in residential care homes in Hong Kong. Methods: Seventy-eight Chinese older adults were invited to respond to the Chinese version of the scale and other measurements validating the scale. Results: The scale demonstrated good internal consistency and item-total correlation. Correlations supported the construct validity of the scale: significant positive correlations were found between perceived intimacy with the family caregiver and life satisfaction, presence of meaning and perceived family support. No correlation was found between intimacy and frequency of the family caregiver’s visit. Conclusion: We found the Intimacy Scale to be a valid measurement for assessing the quality of the relationship between older adults and family caregivers in the Hong Kong Chinese context. Assessing how older adults perceive the level of intimacy with family caregivers is important for helping professionals when working with older adults and their family members.

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Neimetz, Catherine. "Navigating Family Roles Within An Institutional Framework: An Exploratory Study In One Private Chinese Orphanage." Journal of Child and Family Studies 20, no. 5 (October 17, 2010): 585–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-010-9431-2.

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Cheung, Rebecca Y. M., Man Chong Leung, Kevin Kien Hoa Chung, and Hoi Yan Cheung. "Family Risks and Adolescent Adjustment in Chinese Contexts: Testing the Mediating Role of Emotional Intelligence." Journal of Child and Family Studies 27, no. 12 (September 17, 2018): 3887–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-018-1233-y.

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Fetzer, Joel. "Early Chinese-American Society as Portrayed in Chinese Letters of the Ah Louis Family of San Luis Obispo, California, usa早期美国华侨社会：美国加州,圣路易斯-奥比斯波市-黄安家族的中文信件." Journal of Chinese Overseas 11, no. 2 (October 27, 2015): 199–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341305.

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This research report presents the English-language translations of several hand-written, Chinese-language letters from the overseas-Chinese Ah Louis family of San Luis Obispo, California. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, when these letters were written, this medium-sized town on the Pacific coast between San Francisco and Los Angeles was home to hundreds of Cantonese immigrants. As unofficial “mayor” of San Luis Obispo’s Chinatown, the Guangdong-born Ah Louis interacted with a wide variety of merchants, employees, friends, family members, and officials. These documents discuss commerce in Chinatown, a legal case about local Chumash Indians, migration between China and the United States, family life in rural Guangdong Province, and labor relations in California, providing a near-unique window into ordinary Chinese-American life around the turn of the twentieth century. Extensive footnotes also place the letters in their historical and cultural context.

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Jia, Cindy Xinshan, Chau-kiu Cheung, and Chengzhe Fu. "Work Support, Role Stress, and Life Satisfaction among Chinese Social Workers: The Mediation Role of Work-Family Conflict." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 23 (November 29, 2020): 8881. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17238881.

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The current study examined the relationships among work support, role stress, work-family conflict, and life satisfaction, with a sample of social workers in China’s Pearl River Delta (N = 1414). Using structure equation modelling, the study revealed that social workers’ life satisfaction reduced because of role conflict and work-family conflicts. Work-family conflict partially mediated the negative effects of role ambiguity and conflict on social workers’ life satisfaction. Work support from their director, manager, supervisor, and co-workers protectively reduced role stress and work-family conflict. The findings emphasize the significance of managing the interference between work and family for social workers’ well-being.

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Rankin, Sally H., Michael E. Galbraith, and Peggy Huang. "Quality of Life and-Social Environment as Reported by Chinese Immigrants With Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus." Diabetes Educator 23, no. 2 (April 1997): 171–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/014572179702300208.

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Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) has been associated with stressful events such as immigration. The purpose of this paper is to report a pilot study that tested translated and back-translated instruments to ascertain factors related to diabetes management in a group of Chinese immigrants with diabetes. The descriptive, cross- sectional design included a convenience sample of 30 Chinese immigrants who had been diagnosed with NIDDM for at least I year. Consenting participants completed paper- and-pencil questionnaires (Diabetes Family-Behavior Checklist II, Diabetes Quality of Life, and MDRTC Knowledge Test) that had been translated and back-translated into Chinese and returned them in stamped, self- addressed envelopes. Results indicated that most of the scale and subscale reliabilities were similar to those published previously. Study participants had received limited diabetes education, reported many problems managing diabetes, especially in terms of social and vocational issues, and reported dissatisfaction with their quality of life. Diabetes-related family supportive behaviors were rated positively indicating the importance of including family members in educational programs.

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Zhang, Yue, Muhammad Imran Rasheed, and Adeel Luqman. "Work–family conflict and turnover intentions among Chinese nurses." Personnel Review 49, no. 5 (November 26, 2019): 1140–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/pr-01-2019-0017.

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Purpose As the shortage of nurses is a major problem being faced by the world health-care system, it is essential to investigate the factors that influence nurses’ turnover. Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, the purpose of this paper is to explore how work–family conflict (WFC) influences nurses’ turnover intentions in the Peoples’ Republic of China. Design/methodology/approach For empirically testing the theoretical model, the authors conducted a three-wave longitudinal research survey and collected data from 236 nurses’ sample in China. Findings The findings show that job satisfaction and life satisfaction are the underlying psychological reasons in the positive relationship between WFC and nurses’ turnover intentions. Moreover, perceived supervisor support was found to be a boundary condition on the direct and indirect relationships between WFC and its negative outcomes such that the relationships are weak at the high levels of supervisory support. Originality/value This study is important to the management of health-care systems as it carries significant implications for theory and practice toward understanding job retention problems of nurses.

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Lau, Sing, William J. F. Lew, Kit-Tai Hau, Ping Chung Cheung, and Thomas J. Berndt. "Relations among perceived parental control, warmth, indulgence, and family harmony of Chinese in mainland China." Developmental Psychology 26, no. 4 (July 1990): 674–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.26.4.674.

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Zhang, Yong, Hengfen Li, and Shaohong Zou. "Association between Cognitive Distortion, Type D Personality, Family Environment, and Depression in Chinese Adolescents." Depression Research and Treatment 2011 (2011): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/143045.

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Purpose. Depression prevalence and risk increase among adolescents are related to biological, psychosocial, and cultural factors. Little is known about the association between cognitive distortion, type D personality, family environment, and depression. The aim of this paper was to examine the relationships of cognitive distortion, type D personality, family environment, and depression in a sample of Chinese adolescents.Methods. A sample of Chinese adolescents with depression and the controls were investigated cross-sectionally with life orientation test-revised (LOT-R), type D personality Scale-14 (DS14), family environment scale (FES), and Zung self-depression scale (SDS); respectively, all scales were administered in Chinese.Results. Chinese-depressed adolescents showed more cognitive distortion, type D personality, and adverse family environment than control groups. Furthermore, lower level of Optimism, negative affectivity, and poor family cohesion may increase the risk of depression in Chinese adolescents.Conclusions. Our study indicates that lower level of Optimism, Negative Affectivity, and poor Family Cohesion factors were implicated to contribute to depression in Chinese adolescents. Lower level of optimism and negative affectivity may be crucial associated factors of depression among these samples. our findings pointed to the importance of broad screening and intervention of vulnerable population.

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Cheung, Rebecca Y. M., Man Chong Leung, Hey Tou Chiu, Joyce L. Y. Kwan, Lydia T. S. Yee, and Wai Kai Hou. "Family functioning and psychological outcomes in emerging adulthood: Savoring positive experiences as a mediating mechanism." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 36, no. 9 (September 11, 2018): 2693–713. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407518798499.

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The present study tested the mediating role of perceived capability of savoring positive experiences in the associations between family functioning and emerging adults’ psychological outcomes, namely, depressive symptoms and life satisfaction. A sample of 167 Chinese emerging adults (112 female) were recruited from two major universities in Hong Kong. Participants were asked to complete a set of self-reported questionnaires. Findings based on structural equation modeling indicated that family functioning and savoring positive experiences were associated with emerging adults’ depressive symptoms and life satisfaction. Results from bootstrapping further suggested savoring positive experiences as a partial mediator between family functioning and depressive symptoms. These findings enriched the literature by suggesting family dynamics and savoring positive experiences as important correlates of psychological outcomes in the Chinese context. Contributions of these findings to the understanding of psychological functioning in emerging adulthood are discussed.

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WANG, Xiaolin. "是情結還是希望？." International Journal of Chinese & Comparative Philosophy of Medicine 11, no. 2 (January 1, 2013): 103–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.24112/ijccpm.111544.

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LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract in English only.This article proposes a different view from that offered by Professor Ni in “Regulating the Family and Gongfu.” Professor Ni argues that the family forms the base from which a person’s life can go beyond the individual self, obtain sacredness within the secular, and become immortal, in addition to providing the basis for social harmony. This article agrees that the notion that family serves not only as a refuge in the secular life of Chinese Han people, but also as a sacred place in their soul, is a cultural phenomenon. At the same time, however, this article argues that adopting the family as the basis for rejuvenating our tradition is merely an unrealistic assumption.DOWNLOAD HISTORY | This article has been downloaded 72 times in Digital Commons before migrating into this platform.

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Murooj Fareed Majeed. "Ethno Cultural Concept of Family Life in Malaysian Literature in English." Britain International of Linguistics Arts and Education (BIoLAE) Journal 2, no. 2 (July 3, 2020): 508–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/biolae.v2i2.262.

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A family involves two or more persons who live in the same household and are related through blood, marriage, or adoption . Family is “a social group branded by a common home, economic collaboration, and reproduction. It includes grown-ups of both genders, at least two of whom sustain a socially approved sexual relationship, and one or more children, own or adopted, of the adults living together(Alakavuklar, 2009).The study is going to examine the concept of family in term of father/mother, father /children, mother/children binary opposition between three main ethnic groups in Malaysia (Malay ,Chinese ,Indian ) through Malaysian novels in English: ‘The Rice Mother', ‘Evening Is the Whole Day’, ‘Green Is the Color’, and ‘The Garden of Evening Mist’.

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