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13056 results in East Asian government, politics and policy

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  • “Little Quilted Vests to Warm Parents' Hearts”: Redefining the Gendered Practice of Filial Piety in Rural North-eastern China*

  • Lihong Shi
  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 198 / June 2009
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 June 2009, pp. 348-363
    Print publication:
    June 2009

  • This article explores the transformation of the gendered practice of filial piety in China, which traditionally places sons at the centre and relegates daughters to a peripheral role within their natal families. Based on my ethnographic fieldwork in a rural community in north-eastern China, this article suggests a transformed opinion on filial piety, considering daughters as more filial, as is vividly expressed by the Chinese saying “A daughter is like a little quilted vest to warm her parents' hearts.” Meanwhile, elderly parents have modified traditional standards of filial practice to encompass a desire for an expression of intimate care, respect and practical support from adult children. Further examination suggests three major factors contributing to the transformation of the gendered practice of filial piety: reinterpreted intergenerational relations, women's increased filial practice to their natal parents, and an increased desire of the elderly for an emotional bond with their children.

  • G. William Skinner, 1925–2008

  • Stevan Harrell
  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 198 / June 2009
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 June 2009, pp. 453-458
    Print publication:
    June 2009
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  • “We Want to Go Home!” The Great Petition of the Zhiqing, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, 1978–1979*

  • Bin Yang
  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 198 / June 2009
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 June 2009, pp. 401-421
    Print publication:
    June 2009

  • This article examines, both in internal and international contexts, the petition of the zhiqing in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, during the 1978–79 transition. It first shows how a shortage of labour on Xishuangbanna state rubber farms led to the arrival of the zhiqing from other regions. It then reviews their lives and sufferings of these revolutionary youths, followed by an analysis of the petition in terms of its process and result. This article proposes three key reasons for the win-win result: the extraordinary leadership and organization of the zhiqing, factional struggles within the Chinese Communist Party, and the Sino-Vietnamese War. Finally, it attempts to fit this event into recent literature on mass resistance in contemporary China.

  • Environmental Activism, Social Networks and the Internet

  • Jonathan Sullivan, Lei Xie
  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 198 / June 2009
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 June 2009, pp. 422-432
    Print publication:
    June 2009

  • Social networks and the internet both have a substantial individual effect on environmental activism in China. In this article, we speculate that social linking patterns between environmental actors, which often facilitate activism on the ground, may also exist in cyberspace in the form of an online network. The article addresses the following empirical questions. Does such an online network exist? If so, who are the constituent actors? Are these the same actors observed on the ground? In addressing these questions the article aims to contribute to the growing debate on the implications of the internet for the potential emergence of social movements in China.

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