Focusing on the shared sense of victimization and disadvantage‐ness by both patients and doctors/medical workers in cases of medical conflicts, this paper aims to examine the current patient‐doctor ...tensions in the larger context of moral transformation in Chinese society since the 1980s. Although the decline of public trust in certain aspects is closely associated with the impact of commodification and commercialization of medical sector during the past two decades, other factors play important role as well. In the case of patient‐doctor tension, mutual disrespect and mistrust also result from the ongoing process of individualization and the remaking of moral self, in which the individual demand for respect, dignity, and trust seem to have unexpectedly and ironically contributed to the rise of tensions and conflicts between patients and doctors as well as other medical workers.
This article starts with a brief ethnography of the social actions in which Chinese personhood is constructed and then proposes a tripartite approach to help make sense of personhood as both a state ...of being and the action of doing. In the process of doing personhood, the reflective and ethical self is consistently mobilized and employed to fight against embodied, individuated desires for the purpose of making a proper relational person who is both social and agentive. This interactive cycle among the individual, self and person in the construction of Chinese personhood manifests itself repeatedly in a lifelong process of becoming, marked by earned recognitions, instead of a clearly defined structure of being that is endorsed by a set of natural rights. Chinese personhood, therefore, is inherently dynamic.
An increasingly large number of Chinese straight parents joined an activist grassroots organization to advocate for gay rights in the public sphere during the last decade. They went through a ...multistage process of moral self-transformation and strategically employed the cultural capital of parenthood in the context of the rising neo-familism to engage the general public and negotiate with the state authority. Their advocacy work has resulted to an emergent familial model of LGBT activism in mainland China featuring the close collaboration between parents and gay children, the centrality of family relations instead of sexuality, the incorporation of LGBT activism into the neo-familism discourse and practice, and the shift from oppositional identity politics in the queer population to cooperative civic engagement with the society at large.
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Covering more than 20 years of social life under collectivization, village cadre Zhou's work journals contain a gold mine of information waiting to be explored and uncovered.
Modernization often involves changes in behaviour norms, values, and moral reasoning; China is by no means an exception. The present study focuses on a rare type of extreme immoral cases in which the ...Good Samaritan is extorted by the very person being helped. A particular effort is made to unpack why most extortionists of the Good Samaritan are elderly people. Despite its rare occurrence, cases of extorting Good Samaritans have seriously negative impacts on social trust, compassion, and the principle of reciprocity. Yet, a close analysis of the cases and public opinions reveals the complexity of the seemingly straight immoral behaviour, especially the tension between two moral systems and the challenge of dealing with strangers, which in turn reflect the changing moral landscape in contemporary Chinese society.
In the first half of the article, I examine the dynamics of parent-driven divorce and the respective roles of the parents and the young couples in such cases. In the second part, I examine the ...factors that contribute to this new social phenomenon and discuss the impact of the rising parental power in both the private and public spheres as well as the implications of the Chinese case for our understanding of individualisation as a global trend of social change. I conclude the article by discussing the theoretical implications of parent-driven divorce in the context of the individualisation of Chinese society.
This rare collection of personal letters presents not only a huge amount of original and disaggregated data but also constitutes an oral history of social life in China that is unintentionally being ...recorded by the authors.
Neo-Familism And The State In Contemporary China Yan, Yunxiang
Urban anthropology and studies of cultural systems and world economic development,
12/2018, Letnik:
47, Številka:
3/4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Drawing on ethnographic evidence from my longitudinal fieldwork, recent surveys on family values, and secondary data from media reports and other sources, the present study aims to, first, ...conceptualize the emergent centrality of the family and the associated new changes since the 1990s in terms of neo-familism and, second, to assess the role of the Chinese state in contributing to and regulating the neo-familism. The article starts with a contour of the Chinese neo-familism, noting its similarities with and differences from the traditional familism, and then examines the four main features of neo-familism in social practice. The third section discusses the role of the Chines state in rise of neo-familism in the larger context of the individualization of Chinese society. The article ends with a brief discussion on the potentials of neo-familism as a new approach to study the family, especially in better understanding the centrality of individual agency and improvisatory aspects of family life in an increasingly precarious, insecure and competitive Chinese society.
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