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Family sacrifices : the worldviews and ethics of Chinese Americans
- Title
- Family sacrifices : the worldviews and ethics of Chinese Americans / Russell M. Jeung, Seanan S. Fong, and Helen Jin Kim.
- Author
- Jeung, Russell, 1962-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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- Description
- x, 208 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Fifty-two percent of Chinese Americans report having no religious affiliation, making them the least religiously-identified ethnic group in the United States. But that statistic obscures a much more complex reality. Family Sacrifices reveals that Chinese Americans employ familism, not religion, as the primary narrative by which they find meaning, identity, and belonging"--
- Subject
- Chinese American families
- Families > United States > Philosophy
- Families > Moral and ethical aspects > United States
- Chinese Americans > Religion
- Confucianism > Social aspects > United States
- Chinese Americans > Interviews
- Chinese Americans > Social life and customs
- Chinese Americans > Ethnic identity
- Social values > United States
- Social ethics > United States
- Chinese Americans
- Confucianism > Social aspects
- Families > Moral and ethical aspects
- Families > Philosophy
- Social ethics
- Social values
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Chinese American familism and the theory of liyi -- The roots of Chinese American nonreligiousness and familism -- Transmission : Chinese American liyi socialization -- Translation : Chinese popular religion and Confucianism in the U.S. -- The yi of family sacrifice : Chinese Americans' highest values -- The li of Chinese American familism : ritualizing family, food, and fun.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-8591
- ISBN
- 9780190875923
- 0190875925
- LCCN
- 2018054214
- OCLC
- 1076548001
- Author
- Jeung, Russell, 1962- author.
- Title
- Family sacrifices : the worldviews and ethics of Chinese Americans / Russell M. Jeung, Seanan S. Fong, and Helen Jin Kim.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Fong, Seanan S., 1990- author.Kim, Helen Jin, 1984- author.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Jeung, Russell, 1962- author. Family sacrifices New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019] 9780190875930 (DLC) 2019000782
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-8591