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British Chinese families : parenting approaches, household relationships and childhood experiences / Carmen Lau-Clayton, University of Leeds, UK.
- Title
- British Chinese families : parenting approaches, household relationships and childhood experiences / Carmen Lau-Clayton, University of Leeds, UK.
- Author
- Clayton, Carmen Lau, 1983-
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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- Description
- x, 206 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Based on interviews undertaken with British Chinese families, this book explores the nature of contemporary British Chinese households and childhood experiences. By speaking to parents and children of each family, using repeat interviews over a nine-month period, accounts of family life are revealed from all generational perspectives. This book reveals some similarities between the practices of past and contemporary British Chinese households. Carmen Lau-Clayton suggests that Chinese parents (regardless of backgrounds and length of UK residency) not only identify themselves as being Chinese, but also hold strong attachments to 'traditional' Chinese values and norms. For some British Chinese families this causes domestic issues and problems between parents and their more Westernised offspring. However, some parents have also modified their Chinese cultural beliefs, altering their child-rearing methods, intimacy levels with children and opportunities for the child's agency. Reasons for this included the parent's own childhood experience, the parent's exposure and acceptance of Western practices, empathy for their child's experience of being a British Chinese citizen as well as external circumstances such as social setting and surroundings. The complex and interrelated nature of the British Chinese household has not been revealed elsewhere in the current literature.
- Series Statement
- Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life
- Uniform Title
- Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life
- Subject
- Chinese > Great Britain
- Families > Great Britain
- Parenting > Great Britain
- Black & Asian studies > United Kingdom, Great Britain > China
- Chinese
- Chinesen
- Elternschaft
- Ethnic studies > United Kingdom, Great Britain > China
- Familienbeziehung
- Familienleben
- Families
- Family psychology > United Kingdom, Great Britain > China
- Parenting
- POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture
- Society
- Sociology: family & relationships > United Kingdom, Great Britain > China
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Chinese Migration Patterns -- 3. Themes within Current Research -- 4. Theoretical Framing -- 5. Methods of Enquiry -- 6. Contemporary British Chinese Parenting -- 7. Agency and Action of British Chinese Children -- 8. Levels of Intimacy between British Chinese Parents and Children -- 9. Final Conclusions.
- ISBN
- 9781137026606
- 113702660X
- LCCN
- ^^2014022918
- OCLC
- 881511077
- SCSB-11657897
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library