10. Curse of the Successor: Filial Piety vs. Marriage Among Rural Japanese

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Tables and Figures vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Ritualistic Coresidence and the Weakening of Filial Practice in Rural China 16
7. 2. Filial Daughters, Filial Sons: Comparisons from Rural North China 34
8. 3. Meal Rotation and Filial Piety 53
9. 4. “Living Alone” and the Rural Elderly: Strategy and Agency in Post-Mao Rural China 63
10. 5. Serving the Ancestors, Serving the State: Filial Piety and Death Ritual in Contemporary Guangzhou 88
11. 6. Filial Obligations in Chinese Families: Paradoxes of Modernization 106
12. 7. The Transformation of Filial Piety in Contemporary South Korea 128
13. 8. Filial Piety in Contemporary Urban Southeast Korea: Practices and Discourses 153
14. 9. Culture, Power, and the Discourse of Filial Piety in Japan: The Disempowerment of Youth and Its Social Consequences 182
15. 10. Curse of the Successor: Filial Piety vs. Marriage Among Rural Japanese 198
16. 11. Alone in the Family: Great-grandparenthood in Urban Japan 217
17. Glossary 245
18. Notes 251
19. References 267
20. Index 291