Filial Piety (xiao 孝) for the Contemporary and Global World

Authors

  • Loreta POŠKAITĖ Associate Professor, Vilnius University, Centre of Oriental Studies

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2014.2.1.99-114

Keywords:

filial piety (xiao), Confucianism, care, duty, rights

Abstract

The relationships between children and parents seem to be one of the most urgent issues in the contemporary world, spanning from the United States and European countries to East Asian societies, as a consequence of the transformation of traditional family ethics, values and institutions brought about by the processes of modernization and globalization. The present paper aims to reveal the ways and problems of the application of xiao 孝 (filial piety) ethics in the contemporary Western and Chinese societies, as reflected in the works by a number of famous Western Protestant missionaries, religious philosophers, sinologists and present-day Lithuanian Sinology students, and counterbalance their views with the insights of contemporary Chinese sociologists. The place of xiao in the contemporary inter-cultural dialogue will be discussed from the point of view of dialogue between religions, theory and practice, Western and Chinese culture, traditional and modern societies and values.

 

 

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Bond, Michael Harris. 1991. Beyond the Chinese Face. Insights from Psychology. Hong Kong, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.

Ershi si xiao. Translated by K. Jordan. http://dss/ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/dkjordan/ chopera.pl?taleid=Story113.

Knapp, Keith Nathaniel. 2005. Selfless Offspring. Filial Children and Social Order in Medieval China. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Neville Cummings, Robert. 2000. Boston Confucianism. Portable Tradition in the Late-Modern World. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Nuyen, A. T. 2004. “Filial piety as respect for tradition.” In Filial Piety in Chinese Thought and Tradition, edited by Alan K. K. Chan and Sor-hoon Tan. London and New York: Routledge Curzon.

Rosemont, Henry Jr., and Roger T. Ames. 2009. The Chinese Classic of Family Reverence. A Philosophical Translation of the “Xiaojing”. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Smith, A.H. 2002. Chinese Characteristics. East Bridge, Norwalk.

Wu, Fei. 2011. “Suicide, a Modern Problem in China.” In Deep China. The Moral Life of the Person, written by Arthur Kleiman et. al., 213–36. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press.

Yan, Yunxiang. 2003. Private Life under Socialism. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

–––. 2009. Individualization of Chinese Society. Oxford, New York: Berg.

–––. 2011. “The Changing Moral Landscape.” In Deep China. The Moral Life of the Person, written by Arthur Kleinman et. al., 36–77. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press.

Vidmantė, Jasukaitytė. 2013. “Beždžionių kaimas moko mus gyventi?” Propatria. www.propatria.lt/2013/06/vidmante-jasukaityte-bezdzioniu-kaimas.html

Downloads

Published

30.05.2014

How to Cite

POŠKAITĖ, L. (2014). Filial Piety (xiao 孝) for the Contemporary and Global World. Asian Studies, 2(1), 99–114. https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2014.2.1.99-114

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2014): Modern Confucianism and Chinese Modernity

Section

Confucian Values and the Contemporary World

License

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors are confirming that they are the authors of the submitting article, which will be published (print and online) in journal Asian Studies by Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Aškerčeva 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia). Author’s name will be evident in the article in journal. All decisions regarding layout and distribution of the work are in hands of the publisher.
  2. Authors guarantee that the work is their own original creation and does not infringe any statutory or common-law copyright or any proprietary right of any third party. In case of claims by third parties, authors commit their self to defend the interests of the publisher, and shall cover any potential costs.
  3. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  4. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  5. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.