The Emergence of an Elder-Blaming Discourse in Twenty-First Century China.
To people familiar with Confucian teachings about revering elders, it may be surprising that, over the last decade and a half, a discourse has emerged and spread widely in China in which elders are denigrated as out-of-date and corrupt. Using newspaper articles, commentaries and videos, this paper f...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 197 - 216 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Jun2018
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