Ageing in Contemporary China
The Ziran Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3654161 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xiaoying Qi (0000-0003-0704-6864, Australian Catholic University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 584-595 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Gender Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0958-9236 • E-ISSN: 1465-3869 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09589236.2021.1929092 |
| OpenAlex | W3164631281 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 44 |
Based on in-depth semi-structured interviews with older women and men in two cities in mainland China, this article reports respondents’ experiences of ageing. Interviewees’ attitudes to health and their changing bodies suggest an orientation unlike the ‘medicalization’ approach. They report personal strategies that navigate conditions of ongoing social and economic change by both drawing on and modifying traditional norms, including those related to filial obligation in their relations with adult children as well as to terminal disease and death. Practices of ‘getting old’ in contemporary China reshape gender norms and expectations. The examination of ageing reported here identifies the notion of ziran as an approach to ageing quite distinct from discourses frequently reported in the literature
Ageing · China · Mainland China · Medicalization · Obligation · Political science · Sociology · Aging and Gerontology Research · Gender Studies · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Concepts of Nature
Religion in Chinese Society
What is nature? – ziran in early Daoist thinking
Visible and invisible ageing
Yang sheng, care and changing family relations in China
Toward deeper research and better policy for healthy aging – using the unique data of Chinese longitudinal healthy longevity survey
Happily ever after? ‘Successful ageing’ and the heterosexual imaginary
An alternative discourse of productive aging
The body, gender, and age
Consumption and the constitution of age
Women’s Perceptions and Use of “Anti-Aging” Products
The growth of private hospitals and their health workforce in China
Age of Retirement and Human Capital in an Aging China, 2015–2050
Empirical tests of status consumption
Body image and self-esteem in older adulthood
Embodying ageing
Age differences in motivation related to Maslow's need hierarchy
A theory of human motivation
The Individualization of the Family in Rural China
Boosting beauty in an economic decline
Confucianism and the Chinese Self
Permanent personhood or meaningful decline? Toward a critical anthropology of successful aging
Culture in Action
Reshaping Tradition? Women Negotiating the Boundaries of Tradition and Modernity in Hong Kong and British Families
Floating grandparents
Modernity and Ambivalence
Ageing Contested
The crisis of masculinity
NennuandShunu
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |