1 INTRODUCTION 1
Book Overview:Orientation towards the Self 5
International and National Population Ageing 7
Chinese People and Ageing in New Zealand 9
Policy Responses to Ageing and Ethnic Issues in New Zealand 14
2 THEORETICAL ORIENTATION:SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM AND THE SELF 18
Basic Tenets of Symbolic Interactionism 20
The Self and Identities 24
The Cobweb Chinese Self 29
Self and Acculturation 31
Social and Ethnic Identities 38
Tying Strands into a Richer Understanding of the Self 40
3 LITERATURE REVIEW:FILIAL PIETY AND AGEING IN PLACE 43
Filial Piety 46
Ageing in Place 63
Putting Ideas Expressed in this Chapter into Action 77
4 METHODOLOGY 80
The Narrative Approach 82
Chinese Narratives and the Episodic Interview 84
Fangtan:A Chinese Narrative Interview Technique 86
Participants 93
Research Processes 100
Analyses 107
Quality of Narrative Data 113
5 HOME MAKING IN A NEW LAND 117
Biographical Disruption and Status-discrepancy 118
Responding to Biographical Disruption through Gardening 123
Responding to Status-discrepancy through Art-making 127
Relational Dimensions of Domestic Space Attachments 132
Summary 137
6 MATERIAL-MEDIATED ACCULTURATION 141
Observational Acculturation 142
Familial Acculturation 145
Participatory Acculturation 147
Chinese Media Acculturation 150
Religious and Spiritual Acculturation 152
Summary 155
7 CHANGING PRACTICES OF FILIAL PIETY 160
Living Arrangements 161
Support to Parents 173
Respecting Parents 179
Children's Achievements 183
Ancestral Worship 185
Gender Norms 190
Summary 193
8 POSITIVE AGEING IN A NEW PLACE 196
Affordable and Stable Public Housing 198
Building Safe Neighbourhoods 202
Engaging in Local Communities 205
Hybridised Transnational Communities 213
Spaces for Care 218
Summary 224
9 DISCUSSION 226
Integrating Key Findings 228
A culturally patterned narrative Approach 236
Policy Implications 240
REFERENCES 244