Word: filial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Asian-American mental health center at the University of Illinois' Chicago campus, stresses the importance of cultural conditioning. "In the Confucian ethic, which permeates the cultures of China, Japan, Viet Nam and Korea, scholastic achievement is the only way of repaying the infinite debt to parents, of showing filial piety...
...Western man with democratic ideals on whom communism has been forced Rather, he has a selfless devotion to the state personified by Mao. In this unusually impartial view of life in modern China, Liang Heng successfully expresses the strength of the communist faith as it conflicts with filial loyalty, romance love and urge for a better like. Unlike foreign visitors or disillusioned exiles, Liang Heng can reveal the psyche of the Chinese people to the West, for though he brings a certain skepticism to bear on China's politics, he remains an accepted member of Chinese society...
...miraculously persisted in China through years of ideological flux. The Chinese government's efforts to form a model communist state are thwarted for the same reason Liang's father could not fulfill the communist ideal: the ideal keeps changing. Liang follows his father's tribulations with a deep filial love that prevents acrid criticism. With the same concern, he describes China's painful progress through successive "revolutions", criticizing particular people and policies, but never attacking the system that allows such "revolutions...
...contemporary fiction and film, and scholars keep expanding the Conrad industry. Frederick Karl's monumental but plodding 1979 biography now holds the record for sheer size at 1,008 pages. A new book by the novelist's son John, Joseph Conrad: Times Remembered (Cambridge University Press), offers filial recollections and depicts the writer as a martinet, trying mightily to overcome his natural reserve, able to show his family little open affection, and perpetually striving for a financial security that was always just beyond reach...
...What ever happened to extra-filial piety?" asked the Intern...