Wu Xinyue
No. 2 Dongnandaxue Road, Nanjing, China School of Humanities, Southeast University.
J Chin Sociol. 2023;10(1):9. doi: 10.1186/s40711-023-00187-4. Epub 2023 May 15.
Based on ethnographic research conducted in two nursing homes in China, this article examines how institutional eldercare reshapes the expectations and practices of filial piety. It finds that families accept institutional care as a solution to the elderly care deficit. They expect a new division of care between labor and love, assigned to paid care workers and family members, respectively. This ideal of care division is rooted in the "intimate turn" in Chinese family life. Nevertheless, many family members go beyond this care division and remain deeply involved in nursing homes. On the one hand, adult children take on the responsibility to manage surrogate caretakers to improve the quality of care. On the other hand, they continue to provide personal care and companionship. Sharing family time is made the highest priority, especially in the face of impending death. This study goes beyond the binary division between commercial care and family care and sheds light on the transformation of filial piety in the commodification of eldercare in contemporary China.
基于在中国两家养老院进行的人种志研究，本文探讨了机构养老如何重塑孝道的期望和实践。研究发现，家庭将机构养老视为解决养老服务不足问题的一种方式。他们期望在劳动与关爱之间形成新的分工，分别由付费护理人员和家庭成员承担。这种护理分工的理念植根于中国家庭生活中的“亲密转向”。然而，许多家庭成员超越了这种护理分工，仍然深度参与养老院事务。一方面，成年子女承担起管理替代照顾者的责任，以提高护理质量。另一方面，他们继续提供个人护理和陪伴。共享家庭时光被置于最优先地位，尤其是在面对亲人即将离世的情况下。本研究超越了商业护理和家庭护理的二元划分，揭示了当代中国养老服务商品化过程中孝道的转变。
