scholarly journals The Cinematic Depiction of Conflict Resolution in the Immigrant Chinese Family: The Wedding Banquet and Saving Face

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Qijun Han
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
Saving Face ◽  
Wedding Banquet

Diasporic Chinese family drama through a transnational lens: The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Saving Face (2004)

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-343
Author(s):  
Qijun Han
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Filial Piety ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
Chinese Cinema ◽  
Chinese Values ◽  
The Family ◽  
Saving Face ◽  
Wedding Banquet ◽  
The One

Abstract The immigrant Chinese family has increasingly been represented in transnational Chinese cinema(s) over the past three decades. Two representative films, The Wedding Banquet (Lee, 1993) and Saving Face (Wu, 2004), are chosen to shed light on Chinese filmmakers' engagement with the complex process of identity formation for immigrants through the artifice of family conflict. Both movies examine how homosexuality can pose a threat to traditional Chinese family ethics such as filial piety, family continuity and family reputation, and how the seemingly incompatible ideological standpoints can be accommodated in the end. In both cases, on the one hand the depicted denial of homosexuality comes from its association with failed family education and bad ethnic and cultural practice, and its violation of traditional Chinese values. Therefore, sexuality becomes linked to the effect of Americanization and what it means to be Chinese. On the other hand, the 'undesirable' homosexual identity can be accepted or at least tolerated within the family as long as the family lineage is ensured, or the family remains intact. The disaporic subjects show us that submission to one's ethnicity can be modified or unlearned.

scholarly journals The Cinematic Depiction of Conflict Resolution in the Immigrant Chinese Family

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-159
Author(s):  
Qijun Han
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Chinese American ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
American Family ◽  
Cultural Specificity ◽  
Chinese American Families ◽  
Wedding Banquet ◽  
To Come

Both emphasising dilemmas that have been confronted by the Chinese- American family, Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Alice Wu’s Saving Face (2004) highlight the image of homosexuality as incompatible with traditional Chinese family values. Through detailed narrative analyses of these two films with a focus on the structure of the plot, the key characters, and camera work, this article aims to answer the questions of how traditional Chinese culture continues to play into and conflict with the experiences of modern Chinese American families and how each film presents and resolves the tensions arising from a culture in transition. The article argues that the importance of studying the ways in which the protagonists try to come to terms with incompatible value systems, lies in the capacity of film to reveal the complex negotiation between tradition and modernity, as well as the socio-cultural specificity of the conceptions of modernity.

Conflict resolution in Chinese family purchase decisions

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 308-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maggie Chuoyan Dong ◽  
Stella Yiyan Li
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
Purchase Decisions

420 A novel SCN5A mutation (R878C) associated with sick sinus syndrome in one Chinese family

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-98
Author(s):  
Y ZHANG ◽  
A MA ◽  
H WAN ◽  
C HUANG ◽  
X ZHOU ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sick Sinus Syndrome ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
Scn5a Mutation

Agreeableness, Conflict Resolution Tactics, and School Behavior in Second Graders

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel L. Gadke ◽  
Renée M. Tobin ◽  
W. Joel Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Second Graders ◽  
Adaptive Behaviors ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
School Behavior ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
School Based ◽  
Second Grade Students ◽  
Negotiation Tactics

Abstract. This study examined the association between Agreeableness and children’s selection of conflict resolution tactics and their overt behaviors at school. A total of 157 second graders responded to a series of conflict resolution vignettes and were observed three times during physical education classes at school. We hypothesized that Agreeableness would be inversely related to the endorsement of power assertion tactics and to displays of problem behaviors, and positively related to the endorsement of negotiation tactics and to displays of adaptive behaviors. Consistent with hypotheses, Agreeableness was inversely related to power assertion tactics and to displays of off-task, disruptive, and verbally aggressive behaviors. There was no evidence that Agreeableness was related to more socially sophisticated responses to conflict, such as negotiation, with our sample of second grade students; however, it was related to displays of adaptive behaviors, specifically on-task behaviors. Limitations, including potential reactivity effects and the restriction of observational data collection to one school-based setting, are discussed. Future researchers are encouraged to collect data from multiple sources in more than one setting over time.

The Theatrical Metaphor: Can It Aid Conflict Resolution?

1987 ◽  
Vol 32 (7) ◽  
pp. 602-603
Author(s):  
Sheldon Stryker
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution

Action Committee Updates: Conflict Resolution

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Fabick ◽  
◽  
Barbara Tint
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Action Committee
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