In academia, there is a continuous debate on whether traditional conceptions of filial piety are still relevant in contemporary societies. As Li Chenyang states, “filial morality is one of the areas that deeply divide traditional China from the contemporary West” (Li 1997: 219). Since the twentieth century, however, the traditional conception of filial piety has been negotiating its place in the process of modernization and facing the West. It is well known that traditional Chinese culture gives special weight to family life and understands and arranges other forms of social interaction by drawing on ideas of family (Liang 1969: 11–13), especially the idea of filial piety.
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