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ERIC Number: EJ973039
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Jan
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1052-0147
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Grandparental Death: Through the Lens of an Asian Child
Lai, Wing-Fu
Qualitative Report, v17 n1 p175-190 Jan 2012
Bereavement has been extensively studied over the years, yet scholarly work depicting, with the first-person perspective, the experience of childhood bereavement is severely lacking. The research question I set out to answer here is: What is it like as an Asian child to experience bereavement following grandparental death? As such, self-introspection was exercised, and this, together with the diaries and free writings generated at the time of my grandma's death, was used as the basis for autoethnographic reflections. It is hoped that my story presented here can offer a psychological portrayal of an Asian child enduring grandparental death, and illuminate the grandmother-grandson relationship in a Chinese society. (Contains 3 notes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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