David Y. H. Wu

Chinese culture and mental health

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Introduction: The Characteristics of Chinese Culture

Publisher Summary The chapter discusses the contemporary situations in Chinese culture that relate to social structure, sociocultural change, and the relationship of these factors to the current state of mental health of the Chinese people. The chapter focuses on the issues of mind, body, and behavior. The cultural framework is of central concern to Chinese participants, whether they are social scientists, humanists, or clinical psychiatrists. Chinese culture appears to affect the state of body and health, parent–child interaction, social relationships, individual and group aspirations, models of health care services, and the patterns of disorders and methods of coping under the impact of migration, industrialization, and urbanization. The chapter focuses on the importance of the impact of cultural tradition upon perception, behavioral orientation, pathology, coping, and help-seeking. The mental health concerns that are relevant to the population of mainland China are related to the recent dramatic socialist revolution and particularly to the 10-year period of the Cultural Revolution.

Child Training in Chinese Culture

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the Chinese child-rearing pattern. This is characterized by a large number of caretakers, frequent and immediate response to a childs need or demand, frequent feeding, and close attachment between mother and child day and night. Training for older children emphasizes on obedience to parents but with little discipline in minor matters. The bonding behavior in Chinese child rearing is a key to understanding mental health and well-being. The chapter discusses bonding behavior through child socialization in an overseas Chinese society. The systematic investigation yields information that enables an understanding of the socialization process, characteristic cultural behavior, and changes that have taken place. The chapter presents a case study of child training in an overseas Chinese population to illustrate the maintenance of tradition in consonance with ongoing change. In the study, the Chinese mothers made some adjustments in their treatment of their infants and older children as a result of the teaching they received from authorities—doctors, nurses, mothers-in-law, and schoolteachers.

Changing Chinese Foodways in Asia

This book examines Chinese food and the culture of food consumption in East and Southeast Asia. Through the lens of food, the authors address recent theories in social science concerning cultural identity, ethnicity, boundary formation, consumerism and globalization, and the invention of local cuisine in the context of rapid culture change. Written by distinguished anthropologist who have years of research experience in their respective countries and regions, this book shows how human preparation and consumption of food carry important social, economic, political, and spiritual meanings.The book describes many interesting Chinese foodways in contemporary Asia, including rice porridge culture and changing diet in rural Pearl River delta, South China; tea cafes, Hakka restaurants, and dim sum eating in Hong Kong; ethnic relations and Chinese food in Southeast Asia; localization of Chinese food in South Korea; adaptation of Chinese noodles in Japanese daily meals; distribution of pork eating in Asia; and globalization and breakfast in Taiwan. This volume concludes with a commentary by a renowned anthropologist, Professor Sidney Mintz.

Preschool in Three Cultures: Japan, China, and the United States.

A comparison of Japanese, Chinese and American preschools, discussing how these schools both reflect and affect philosophies of child-rearing and early childhood education and larger social patterns and beliefs in each society.

Culture and Mental Health Research Training for the Pacific Basin Area

The lack of research training for psychiatrists has been noticed by psychiatric professionals.1,2,3,4 Research training in transcultural psychiatry is rarely available, for the paucity of literature in this area speaks for the fact. Although recently there has been increasing attention towards the cultural factors in mental health, resources as well as opportunities are limited both in teaching and research training.