Message from hdao

[Anonymous]

Dr. Yan is an incredibly sharp and incisive thinker and I found his paper on the food safety crisis in China academically imposing but otherwise well written and timely. His ideas on kinship and the Chinese family structure is intriguing to say the least. Coming from a Confucian society, Vietnam, I sometimes saw very similar attitudes in my parents, and to a lesser degree with my older siblings. It would have been fascinating to go deeper into the subject by looking at some examples of how these general attitudes are manifested in the ways individuals are treated based on their status in society, i.e. teacher, pupil, father, son, married or bachelor, etc..
edited by hdao on 7/27/2016