Grandparental Death: Through the Lens of an Asian Child

Authors

Wing-Fu Lai, The University of Hong KongFollow

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Autoethnography, Bereavement, Grandparenthood, Narrative, Qualitative Research

Publication Date

1-1-2012

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2012.1813

Recommended APA Citation

Lai, W. (2012). Grandparental Death: Through the Lens of an Asian Child. The Qualitative Report, 17(1), 175-190. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2012.1813