Grandparental death: Through the lens of an Asian child

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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. © 2012: Wing-Fu Lai and Nova Southeastern University.

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Lai, W. F. (2012). Grandparental death: Through the lens of an Asian child. Qualitative Report, 17(1), 175–190. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2012.1813

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