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    Folk beliefs of cultural changes in China

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    Authors
    Xu, Y.
    Hamamura, Takeshi
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Citation
    Xu, Y. and Hamamura, T. 2014. Folk beliefs of cultural changes in China. Frontiers in Psychology. 5: Article ID 1066.
    Source Title
    Frontiers in Psychology
    DOI
    10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01066
    ISSN
    1664-1078
    School
    School of Psychology
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    This article is published under the Open Access publishing model and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Please refer to the licence to obtain terms for any further reuse or distribution of this work

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/9728
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    For the last several decades, Chinese society has experienced transformative changes. How are these changes understood among Chinese people? To examine this question, Part 1 in this research solicited folk beliefs of cultural change from a group of Chinese participants in an open-ended format, and the generated folk beliefs were rated by another group of participants in Part 2 to gage each belief's level of agreement. Part 3 plotted the folk beliefs retained in Part 2 using the Google Ngram Viewer in order to infer the amount of intellectual interests that each belief has received cross-temporarily. These analyses suggested a few themes in Chinese folk beliefs of cultural change (1) rising perceived importance of materialism and individualism in understanding contemporary Chinese culture and Chinese psychology relative to those of the past (2) rising perceived importance of freedom, democracy and human rights and (3) enduring perceived importance of family relations and friendship as well as patriotism. Interestingly, findings from Parts 2 and 3 diverged somewhat, illuminating possible divergence between folk beliefs and intellectual interests especially for issues related to heritage of Confucianism.

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