Chinese elders in New Zealand: reconstructing selves in gardens

Health, cultural, social, community and environmental psychologists have foregrounded the importance of links between places and daily practices in the construction of the self and wellbeing. This article explores the role domestic gardening plays in self reconstructing among older Chinese immigrants. Core issues explored include the participants’ experiences of a sense of loss and the need for new connections in their lives, the role of gardening in the cultivation of a sense of rootedness in a new country and the ways in which family relationships and tensions between older adults and their children are played out in relation to household gardening and renovations.

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Overseas Chinese Studies

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978-7-5495-0727-6

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