This dissertation would not have been possible without the support, guidance, and encouragement o... more This dissertation would not have been possible without the support, guidance, and encouragement of many people; more, in fact, than I can ever name. Yet, above all, I want to thank my committee who has contributed to this work and my intellectual growth. I am, and always will be, grateful to my chair Douglas W. Hollan for his mentoring and unwavering support throughout my career at UCLA. I wish to express my gratitude to Thomas S. Weisner for his insights into research methods and his expertise in families, to Yunxiang Yan for his mentorship and for inspiring me to examine the moral experiences of ordinary people, and to Min Zhou for helping me reflect on how my findings can contribute to knowledge production and policy. I also want to thank my undergraduate advisor Kevin Birth for inspiring me to pursue psychological anthropology in graduate school and for his continued support. My dissertation was supported by a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. I am grateful for Wenner-Gren's generosity in funding my research. I also want to thank the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Department of Anthropology who provided funding during the writing of this dissertation The support and encouragement of friends have been integral in keeping my morale high as I completed my graduate training. A very special thank you to Alethea Marti, Jeff Snyder, and Cristina Moya for being my second family in Los Angeles. I am grateful to my childhood friends, Cindy Lau, Mandy Cheng, Sandy Wong, and Windi Long, for their love, encouragement, and support. I wish to also thank my colleagues at the Columbia Writing Center-Sue Mendelsohn, Allen Durgin, Jason Ueda, and Kat Savino-for their friendship and for helping me grow as a writer. I am grateful to my friend and copy editor Phoebe Collins for viii" proofreading the final draft of my dissertation. Thanks are also due to Ann Walters and Tracy Humbert, who were invaluable in teaching me how to navigate the university system. I am blessed to have a wonderful family who provided emotional and financial support for my many years of education. I wish to express my gratitude for their endless patience, support, love, and sacrifices. A special thanks to my brother Jonathan An for proofreading earlier drafts. Finally, I am grateful for my animal companions QQ and Lucky for helping me understand the joys, sorrows, frustrations, and ambivalences in caregiving.
This dissertation would not have been possible without the support, guidance, and encouragement o... more This dissertation would not have been possible without the support, guidance, and encouragement of many people; more, in fact, than I can ever name. Yet, above all, I want to thank my committee who has contributed to this work and my intellectual growth. I am, and always will be, grateful to my chair Douglas W. Hollan for his mentoring and unwavering support throughout my career at UCLA. I wish to express my gratitude to Thomas S. Weisner for his insights into research methods and his expertise in families, to Yunxiang Yan for his mentorship and for inspiring me to examine the moral experiences of ordinary people, and to Min Zhou for helping me reflect on how my findings can contribute to knowledge production and policy. I also want to thank my undergraduate advisor Kevin Birth for inspiring me to pursue psychological anthropology in graduate school and for his continued support. My dissertation was supported by a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. I am grateful for Wenner-Gren's generosity in funding my research. I also want to thank the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Department of Anthropology who provided funding during the writing of this dissertation The support and encouragement of friends have been integral in keeping my morale high as I completed my graduate training. A very special thank you to Alethea Marti, Jeff Snyder, and Cristina Moya for being my second family in Los Angeles. I am grateful to my childhood friends, Cindy Lau, Mandy Cheng, Sandy Wong, and Windi Long, for their love, encouragement, and support. I wish to also thank my colleagues at the Columbia Writing Center-Sue Mendelsohn, Allen Durgin, Jason Ueda, and Kat Savino-for their friendship and for helping me grow as a writer. I am grateful to my friend and copy editor Phoebe Collins for viii" proofreading the final draft of my dissertation. Thanks are also due to Ann Walters and Tracy Humbert, who were invaluable in teaching me how to navigate the university system. I am blessed to have a wonderful family who provided emotional and financial support for my many years of education. I wish to express my gratitude for their endless patience, support, love, and sacrifices. A special thanks to my brother Jonathan An for proofreading earlier drafts. Finally, I am grateful for my animal companions QQ and Lucky for helping me understand the joys, sorrows, frustrations, and ambivalences in caregiving.
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