Running with wounded feet: a Taiwanese daughter's views on familial issues of filial piety, home and marriage

This thesis is an attempt by the author to deconstruct her personal conflicts (issues relating to filial piety, home/family and marriage) by examining two fictional characters' life stories, Bell's and Sue's, and her own lived experiences. The author does not apply any single method of interpretation, but rather she reflects on phenomenology, ethnography and Anne- 1.ouise Brookes' autobiographical approach. Because the author is an international student with English as a second language and a different cultural background (non-Christian epistemology), the process of writing this thesis revealed issues relating to methods of interpretation, translation, the way of presenting an academic work and feminist pedagogy". For the author, this thesis is the product of a satisfying communication between different cultures and power positions.