ABSTRACT
Central to this chapter are the different dimensions of care deployed by these transnational families. The analysis of how care is articulated is based on Finch and Mason’s support categories. The author have reorganised and added additional dimensions to this typology, based on fieldwork accounts, to produce new categories. Particularly salient is what it has been coined a ‘social dimension’ of care. In the social dimension of care, the concept of mianzi (面子) or face is key, as it refers to the notions of status and prestige, which are essential to the functioning of social relations in China.
