Migración china y piedad filial: la lectura de Sueño en el pabellón rojo como recurso para la competencia global

Resumen

Chinese migration constitutes one of the most significant demographic processes of the past century and a half, shaping heterogeneous communities across Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania. Within these diasporic contexts, traditional values such as filial piety 孝(xiao) continue to play a central role in the socialization of younger generations, functioning as a core axis of cultural and familial cohesion (Zhou, 2009). Analyzing how these values are expressed in literature not only allows us to understand their enduring relevance, but also to project them as pedagogical tools for the development of global competence. This study examines the novel Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢(Honglou meng), a masterpiece of eighteenth-century Chinese narrative, through an interdisciplinary lens—anthropological, sociological, sociolinguistic, and literary, in order to highlight its usefulness as an educational and cultural resource both in schools and among scholars of the Chinese diaspora. The methodology applies Hymes’ (1974) SPEAKING model to all speech eventsinvolving the character Xue Baochai, the novel’s foremost representative ofConfucian values, whose role within the family is that of a daughter. The findings reveal that the characterization of Xue Baochai conveys an implicit and transversal manifestation of filial piety as a moral model. The novel thus emerges as a valuable resource for the study of values rooted in Chinese society, serving as a useful tool to foster intercultural dialogue and global competence through literature