Would any Chinese commenters like to weigh in here? I'd love a first-person perspective
It is useful context, however, just as studying Socrates is useful context for understanding Western thought.
I personally think it's a good thing to take care of your parents within reasonable boundaries. However, I don't think the current social structure provides a good framework for this. We don't live in the same village compound in modern times, afterall.
From the arrticle it sounds like the same thing you’d see within a western church but there it extends more weakly outside the family and ends outside the church.
The example of western comics is weak since I don’t know there is much of a broad genre of comics in the western style. So comparing to the old western films is more direct to your point and I would infer some small things. As an example, there is an implied belief that killing is okay if it’s in defense of the powerless and vulnerable. And any number of people can be killed in service to protecting the weak.
Any way I’m only observing an implied cultural awareness of the hierarchy described in the article is assumed. Also I suggest comparison to chivalry is poor and a better comparison is to biblical family hierarchy which is still relevant even if popularly ridiculed.