Margaret Gaan is a prolific writer who has handled varied themes in her novels. Most of her novels bring out the culture, tradition and custom of Chinese culture. Grandparenthood is a subject of minor importance in the works of many authors. Gaan has given enormous weightage to this rare theme in her novel Red Barbarian.

The aim of the research paper is to bring out grandparenthood in the novel Red Barbarian.  The major question raises in the article is why grandparents in China are showing so much of love and affection to their grandchildren.

Keywords: Chinese culture, grandparenthood, generation gap, human values, family, society.