International Handbook of Chinese Families (eBook)

Chan Kwok-bun is Chair Professor of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University. He was former President, Hong Kong Sociological Association; former Head, Department of Sociology, and former Director, David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University. Between 2005 and 2008, Professor Chan has published seven books, and since 2005 has been the Editor of Social Transformations in Chinese Societies (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers), the official journal of The Hong Kong Sociological Association. His current research interests are in families in Chinese societies, Chinese business networks and Chinese capitalism; Chinese ethnic identities; migration, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and diasporas.

A family affair: Migration, dispersal, and the emergent identity of the Chinese cosmopolitan.- The politics of migrant family drama: Mainland Chinese immigrants in Singapore.- Re-forming family among re-migrants:Hongkongers come home.- Social networks and family relations in return migration.- The uncanny feeling of  homely and unhomely: gender and generation politics in return migrant families in Hong Kong.- A double-eged sword: Mobility and entrepreneurship.- Family and marriage: constructing Chineseness among long-settled Australian-born Chinese.- Families in the Chinese diaspora: Women's experience.- Female university students dreamning of becoming housewives.- Stepping out, stepping in.- The prejudicial portrayal of immigrant families from mainland China in the Hong Kong media.- To be or not to be: Chinese-Singaporean women deliberating on voluntary childlessness.- Fertility transition and the transformation of working-class family life in urban China in the 1960s.- Sex preference for children and fertility behavior of Chinese-Americans.- Social stratification and childrearing values in contemporary China.- Support and care for aging Chinese: A comnparison of Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Taipei.- Intimacy and its denial: When sons and daughters talk about fatherhood, marriage, and work.- Father, son, wife, husband: Philanthropy as exchange and balance.- Children and their fathers in Singapore: A generational perspective.- Moving fathers from the "sidelines": Contemporary Chinese fathers in Canada and China.- Listening to fathers.- The roles and contributions of fathers in families with school-age children in Hong Kong.- East and West: Exploration of the father-son conflict in Chinese culture from the perspective of family triangulation in the West and the classical opera stories of the East.- Family through the eyes of the youth.- Art and heart.- Privacy in the family.- Age and gender differences in Chinese-Filipino parent-adolescent conflict, family cohesion and autonomy.- Setting out conditions, striking bargains: Marriage-stories and career development among university-educated women in Hong Kong.- Financial risk tolerance of Chinese American families.- Gender equality in families in Shanghai.- Economic transition and the potential risks of marital instability in contemporary urban China.- Empowered or impoverished: A study of divorce and its effects on urban women in contemporary China.- Men inside, women outside?.- Hong Kong lesbian partners in the making of their own families.- Immigrant adaptation, poverty and the family: New arrivals in Hong Kong from mainland China.- Researching migrant Chinese families in Hong Kong: Changing perspectives and methodologies.- The one-child policy and its impact on Chinese families.- "The youth problem" is not a youth problem.- Meditations of two perpetual outsiders on 'Chineseness' and 'The Family'.