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Title International handbook of Chinese families / Chan Kwok-bun, editor
Published New York, NY : Springer, ©2013

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Contents Mobility and Family -- A Family Affair: Migration, Dispersal and the Emergent Identity of the Chinese Cosmopolitan -- The Politics of Migrant Family Drama: Mainland Chinese Immigrants in Singapore -- Reforming Family Among Remigrants: Hongkongers Come Home -- Social Networks and Family Relations in Return Migration -- The Uncanny Homely and Unhomely Feeling: Gender and Generation Politics in Return Migrant Families in Hong Kong -- A Double-Edged Sword: Mobility and Entrepreneurship -- Family and Marriage: Constructing Chineseness Among Long-Established Australian-Born Chinese -- Families in the Chinese Diaspora: Women's Experience in Transnational Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese Immigrant Families in Canada -- Female University Students Dreaming of Becoming Housewives -- Stepping Out, Stepping In -- The Prejudicial Portrayal of Immigrant Families from Mainland China in Hong Kong Media -- The Family Life Cycle -- 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 Chinese Fertility in America -- Social Stratification and Childrearing Values in Contemporary China -- Support and Care for Aging Chinese: A Comparison of Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Taipei -- Fathers, Mothers, Daughters, Sons -- 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 -- Negotiation, Family Instability and Emerging Family Forms -- 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 the Family in Shanghai -- Economic Transition and the Potential Risks of Marital Instability in Contemporary Urban China -- Empowered or Impoverished: 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 -- Methodology and Policy -- 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 -- Conclusion: Meditations of Two Perpetual Outsiders on "Chineseness" and "The Family". Privacy in the Family -- Age and Gender Differences in Chinese-Filipino Parent-Adolescent Conflict, Family Cohesion and Autonomy -- Negotiation, Family Instability and Emerging Family Forms -- 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 the Family in Shanghai -- Economic Transition and the Potential Risks of Marital Instability in Contemporary Urban China -- Empowered or Impoverished: 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 -- Methodology and Policy -- 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 -- Conclusion: Meditations of Two Perpetual Outsiders on "Chineseness" and "The Family."
Summary International Handbook of Chinese FamiliesChan Kwok-bun, editorThe globalization and mobility trends of recent years continue to add new layers of nuances to the already diverse human experience. Nowhere is this clearer than the Chinese diaspora in the Pacific Rim and North America, which witnesses a wide variety of social issues from the effects of migration on family stability, to elusive concepts of identity among people living in non-Chinese communities, to complex gender and generation politics--issues that have also begun to affect life on the mainland. The International Handbook of Chinese Families delves into these processes of social transformation in meticulous, far-reaching detail. Focusing on the family life cycle, parent-child relationships, family forms in transition including divorce and separation, migration, emerging research methodologies, and policy concerns, the Handbook highlights diverse populations, including mobile entrepreneurs, college students, fathers, immigrants and re-migrants, same-sex families, divorcees, and the aging. And since the coverage emphasizes families both on and away from the mainland, readers have uncommon access to immediate and long-developing issues, country-specific and worldwide patterns, and the conflict between longstanding tradition and rapid change. A sampling of topics featured in the Handbook:Gender preference for children among Chinese-Americans. Mainland Chinese immigrant families in Singapore. Empowered or impoverished? Effects of divorce on urban women in China and Canada. Contemporary Chinese fathers in Canada. Social networks and family relationships in return migration. Impact of the one-child policy on Chinese families. This vast array of subjects makes the Handbook a rich trove of findings for researchers studying family development, Chinese family and immigrant experience, globalization, and related topics. A landmark in Chinese family studies, the Handbook is unsurpassed in breadth and depth in its attempt to examine the intimate relations between social theory, research methodology and public policies. It sets the stage for how the Chinese family world-wide will be approached, studied, understood--for change in a quickly globalized world
Analysis Social sciences
Social policy
Applied psychology
Psychotherapy and Counseling
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
SUBJECT Čubrilović Familie : 19. Jh.- gnd
Subject Families -- China -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Alternative Family.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Reference.
Droit.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Families
Chinesische Familie
Familienbeziehung
Mobilität
Soziale Situation
Wirtschaftliche Lage
China
China
Asiatisch-Pazifischer Raum
Genre/Form handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
Author Chan, Kwok B.
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