1 Introduction: Hegemony, Universality and the Dialectics
of “Being Chinese” and the Family ................................................ 1
Chan Kwok-bun and Chan Nin
Part I: Mobility and Family
2 A Family Affair: Migration, Dispersal and the Emergent
Identity of the Chinese Cosmopolitan .......................................... 23
Chan Kwok-bun
3 The Politics of Migrant Family Drama: Mainland Chinese
Immigrants in Singapore ............................................................... 37
Chan Kwok-bun and Seet Chia Sing
4 Reforming Family Among Remigrants: Hongkongers
Come Home .................................................................................... 53
Nan M. Sussman
5 Social Networks and Family Relations
in Return Migration ....................................................................... 77
Janet W. Salaff and Arent Greve
6 The Uncanny Feeling of Homely and Unhomely: Gender
and Generation Politics in Return Migrant Families
in Hong Kong .................................................................................. 91
Chan Wai-wan and Chan Kwok-bun
7 A Double-Edged Sword: Mobility
and Entrepreneurship .................................................................. 115
Chan Wai-wan
8 Family and Marriage: Constructing Chineseness
Among Long-Established Australian-Born Chinese ................. 137
Lucille Ngan Lok-sun
9 Families in the Chinese Diaspora: Women’s Experience
in Transnational Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese
Immigrant Families in Canada ................................................... 157
Guida C. Man
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10 Female University Students Dreaming of Becoming
Housewives .................................................................................... 169
Joyce Chan Wai-man
11 Stepping Out, Stepping In ........................................................... 191
Eva Yu Mui-ling
12 The Prejudicial Portrayal of Immigrant Families
from Mainland China in Hong Kong Media ............................. 211
Peggy Kung Cheuk-lam
Part II: The Family Life Cycle
13 To Be or Not to Be: Chinese-Singaporean Women
Deliberating on Voluntary Childlessness ................................... 231
Amanda Ee Hui Li, Caroline Plüss, and Chan Kwok-bun
14 Fertility Transition and the Transformation
of Working Class Family Life in Urban China
in the 1960s ................................................................................... 249
Wang Danning
15 Sex Preference for Children and Chinese Fertility
in America ..................................................................................... 263
Zongli Tang
16 Social Stratification and Childrearing Values
in Contemporary China .............................................................. 277
Xiao Hong
17 Support and Care for Aging Chinese: A Comparison
of Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Taipei ....................................... 289
Daniel W.L. Lai
Part III: Fathers, Mothers, Daughters, Sons
18 Intimacy and Its Denial: When Sons and Daughters
Talk About Fatherhood, Marriage and Work ........................... 307
Chan Kwok-bun
19 Father, Son, Wife, Husband: Philanthropy
as Exchange and Balance ............................................................ 313
Chan Kwok-bun
20 Children and Their Fathers in Singapore:
A Generational Perspective ......................................................... 323
Hing Ai Yun
21 Moving Fathers from the “Sidelines”: Contemporary
Chinese Fathers in Canada and China ...................................... 343
Susan S. Chuang, Robert P. Moreno, and Yanjie Su
22 Listening to Fathers ..................................................................... 359
Wong Siu-sing
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23 The Roles and Contributions of Fathers in Families
with School-Age Children in Hong Kong .................................. 379
Vicky C. Tam and Rebecca S. Lam
24 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 ..................................................................................... 393
Simon T.M. Chan
25 Family Through the Eyes of the Youth ...................................... 403
Tess Tsang Mei-wah
26 Art and Heart ............................................................................... 425
Ada Lee Man-ching
27 Privacy in the Family ................................................................... 453
Tse Pik-chu
28 Age and Gender Differences in Chinese-Filipino
Parent-Adolescent Conflict, Family Cohesion
and Autonomy .............................................................................. 467
Rosa C. Shao
Part IV: Negotiation, Family Instability and Emerging Family Forms
29 Setting Out Conditions, Striking Bargains: Marriage-Stories
and Career Development Among University-Educated Women
in Hong Kong ................................................................................ 485
May Partridge
30 Financial Risk Tolerance of Chinese American Families ......... 499
Rui Yao
31 Gender Equality in the Family in Shanghai .............................. 511
Tobey Yung Wai-ming
32 Economic Transition and the Potential Risks
of Marital Instability in Contemporary Urban China ............. 523
Yan Yu
33 Empowered or Impoverished: Divorce and Its Effects
on Urban Women in Contemporary China ............................... 539
April Gu
34 Men Inside, Women Outside? ..................................................... 555
Maurice Choi Kwok-to
35 Hong Kong Lesbian Partners in the Making
of Their Own Families ................................................................. 575
Day Wong
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Part V: Methodology and Policy
36 Immigrant Adaptation, Poverty and the Family:
New Arrivals in Hong Kong from Mainland China ................. 591
Chan Kwok-bun
37 Researching Migrant Chinese Families in Hong Kong:
Changing Perspectives and Methodologies ................................ 607
Sam Wong
38 The One-Child Policy and Its Impact
on Chinese Families ..................................................................... 627
Barbara H. Settles, Xuewen Sheng, Yuan Zang, and Jia Zhao
39 “The Youth Problem” Is Not a Youth Problem ......................... 647
Chan Nin and Chan Kwok-bun
40 Conclusion: Meditations of Two Perpetual Outsiders
on “Chineseness” and “The Family” .......................................... 669
Chan Nin and Chan Kwok-bun
Index ..................................................................................................... 675