International Handbook of Chinese Families

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction: Hegemony, Universality and the Dialectics of “Being Chinese” and the Family....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
A Family Affair: Migration, Dispersal and the Emergent Identity of the Chinese Cosmopolitan....Pages 23-35
The Politics of Migrant Family Drama: Mainland Chinese Immigrants in Singapore....Pages 37-51
Reforming Family Among Remigrants: Hongkongers Come Home....Pages 53-76
Social Networks and Family Relations in Return Migration....Pages 77-90
The Uncanny Homely and Unhomely Feeling: Gender and Generation Politics in Return Migrant Families in Hong Kong....Pages 91-113
A Double-Edged Sword: Mobility and Entrepreneurship....Pages 115-135
Family and Marriage: Constructing Chineseness Among Long-Established Australian-Born Chinese....Pages 137-155
Families in the Chinese Diaspora: Women’s Experience in Transnational Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese Immigrant Families in Canada....Pages 157-168
Female University Students Dreaming of Becoming Housewives....Pages 169-190
Stepping Out, Stepping In....Pages 191-209
The Prejudicial Portrayal of Immigrant Families from Mainland China in Hong Kong Media....Pages 211-227
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
To Be or Not to Be: Chinese-Singaporean Women Deliberating on Voluntary Childlessness....Pages 231-248
Fertility Transition and the Transformation of Working Class Family Life in Urban China in the 1960s....Pages 249-261
Sex Preference for Children and Chinese Fertility in America....Pages 263-275
Social Stratification and Childrearing Values in Contemporary China....Pages 277-287
Support and Care for Aging Chinese: A Comparison of Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Taipei....Pages 289-303
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
Intimacy and Its Denial: When Sons and Daughters Talk About Fatherhood, Marriage and Work....Pages 307-312
Father, Son, Wife, Husband: Philanthropy as Exchange and Balance....Pages 313-322
Children and Their Fathers in Singapore: A Generational Perspective....Pages 323-341
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
Moving Fathers from the “Sidelines”: Contemporary Chinese Fathers in Canada and China....Pages 343-357
Listening to Fathers....Pages 359-377
The Roles and Contributions of Fathers in Families with School-Age Children in Hong Kong....Pages 379-392
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....Pages 393-401
Family Through the Eyes of the Youth....Pages 403-424
Art and Heart....Pages 425-451
Privacy in the Family....Pages 453-465
Age and Gender Differences in Chinese-Filipino Parent-Adolescent Conflict, Family Cohesion and Autonomy....Pages 467-482
Front Matter....Pages 483-483
Setting Out Conditions, Striking Bargains: Marriage-Stories and Career Development Among University-Educated Women in Hong Kong....Pages 485-498
Financial Risk Tolerance of Chinese-American Families....Pages 499-510
Gender Equality in the Family in Shanghai....Pages 511-521
Economic Transition and the Potential Risks of Marital Instability in Contemporary Urban China....Pages 523-537
Empowered or Impoverished: Divorce and Its Effects on Urban Women in Contemporary China....Pages 539-554
Men Inside, Women Outside?....Pages 555-574
Hong Kong Lesbian Partners in the Making of Their Own Families....Pages 575-587
Front Matter....Pages 589-589
Immigrant Adaptation, Poverty and the Family: New Arrivals in Hong Kong from Mainland China....Pages 591-605
Researching Migrant Chinese Families in Hong Kong: Changing Perspectives and Methodologies....Pages 607-626
The One-Child Policy and Its Impact on Chinese Families....Pages 627-646
“The Youth Problem” Is Not a Youth Problem....Pages 647-667
Conclusion: Meditations of Two Perpetual Outsiders on “Chineseness” and “The Family”....Pages 669-674
Back Matter....Pages 675-689