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Doing Families in Hong Kong

By: Kwok B. Chan

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The annual is a venue of publication for sociological studies of Chinese societies and the Chinese all over the world. The main focus is on social transformations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the mainland, Singapore and Chinese overseas.

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9004175679

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9789004175679

The Chinese Face in Australia

Multi-generational Ethnicity among Australian-born Chinese

By: Lucille Lok-Sun Ngan,Chan Kwok-bun

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The Chinese Face in Australia

Multi-generational Ethnicity among Australian-born Chinese

By: Lucille Lok-Sun Ngan,Chan Kwok-bun

The book explains how multi-generational Australian-born Chinese (ABC) negotiate the balance of two cultures. It explores both the philosophical and theoretical levels, focusing on deconstructing and re-evaluating the concept of ‘Chineseness.’ At a social and experiential level, it concentrates on how successive generations of early migrants experience, negotiate and express their Chinese identity. The diasporic literature has taken up the idea of hybrid identity construction largely in relation to first- and second-generation migrants and to the sojourner’s sense of roots in a diasporic setting somewhat lost in the debate over Chinese diasporas and identities are the experiences of long-term migrant communities. Their experiences are usually discussed in terms of the melting-pot concepts of assimilation and integration that assume ethnic identification decreases and eventually disappears over successive generations. Based on ethnography, fieldwork and participant observation on multi-generational Australian-born Chinese whose families have resided in Australia from three to six generations, this study reveals a contrasting picture of ethnic identification.

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241

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461421314

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9781461421313

Smoke and Fire, The Chinese of Montreal

By: Kwok-bun Chan

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Smoke and Fire, The Chinese of Montreal

By: Kwok-bun Chan

Now distributed by Brill for The Chinese University Press This book is, in fact, a study of human survival. It describes the Chinese immigrants in Montreal, Canada, as they encounter racial discrimination. It begins with the arrival of the first batch of Cantonese, in the 1850s, in Victoria, British Columbia, and ends, in the late 1970s and 1980s, in Montreal. Like Vancouver and Toronto, Montreal saw the influx of two contrasting groups of Chinese: refugees of Chinese descent from Indo-China, and economic migrants from Hong-Kong. The book uses oral history and in-depth interview material, in documenting the costs of racism on the one hand, and the strategies for adaptation on the other. The author argues that the kind of racism the Chinese in Montreal have been subjected to is a systematic one. This book is now distributed by Brill for The Chinese University Press.

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9004646418

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9789004646414

Return Migrants in Hong Kong, Singapore and Israel

Choices, Stresses and Coping

By: Kwok-bun Chan,Wai-wan Vivien Chan

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Return Migrants in Hong Kong, Singapore and Israel

Choices, Stresses and Coping

By: Kwok-bun Chan,Wai-wan Vivien Chan

This insightful volume explores the experiences of ethnic migrants returning to Hong Kong, Singapore, and Israel. Return migrants who were exposed to the western culture and society undergo personal transformations that significantly impact their views on values such as gender, individualism, democracy, tradition, and individual autonomy. To evaluate how well these individuals are able to reintegrate back into their native countries, the authors conducted a thorough comparative study between returnees in the three research sites through in-depth interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, and analyses of government policies. Among the topics discussed: Family as a strategic middle ground between the individual and society The social psychology of coping and adaptation Public, outer historical, and macro forces that shape returnees’ experiences Comparisons and contrasts between two primarily Chinese societies, along with one racially and culturally different Western society Cost-and-benefit analyses of decision-making in migration Return Migrants in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Israel is a compelling new perspective on the migrant experience drawn from in-depth research on returnees across three countries and a variety of circumstances.

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210

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Springer Nature

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3030409635

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9783030409630

Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism

By: Kwok B. Chan

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Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism

By: Kwok B. Chan

This is a study of ethnicity, hybridity and cosmopolitanism among Chinese migrants. Using detailed examples, the author analyzes the issues with new perspectives, identifying flaws in classic sociology and rethinking assumptions about identity and selfhood.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0415369290

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9780415369299

Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business

By: Kwok B. Chan

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Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business

By: Kwok B. Chan

Incorporating research carried out over the last twenty years Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business documents the personal and collective responses of Chinese migrants and refugees to the prejudice and discrimination they have experienced. Using case studies of Chinese communities in Canada. Chan Kwok-bun argues that a defence mechanism has been created by Chinese immigrants in order to escape the systemic and institutional discrimination they face.

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New York : Routledge

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0415369274

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9780415369275

Smoke and Fire

The Chinese in Montreal

By: Kwok B. Chan

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Smoke and Fire

The Chinese in Montreal

By: Kwok B. Chan

In the 1930s a band of smart and able young men, some still in their twenties, helped Franklin D. Roosevelt transform an American nation in crisis. They were the junior officers of the New Deal. Thomas G. Corcoran, Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas, and James Rowe helped FDR build the modern Democratic Party into a progressive coalition whose command over power and ideas during the next three decades seemed politically invincible. This is the first book about this group of Rooseveltians and their linkage to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and the Vietnam War debacle. Michael Janeway grew up inside this world. His father, Eliot Janeway, business editor of Time and a star writer for Fortune and Life magazines, was part of this circle, strategizing and practicing politics as well as reporting on these men. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of events and previously unavailable private letters and other documents, Janeway crafts a riveting account of the exercise of power during the New Deal and its aftermath. He shows how these men were at the nexus of reform impulses at the electoral level with reform thinking in the social sciences and the law and explains how this potent fusion helped build the contemporary American state. Since that time efforts to reinvent government by "brains trust" have largely failed in the U.S. In the last quarter of the twentieth century American politics ceased to function as a blend of broad coalition building and reform agenda setting, rooted in a consensus of belief in the efficacy of modern government. Can a progressive coalition of ideas and power come together again? The Fall of the House of Roosevelt makes such a prospect both alluring and daunting.

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9622014615

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Book's by Kwok B. Chan

Doing Families in Hong Kong

Doing Families in Hong Kong

The Chinese Face in Australia

The Chinese Face in Australia

Smoke and Fire, The Chinese of Montreal

Smoke and Fire, The Chinese of Montreal

Return Migrants in Hong Kong, Singapore and Israel

Return Migrants in Hong Kong, Singapore and Israel

Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism

Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism

Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business

Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business

Smoke and Fire

Smoke and Fire

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