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Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism

By: Kwok-bun Chan

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Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism

By: Kwok-bun Chan

Drawing upon wide-ranging case study material, the book explores the ever-changing personal and cultural identity of Chinese migrants and the diverse cosmopolitan communities they create. The various models of newly-forged communities are examined with the added dimension of personal identity and the individual's place in society. With particular emphasis on the changing face of Chinese ethnicity in a range of established places of convergence, Chan draws on extensive experience and knowledge in the field to bring the reader a fresh, fascinating and ultimately very human analysis of migration, culture, identity and the self.

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113420311X

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Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business

By: Kwok Bun Chan

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Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business

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Incorporating research carried out over the last twenty years, this book 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 explores the different defence mechanisms Chinese migrants have created in order to escape the systemic and institutionalized discrimination they face. In particular, the book analyzes Chinese entrepreneurship, arguing that it is a collective response to blocked opportunities in host societies. Drawing upon empirical and theoretical literature on the sociology of race and ethnic relations, the book stresses the variety in Chinese culture and its ability to exploit an emergent ethnicity as individuals, groups and communities.

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113420325X

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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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Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs

By: Chan Kwok-bun,Chan Wai-wan

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Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs

By: Chan Kwok-bun,Chan Wai-wan

Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs draws extensively on the narratives of sixteen small-to-medium business owners, born on the mainland, who have immigrated to Hong Kong and returned to their ancestral hometowns in China to establish their enterprises. For these executives, business and social life alike are marked by constant interplay of identities, such as individual identity/group membership and ancestral/immigrant identity. Yet as often as this juggling of multiple “selves” can be beneficial in the economic sphere, it can also lead to feelings of rootlessness and alienation. Writing with rare sensitivity, the two authors synthesize insights from economic sociology, psychology, ethnic relations, emotions, and social networks, creating an exploration of social capital and social identity comparable to similar groups of businessmen and –women in other parts of the world.

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Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism

By: Kwok-bun Chan

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International Handbook of Chinese Families

By: Chan Kwok-bun

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International Handbook of Chinese Families

By: Chan Kwok-bun

Families are the cornerstone of Chinese society, whether in mainland China, in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, Malaysia, or in the Chinese diaspora the world over. Handbook of the Chinese Family provides an overview of economics, politics, race, ethnicity, and culture within and external to the Chinese family as a social institution. While simultaneously evaluating its own methodological tools, this book will set current knowledge in the context of what has been previously studied as well as future research directions. It will examine inter-family relationships and politics as well as childrearing, education, and family economics to provide a rounded and in-depth view.

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1461402670

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Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business

By: Kwok Bun Chan

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Smoke and Fire, The Chinese of Montreal

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Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs

By: Chan Kwok-bun,Chan Wai-wan

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Smoke and Fire

The Chinese in Montreal

By: Kwok B. Chan

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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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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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3030409635

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Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia

By: Caroline Plüss,Chan Kwok-bun

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Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia

By: Caroline Plüss,Chan Kwok-bun

This book presents ground-breaking theoretical, and empirical knowledge to produce a fine-grained and encompassing understanding of the costs and benefits that different groups of Asian migrants, moving between different countries in Asia and in the West, experience. The contributors—all specialist scholars in anthropology, geography, history, political science, social psychology, and sociology—present new approaches to intersectionality analysis, focusing on the migrants’ performance of their identities as the core indicator to unravel the mutual constituitivity of cultural, social, political, and economic characteristics rooted in different places, which characterizes transnational lifestyles. The book answers one key question: What happens to people, communities, and societies under globalization, which is, among others, characterized by increasing cultural disidentification?

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9400729669

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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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1461421314

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Book's by Kwok Bun Chan

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, The Chinese of Montreal

Smoke and Fire, The Chinese of Montreal

Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs

Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs

Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism

Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism

International Handbook of Chinese Families

International Handbook of Chinese Families

Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business

Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business

Smoke and Fire, The Chinese of Montreal

Smoke and Fire, The Chinese of Montreal

Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs

Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs

Smoke and Fire

Smoke and Fire

Return Migrants in Hong Kong, Singapore and Israel

Return Migrants in Hong Kong, Singapore and Israel

Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia

Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia

The Chinese Face in Australia

The Chinese Face in Australia

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