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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-Chines...

A comparative, theoretically informed study of the Chinese diaspora. The author examines, from a global perspective, the social, cultural and economic adjustment and assimilation of Chinese migrants, a diasporic group of particular international significance.

A comparative, theoretically informed study of the Chinese diaspora. The author examines, from a global perspective, the social, cultural and economic adjustment and assimilation of Chinese migrants, a diasporic group of particular international significance.

From nomadic traders in the ancient world to peddlers on the American frontier, the immigrant entrepreneur is a timeless figure. In our current age of globalization and multinational corporations, however, this experience is complicated by patterns of adaptation and transformation, relocation and re-invention.Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs draws extensively on the narratives of sixteensmall-to-medium business owners, born on the mainland, who ha...

The Chinese Face in Australia Multi-generational Ethnicity among Australian-born ChineseLucille Lok-Sun Ngan and Chan Kwok-bunThey have been settled for three, four, five and even six generations and have strong national and cultural identities grounded in Australia. Yet Chineseness remains central to the identity of the Australian-born Chinese— whether they willingly choose to identify with it or it is imposed upon them by others. The Chinese...

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-Chines...

The Chinese Face in Australia Multi-generational Ethnicity among Australian-born ChineseLucille Lok-Sun Ngan and Chan Kwok-bunThey have been settled for three, four, five and even six generations and have strong national and cultural identities grounded in Australia. Yet Chineseness remains central to the identity of the Australian-born Chinese— whether they willingly choose to identify with it or it is imposed upon them by others. The Chinese...

From nomadic traders in the ancient world to peddlers on the American frontier, the immigrant entrepreneur is a timeless figure. In our current age of globalization and multinational corporations, however, this experience is complicated by patterns of adaptation and transformation, relocation and re-invention.Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs draws extensively on the narratives of sixteensmall-to-medium business owners, born on the mainland, who ha...

Charismatic Leadership in Singapore:Three Extraordinary People Hava Dayan and Chan Kwok-bunWhat makes some lead while others follow? How do the great leaders keep their influence over the long term? These questions may be simple, but the answers have never been. Charisma holds important clues to the gaining and holding of power, yet it can easily be undervalued as mere personal charm. Charismatic Leadership in Singapore offers conceptual, empi...

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 analy...

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.

While the economic forces shaping globalization are powerful, they are not immutable, nor are their effects predictable or necessarily overwhelming. Globalization brings with it a fear, a sense of loss and demise. It also brings with it a new sense of opportunity and hope. This book covers this topic in this spirit.

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