OFFICERS OF NACAS PRESIDENT: Yanjie Bian (HKUST) TREASURER: Eric Fong (Toronto)

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1 OFFICERS OF NACAS PRESIDENT: Yanjie Bian (HKUST) TREASURER: Eric Fong (Toronto) PAST PRESIDENTS: Nan Lin (Duke) Yung-Mei Tsai (Texas Tech) Elena Yu (San Diego State) Dudley Poston (Texas A&M) Alvin Y. So (HKUST) Xiangming Chen (U of Illinois Chicago) Che-Fu Lee (Catholic U of America) BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Yanjie Bian (HKUST) Chieh-Hsuan Chen (Tunghai) Eric Fong (Toronto) Zai Liang (SUNY Albany) Xiaoling Shu (UC Davis) Philip Q. Yang (Texas Woman s U) Min Zhou (UCLA) OVERSEAS AREA COORDINATORS: Chieh-Hsuan Chen (Taiwan) Yiu-Chung Ho (Singapore) Gina Lai (Hong Kong) Li Qiang (China) The NACSA Newsletter can be found at the Association s website: This newsletter is published twice a year in January and June. Please send your news items to Xiaoling Shu, Department of Sociology, University of California Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, xshu@ucdavis.edu.

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Forthcoming Events 2 Announcements 4 Notes on Folks 4 Messages from the Editor 8 1

3 FORTHCOMING EVENTS 2003 NACSA Mini-Conference We look forward to seeing you at our annual NACSA meeting in Atlanta on August 15, 2003, prior to the ASA meeting. Highlight of the program is a special session on Social Capital in the Chinese Context to discuss Nan Lin s Social Capital by panelists Min Zhou, Chieh-Hsuan Chen, and Yanjie Bian. The six regular sessions include (1) Life in Networked Society I (in Chinese); (2) Research by Graduate Students; (3) Life in Networked Society II (in Chinese); (4) Migrants and Ethnicity; (5) Markets and Social Groups; and (6) Schooling and Social Psychological Outcomes. As usual, interested members of NACSA will have a group dinner on the evening of the NACSA conference. Our members are to meet at the lobby of Hilton Atlanta at 6:15 p.m. on August 15, and then go to a nearby Chinese restaurant. More information will be available at the conference NACSA Mini-Conference August 15, Atlanta (Tentative Program) Time Room 1 Room 2 8:30-9:00 9:00-10:30 Registration and Breakfast Outside Rooms 1 and 2 Life in Networked Society I (in Chinese) Chair: Danching Ruan Research by Graduate Students Chair: Min Zhou WANG Chuhui, Nankai University, (Differentiated Configuration and the Characteristics of Interpersonal Relations in Traditional China FAN Weida, FAN Bing, Fudan University, - (Space and Time Dimensions of the Differentiated Configuration: A 10- Year Longitudinal Study of Pudong) FENG Xiaotian, Nanjing University, ( Live on the Roots? Social Adaptation of Three-Gorge Migrant Peasants) Jaeyoun Won, UC-Berkeley, Violence to One's Mind: The Making of Homo Economics in China Xinxiang Chen, Univ of Minnesota, Cultural Revolution, Collective Memory and the Intelligentsia of Modern China: An Exploration of Sociology of Knowledge Bryan Hok Wong Cheung, City Univ of Hong Kong, A Changing Meaning of Citizenship in Urban China? The Case of Popular Awareness of Reparations Activities on Civil and Political Rights Fangyu Kan, Univ of Minnesota, Are Weak Ties Still That Weak? -- A Contextual Study of the Effects of Weak Ties on Job Searches in Urban China 10:30- Coffee and Tea Break 11:00 10:30- Life in Networked Society II (in Chinese) Migrants and Ethnicity 2

4 12:30 12:30-14:00 14:00-15:30 15:30-16:00 Chair: Chieh-Hsuan Chen ZHOU Yi, Chinese University of Hong Kong, (The Family Authority Structure and Control in a Growing Collective Economy: The Case of Huaxi) YANG Xuefeng, Zhongshan University, (Institutional Change and Intrinsic Trust of Social Structure: The Transformation of a Rural Civil Financial Organization) KAO Mei-Ying, WU Chyi-In, Taipei Medical University, (The Impact of Friendship Networks on Adolescents Academic Performances) Lunch, Board Business Meeting Markets and Social Groups Chair: Xiaoling Shu Xiaogang Wu, University of Michigan, Embracing the Market: Entry into Self- Employment in Transitional China, Xiaoling Shu, UC-Davis, Marketization, Economic Segmentation, and Gender Segregation in Urban China Cong Cao, Richard P. Suttmeier, National University of Singapore, Stratification in the Chinese Scientific Community Coffee and Tea Break Chair: Eric Fong Eric Fong, Univ of Toronto, Job Transitions In and Out of Ethnic Economy in a Globalized Context Eric Fong, Iris Tse, Univ of Toronto, Ethnic Businesses in Suburbs and Central City Xuan Chen, Univ of Toronto, Highly Skilled Chinese Immigrants in Canada Schooling and Social-Psychological Outcomes Chair: Zai Liang Zai Liang, Xueji Liang, SUNY-Albany, Choice or Constraint: Migrant Children s Schooling in China Chyi-In Wu, Academia Sinica, The Interlocking Trajectories between Parenting Practices and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms in Taiwan Li Yao and Danching Ruan, Peking Univ & Hong Kong Baptist Univ, Social Stratification and Mental Health in Urban China: The Case of Beijing 3

5 16:00-17:30 18:30-20:30 In Room 1 Social Capital in the Chinese Context (a special session organized to discuss Social Capital by Nan Lin) Author: Nan Lin Other panelists: Min Zhou, Chieh-Hsuan Chen, Yanjie Bian (chair) Chinese Dinner, Restaurant to be Decided Gathering at the Hotel Lobby at 18:15 HKSA 5 th Annual Conference The Hong Kong Sociological Association (HKSA) will have its 5th Annual Meeting held on December 6, 2003 at the Lingnan University, Hong Kong. The theme for the 5th Meeting is "Processes and Divisions: Nature, Culture and Society." For more information of the association, the annual meeting, and the Hong Kong Journal of Sociology, please visit the HKSA website at ANNOUNCEMENTS 36 th IIS Congress Rescheduled The 36 th International Institute of Sociology Congress has been rescheduled to July 7-11, 2004, Beijing. The Institute of Sociology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences will host this conference. For more information, check out the IIS Beijing conference website: NOTES ON FOLKS Yanjie Bian 2003 "Sociological Research on Reform-Era China." Issues & Studies 38/39: Market Transition and Gender Gap in Earnings in Urban China. (Xiaoling Shu and Yanjie Bian) Social Forces 81(4): "Chinese Social Stratification and Social Mobility." Annual Review of Sociology 28: "Marketization and Income Distribution in Urban China: 1988 and 1995." (Yanjie Bian and Zhanxin Zhang) Research on Social Stratification and Mobility 19: "Intercity Variation in Gender Inequalities in China: Analysis of A 1995 National Survey." (Xiaoling Shu and Yanjie Bian) Research on Social Stratification and Mobility 19: "Social Capital of the Firm and Its Impact on Performance: A Social Network Perspective and Analysis." Pp in The Management of Enterprises in the People s 4

6 Republic of China, edited by Anne S. Tsui and Chung Ming Lau. New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers "Institutional Holes and Job Mobility Processes in the PRC: Guanxi Mechanisms in Emergent Labor Markets." Pp in Social Connections in China: Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi, edited by Thomas Gold, Doug Guthrie, and David Wank. New York: Cambridge University Press. Julia Kwong Julia Kwong of the University of Manitoba was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for her work in the China field. In 1989, her book, Cultural Revolution in China s Schools, received book of the year award from the American Educational Studies Association. She delivered the first comprehensive course in sociology of education in China in 1984; and in 1989 she was nominated an honorary member of China s Sociology of Education Research Society. Election as a fellow of the Royal Society is the highest accolade available to scientists and scholars in Canada. The Royal Society of Canada consists of about 1600 members across the country. The Society is devoted to the promotion of learning and research in the natural and social sciences and in the humanities. William L. Parish Parish, W. L., Laumann, E. O., Cohen, M. S., Pan, S., Zheng, H., Hoffman, I., Wang, T., & Ng, K. H. (2003). Population-Based Study of Chlamydial Infection in China: A Hidden Epidemic. The Journal of the American Medical Association, 289(10), Xiaoling Shu Shu, Xiaoling and Yanjie Bian Market Transition and Gender Gap in Earnings in Urban China. Social Forces 81(4): Shu, Xiaoling and Yanjie Bian Intercity Variation in Gender Inequalities in China Analysis of A 1995 National Survey. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 19 (special issue on the Future of Market Transition): Josephine Smart Josephine Smart (Anthropology, University of Calgary) is promoted to full professorship effective July 1st, In press Alan Smart and Josephine Smart (eds.), Petty Capitalists: Flexibility, Place and the Global Economy. SUNY press with Graeme Lang (City U - Hong Kong), "Industrialization, migration and the 'secondwife' in South China." International Migration Review, 36(2): Alvin So Alvin Y. So "Rethinking China's Developmental Miracle." Pp In China s Developmental Miracle: Origins, Transformations, and Challenges, edited by Alvin Y. So. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe. Also appeared in The Chinese Economy 35 (#3):

7 Alvin Y. So "Hong Kong s Problematic Democratic Transition: Power Dependence or Business Hegemony?" Pp in Hong Kong Government and Politics, edited by Ming Sing. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press. Alvin Y. So "The Making of a Cadre-Capitalist Class in China." Pp in China s Challenges in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Joseph Cheng. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press. Alvin Y. So "Cross Border Families: The Role of Social Class and Politics." Critical Asian Studies, December, vol. 35 #4. Forthcoming. Alvin Y. So "The Changing Pattern of Class and Class Conflict in China." Journal of Contemporary Asia 33 (#3), forthcoming. Alvin Y. So "The Globalization Challenge to Social Science and Area (Asian) Studies." Hong Kong Journal of Sociology, vol. 4. forthcoming. Alvin Y. So "Hong Kong s Pathways to Global City: A Regional Analysis." In World Cities Beyond the West: Globalization, Development and Inequality, edited by Josef Gugler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. forthcoming. Mark Selden and Alvin Y. So "Introduction: War and State Terrorism." In War and State Terrorism: The U.S., Japan, and Asia-Pacific in the Long Twentieth Century, edited by Mark Selden and Alvin Y. So. Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield. Forthcoming Alvin Y. So "Anti-Globalism Globalization in East Asia: Statist versus Societal." In Ideological Dimensions of Globalization, edited by Manfred Steger. Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming. Alvin Y. So "One Country, Three Systems? State, Nation, and Civil Society in the Making of Citizenship in the Chinese Triangle of Mainland-Taiwan-Hong Kong." In Making Citizenship in Hong Kong, edited by Agnes Ku and Pun Ngai. Routledge, forthcoming. Alvin Y. So "Social Protests, Legitimacy Crisis, and the Impetus Toward Soft Authoritarianism in the Hong Kong SAR." Pp In The Tung Group: The First Five Year of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, edited by Siu-Kai Lau. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press. Alvin Y. So and Ming K. Chan "Crisis and Transformation in the SAR: Toward Soft Authoritarian Developmentalism?" Pp In Crisis and Transformation in China s Hong Kong, edited by Ming K. Chan and Alvin Y. So. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe (hardcover). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press (paperback). Alvin Y. So "Studies of the Pearl River Delta: New Findings and Research Agenda." Pp in Resource Management, Urbanization, and Governance in Hong Kong and the Zhujiang Delta, edited by Kwan-Yiu Wong and Jianfa Shen. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press. Alvin Y. So "Hong Kong Reverts to Chinese Sovereignty." Pp in Great Events of the Twentieth Century, edited by R. Kent Ramussen. Pasadena: Salem Press. 6

8 Alex Thio Deviant Behavior, 7th edition. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Lai Si Tsui-Auch The State Matters: Management Models of Singaporean Chinese and Korean Business Groups', coauthored with Yong-Joo Lee, Organization Studies, May 2003, 24: 4, 'Learning Strategies of Small and Medium-Sized Chinese Family firms: A Comparative Study of Two Suppliers in Singapore', Management Learning, June 'The Professionally Managed Family-ruled Business: Ethnic Chinese Business in Singapore', Journal of Management Studies (forthcoming). 'Business and Management of Immigrant Enterprises: A Study of Singaporean Indian Firms', Journal of Asian Business (forthcoming). Min Zhou Min Zhou has kept herself busy in the past year or so. While chairing UCLA s Asian American Studies Interdepartmental Degree Program that is being departmentalized, Min managed to publish a number of journal articles and book chapters (see below). She also traveled to China in December 2002 with a group of North American Chinese scholars specializing in overseas Chinese studies upon the invitation of the China Overseas Exchange Association. Joining this group were four sociologists (Yang Fenggang, Yang Fei, Zong Li, and Zhou Min). Min is currently finishing up a co-edited book, Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity (Routledge). She has just been elected to the Council of the American Sociological Association and she is extremely grateful for the support from members of the NACSA. Zhou, Min and Guoxuan Cai The Chinese Language Media in the United States: Immigration and Assimilation in American Life. Qualitative Sociology 25 (3): Zhou, Min and Guoxuan Cai The Growth of Chinese Language Media in the United States and Its Influence on the Chinese immigrant Community. Sociological Research 101 (5): (in Chinese). Zhou, Min, Carl L. Bankston III, and Rebecca Kim Rebuilding Spiritual Lives in the New Land: Religious Practices among Southeast Asian Refugees in the United States. Pp in Pyong Gap Min and Jung Ha Kim (eds.). Religions in Asian America: Building Faith Communities. Walnut Creek, Ca.: AltaMira Press. Bankston, Carl L. and Min Zhou Being Well vs. Doing Well: Self-Esteem and School Performance among Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Racial and Ethnic Groups. International Migration Review 36 (2): Zhou, Min The Changing Face of America: Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, and Social Mobility. Pp in Pyong Gap Min (ed.), Mass Migration to the United States: Classical and Contemporary Periods. Walnut Creek, Ca.: AltaMira Press. 7

9 Light, Ivan, Min Zhou, and Rebecca Kim Transnationalism and American Exports in an English-Speaking World. International Migration Review 36 (3): Zhou, Min Urban Education: Challenges in Educating Culturally Diverse Children. Teachers CollegeRecord 105 (2): Zhou, Min How Neighborhoods Matter for Immigrant Adolescents. CPRC Brief (California Policy Research Center), Vol. 14, No. 8 (December): 1-4. Zhou, Min Making It in Urban America: Challenges and Prospects for the Children of Contemporary Immigrants. Pp in Laurence Roulleau-Berger, ed., Youth and Work in the Post-Industrial City of North America and Europe. Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. Zhou, Min Chinese: Once Excluded, Now Ascendant. Pp in Eric Lai and Dennis Arguelles (eds.), The New Faces of Asian Pacific America: Numbers, Diversity and Change in the 21st Century. Jointly published by AsianWeek, UCLA s Asian American Studies Center, and the Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development. Zhou, Min and Rebecca Kim A Tale of Two Metropolises: Immigrant Chinese Communities in New York and Los Angeles. Pp in David Halle, ed., Los Angeles and New York in the New Millennium. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Zhou, Min Contemporary Female Immigration to the United States: A Demographic Profile. Pp in Philippa Strum and Danielle Tarantolo, eds., Women Migrants in the United States. Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Migration Policy Institute. MESSAGES FROM THE EDITOR Update Contact Information If there have been changes in your contact information, please send your current address, phone, fax, address to Xiangming Chen, xmchen@uic.edu; Department of Sociology M/C 312, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1007 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL ; Voice ; Fax Please also send a copy of this message to Xiaoling Shu (xshu@ucdavis.edu) so that she can update the newsletter distribution list. Call for News Please send news items, announcements, and information on your accomplishments to Xiaoling Shu at xshu@ucdavis.edu. The deadline for the winter 2004 newsletter is January 1,