Contents 1 Introduction: Hegemony, Universality and the Dialectics of Being Chinese and the Family

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1 1 Introduction: Hegemony, Universality and the Dialectics of Being Chinese and the Family... 1 and Chan Nin Part I: Mobility and Family 2 A Family Affair: Migration, Dispersal and the Emergent Identity of the Chinese Cosmopolitan The Politics of Migrant Family Drama: Mainland Chinese Immigrants in Singapore and Seet Chia Sing 4 Reforming Family Among Remigrants: Hongkongers Come Home Nan M. Sussman 5 Social Networks and Family Relations in Return Migration Janet W. Salaff and Arent Greve 6 The Uncanny Feeling of Homely and Unhomely: Gender and Generation Politics in Return Migrant Families in Hong Kong Chan Wai-wan and 7 A Double-Edged Sword: Mobility and Entrepreneurship Chan Wai-wan 8 Family and Marriage: Constructing Chineseness Among Long-Established Australian-Born Chinese Lucille Ngan Lok-sun 9 Families in the Chinese Diaspora: Women s Experience in Transnational Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese Immigrant Families in Canada Guida C. Man v

2 vi 10 Female University Students Dreaming of Becoming Housewives Joyce Chan Wai-man 11 Stepping Out, Stepping In Eva Yu Mui-ling 12 The Prejudicial Portrayal of Immigrant Families from Mainland China in Hong Kong Media Peggy Kung Cheuk-lam Part II: The Family Life Cycle 13 To Be or Not to Be: Chinese-Singaporean Women Deliberating on Voluntary Childlessness Amanda Ee Hui Li, Caroline Plüss, and 14 Fertility Transition and the Transformation of Working Class Family Life in Urban China in the 1960s Wang Danning 15 Sex Preference for Children and Chinese Fertility in America Zongli Tang 16 Social Stratification and Childrearing Values in Contemporary China Xiao Hong 17 Support and Care for Aging Chinese: A Comparison of Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Taipei Daniel W.L. Lai Part III: Fathers, Mothers, Daughters, Sons 18 Intimacy and Its Denial: When Sons and Daughters Talk About Fatherhood, Marriage and Work Father, Son, Wife, Husband: Philanthropy as Exchange and Balance Children and Their Fathers in Singapore: A Generational Perspective Hing Ai Yun 21 Moving Fathers from the Sidelines : Contemporary Chinese Fathers in Canada and China Susan S. Chuang, Robert P. Moreno, and Yanjie Su 22 Listening to Fathers Wong Siu-sing

3 vii 23 The Roles and Contributions of Fathers in Families with School-Age Children in Hong Kong Vicky C. Tam and Rebecca S. Lam 24 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 Simon T.M. Chan 25 Family Through the Eyes of the Youth Tess Tsang Mei-wah 26 Art and Heart Ada Lee Man-ching 27 Privacy in the Family Tse Pik-chu 28 Age and Gender Differences in Chinese-Filipino Parent-Adolescent Conflict, Family Cohesion and Autonomy Rosa C. Shao Part IV: Negotiation, Family Instability and Emerging Family Forms 29 Setting Out Conditions, Striking Bargains: Marriage-Stories and Career Development Among University-Educated Women in Hong Kong May Partridge 30 Financial Risk Tolerance of Chinese American Families Rui Yao 31 Gender Equality in the Family in Shanghai Tobey Yung Wai-ming 32 Economic Transition and the Potential Risks of Marital Instability in Contemporary Urban China Yan Yu 33 Empowered or Impoverished: Divorce and Its Effects on Urban Women in Contemporary China April Gu 34 Men Inside, Women Outside? Maurice Choi Kwok-to 35 Hong Kong Lesbian Partners in the Making of Their Own Families Day Wong

4 viii Part V: Methodology and Policy 36 Immigrant Adaptation, Poverty and the Family: New Arrivals in Hong Kong from Mainland China Researching Migrant Chinese Families in Hong Kong: Changing Perspectives and Methodologies Sam Wong 38 The One-Child Policy and Its Impact on Chinese Families Barbara H. Settles, Xuewen Sheng, Yuan Zang, and Jia Zhao 39 The Youth Problem Is Not a Youth Problem Chan Nin and 40 Conclusion: Meditations of Two Perpetual Outsiders on Chineseness and The Family Chan Nin and Index

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