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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.
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.
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? "
This volume explores the nature of charisma as it accounts for the
success of leaders. Charisma is deconstructed and illustrated
through the "case studies" of three influential leaders in
Singapore. Cultural issues are discussed and leadership qualities
in general are explored.
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.
The book explains how multi-generational Australian-born Chinese
(ABC) negotiate the balance of two cultures. Itexplores both
thephilosophical and theoretical levels, focusingon 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."
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? "
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.
This volume explores the nature of charisma as it accounts for the
success of leaders. Charisma is deconstructed and illustrated
through the "case studies" of three influential leaders in
Singapore. Cultural issues are discussed and leadership qualities
in general are explored.
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