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. Offers a global and comparative perspective of the Chinese family. Provides an international and interdisciplinary authorship Includes fatherhood issuesin Chinese families Highlights family economic transitions. Explores consequences of the one-child policy. INDICE: Introduction.-I. Fathers and Children.-Division of labor between fathers and mothers.-Children and their fathers in Singapore: A generational perspective.-East and west: Father-son conflict.-Fathers and their school-age children.-II. Child-rearing, Only Child and Sex Preference.-Childrearing values in urban China.-Filipino parent-adolescent conflict.-One child policy and its consequences.-Son preference in working class families.-Sex preference among Chinese-Americans.-III. Negotiations and Family Instability.-Love and control.-Career negotiations of University-educated women.-Risk tolerance and coping strategies of family consumers.-Empowered or impoverished: Effects of divorce onwomen.-Economic transition and marital instability.-Support and care for the aging and the aged.-Economics, migration of culture and the family.-IV. Emerging Family Forms.-Single working women in Hong Kong: A case of ‘normal deviance’?.-Lesbian partners in the making of their families.-Where Is My Brokeback Mountain?-Families in the Chinese diaspora.-Chineseness, identity and social positioning.-Family in flux: Benchmarking family changes in Hong Kong society.-V.Theory, Methodology and Policy.-Doing families in Hong Kong: Strategy, morality and emotion.-Researching families: Changing perspectives and methodologies.-A family-friendly social policy.
- ISBN: 978-1-4614-0265-7
- Editorial: Springer New York
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 700
- Fecha Publicación: 29/08/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés