Social transformations in Chinese societies : the official annual of the Hong Kong Sociological Association. / Volume 1 / / editors, Bian Yan-jie, Chan Kwok-bun and Cheung Tak-sing.

• Superior document: Social transformations in Chinese societies ; V. 1
• TeilnehmendeR: Yan-jie, Bian.; Chan, Kwok B.; Tak-sing, Cheung.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Social transformations in Chinese societies ; V. 1.
• Physical Description: xi, 237 p. :; ill.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- From the Editors -- Authors' Biographies -- Public Trust in a Transitional Democracy: Modeling the Changes in Taiwan, 1990-2003 -- Material Rewards to Multiple Capitals Under Market-Socialism in China -- Body Disabled? Rethinking Disability and Social Integration in Hong Kong -- Observations on the Design and Implementation of Sample Surveys in China -- Family Customs and Farmland Reallocations in Contemporary Chinese Villages -- Chinese NGOs Strive to Survive -- The Chinese Diaspora and International Migration -- The Stranger's Plight, and Delight -- Book Reviews -- The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1969, by Cindy Chu Yik-yi. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 213 pp. ISBN 1-4039-6586-2 -- A Research Report of Social Stratification in Contemporary China, edited by Lu Xueyi. Beijing: Social Sciences Documentation Publishing House, 2001. 411 pp. ISBN 7-80149-632-9/D.099 -- God and Caesar in China: Policy Implications of Church-State Tensions, edited by Jason Kindopp and Carol Lee Hamrin. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2004. vii + 200 pp. ISBN 0-8157-4937-6 -- Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation, and the Global City, edited by Agnes Ku S. and Pun Ngai. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. xxvi + 261 pp. ISBN 0-415-33209-5 -- Notice to Contributors.