Dissertations / Theses: 'Famines – China'

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Callaway, Alison. "Deaf children and their families in China." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246298.

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Sin, Kwok-wah Genious, and 冼國華. "Genteel families of the Southern Dynasties." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31685195.

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Li, Xuan. "Paternal affection display in contemporary Chinese families." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709259.

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Lam, Chan Wai-kuen Catherine, and 陳惠娟. "Child rearing in three-generation families." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1992. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31976992.

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Wong, Chung-kin, and 黃仲健. "A study of family functioning of single-father families and intact families in Tseung Kwan O." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43895414.

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Leung, Cheuk-man Maria, and 梁卓敏. "Needs of families with depression in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31972858.

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謝小寶 and Shiu-po Tse. "Informal social support network among Chinese families in Shenzhen." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31977947.

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Swislocki, Mark Steven. "Feast and famine in Republican Shanghai urban food culture, nutrition, and the state /." access full-text online access from Digital dissertation consortium, 2001. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?3038163.

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Lai, Ka-chun Ken, and 賴家俊. "Shangdong Clan Families and Chinese politics in the sixthcentury China =." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31642822.

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Zhong, Xiaohui, and 钟晓慧. "The purchase of intimacy : Chinese urban one-child families in housing consumption." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/206671.

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This study examines the changes of family life and relationships in urban China with reference to the filial piety and intimacy theories as well as the individualization thesis. It takes housing consumption as an entry point and focuses on the intergenerational relations in one-child families. It adopts qualitative research methods to explore consumption practices and the meanings attached to these actions and events for these families. I conducted in-depth interviews with 22 families (middle-aged parents and/or adult children) and ethnographic observation in Guangzhou during the period of 2010 and 2011. This study examines the meanings attached to housing consumption from the perspective of these urban families. It shows how parents use money to express their love/care and to define their children’s filial obligations. It also demonstrates how parents use their grey money to secure a better future for both generations. It also illustrates the process of consumption to show differentiated family strategies for achieving collective well-being. It also presents their power dynamics and varied ways that parents and children negotiate and handle conflicts for individual goals. It examines the specific socioeconomic context regarding numerous risks and abundant opportunities that are faced by these families. This study thereby enables us to see more clearly the interactions between the state, the market and family dynamics in modern China. It is argued that urban Chinese parents who play an active and leading role in housing consumption use their money to purchase intimacy with only children. Their desires are socially constructed by their life experiences since the Mao era and by their children’s struggles in a marketized economy. Thus this study challenges the victimized image of Chinese parents and refines the over-simplified exchange logic of parental investment in the market economy. Their desires and agency as middle-aged people with only children in a rapid socioeconomic transformation have to be addressed. It notes the rise of new filial individuals among only children in the individualization of Chinese society. They are not the uncivil individuals as portrayed by scholars and the media, but rather the dutiful ones who have a heightened filial sense and also engage in new filial practices. Their ideas of filial piety are less about life-debt (due to parents’ giving them life and raising them up), obedience (to parents) and moral obligations. It is more about money-debt (due to parental investment in housing and other financing projects), exchange of material assistance and emotional bonds. This study thus helps develop a new way of understanding filial piety among young Chinese and reconsider the impacts of individualization on family relations and on the younger generation. The study shows a visible trend of refamiliation with cooperation, conflicts and negotiations involved. By stressing the necessity of collective decision-making between this two-generation collective in housing consumption, these parents and children are building up a negotiable intimacy that reconfirms the vital importance of family intimacy over conjugal intimacy. It thus develops a new model of exploring housing consumption in urban China and helps redefine the Western concept of intimacy.
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Doctor of Philosophy

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Tsang, Kit-man Sandra, and 曾潔雯。. "Father-adolescent conflict in Chinese families in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31235359.

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Cafolla, Liana. "Finding homes and creating families: adoptionin Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31972640.

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Chau, Siu-ming Doris. "A study of the psycho-social aspects of Hong Kong residents with wives in Mainland China /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13991565.

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Liu, Qiang. "Private schools for low-income families in rural Gansu Province, China." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.437947.

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Lin, Emily Xi. "Caring for star-children : autism, families, and ethics in contemporary China." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122493.

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Thesis: Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2016
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-228).
Caring for Star-Children: Autism, Families, and Ethics in Contemporary China studies the emergence and development of family caregiving for autistic children after 1982, when autism was first diagnosed separately in two cities in China. Based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork at municipal specialist hospitals, community child-health clinics, autism rehabilitation centers, and homes of families with autistic children across six provinces, this study explores how social stratification and the turn towards self-governance not only made autism as an epistemic object, but has intersected with that category to create new forms of inequality. In the absence of thorough and consistent state initiatives, moral economies around the child's potential have sprung up.
Such moral economies lead actors such as medical professionals, philanthropic and educational organizations, and elite parent-activists to prioritize the young autistic child's potential, and to urge parents to become behavioral therapists for their own children. Parents are urged to let go of the normative societal expectation of recompense in the form of elderly care. I argue in this dissertation that the directives around these moral economies fail to take into account the local and gendered inequities that both produce, and constrain, parental diagnostic and therapeutic choices for their autistic children. Autism's spread as a diagnostic category has paralleled other spatial and economic disparities across the country.
The economic reforms which began in 1978 and the devolution of many public functions to the purview of local governments have led to dramatic regional disparities with respect to economic opportunity and, the availability and quality of healthcare, education and social services. Where professional and parental elites in cities such as Beijing refer to autistic children through the valorized term "children of the stars" (a phrase chosen so as to reduce stigma), and are able to provide children in these locations with prompt diagnoses and early therapy, to date many healthcare workers and families responsible for nurturing children in less developed regions of China have not even heard of such a diagnostic category. Many families from rural or otherwise resource-scarce locations in China are not able to obtain a timely diagnosis, much less access therapy for their children.
In managing care in landscapes of great disparity, families are turned into diagnostic and therapeutic internal migrants, as they travel across China in search of the appropriate doctors and therapy. I argue in this thesis that the post-socialist emphasis on choice, rather than care, in fact serves to legitimize neglect of the autistic adult and mother of the child. Autism advocacy rights which fail to take into account local forms of stratification thus serve to broaden the burden of care upon families.
by Emily Xi Lin.
Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS)
Ph.D.inHistory,Anthropology,andScience,TechnologyandSociety(HASTS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society

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Ngan, Man-hung Raymond, and 顔文雄. "The informal caring networks among Chinese families in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1990. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31231962.

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Qiu, Ronghong. "La structure du pouvoir dans les familles chinoises." Grenoble 2, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997GRE21008.

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Notre recherche a pour objet l'etude sur la structure du pouvoir de la famille chinoise. Cette recherche nous permettra non seulement d'avoir une vision globale de l'organisation domestique chinoise, mais aussi de reveler les interactions des membres de la famille ; la relation entre le pere, la mere et l'enfant unique. Dans cette recherche, nous prenons en compte a la fois la relation pere-mere-enfant dans une perspective triadique de la structure familiale. La recherche effectuee jusqu'a present s'appuyant seulement sur le modele dyadique soit la relation parents/enfant et pere/mere. Dans notre modele conceptuel triadique, l'enfant est considere comme un role independant, non complementaire dans la prise de decision familiale. Notre recherche est composee de trois parties : le cadre theorique, la methodologie de la recherche et les analyses et traitements des donnees. Dans la premiere partie, nous avons definit le cadre theorique, sa pertinence sera analysee en faisant le bilan de la litterature occidentale concernant la famille en comportement du consommateur et son adaptation au contexte chinois. Le premier et le deuxieme chapitre de cette partie sont consacres a la presentation des perspectives inter-culturelles de la famille. Dans le troisieme chapitre, nous nous interessons surtout a la structure du pouvoir de la famille chinoise. Le quatrieme chapitre est consacre a delimiter la problematique de notre recherche. La partie consacree a la methodologie est composee de deux chapitres. Le premier chapitre se concerne essentiellement la mise au point d'instruments de mesure. Dans le deuxieme chapitre, nous presenterons le deroulement de l'etude : la procedure d'echantillonnage, la mise en place de la procedure et la realisation de l'enquete. La partie portant sur le traitement des donnees est divisee en trois chapitre. Le premier est consacre a la verification de la fidelite et de la validite des echelles qui ont ete mises en evidence par les etudes precedentes. Ensuite, nous essayons de mettre en evidence les differents types de familles chinoises grace a l'analyse typologique. Dans le deuxieme chapitre, nous avons etablit les hypotheses de la recherche. Le dernier chapitre porte sur l'analyse des resultats de notre etude. La introduction et la conclusion ont ete aussi presentees
Our research examines the power structure of the chinese family. This study not only permits us to have a global vision of the chinese organisation domestic, but also to reveal the interactions between father, mother and only child in the chinese family. In this research, we use a triadic model to treat the father-mother-child relationship in the chinese family. Previous researches were based only on dyadic model being relation parents-child or husband-wife. This paper is composed of three parts : theoretical outline, methodology of the research and the analysis and treatments of data. In the first part of this paper, we define the theoretical outline, its pertinence has been analysed by summarising the occident literature concerning the family in the research of the consumer's comportment and its adaptation in the chinese context. The second part of this paper consist of two chapters. The first chapter concern essentially the process of measure instrument's choice. In second chapter, we present the march of research : sampling procedure realisation of investigation. The part which present the data treatment is divided into three chapters. The first present the verification of scale's fidelity and validity. Then, we clarify the differents types of chinese family by the aide of typology analyse. In the second chapter, we establish the hypothes of research. The last chapter concern the results analyse of the research. The introduction and the conclusion are also presented

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Cheng, Sea-ling, and 鄭詩靈. "Food and distinction in Hong Kong families." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31212955.

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Chang, Chun-ting Amy. "Special needs adoption by western families in Hong Kong." Thesis, View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36784813.

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Lo, Chiu-hung Bibiana, and 羅朝虹. "The effective use of enactment with Hong Kong families." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42575965.

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Lam, Tak-ho, and 林德豪. "The relationship between family adaptability and social support of single-parent families." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1991. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31248925.

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Ip, Lai-har Mandy, and 葉麗霞. "A study of marital satisfaction of husbands in dual-career families." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31249759.

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Yang, Xi, and 楊曦. "Chongqing's housing policy: meeting the housing needs of the low-income families?" Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42929702.

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Lai, Ka-chun Ken. "Shangdong Clan families and Chinese politics in the sixth century China Shandong da zu yu gong yuan liu shi ji Zhongguo zheng zhi /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31642822.

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Kaiser, Andrew Terry. "Encountering China : the evolution of Timothy Richard's missionary thought (1870-1891)." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11758.

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In pursuit of the conversion of others, cross-cultural missionaries often experience their own “conversions.” This thesis explores the ways in which one particular missionary, the Welshman Timothy Richard (1845–1919), was transformed by his encounter with China. Focusing specifically on the evolution of his understanding and practice of Christian mission during the first half of his career with the Baptist Missionary Society, the study is structured chronologically in order to capture the important ways in which Richard’s experiences shaped his adaptations in mission. Each of Richard’s adaptations is examined within its appropriate historical and cultural context through analysis of his published and unpublished writings—all while paying careful attention to Richard’s identity as a Welsh Baptist missionary. This approach reveals that rather than softening his commitment to conversion in response to his encounters with China, Richard was driven by his persistent evangelical convictions to adapt his missionary methods in pursuit of greater results. When his experiences in Shandong and Shanxi provinces convinced him that Christianity fulfilled China’s own religious past and that God’s Kingdom promised blessings for souls in this life as well as in the next, Richard widened his theological horizons to incorporate these ideas without abandoning his essential understanding of the Christian gospel. As Richard adjusted to the realities of mission in the Chinese context, his growing empathy for Chinese people and their culture increasingly shaped his adaptations, ultimately leading him to advocate methods and emphases on the moral evidences for Christianity that were unacceptable to some of his missionary colleagues and to leaders in other missions, notably James Hudson Taylor. As the first critical work of length to focus on the early half of Richard’s missionary career, this thesis fills a gap in current scholarship on Victorian Protestant missions in China, offering a challenge to the simplistic conservative/liberal dichotomies often used to categorize missionaries. The revised picture of Richard that emerges reveals his original understanding of “the worthy” in Matthew 10, his indebtedness to Chinese sectarian religion, his early application of indigenous principles, his integration of evangelism and famine relief work, his relative unimportance in the China Inland Mission “Shanxi spirit” controversies of the 1880s, and—most significantly—his instrumental rather than evangelistic interest in the scholar-officials of China. By highlighting the priority of the Chinese (religious) context for Richard’s transformation, this thesis also contributes to the growing volume of historiography on Christianity in modern China that emphasizes the multidirectional influences present in the encounters between Christianity and Chinese culture and religion. Finally, connections between Richard’s evolution and changes taking place within the larger missionary community are also explored, situating Richard within wider discussions of accommodationism in mission, the rise of social Christianity, and evangelistic precursors to fulfillment theology.

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Tsui, Pui-wang Ephraem, and 徐佩宏. "Subjective experiences of families of long-term prisoners in HongKong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B44204796.

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Zhong, Xiaofang, and 鍾曉芳. "An exploratory study on the change of family rituals among divorced parent families in Beijing." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B40887728.

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Li, Wai-ling, and 李慧玲. "An inquiry into female-headed families in Hong Kong: implications for income support policies." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31248433.

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Kok, Che-lueng [leung], Che-leung Kok, and 郭志良. "The impact of parent-child interaction on the children's adjustment : a comparative study of single parent families and intact families." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31977352.

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Lisenby, Brenda Ellen. "Understanding the educational experience and needs of South Asian families." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B44390610.

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Leung, Yuet-king Dilys, and 梁月琼. "Coping and adaptation strategies in families with the mentally ill member." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1992. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31249310.

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Ma, Sin-fun Connie, and 馬先芬. "The step-parent's role, step-parent-child relationship and child discipline in remarried families." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31249528.

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Lee, Kit-ying, and 李潔英. "The applicability of family assessment measure III in assessing the family functioning of Hong Kong families." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1992. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31249267.

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Mai, Dan T. "Sustaining family life in rural China : reinterpreting filial piety in migrant Chinese families." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8e679650-a857-4f3c-a5c1-770a1bff848e.

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This study explores the changing nature of filial piety in contemporary society in rural China. With the economic, social and political upheavals that followed the Revolution, can 'great peace under heaven' still be found for the rural Chinese family as in the traditional Confucian proverb,"make yourself useful, look after your family, look after your country, and all is peaceful under heaven"? This study explores this question, in terms not so much of financial prosperity, but of non-tangible cultural values of filial piety, changing familial and gender roles, and economic migration. In particular, it examines how macro level changes in economic, social and demographic policies have affected family life in rural China. The primary policies examined were collectivisation, the hukou registration system, marketization, and the One-Child policy. Ethnographic interviews reveal how migration has affected rural family structures beyond the usual quantifiable economic measures. Using the village of Meijia, Sichuan province, as a paradigmatic sample of family, where members have moved to work in the cities, leaving their children behind with the grandparents, the study demonstrates how migration and modernization are reshaping familial roles, changing filial expectations, reshuffling notions of care-taking, and transforming traditional views on the value of daughters and daughters-in-law. The study concludes that the choices families make around migration, child-rearing and elder-care cannot be fully explained by either an income diversification model or a survival model, but rather through notions of filial piety. Yet the concept of filial piety itself is changing, particularly in relation to gender and perceptions about the worth of daughters and the mother/ daughter-in-law relationship. Understanding these new family dynamics will be important for both policy planners and economic analysts.

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Chan, Ching-yee, and 陳靜怡. "Thinking styles and experiential learning among first-generation university students from low income families." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B48364976.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of experiential learning on thinking styles among first-generation university students from low income families. 93 students were administered Thinking Style Inventory-Revised II (TSI-R2, Sternberg, Wagner & Zhang, 2007) (TSI) and Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory-Adult Form (SEI-A). To examine the effect of experiential learning experience on thinking styles, participants responded to the TSI and SEI-A twice and reported the number of extra-curricular activities they joined over a 5-month period. It was found that experiential learning experience was positively correlated with more complex and creativity-generating thinking styles and higher levels of self-esteem for female students and in fact the aforementioned thinking styles were desirable and preferred for students. Findings of this study indicated that different kinds of extra-curricular activities were statistically significant for contributing to the development of certain thinking styles. Such as Volunteering contributed to the Judicial style, Exchange programme facilitated the development of the Hierarchical style and Internship discouraged the Conservative style development. Implications of these findings for teachers were discussed.
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Chan, Anita Kit-wa, and 陳潔華. "Making gender: schools, families and young girls in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30251643.

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Yiu, Yee-ting, and 姚綺婷. "A study of role satisfaction of grandmothers in dual career families." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43893533.

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Hou, Xueyuan 1983. "One-Child Families in Urban Dalian: A Case Study of the Consequences of Current Family Planning Practices in China." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9912.

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xi, 94 p. : ill. (some col.) A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
Implemented as one of the basic national polices of China since 1978, the one-child policy has brought both advantages and disadvantages to one-child families in urban China. This thesis explores the various consequences of current family planning practices in urban Dalian. It explains the ways in which the implementation of the policy has influenced urban one-child families' everyday life and how parents and single children handle the policy. Urban parents have accepted the state requirement for limited births and have adopted new child-rearing practices to raise their "only hope" in the changing socioeconomic context. Single children receive comprehensive parental attention and support and are widely considered as spoiled "little emperors/empresses". But at the same time they experience great pressure to perform with academic excellence in order to be capable to excel in the competition of the global market economy. Gender norms are in transition. Urban single daughters are empowered by the benefits brought by low fertility produced by the policy. As the first generation of single children grows up, their families are now confronted with the crucial issue of the "four-two-one" (four grandparents, two parents, one child) problem, which impacts the future of the one-child policy.
Committee in Charge: Dr. Ina Asim, Chair; Dr. Kathie Carpenter; Dr. Alisa Freedman

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Chau, Siu-ming Doris, and 周筱明. "A study of the psycho-social aspects of Hong Kong residents with wivesin Mainland China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31249681.

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Shum, Ching-man Olivia, and 岑靜雯. "A study of women in the families of government officials in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) =." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30397881.

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Zhou, Wengang, and 周文港. "Entrepreneurial families and government-business relations : a comparative study on mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/208419.

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This research aims to examine the interactions, transformation and implications of the government-business relations of entrepreneurial families in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. The similarities and differences of their operational patterns, strategies and impacts are also investigated. Establishing the political dimension as the foundation for this study enables this research to enrich the understanding of Chinese entrepreneurial families and address the gaps of conventional theories. Three influential entrepreneurial families in the cross strait tri-region—the Rong family in Wuxi, the Koo family in Taiwan and the Fok family in Hong Kong—are examined, with the application of clientelism and corporatism as the theoretical framework for analysis. Traditional Chinese values on business and businessmen are integrated into the theoretical discussion that serves as the basis of critical review of conventional theories and formulation of a new government-business relations theory relevant to the context of Chinese societies. All assumptions leading to such a theory are substantiated through conducting historical reviews and empirical analysis. This research primarily adopts a qualitative approach, using multiple case studies, historical and literature review, document analysis (including opened secret archives), in-depth interviews and field research. The research argues that such relations are rooted in the traditional Chinese cultural values and ideologies. With the support of party-state apparatus, or state apparatus, as well as operational mechanisms at both an individual and organizational level, the party-state-led or government-led government-business relations are established and sustained through various pathways. They also come as an embodiment of political alliance as the individual and organizational frameworks of corporatism interact and modify each other. It is asserted that an underlying mechanism is in constant operation to sustain the relational dynamics, but that such a mechanism cannot be explained in terms of legal considerations. The government-business relations of Chinese entrepreneurial families present cooperation but not opposition, and emphasize mutual dependence, trust and loyalty, which cannot be satisfactorily interpreted with clientelism. Public interests, or at least the coexistence of public and private interests, characterize the collaboration between the two parties in question. This research further reveals that entrepreneurial families undertake more political costs and risks than general family enterprises. This in turn provides proof of both the positive and the negative sides of political capital, which can potentially evoke extreme effects and constitute unstable factors for the development of entrepreneurial families. This understanding deviates from the past discourse which upholds the view that participation in government-business relations brings reasonable expectations about acquiring more interests on the part of entrepreneurial families. A comprehensive analysis of the involved interests and costs, opportunities and crises, as well as contributions and disadvantages confronting entrepreneurial families as a consequence of engaging in such government-business relations?as well as the manifestation of the distinctive operational models underlying such relations?are the important contributions made by this research.
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Doctor of Philosophy

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Ho, Hon-kuen, and 何漢權. "Zeng Guofan's (1811-1872) views on family education." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38603470.

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Hou, Xueyuan. "One-child families in urban Dalian : a case study of the consequences of current family planning practices in China /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9912.

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Ke, Michael Bing-Huang. "The marital relationship of Chinese urban Christian intellectuals exploratory analysis and program recommendations = Ni nong wo nong : Zhongguo cheng shi jidu tu zhi shi fen zi hun yin guan xi de tan tao yu dui ce /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2006. http://www.tren.com.

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Yeung, Bik-fung Sarah, and 楊碧鳳. "Alternative institutional designs for family service provision." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31966378.

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Lo, Wing-sze Esther, and 羅詠詩. "Happy family kitchen : evaluating a gratitude intervention to promote family communication." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/198852.

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In Hong Kong family communication is inadequate due to a work-focused and busy life style and a dearth of communication skills among family members. Positive family communication is essential to enhance understanding and facilitate expression of care and concern among family members. Happy Family Kitchen, a family-based intervention program was implemented to enhance family communication among Chinese families in a district in Hong Kong. The study was in an explanatory sequential design with two phases. The first phase was a longitudinal pre-post one-group study aimed at examining whether gratitude expression practice among family members would improve family communication and strengthen family health, happiness and harmony (3Hs) in a Chinese community. The second phase was a qualitative study in the form of focus group interviews to understand the participants’ experiences in gratitude expression practice in family communication. With the collaboration of local community partners, a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach was adopted to develop a culturally informed intervention. In the quantitative study, 330 eligible families were recruited to participate in a gratitude expression practice intervention. Data from self-administered questionnaires were collected at baseline, 6 weeks and 3 months after the first intervention session. Results showed more frequent expressions of thankfulness and appreciation and less frequent criticism among family members were independently associated with improvement in family communication scores by 1.39 points [95% CI: 0.34-2.43], 1.51 points [95% CI: 0.30-2.72] and 0.92 points [95% CI: 0.21-1.64] respectively. Family 3Hs were enhanced while family communication improved. In the second phase qualitative study, thirteen focus group interviews using a semistructured interview guide were conducted in mid 2011. The interviews focused on the impact of change, facilitators and barriers in family communication after gratitude expression practice performed by the participants. Thematic content analysis revealed gratitude expression practice during cooking and dining could engage family members to initiate communication. Family communication and family harmony were improved by expressing more gratitude. More connectedness, happiness, appreciation and respect were noted and family members’ behaviours to reduce risks of mothering burnout were reported. The identified challenges to gratitude expression practice included a lack of gratitude expression experience among family members and the influence of Chinese cultural beliefs on gratitude expression practice. The findings of present study suggest that through a CBPR approach gratitude expression practice seems to enhance family interconnectedness and improve family communication. Findings dissemination to the community was discussed. The benefits of community-academic partnership and encountered challenges were examined. Further suggestions on research through CBPR approach were proposed.
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Wong, Pui-man, and 黃貝雯. "An exploratory study of marital power and depression in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1992. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31977194.

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Wang, Clarissa Nicole, and 王允洵. "Key processes of family resilience in families with long-term liver cancer survivors in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42664548.

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Yu, Wai-man, and 余慧敏. "Families with autistic children in Hong Kong: an exploratory study." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1985. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3124757X.

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Lui, Ka Wing, and 雷嘉穎. "Adjustment of children in single parent families: the mediating effect of self-disclosure." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3124578X.

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