by Kwok Wai Yee, Alice. / Includes questionaire in Chinese. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-59). / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --- p.ii / abstract --- p.iii / LIST OF TABLES --- p.v / Chapter CHAPTER ONE: --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter CHAPTER TWO: --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.7 / Chapter I. --- Theoretical framework: McMaster Model of Family Functioning --- p.7 / Chapter II. --- Empirical findings of the FAD --- p.12 / Chapter III. --- Cross cultural studies of the FAD --- p.15 / Chapter IV. --- Family Structure and Functioning in traditional Chinese and in Hong Kong --- p.17 / Chapter V. --- The purpose of the present study --- p.21 / Chapter CHAPTER THREE: --- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY --- p.24 / Chapter I. --- Subjects and procedures: --- p.24 / Chapter II. --- Sample Characteristics: --- p.25 / Chapter III. --- Instruments --- p.26 / Chapter IV. --- Method of analysis --- p.28 / Chapter CHAPTER FOUR: --- RESULTS --- p.30 / Chapter I. --- Reliability of the FAD --- p.30 / Chapter II. --- Factor Analyses of the FAD --- p.30 / Chapter III. --- Correlations --- p.41 / Chapter IV --- Regression analyses --- p.43 / Chapter CHAPTER FIVE: --- DISCUSSION --- p.46 / REFERENCES --- p.54 / APPENDIX I --- p.61 / APPENDIX II --- p.65

本研究旨在探討準新人通過婚禮消費來實踐家庭和婚姻關係。通過研究準新人如何商議和安排婚禮樣式、相關的消費項目和財務安排，從而剖析新婚夫婦在婚禮籌備期間如何維持父母與子女的關係和建構未來的姻親和婚姻關係。本研究研究方法是民族誌，資料是從與三十三位新娘和二十一位新郎進行深入訪談並參與了他們的婚禮所獲得。 / 選購浪漫的、具風格的和舖張的婚禮的讓準新人展示品位，也表示準新人的結合是以自由戀愛為基礎的；但同時，婚禮也是結二姓之好的儀式，在中國傳統上公告新娘納入新郎的家族，這賦予準新人的父母參與婚禮形式和相關消費決策的過程。在此情況下，現代婚姻追求高獨立性與父母的期望為兩代關係帶來緊張和矛盾。另一方面，現代親子關係強調和諧融洽，對兩代透過商議婚禮消費來實踐帶來另一種挑戰，這些包括了兩層面：(1)親子和姻親關係；(2)維持婚姻的獨立性。 / 從探討準新人和其父母商議婚禮消費、財務安排和有關的分工，本研究得出以下發現：從家庭層面，基於道德倫理責任，準新人購買舖張婚宴以維持和建構兩代關係。同時，為突顯新婚夫婦的自主性，他們購買了不同的新興婚禮服務。而且，這些家庭關係和社會角色的定位也反映在兩代商討聛禮和嫁妝之上。 / 另外，從夫婦層面上，準新人透過選購具風格的婚禮物品和服務來體現二人結合為一個共同決策的消費單位，這個決策過程受雙方的性別態度和角色所影響；這些影響也反映夫婦的財務負擔和婚禮分工上。整體而言，儘管新婚夫婦在建構維持、婚姻、姻親和親子關係在婚禮籌備上有不同的矛盾，但在表面上皆能保持和諧的關係。 / This research studies how marrying couples do marital and family relationships through wedding consumption. By analyzing data obtained from an ethnographic study based on in-depth interviews and participant observations from a sample of 33 brides and 21 grooms, I analyze how marrying couples do marital and family relations, i.e. how they create, maintain and transform both familial and marital memberships and boundaries through the narration and reasoning of their wedding choice and relevant monetary practices. Even though public perception dictates that a wedding is owned by the couple to publicly display their independent coupledom in a romantic, stylistic and lavish ways, it is also an important family occasion that incorporates the bride into the groom’s family. These two contradictory conceptions of independent marriage and harmonious family relations put the couple and their parents into a dilemma in whether to define the wedding as jointly or solely owned by the couple. / I probed into the negotiation of lavish and stylistic weddings and the relevant money management and division of wedding labor to examine relationship making processes. The data shows that, on the family level: 1) the couple incorporates itself into the larger family network based on perceived moral obligations, the desire to maintain parent-child relationship and also to establish in-laws relationships, (e.g. through buying a lavish wedding banquet); 2) the couple also purchase various wedding consumption goods and services to differentiate the coupledom from the family network, (e.g. through wedding photography); 3) negotiation of new and existing family roles are also reflected through the couple’s negotiation of bride price and dowry with their parents. On the couple’s level, they work towards the creation of an independent coupledom a joint decision-making and consumption unit - through variously embracing and resisting stylistic consumption goods and services in the wedding market. Last but not least, the couple also negotiates the pattern of financial responsibility and division of labor based on gender ideology and “marriage ideal“. In general, couples mostly manage to create and maintain harmonious marital and family relationships despite undercurrents of tension. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Tso, Ho Yee Vienne. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 242-255). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Background of this Study --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- The Significance of Wedding Consumption --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- Doing Weddings --- p.4 / Chapter 1.4 --- Outline of the Thesis --- p.6 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- The Social Relational Approach to Understand Wedding Consumption --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2 --- Rational Choice Theory of Consumption --- p.9 / Chapter 2.3 --- The Structural Relational Embedded Consumer Market --- p.12 / Chapter 2.4 --- Wedding Consumption --- p.18 / Chapter 2.5 --- The “We“ and the “Bigger We“ --- p.29 / Chapter 2.6 --- Chapter Summary --- p.43 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Research Methods --- p.45 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.45 / Chapter 3.2 --- Participation Observations --- p.46 / Chapter 3.3 --- Profile of Informants --- p.58 / Chapter 3.4 --- Types of In-depth Interviews --- p.63 / Chapter 3.5 --- Leaving the Field --- p.70 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- The Negotiation of Wedding Arrangement --- p.74 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.74 / Chapter 4.2 --- The Characteristics of the Respondents’ Weddings --- p.75 / Chapter 4.3 --- Between the “We“ and “Bigger We“: Demarcation of Wedding Ceremonies --- p.77 / Chapter 4.4 --- Organization of the Wedding Banquet --- p.89 / Chapter 4.5 --- Chapter Summary --- p.112 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Bride Price and Dowry --- p.116 / Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.116 / Chapter 5.2 --- The Wedding Expenditures --- p.118 / Chapter 5.3 --- The Practice of Bride Price and Dowry. --- p.124 / Chapter 5.4 --- Practicing the Idea of Filial Daughters --- p.132 / Chapter 5.5 --- Negotiation of Bride Price: the Traditional Route --- p.141 / Chapter 5.6 --- Negotiation of Bride Price: the Transitional Route --- p.150 / Chapter 5.7 --- Chapter Summary --- p.162 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- The Making of the Coupledom --- p.167 / Chapter 6.1 --- Introduction --- p.167 / Chapter 6.2 --- Building up the “We“ in the Wedding Market --- p.168 / Chapter 6.3 --- The Public Display of the “We“ --- p.179 / Chapter 6.4 --- The Making of the Ideal Wedding. --- p.188 / Chapter 6.5 --- Chapter Summary --- p.225 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.229 / Chapter 7.1 --- Introduction --- p.229 / Chapter 7.2 --- Wedding Consumption --- p.229 / Chapter 7.3 --- The Formation of the Coupledom and Wider Family Network --- p.230 / Chapter 7.4 --- Implications for Future Research and Limitations --- p.236

Siu Man-Hong Andrew. / "May 2002." / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-336). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese.

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by Kwok Yung, Florence. / Includes questionaire in Chinese. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 55-60 (2nd gp.)). / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Predictors of Parent and/or Child Adjustment in Single-parent Families --- p.3 / The Parental Loss Hypothesis --- p.3 / The Interparental Conflict Hypothesis --- p.4 / The Economic Hardship Hypothesis --- p.5 / The Life Stress Hypothesis --- p.6 / The Length of Separation Hypothesis --- p.6 / The Social Support Hypothesis --- p.6 / The Family Functioning Hypothesis --- p.8 / Purpose of the Study --- p.11 / Chapter II. --- METHODS --- p.13 / Subjects --- p.13 / Measures --- p.14 / Procedure --- p.20 / Statistical Analyses --- p.21 / Chapter III. --- RESULTS --- p.22 / Demographic Data --- p.22 / Descriptive Statistics of Predictors and Dependent Variables --- p.25 / Correlation between Predictors and Dependent Variables --- p.31 / Multiple Regression Analyses --- p.37 / Chapter IV. --- DISCUSSION --- p.44 / Parent and Child Adjustment --- p.44 / Financial Stress --- p.45 / Interparental Conflict and Parental Loss --- p.46 / Length of Separation and Socioeconomic Status --- p.47 / Accumulation and Co-occurrence of Stress --- p.48 / Family Functioning and Social Support --- p.51 / Limitations of this Study --- p.52 / Conclusion --- p.53 / REFERENCES --- p.55 / APPENDIX --- p.61

Eliza Chong-lai, Chan / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [155]-[161]). / Acknowledgements --- p.i / Chapter Chapter One-- --- Introduction --- p.1 / Background of the Research and Research Problem --- p.1 / Reviewing Past Research --- p.6 / Methodology --- p.15 / The Field Site --- p.22 / Chapter Chapter Two-- --- Socio-cultural Milieu of the Movement --- p.27 / Changing Rural-Urban Relations --- p.27 / The Participants In The Female Inheritance Movement --- p.38 / The Movement --- p.47 / Black And White'： Understanding The Inheritance Movement In Terms Of Opposites --- p.50 / Chapter i. --- Modern v. Tradition --- p.53 / Chapter ii. --- Urban v. Rural --- p.54 / Chapter iii. --- Female v. Male --- p.56 / Chapter iv. --- Western v. Chinese --- p.57 / Chapter Chapter III-- --- Juefangnu： Female Inheritance And Affection --- p.59 / Codifying Chinese Customs： The Colonial Impact --- p.59 / The Meaning Of Juefang --- p.61 / Affection --- p.63 / Affection Denied --- p.67 / The Loyal Protector of Family Properties --- p.77 / Affection between Father and Daughter --- p.81 / Affection and Individuals --- p.90 / Conclusion --- p.96 / Chapter Chapter Four-- --- Negotiating Daughterhood in an Urban World --- p.98 / Indigenous Women As Victims Of Tradition： Interacting With The Reporters --- p.100 / Standardizing Victimization： Interacting With Social Workers --- p.113 / Alienated Victims ： The Legislative Council Experience --- p.122 / Seeking Legal Action --- p.133 / Chapter Chapter Five-- --- Conclusion： The Movement In Retrospect --- p.141 / A Moral Issue --- p.141 / Public Impact --- p.149 / References Cited

Wong Wai Ling. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 210-218). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgements --- p.i / Declaration --- p.iii / Abstract --- p.iv / 中文摘要 --- p.vii / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- The Immigration of Cross-Border Families --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Family Strategies and Gender Relations --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- Summary of Arguments --- p.6 / Chapter 1.4 --- Research Design and Methods --- p.10 / Chapter 1.5 --- The Development of Cross-Border Families --- p.14 / Chapter 1.6 --- Map of the Thesis --- p.16 / Chapter Chapter 2: --- "Immigration, Gender, and Family" --- p.18 / Chapter 2.1 --- Western Feminist Rethinking of the Family --- p.19 / Chapter 2.2 --- Immigration Scholarship of Family Theorizing --- p.21 / Chapter 2.3 --- An Integrative Approach --- p.25 / Chapter 2.4 --- The Concept of Strategy with a Gender Perspective --- p.27 / Chapter 2.5 --- Gender and Internal Family Processes --- p.29 / Chapter 2.6 --- The Making of the Structural Context --- p.31 / Chapter 2.7 --- Chinese Traditional Family Culture as Resource or Constraint? --- p.35 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- Immigration and Family Formation Across the Hong Kong 一 Guangdong Border --- p.37 / Chapter 3.1 --- History of Chinese Immigration and Cross-Border Family Formation --- p.37 / Chapter 3.2 --- Immigration Policy and Family Split Structures --- p.42 / Chapter 3.3 --- Immigration and Social Location of Immigrant Families --- p.45 / Chapter 3.4 --- Women's Economic Situation --- p.47 / Chapter 3.5 --- The Context of Reception --- p.51 / Chapter Chapter 4: --- Strategies and Family Patterns --- p.62 / Chapter 4.1 --- Tensions in Reconstituted Cross-Border Families --- p.63 / Chapter 4.2 --- Family Strategies and Conjugal Arrangements --- p.64 / Chapter 4.3 --- Legal Reunited Conjugal Arrangement --- p.67 / Chapter 4.4 --- Split Conjugal Arrangement --- p.71 / Chapter 4.5 --- Bi-national Conjugal Arrangement --- p.77 / Chapter 4.6 --- Continued Tensions and Alternate Conjugal Arrangements --- p.78 / Chapter Chapter 5: --- "Decision, Rationality and Conjugal Relations" --- p.88 / Chapter 5.1 --- The Pattern of Decision Making --- p.89 / Chapter 5.2 --- Decision Making and Conjugal Arrangements --- p.90 / Chapter 5.3 --- Decision Making and Gendered Motivations --- p.92 / Chapter 5.4 --- Rationality and Gender Relations --- p.103 / Chapter 5.5 --- Conjugal Conflicts and Negotiation --- p.107 / Chapter Chapter 6: --- "Homemaking, Fatherhood and The Reconstruction of Male Gender Role" --- p.118 / Chapter 6.1 --- Men's Participation in Domestic Work --- p.120 / Chapter 6.2 --- The Social Construction of Fatherhood --- p.129 / Chapter 6.3 --- Men's Strategy and Gender Change --- p.134 / Chapter Chapter 7: --- Family Economy and the Remaking of Women's Family Status --- p.146 / Chapter 7.1 --- Changes in Family Economy after Family Reconstitution --- p.146 / Chapter 7.2 --- Theories of Family Resource Management --- p.149 / Chapter 7.3 --- The Patterns of Resource Management --- p.151 / Chapter 7.4 --- Gender Relations and Resource Management --- p.156 / Chapter Chapter 8: --- Conclusion --- p.173 / Chapter 8.1 --- The Politics of Cross-Border Family Formation --- p.173 / Chapter 8.2 --- Gender Change and Conjugal Negotiation --- p.178 / Chapter 8.3 --- Immigration and Social Inequality --- p.185 / Chapter 8.4 --- Theoretical Implications --- p.187 / Chapter 8.5 --- Issues for Further Studies --- p.194 / Notes --- p.196 / Appendix 1: Profile of Informants and Their Families --- p.201 / Appendix 2: Topics and Questions Guiding the Semi-structured Interviews --- p.206 / Bibliography --- p.210 / List of Tables / "Figure 1.1: Chinese Immigrants by Relations to Local Residents, 1988-97" --- p.2 / "Figure 3.1: A Table Showing the Entry of Chinese Immigrants, 1950s-1990s" --- p.38 / "Figure 3.2: Chinese Immigrants Having Relatives in the Mainland, 1998-2000" --- p.41 / "Figure 3.3: Employed Persons by Occupation,1996" --- p.46 / "Figure 3.4: Employed Persons by Industry,1996" --- p.57 / Figure 4.1: Categorization of Reconstituted Cross-Border Families by Conjugal Arrangements --- p.65 / Figure 5.1: The Pattern of Decision Making by Conjugal Arrangements --- p.89