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

Wu Chi Hang. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 41-49). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / List of Figures --- p.i / List of Tables --- p.ii / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction to the Study --- p.1 / Introduction --- p.1 / The Role of Family Problems --- p.3 / The Mediating Effect of Self-Perception --- p.5 / The Mediating Effect of Beliefs about the World --- p.7 / Combining Self-Perceptions and Social Beliefs as Mediators --- p.11 / Gender Difference in the Mediation Model Interactions --- p.11 / Chapter Chapter 2: --- Method --- p.13 / Sample and Procedures --- p.13 / Instruments --- p.13 / McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD) --- p.13 / Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) --- p.14 / Depression-Cognition: Cognition Checklist ´ؤ Depression (CCL-D) --- p.14 / Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale --- p.14 / The Social Axioms Survey --- p.14 / Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire (SIQ) --- p.15 / Analysis --- p.16 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- Results --- p.17 / Correlation among Variables --- p.17 / Exploratory Factor Analysis of FAD and Self-Perceptions --- p.18 / Mediation Analysis for Suicidal Ideation --- p.20 / Model Containing both Mediators --- p.24 / Testing Gender Differences in the Model --- p.28 / Chapter Chapter 4: --- Discussion --- p.31 / Family and Suicidal Ideation --- p.31 / Family as a System --- p.32 / The Role of Social Beliefs --- p.34 / A Gender-General Model for Suicidal Ideation --- p.37 / Implications and Further Research --- p.38 / References --- p.40 / Appendix --- p.49

As the first exploratory qualitative study on child sexual abuse in the People's Republic of China, this study adopted system-individual-culture-gender-resilience perspectives under social constructionism approach using the family as the unit of study, and extended the research parameters beyond the individual child to other systems. The data was collected through ethnography, family and couple interviews, individual interviews with parents and the abused children, participant and part-participant observation by this researcher in a village in north-eastern China. Six families were selected for the study, each with a 10-year-old daughter who had been sexually abused by the same male teacher for two years, with the said teacher engaging in molestation, masturbation, oral sex, intercourse, etc. on the girls, two of whom were also known to have been physically abused. The researcher conducted the field study between eight and thirteen months after the disclosure (over a six-month period), and sought to understand the family experiences from seven aspects: the disclosure process, the family coping, traumatic experiences (including the abused and their family), the family relational process, the reactions from extra-familial systems, the healing process for the abused, and the need for professional support. / Results indicated that while the entire family was traumatically impacted, there were significant differences in reactions from male and female parents. In responding to "one of their own" being sexually exploited by an outsider, parents made concerted efforts in facing external ramifications, often at the expense of marginalizing the abused daughter and adding an extra burden on the whole family in healing from the trauma. Furthermore, parents were observed to become more protective in the process, providing physical care and material needs, and refraining from mentioning the trauma before the abused. As for emotional support, families varied in their coping at different stages in time. At the initial stage, parents seemed to be overshadowed by shame towards their daughter's loss of chastity. As time went by, they resumed their parenting routine, until eventually the adult-, sibling- and extended family relations constituted a circular impact that would in turn impact on the parent-child relations. The external systems, the family relational reality before disclosure, as well as family financial conditions combined could either facilitate or hinder the family system in seeking change. / The study further analyzed the systems and cultural mechanisms vis-a-vis the traumatic experience and family support, seeking to de-construct the chastity myth in the Chinese rural culture, as well as expert discourses in mainstream western research that focused on a psycho-pathological approach to study trauma. It further challenged the cultural practice of attributing blame to the individuals and their family, and provided recommendations to address the above-mentioned issues. / Western studies on the sexual abuse of children and the resulting trauma on the abused and their families have adopted primarily a psycho-pathological perspective. This has led to the tendency of blaming the victim, the mother and the family. Until now, comparative studies on this subject have not been carried out in a Chinese context. / 龍迪. / 論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2005. / 參考文獻(p. 464-487). / Adviser: Joyce Ma. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-07, Section: A, page: 2753. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts also in English. / School code: 1307. / Lun wen (Zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2005. / Can kao wen xian (p. 464-487). / Long Di.

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Chinese

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, many powerful lineages appeared in the Jiangnan area. In this thesis, I take the Hua lineage of Wuxi county as an example, to study the emergence and transformation of these institutions, as well as the change of local society in the period. / In the Hua lineage, the word "lineage" includes two kinds of meanings: one is continued by blood, the other is constructed by special means. The former is implied in the the Hua Zhengu story in early Ming dynasty, which described when the family arrived at the bank of Lake E, reclaimed land, and, in time, became a lineage having many descendants. The latter was performed in ceremonies by many people surnamed Hua who lived in Wuxi county, including Hua Zhengu's descendants, who, through the ceremonies, designated themselves members of a large lineage. The ceremonies were supported by the building of ancestral halls, by compiling genealogies, and recalling stories of their connections to the ancestors. In the middle of the Ming dynasty, people of the Hua surname at Dangkou, where Hua Zhengu had settled, came to be known as a great lineage in Wuxi County. / My focus is not on building a "lineage society" . In the Jiangnan area, lineages were actively built only by a small number of people, while most of their members kept only a loose connection with their lineage. So the lineage exerted little authority on its members. In fact, the importance of the lineage lies in its economic function. Under the process of economic development, by building a charitable estate, lineage became a corporation, which in turn further accelerated the economic development of local society. Through the study of the impact the lineage and the town it settled had on each other, this thesis describes the specificity of the Jiangnan lineage in the Ming and Qing dynasties. / 余艶. / Adviser: David Faure. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-04, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-148). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Yu Yan.

Lee Tsz Lok. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-123). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.i / ACKNOWLEDGMENT --- p.iii / CONTENTS --- p.v / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- Introduction: Domestic Work from Premodern to Modern --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Research Objective / Chapter 1.2 --- Research B ackground / Chapter 1.2.1 --- History of Chinese Domestic Servants / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Demand for Foreign Domestic Workers / Chapter 1.2.3 --- Legislation Governing Employment of Foreign Domestic Workers / Chapter 1.2 --- Research Questions / Chapter 1.3 --- Research Significances / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- Literature Review: Private-Public Interpenetration， Power Relations and Social Negotiations in Domestic Employment --- p.13 / Chapter 2.1 --- Hegemonies and Homes / Chapter 2.2 --- Private-Public Distinction / Chapter 2.3 --- Power Dynamics / Chapter 2.4 --- Between the Personalized and the Bureaucratized / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- Conceptual Framework: The Personalized/ Bureaucratized Typology and Interactive Dynamics in Domestic Employment --- p.25 / Chapter 3.1 --- Assumptions of the Present Study / Chapter 3.2 --- Typology of Worker-Employer Relations / Chapter 3.3 --- The Personalized Type of Relations / Chapter 3.4 --- The Bureaucratized Type of Relations / Chapter 3.5 --- Micropolitics in Domestic Work / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- Research Methods and Data --- p.39 / Chapter 4.1 --- Methods and Data Collection / Chapter 4.2 --- Characteristics of Informants / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Characteristics of Employers / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Characteristics of Workers / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- The Personalized Type of Relations --- p.45 / Chapter 5.1 --- Affective-Based Particularism / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Working Philosophy / Chapter 5.1.2 --- Workers' Presence in Public Spaces / Chapter 5.1.3 --- Confrontations / Chapter 5.2 --- Diffuse Work Obligations / Chapter 5.3 --- Personal Attachment / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Materialistic Relationship / Chapter 5.3.2 --- Strategic Personalism / Chapter 5.4 --- Concluding Remarks / Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- The Bureaucratized Type of Relations --- p.75 / Chapter 6.1 --- Rule-Based Universalism / Chapter 6.1.1 --- Working Philosophy / Chapter 6.1.2 --- Workers' Presence in Public Spaces / Chapter 6.1.3 --- Confrontations / Chapter 6.2 --- Standardized Work Obligations / Chapter 6.3 --- Impersonal Relations / Chapter 6.4 --- Concluding Remarks / Chapter CHAPTER 7 --- "Discussion and Conclusion: Global-Local, Private-Public Matrix of Employment Relations" --- p.97 / Chapter 7.1 --- Discussion / Chapter 7.2 --- Areas for Further Inquiry / Chapter 7.3 --- Conclusion / APPENDICES / APPENDIX A Case Descriptions --- p.106 / Profiles of Employers / Profiles of Workers / APPENDIX B Consent Form --- p.110 / Consent Form (English Version) / Consent Form (Chinese Version) / APPENDIX C Interview Schedule --- p.112 / Interview Schedule for Employers / (Translated Version) / Interview Schedule for Employers / (Original Chinese Version) / Interview Schedule for Workers / REFERENCES --- p.120

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Sciences