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. / published_or_final_version / Social Work and Social Administration / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Real Estate and Construction / Master / Master of Science in Real Estate and Construction

published_or_final_version / Housing Management / Master / Master of Housing Management

published_or_final_version / Housing Management / Master / Master of Housing Management

by Cheung Hoi Tat, So Chee Wing. / Bibliography: leaves [151-153] / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1986

Cheng Hau-ling. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-100). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.2 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- "HOME, SWEET HOME" --- p.17 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- DREAMY HOME IN ADS --- p.30 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- RE-DEFINING SEA VIEW --- p.39 / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- CONSUMING HOME --- p.47 / Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- CONSUMING SEA VIEW --- p.70 / Chapter CHAPTER 7 --- BUYING A DREAM --- p.79 / APPENDIX I --- p.88 / APPENDIX II --- p.89 / APPENDIX III --- p.91 / APPENDIX IV --- p.92 / APPENDIX V --- p.93 / APPENDIX VI --- p.94 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.95

published_or_final_version / Housing Management / Master / Master of Housing Management

by Chan Siu-tack and Suen Wai-sang. / Bibliography: leaves 132-134 / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1986

Tsang Hoi Ting Florona. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-104). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstracts --- p.i-ii / Acknowledgements --- p.iii-iv / Table of Contents --- p.v-vii / List of Tables --- p.viii-ix / List of Charts --- p.x-xi / List of Figures --- p.xii / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Background of Present Study --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Purpose of the Study --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3 --- Organization of the Thesis --- p.4 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- Review of Literatures on Benefits of Homeownership --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2 --- Review of Literatures on Tenure Choice --- p.8 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Hong Kong Housing Market --- p.12 / Chapter 3.1 --- Why Hong Kong? --- p.12 / Chapter 3.2 --- Characteristics of the Hong Kong Housing Market --- p.14 / Chapter 3.3 --- Review of the Hong Kong Public Housing Market --- p.19 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Development of the Hong Kong Public Housing Market --- p.20 / Chapter i --- The Period 1954-64 --- p.20 / Chapter ii --- The Period 1965-73 --- p.22 / Chapter iii --- The Period 1973-83 --- p.24 / Chapter iv --- The Period 1984-2004 --- p.25 / Chapter 3.4 --- Review of the Hong Kong Private Housing Market --- p.29 / Chapter 3.5 --- Price and Rent of Private Domestic Units --- p.30 / Chapter 3.6 --- Renting versus Owning --- p.33 / Chapter 3.7 --- Improvement in the Living Conditions of the Population --- p.35 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Data Description --- p.37 / Chapter 4.1 --- Population Census Data Sets --- p.37 / Chapter 4.2 --- Sample Selection --- p.39 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Methodology ´ؤ the Tenure Choice Model --- p.41 / Chapter 5.1 --- Tenure Choice Function --- p.43 / Chapter 5.2 --- Multinomial Logit Model --- p.46 / Chapter 5.3 --- Explanatory Variables --- p.48 / Chapter 5.4 --- Summary of Descriptive Statistics --- p.58 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Empirical Results --- p.65 / Chapter 6.1 --- People who Seek for Government Housing Assistance ´ؤ Subsidized Ownership and Subsidized Rental --- p.67 / Chapter 6.2 --- People who Favour the Private Housing Market --- p.72 / Chapter 6.3 --- Tenure Choice in Both Public and Private Housing Market --- p.76 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- Similarities of Tenure Choice of Both Housing Markets --- p.77 / Chapter i --- Who Favours Owning? --- p.77 / Chapter ii --- Who Favours Renting? --- p.80 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- Unique Features in Each Housing Market --- p.82 / Chapter i --- The Public Housing Market --- p.82 / Chapter ii --- The Public Housing Market --- p.83 / Chapter 6.4 --- Relationship of Residence and Work Place and Internal Migration --- p.88 / Chapter 6.5 --- Tenure Choices of Movers and Non-Movers --- p.95 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- Limitations of This Study --- p.97 / Chapter Chatper 8 --- Conclusion --- p.99 / References --- p.101 / Chapter Appendix 1 --- Comparison of Previous Literatures --- p.105 / Chapter Appendix 2 --- Abbreviations --- p.109 / Chapter Appendix 3 --- Description of Variables --- p.110 / Chapter i --- Explanatory Variables --- p.110 / Chapter ii --- Control Groups --- p.113 / Chapter iii --- Notes --- p.114 / Chapter Appendix 4 --- Additional Notes of Public Housings --- p.119 / Chapter Note 1 --- Eligibility Criteria Set by Hong Kong Housing Authority(HKHA) --- p.121 / Chapter Note 2 --- Eligibility Criteria Set by Hong Kong Housing Society (HKHS).… --- p.123 / Chapter Appendix 5 --- Tables --- p.125 / Chapter Appendix 6 --- Charts --- p.150 / Chapter Appendix 7 --- Figures --- p.165 / Chapter Appendix 8 --- Commands of Computer Programs (STATA) --- p.171

Cheung, Ka Shing. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 55-57). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Abstract (Chinese Version) --- p.ii / Acknowledgment --- p.iii / Table of Contents --- p.iv / List of Tables --- p.vi / List of Figures --- p.vi / Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2. --- HOS and the Comparable Private Housing Market --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1. --- History and Policies in Hong Kong Housing Market --- p.4 / Chapter 2.2. --- The Emerging Subsidized Housing Market --- p.6 / Chapter 2.3. --- The Comparable Private Housing Market --- p.7 / Chapter 2.4. --- "A Tale of the 85,000 Policy" --- p.11 / Chapter 3. --- Literature Review on the Model Choice --- p.12 / Chapter 4. --- The Model --- p.15 / Chapter 4.1. --- The Basic Setting --- p.15 / Chapter 4.2. --- Basic Assumptions of the Model Setup --- p.18 / Chapter 4.3. --- Deal or no deal on a house? --- p.18 / Chapter 5. --- Model in Long Run --- p.19 / Chapter 5.1. --- Assumptions of Model in the Long Run --- p.19 / Chapter 5.2. --- Value Function of Buyers --- p.21 / Chapter 5.3. --- What do the Pricing Functions pH and pL depend on? --- p.24 / Chapter 5.4. --- Sellers' Value Function in Public Market --- p.26 / Chapter 5.5. --- The Key of our Model - Market Tightness of both Markets --- p.27 / Chapter 5.6. --- Population Flow of the Model --- p.29 / Chapter 5.7. --- Procedure of Solving the Model --- p.30 / Chapter 5.8. --- Results of Comparative Static in Long Run --- p.34 / Chapter 5.9. --- Discussion of Long Run Model --- p.34 / Chapter 5.9.1. --- Change of Public Housing Supply --- p.35 / Chapter 5.9.2. --- Change of Population Inflow --- p.36 / Chapter 5.9.3. --- Change of Owners' Value --- p.37 / Chapter 5.9.4. --- Change of Sellers' Value in Private Market --- p.38 / Chapter 5.9.5. --- Change of Search Cost --- p.40 / Chapter 5.9.6. --- Change of Bargaining Power of Sellers --- p.41 / Chapter 6. --- Model in Short Run --- p.43 / Chapter 6.1. --- Assumptions of Model in the Short Run --- p.43 / Chapter 6.2. --- Results of Comparative Static in Short Run --- p.45 / Chapter 6.3. --- Discussions of the Model in Short Run --- p.46 / Chapter 6.3.1. --- Change of Numbers of Sellers --- p.47 / Chapter 6.3.2. --- Change of House Owners' Value --- p.48 / Chapter 6.3.3. --- Change of Search Cost --- p.49 / Chapter 6.3.4. --- Change of Bargaining Power of Sellers --- p.51 / Chapter 7. --- Discussions --- p.52 / Chapter 8. --- Concluding Remarks and Further Extensions --- p.54 / Chapter 9. --- References --- p.55 / Chapter 10. --- Appendix --- p.57 / Chapter 10.1. --- Various Subsidized Housing Scheme in Hong Kong --- p.57 / Chapter 10.1.1. --- The Tenant Purchasing Scheme (TPS) --- p.57 / Chapter 10.1.2. --- The Home Purchase Loan Scheme (HPLS) --- p.58 / Chapter 10.1.3. --- Eligibility of HOS scheme --- p.58 / Chapter 10.2. --- Nash Bargaining Solution --- p.62 / Chapter 10.3. --- The Pricing Function in the Private Housing Market pH --- p.64 / Chapter 10.4. --- The Pricing Function in the Public Market pL --- p.65 / Chapter 10.5. --- The Market Tightness of Private Market θH --- p.65 / Chapter 10.6. --- The Market Tightness of Public Housing Market θL --- p.66 / Chapter 10.7. --- The Comparative Statics in Long Run --- p.69 / Chapter 10.8. --- Comparative Statics in Short Run Equilibrium --- p.74 / Chapter 10.9. --- What the Relationship between pi and θi ? --- p.79 / Chapter 10.10. --- Flow Chart of the Interactions between Markets --- p.84 / Chapter 10.10.1. --- The Long Run Model --- p.84 / Chapter 10.10.2. --- The Short Run Model --- p.92