Social Transformations in Chinese Societies: Volume 13 Issue 1

The future of telephone surveys in Hong Kong: A comparison of fixed line surveys with cellular phone surveys

Stephen Wing-kai Chiu, Niantao Jiang

This paper aims to compare residential fixed-line telephone surveys with cell phone surveys for assessing the extent of the potential undercoverage issue evaluating the necessity…

‘Burglar alarms’ and the making of social risks: ‘Tourism capacity’ and its controversies in Hong Kong

Chi Kit Chan

This paper explicates news making process of social risks in the midst of inconclusive social facts and contested interpretation of social consequences. Specifically, the author…

Rethinking the political participation of Hong Kong Christians

Ka Shing Ng

Christian-affiliated social groups and leaders have been active and vocal in movements advocating democracy, equality and social justices. Christians are also specular in the…

‘Border’ matters in discussions of cross-border students

Anita Kit-Wa Chan, Lucille Lok-Sun Ngan, Anthony K.W. Wong, W.S. Chan

Cross-border students – children who are permanent residents of Hong Kong but live on the mainland and travel across the border to school every day – have been an important…

Navigating Christian and Chaozhou identities: the life and career of Lin Zifeng (1892-1971)

Wing-hin Kam

This paper aims to analyse how both Lin’s birthplace identity and his Christian identity contributed to his fruitful public career and to ascertain which identity became the most…

A bird without wings: A conversational approach toward heritage preservation among Tibetan New Yorkers

Rebecca G. Smith, Joseph Tse-Hei Lee

The five-decade-long Chinese colonialization of Tibet has led to a refugee flow. No longer confined to the Tibetan Plateau, Tibetans are scattered over the world, placing deep…