Social Transformations in Chinese Societies: Volume 15 Issue 2

Learning to understand a nation: Developing a national education curriculum imbued with Catholic social ethics for Hong Kong’s primary schools

Hei-Hang Hayes Tang, King Man Eric Chong, Wai Wa Timothy Yuen

National identification among young people and the issues about how national education should be conducted have been the significant topics when the Hong Kong Special…

Identity and border setting: a qualitative study of homeworkers in China

Trevor Tsz-Lok Lee, Xiyue Ma

The purpose of this study is to systematically analyze how homeworkers perceive, interpret and make sense of their situations in relation to work and leisure participation. Thus…

“I am not getting your money”: boundary making and identities in immigrant economies in Hong Kong

K. Kwok

This paper aims to explore how immigrant small business owners construct entrepreneurial identities by deploying strategies of boundary making in Hong Kong.

Contested citizenship in global city: Global citizenship, national identities and local identity in post-handover Hong Kong

Chi Kit Chan, Gary Tang

This paper aims to unravel how the formation of Hong Kong citizenship intertwines with controversies over global citizenship, national identities and local identity in…

Multi-ethnic Macao: from global village to migrant metropolis

Cathryn H. Clayton

In the past 20 years, Macao has experienced phenomenal economic growth driven by the liberalization of its casino sector. This growth has been enabled by massive influxes of…

Financialization and generational differences in the correlates of perceived importance of investment in Hong Kong

Francis Lee, Gary Tang, Chung-Kin Tsang

The purpose of this study is to examine how people’s perceptions of the importance of financial investment relate to their value orientation, societal perceptions and policy…

Lady Justice or the golden calf? The “China factor” in Hong Kong’s legal system

Yan-Ho Lai

Despite the preservation of “One Country, Two Systems” for 50 years under the Sino-British Joint Declaration and Basic Law, changes are palpable due to the emergence of a real…