Chan Kwok-Bun
Biographic Data
| ID | 117928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chan Kwok-Bun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kwok-Bun |
| SIGNATURE | KWOK-BUN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Moscow State University of Technologies and Management named after K.G. Razumovskiy |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
International Handbook of Chinese Families
Modeling migrant adaptation: Coping with social strain, assimilation, and non-integration
This article adapts Robert Merton's theory of coping with social strain to revisit the main paradigms in the literature of migrant adaptation. Intersecting this literature with Merton's theory of coping with social strain and the ideas of emergence and resistance, the authors develop five new ideal types of migrant adaptation: (1) migrant conformity through straight-line assimilation; (2) migrant ritualism through multidirectional assimilation; (…
The Chinese Face in Australia: Multi-generational Ethnicity among Australian-born Chinese
Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia
Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs
When Worlds Collide: Scientists Doing Science in the Social World
East-west identities: Globalization, Localization, and Hybridization
Entertainment: Enjoyment or Struggle
Chinese Entertainment, Ethnicity, and Pleasure
Early forms of entertainment in the Chinese immigrant society of Singapore took the form of festivals and festivities that invariably occurred on the streets. Celebration of festivals served religious and ethnic as well as moral functions, when values were reproduced and reinforced. People of the same kind gathered together to reproduce their ethnicity. Such festive events were as recreational as they were community-building and identity-bestowin…
Both Sides, Now: Culture Contact, Hybridization, and Cosmopolitanism
Ssu-ma Niu grieved, saying, everyone else has brothers; I alone have none. Tsuhsia said, I have heard this saying, ‘. . . if [a gentleman] behaves with courtesy to others and observes the rules of ritual, then all within the Four Seas are his brothers.’ How can any true gentleman grieve that he is without brothers? Jan Jung asked about goodness. The Master said ‘Behave when away from home as though you were in the presence of an important guest. …
One Face, Many Masks: The Singularity and Plurality of Chinese Identity
One Face, Many Masks:The Singularity and Plurality of Chinese Identity Tong Chee-kiong (bio) and Chan Kwok-bun (bio) Tong Chee-kiong National University of Singapore Chan Kwok-bun Hong Kong Baptist University Tong Chee-kiong Tong Chee-kiong teaches in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore, where he has also served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Director of the Graduate School. He is the co-aut…
East-west identities: Globalization, Localization, and Hybridization
Modeling migrant adaptation: Coping with social strain, assimilation, and non-integration
This article adapts Robert Merton's theory of coping with social strain to revisit the main paradigms in the literature of migrant adaptation. Intersecting this literature with Merton's theory of coping with social strain and the ideas of emergence and resistance, the authors develop five new ideal types of migrant adaptation: (1) migrant conformity through straight-line assimilation; (2) migrant ritualism through multidirectional assimilation; (…
One Face, Many Masks: The Singularity and Plurality of Chinese Identity
One Face, Many Masks:The Singularity and Plurality of Chinese Identity Tong Chee-kiong (bio) and Chan Kwok-bun (bio) Tong Chee-kiong National University of Singapore Chan Kwok-bun Hong Kong Baptist University Tong Chee-kiong Tong Chee-kiong teaches in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore, where he has also served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Director of the Graduate School. He is the co-aut…
When Worlds Collide: Scientists Doing Science in the Social World
Chinese Entertainment, Ethnicity, and Pleasure
Early forms of entertainment in the Chinese immigrant society of Singapore took the form of festivals and festivities that invariably occurred on the streets. Celebration of festivals served religious and ethnic as well as moral functions, when values were reproduced and reinforced. People of the same kind gathered together to reproduce their ethnicity. Such festive events were as recreational as they were community-building and identity-bestowin…
One Face, Many Masks: The Singularity and Plurality of Chinese Identity
One Face, Many Masks:The Singularity and Plurality of Chinese Identity Tong Chee-kiong (bio) and Chan Kwok-bun (bio) Tong Chee-kiong National University of Singapore Chan Kwok-bun Hong Kong Baptist University Tong Chee-kiong Tong Chee-kiong teaches in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore, where he has also served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Director of the Graduate School. He is the co-aut…
Both Sides, Now: Culture Contact, Hybridization, and Cosmopolitanism
Ssu-ma Niu grieved, saying, everyone else has brothers; I alone have none. Tsuhsia said, I have heard this saying, ‘. . . if [a gentleman] behaves with courtesy to others and observes the rules of ritual, then all within the Four Seas are his brothers.’ How can any true gentleman grieve that he is without brothers? Jan Jung asked about goodness. The Master said ‘Behave when away from home as though you were in the presence of an important guest. …
Entertainment: Enjoyment or Struggle
Chinese Entertainment, Ethnicity, and Pleasure
Early forms of entertainment in the Chinese immigrant society of Singapore took the form of festivals and festivities that invariably occurred on the streets. Celebration of festivals served religious and ethnic as well as moral functions, when values were reproduced and reinforced. People of the same kind gathered together to reproduce their ethnicity. Such festive events were as recreational as they were community-building and identity-bestowin…
East-west identities: Globalization, Localization, and Hybridization
When Worlds Collide: Scientists Doing Science in the Social World
Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs
The Chinese Face in Australia: Multi-generational Ethnicity among Australian-born Chinese
Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia
International Handbook of Chinese Families
Modeling migrant adaptation: Coping with social strain, assimilation, and non-integration
This article adapts Robert Merton's theory of coping with social strain to revisit the main paradigms in the literature of migrant adaptation. Intersecting this literature with Merton's theory of coping with social strain and the ideas of emergence and resistance, the authors develop five new ideal types of migrant adaptation: (1) migrant conformity through straight-line assimilation; (2) migrant ritualism through multidirectional assimilation; (…
Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (5 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (4 works) · Advertising (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works)