Chee-Kiong Tong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3465372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chee-Kiong Tong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chee-Kiong |
| FAMILY NAME | Tong |
| SIGNATURE | TONG C |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-3367-844X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Guanxi Bases, Xinyong and Chinese Business Networks
Rethinking Chinese Business
Chinese Business
Hybridization and Chineseness in the Philippines
Identity and Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia
Social Policy in Post-Industrial Singapore
Notwithstanding the lean years that followed 1986 and 1997, sustained economic growth since the late 1970s has propelled Singapore into the post-industrial age and reproduced the demographic and social structure of advanced western societies. The rapid shift to a knowledge-intensive economy requiring highly-skilled services has resulted in a 'two-speed' society consisting of a highly competitive but rewarding sector and a marginalized population …
Rationalizing Religion
Examining modernity and religion this book disputes the widely-spread secularization hypothesis. Using the example of Singapore, as well as comparative data on religion in China, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Malaysia, it convincingly argues that rapid social change and modernity have not led here to the decline of religion but on the contrary, to a certain revivalism. Using qualitative and quantitative data collected over a period of twenty year…
Feuds and Legacies
The remarkable economic performance of the Southeast Asian region has provoked debates among social scientists. One key area of contention is whether there is a particular form of capitalism to account for the East Asian phenomenon. Most of the studies conducted, however, have focused either on national industrial policies and market forces or on a broad cultural explanatory view, such as recourse to Confucianism or Asian values. This article, bu…
Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore
"In recent years Singapore society has undergone a rapid process of modernization and industrialization, which has vastly changed the physical and cultural milieu of the Chinese, and yet the Chinese in Singapore are still ready to incur huge expenses in the enactment of death rituals. Viewing the rituals as heightened activities which conflate, refract and highlight the most important values of the Chinese, this book examines the changes and adap…
Chinese Migrants Abroad - Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora
Fast-paced economic growth in Southeast Asia from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s brought increased attention to the overseas Chinese as an economically successful diaspora and their role in this economic growth. Events that followed, such as the transfer of Hong Kong and Macau to the People's Republic of China, the election of a non-KMT government in Taiwan, the Asian economic crisis and the plight of overseas Chinese in Indonesia as a result…
One Face, Many Masks
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…
Religion and modernity
In this paper, we use the case of Chinese religion in Singapore to examine the relationships between religion and modernity, and between social processes, on the one hand, and spatial conceptions, forms and structures and temporal practices, on the other. Specifically, we look at how traditional Chinese rituals are being modified, reinterpreted and invented to fit with modern living. Such ritual transformations entail reconstructed notions of spa…
Guanxi Bases, Xinyong and Chinese Business Networks
Modelling Culture Contact and Chinese Ethnicity in Thailand
The Anthropology of Death
The Inheritance of the Dead
Rethinking Assimilation and Ethnicity
Rethinking Assimilation and Ethnicity
This article critically re-examines some of the major hypotheses about the assimilation process in general and the assimilation of the Chinese in Thailand in particular. We argue that assimilation cannot be seen as a straight line, one-way, lineal process of the Chinese becoming Thai. At the very least, we suggest that assimilation be conceived as a two-way process which, in the long run, will leave the Chinese with something Thai and the Thai wi…
A Multivariate Approach to Studying Chinese Customs and Rites in Singapore
Guanxi Bases, Xinyong and Chinese Business Networks
Religion and modernity
In this paper, we use the case of Chinese religion in Singapore to examine the relationships between religion and modernity, and between social processes, on the one hand, and spatial conceptions, forms and structures and temporal practices, on the other. Specifically, we look at how traditional Chinese rituals are being modified, reinterpreted and invented to fit with modern living. Such ritual transformations entail reconstructed notions of spa…
Rethinking Assimilation and Ethnicity
Rethinking Assimilation and Ethnicity
This article critically re-examines some of the major hypotheses about the assimilation process in general and the assimilation of the Chinese in Thailand in particular. We argue that assimilation cannot be seen as a straight line, one-way, lineal process of the Chinese becoming Thai. At the very least, we suggest that assimilation be conceived as a two-way process which, in the long run, will leave the Chinese with something Thai and the Thai wi…
Feuds and Legacies
The remarkable economic performance of the Southeast Asian region has provoked debates among social scientists. One key area of contention is whether there is a particular form of capitalism to account for the East Asian phenomenon. Most of the studies conducted, however, have focused either on national industrial policies and market forces or on a broad cultural explanatory view, such as recourse to Confucianism or Asian values. This article, bu…
One Face, Many Masks
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…
Modelling Culture Contact and Chinese Ethnicity in Thailand
The Anthropology of Death
Chinese Business
A Multivariate Approach to Studying Chinese Customs and Rites in Singapore
A Multivariate Approach to Studying Chinese Customs and Rites in Singapore
The Anthropology of Death
The Inheritance of the Dead
Rethinking Assimilation and Ethnicity
Rethinking Assimilation and Ethnicity
This article critically re-examines some of the major hypotheses about the assimilation process in general and the assimilation of the Chinese in Thailand in particular. We argue that assimilation cannot be seen as a straight line, one-way, lineal process of the Chinese becoming Thai. At the very least, we suggest that assimilation be conceived as a two-way process which, in the long run, will leave the Chinese with something Thai and the Thai wi…
Modelling Culture Contact and Chinese Ethnicity in Thailand
Guanxi Bases, Xinyong and Chinese Business Networks
Religion and modernity
In this paper, we use the case of Chinese religion in Singapore to examine the relationships between religion and modernity, and between social processes, on the one hand, and spatial conceptions, forms and structures and temporal practices, on the other. Specifically, we look at how traditional Chinese rituals are being modified, reinterpreted and invented to fit with modern living. Such ritual transformations entail reconstructed notions of spa…
One Face, Many Masks
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…
Chinese Migrants Abroad - Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora
Fast-paced economic growth in Southeast Asia from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s brought increased attention to the overseas Chinese as an economically successful diaspora and their role in this economic growth. Events that followed, such as the transfer of Hong Kong and Macau to the People's Republic of China, the election of a non-KMT government in Taiwan, the Asian economic crisis and the plight of overseas Chinese in Indonesia as a result…
Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore
"In recent years Singapore society has undergone a rapid process of modernization and industrialization, which has vastly changed the physical and cultural milieu of the Chinese, and yet the Chinese in Singapore are still ready to incur huge expenses in the enactment of death rituals. Viewing the rituals as heightened activities which conflate, refract and highlight the most important values of the Chinese, this book examines the changes and adap…
Feuds and Legacies
The remarkable economic performance of the Southeast Asian region has provoked debates among social scientists. One key area of contention is whether there is a particular form of capitalism to account for the East Asian phenomenon. Most of the studies conducted, however, have focused either on national industrial policies and market forces or on a broad cultural explanatory view, such as recourse to Confucianism or Asian values. This article, bu…
Rationalizing Religion
Examining modernity and religion this book disputes the widely-spread secularization hypothesis. Using the example of Singapore, as well as comparative data on religion in China, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Malaysia, it convincingly argues that rapid social change and modernity have not led here to the decline of religion but on the contrary, to a certain revivalism. Using qualitative and quantitative data collected over a period of twenty year…
Social Policy in Post-Industrial Singapore
Notwithstanding the lean years that followed 1986 and 1997, sustained economic growth since the late 1970s has propelled Singapore into the post-industrial age and reproduced the demographic and social structure of advanced western societies. The rapid shift to a knowledge-intensive economy requiring highly-skilled services has resulted in a 'two-speed' society consisting of a highly competitive but rewarding sector and a marginalized population …
Hybridization and Chineseness in the Philippines
Identity and Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia
Guanxi Bases, Xinyong and Chinese Business Networks
Rethinking Chinese Business
Chinese Business
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · China (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (7 works) · Ethnic group (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · History (6 works)