C K Chan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4800916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C K Chan |
| GIVEN NAMES | C K |
| FAMILY NAME | Chan |
| SIGNATURE | CHAN C K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lingnan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9461-8623 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Grandchild caregiving in Hong Kong and implications for intergenerational relationships
This study draws on perspectives from social exchange theory and Chinese filial piety to assess the validity of these frameworks in explaining grandchildren's caregiving behaviour. Through in‐depth interviews, data on caregiving experiences were collected from 40 grandchildren who had provided care for disabled or ill grandparents. Thematic analysis was employed, yielding four main themes: “childhood support and reciprocity,” “prior help and trad…
Does China Need a Carers’ Policy? A Reflection Based on the Caregiving Experience of Older Carers
This study investigated the caregiving capacity of older Chinese carers and discussed whether the Chinese government needs to offer more support to them. In-depth interviews were conducted with forty older respondents aged sixty years or over caring for frail or sick family members. It was found that most respondents demonstrated firm traditional Chinese values by treating relatives bound by blood or marriage as family members and exhibiting a st…
Social Changes and Informal Support for Family Carers of Patients with Dementia in Hong Kong
This study investigated the extent of family support for informal carers of patients with dementia while Hong Kong Chinese families have been facing various social and economic challenges. It also examined the assistance available to family carers from other informal support networks. In-depth interviews were used to gather the experiences of 18 female carers and collect the views of 20 workers of social service agencies. The study found that fam…
Delivering Social Services during the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study investigated how Hong Kong’s community centers for older people faced challenges and delivered services amid the Covid-19 pandemic. According to experiences of 110 health and social care workers who completed an electronic questionnaire, the provision of center-based services of most respondents were severely affected. Some of them launched online services but faced various constraints such as staff members’ limited knowledge, insuffic…
Who Are Our Support Networks?” A Qualitative Study of Informal Support for Carers
There is little information about the types of social support and content of assistance for informal carers. This article aims to fill this knowledge gap by studying 37 informal carers in a region of the UK. It was found that adult children were the main source of support for older carers regardless of ethnic backgrounds, minority ethnic carers supported their husband to fulfill traditional caring duties by taking care of mother-in-law in the sam…
Searching for new welfare governance in China
In the past decade, the influence of global forces for public sector reforms through the involvement of third sector organizations in social service delivery in the form of contracting out of social services has been growing. Understanding that the state alone can have difficulties financing and providing good quality social services, the Chinese government has made attempts to engage non-governmental organizations to deliver them. This article c…
Cultural adaptation and psychometric assessment of Pain Catastrophizing Scale among young healthy Malay-speaking adults in military settings
Attachment avoidance and the cultural fit hypothesis
This study examined the impact of attachment avoidance on relationship outcomes. A “cultural fit” hypothesis, which states that individual differences in personality should be associated with relationship problems if they encourage patterns of behavior that are incongruent with cultural norms, was investigated. It was hypothesized that attachment avoidance, a style of relationship in which emotional distance and independence are emphasized, would…
Hong Kong
Chan CK. Hong Kong: workfare in the world's freest economy Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: 22–32 © 2009 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. Workfare was introduced in many countries to suppress welfare dependency and reduce social security expenditures. However, workfare was launched in Hong Kong when there was only a relatively small social security budget and its citize…
Welfare State without Dependency
The present study was based on data from 100 face-to-face interviews, supplemented by findings from 316 respondents in a national postal survey, and shows that UK Chinese respondents were family-orientated and self-reliant, having low expectations of public welfare. These features challenge the myth of welfare dependency of ethnic minorities. Also, compared with Chinese welfare practices based on strong moral values and duties towards other peopl…
Caring for the poor versus degrading the poor – the case of Hong Kong newspaper charity
This study examined how Hong Kong newspapers constructed charity and what the implications were for Hong Kong's residual welfare state. The Oriental Daily (OD) and the Apple Daily (AD), the two most popular newspapers, with over 50 per cent of Hong Kong's newspaper market, were selected as the objects of study. A total of 155 cases were collected from the social service columns of these two newspapers between 1 August and 31 October 2000. The stu…
Protecting the ageing poor or strengthening the market economy
The Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) launched by the Hong Kong government seems to be a residual welfare state's strategy to cope with an ageing population and, at the same time, preserve a minimal welfare state and further enhance economic development. The MPF can only provide limited protection for a limited number of employees; many older people still have to depend on financial support from their families or have to work. On the other hand, the…
Hegemonic discourse revisited
It is necessary to trust in the oppressed and in their ability to reason. Whoever lacks this trust will fail to initiate (or will abandon) dialogue, reflection, and communication, and will fall into using slogans, communiqués, monologues, and instructions. Paulo Freire (1970: 53)
(Re)experiencing hegemony
Reading Robert Phillipson's Linguistic Imperialism in a graduate seminar in World Englishes at Purdue University prompted intense discussion and debate not only of the issues of language dominance and spread that the author raised, but also of the rhetorical style and strategies that he chose to present a story of linguistic oppression. This article documents the reactions of seminar participants to how Phillipson presented his argument and their…
Protecting the ageing poor or strengthening the market economy
The Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) launched by the Hong Kong government seems to be a residual welfare state's strategy to cope with an ageing population and, at the same time, preserve a minimal welfare state and further enhance economic development. The MPF can only provide limited protection for a limited number of employees; many older people still have to depend on financial support from their families or have to work. On the other hand, the…
Searching for new welfare governance in China
In the past decade, the influence of global forces for public sector reforms through the involvement of third sector organizations in social service delivery in the form of contracting out of social services has been growing. Understanding that the state alone can have difficulties financing and providing good quality social services, the Chinese government has made attempts to engage non-governmental organizations to deliver them. This article c…
Hong Kong
Chan CK. Hong Kong: workfare in the world's freest economy Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: 22–32 © 2009 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. Workfare was introduced in many countries to suppress welfare dependency and reduce social security expenditures. However, workfare was launched in Hong Kong when there was only a relatively small social security budget and its citize…
(Re)experiencing hegemony
Reading Robert Phillipson's Linguistic Imperialism in a graduate seminar in World Englishes at Purdue University prompted intense discussion and debate not only of the issues of language dominance and spread that the author raised, but also of the rhetorical style and strategies that he chose to present a story of linguistic oppression. This article documents the reactions of seminar participants to how Phillipson presented his argument and their…
Delivering Social Services during the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study investigated how Hong Kong’s community centers for older people faced challenges and delivered services amid the Covid-19 pandemic. According to experiences of 110 health and social care workers who completed an electronic questionnaire, the provision of center-based services of most respondents were severely affected. Some of them launched online services but faced various constraints such as staff members’ limited knowledge, insuffic…
Caring for the poor versus degrading the poor – the case of Hong Kong newspaper charity
This study examined how Hong Kong newspapers constructed charity and what the implications were for Hong Kong's residual welfare state. The Oriental Daily (OD) and the Apple Daily (AD), the two most popular newspapers, with over 50 per cent of Hong Kong's newspaper market, were selected as the objects of study. A total of 155 cases were collected from the social service columns of these two newspapers between 1 August and 31 October 2000. The stu…
(Re)experiencing hegemony
Reading Robert Phillipson's Linguistic Imperialism in a graduate seminar in World Englishes at Purdue University prompted intense discussion and debate not only of the issues of language dominance and spread that the author raised, but also of the rhetorical style and strategies that he chose to present a story of linguistic oppression. This article documents the reactions of seminar participants to how Phillipson presented his argument and their…
Hegemonic discourse revisited
It is necessary to trust in the oppressed and in their ability to reason. Whoever lacks this trust will fail to initiate (or will abandon) dialogue, reflection, and communication, and will fall into using slogans, communiqués, monologues, and instructions. Paulo Freire (1970: 53)
Protecting the ageing poor or strengthening the market economy
The Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) launched by the Hong Kong government seems to be a residual welfare state's strategy to cope with an ageing population and, at the same time, preserve a minimal welfare state and further enhance economic development. The MPF can only provide limited protection for a limited number of employees; many older people still have to depend on financial support from their families or have to work. On the other hand, the…
Caring for the poor versus degrading the poor – the case of Hong Kong newspaper charity
This study examined how Hong Kong newspapers constructed charity and what the implications were for Hong Kong's residual welfare state. The Oriental Daily (OD) and the Apple Daily (AD), the two most popular newspapers, with over 50 per cent of Hong Kong's newspaper market, were selected as the objects of study. A total of 155 cases were collected from the social service columns of these two newspapers between 1 August and 31 October 2000. The stu…
Welfare State without Dependency
The present study was based on data from 100 face-to-face interviews, supplemented by findings from 316 respondents in a national postal survey, and shows that UK Chinese respondents were family-orientated and self-reliant, having low expectations of public welfare. These features challenge the myth of welfare dependency of ethnic minorities. Also, compared with Chinese welfare practices based on strong moral values and duties towards other peopl…
Attachment avoidance and the cultural fit hypothesis
This study examined the impact of attachment avoidance on relationship outcomes. A “cultural fit” hypothesis, which states that individual differences in personality should be associated with relationship problems if they encourage patterns of behavior that are incongruent with cultural norms, was investigated. It was hypothesized that attachment avoidance, a style of relationship in which emotional distance and independence are emphasized, would…
Hong Kong
Chan CK. Hong Kong: workfare in the world's freest economy Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: 22–32 © 2009 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. Workfare was introduced in many countries to suppress welfare dependency and reduce social security expenditures. However, workfare was launched in Hong Kong when there was only a relatively small social security budget and its citize…
Cultural adaptation and psychometric assessment of Pain Catastrophizing Scale among young healthy Malay-speaking adults in military settings
Searching for new welfare governance in China
In the past decade, the influence of global forces for public sector reforms through the involvement of third sector organizations in social service delivery in the form of contracting out of social services has been growing. Understanding that the state alone can have difficulties financing and providing good quality social services, the Chinese government has made attempts to engage non-governmental organizations to deliver them. This article c…
Who Are Our Support Networks?” A Qualitative Study of Informal Support for Carers
There is little information about the types of social support and content of assistance for informal carers. This article aims to fill this knowledge gap by studying 37 informal carers in a region of the UK. It was found that adult children were the main source of support for older carers regardless of ethnic backgrounds, minority ethnic carers supported their husband to fulfill traditional caring duties by taking care of mother-in-law in the sam…
Delivering Social Services during the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study investigated how Hong Kong’s community centers for older people faced challenges and delivered services amid the Covid-19 pandemic. According to experiences of 110 health and social care workers who completed an electronic questionnaire, the provision of center-based services of most respondents were severely affected. Some of them launched online services but faced various constraints such as staff members’ limited knowledge, insuffic…
Social Changes and Informal Support for Family Carers of Patients with Dementia in Hong Kong
This study investigated the extent of family support for informal carers of patients with dementia while Hong Kong Chinese families have been facing various social and economic challenges. It also examined the assistance available to family carers from other informal support networks. In-depth interviews were used to gather the experiences of 18 female carers and collect the views of 20 workers of social service agencies. The study found that fam…
Does China Need a Carers’ Policy? A Reflection Based on the Caregiving Experience of Older Carers
This study investigated the caregiving capacity of older Chinese carers and discussed whether the Chinese government needs to offer more support to them. In-depth interviews were conducted with forty older respondents aged sixty years or over caring for frail or sick family members. It was found that most respondents demonstrated firm traditional Chinese values by treating relatives bound by blood or marriage as family members and exhibiting a st…
Grandchild caregiving in Hong Kong and implications for intergenerational relationships
This study draws on perspectives from social exchange theory and Chinese filial piety to assess the validity of these frameworks in explaining grandchildren's caregiving behaviour. Through in‐depth interviews, data on caregiving experiences were collected from 40 grandchildren who had provided care for disabled or ill grandparents. Thematic analysis was employed, yielding four main themes: “childhood support and reciprocity,” “prior help and trad…
Political science (11 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Welfare (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (4 works)