Lan-Hung Nora Chiang
Biographic Data
| ID | 749650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lan-Hung Nora Chiang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lan-Hung Nora |
| FAMILY NAME | Chiang |
| SIGNATURE | CHIANG L N |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Taiwan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Exploring the Lived Experience of Early Taiwan Chinese Immigrants in North America
This research focuses on those who left Taiwan for the United States and Canada, eventually planting their roots in North America. Case studies based on intensive multi-sited fieldwork conducted between 2008 and 2014 in five North American cities reveal their motivations for migration, the processes involved, and their lived experiences. They survived various challenges, such as gaining proficiency in English, adapting to different customs, endur…
Contesting patriarchy: Employment and gender roles of East Asian middle-class marriage migrants in Taiwan
Studies of trans-local marriages in Taiwan focused on Mainland Chinese and Southeast Asian women married to Taiwanese men, documenting how they had joined the lower rungs of the work force, and shouldered a major amount of family responsibilities that included reproductive roles. They were projected in literature and the media as subjugated women and objects of commodified marriages and exploitation. In contrast, marriage migration of middle-clas…
There’s No Place Like Home: Taiwanese Married Women in Hong Kong
This study examines patterns of return migration as a background to understand the intention among marriage migrants to return to their homeland. In a five-year period beginning in 2014, the author conducted qualitative interviews with Taiwanese immigrant women in Hong Kong who had married Hong Kong men and had arrived between 1965 and 2013, to understand major aspects of their adaptation. Despite successful efforts in developing careers, establi…
The challenges of feminist geography in Taiwan
This article explores the development of feminist geography in Taiwan within the time frame of last three decades, since the first author became involved in the IGU Gender and Geography Working Group in 1988. It is found that Anglo-American influences have contributed significantly to the feminist movement in Taiwan. An important outcome over time has been the improved visibility of Women and Gender studies courses in academe. As social geographe…
Practicing feminist geography in Taiwan
Despite lowering fertility level, and rising education for women, traditional gender roles have remained intact in Taiwan. Women and Gender Studies has thrived in the last three decades with the establishment of 18 research programs, while proliferation of courses and increasing publications on women and gender have produced significant impact on the local academic community. However, gender studies in geography occupy a marginal position in femi…
Cultural Adaptation of Taiwanese Female Marriage Migrants in Hong Kong
This study proposes to explore trans-border marriage migrants from Taiwan to Hong Kong, which are historically and politically separate entities despite similarities in Chinese culture. An understanding of marriage patterns was obtained from 38 in-depth interviews of Taiwanese women married to Hong Kong men. Patrilocal residence and acceptance of the patriarchal customs was the norm for the early female Taiwanese migrants. While encountering vari…
Long-distance Filial Piety: Chinese Families in Australasia Caring for Elderly Parents across Borders (長距離的孝道:紐西蘭與澳洲華人家庭的跨國父母照顧)
In this age of transnational migration, family structures and relationships are transformed as a result of family members living in two or more countries. Over the past three decades, the international migration of Chinese from East Asia to Australia and New Zealand is an example of the global phenomenon of transnationalism, where families employ bi- or multi-local strategies to meet the needs of family members at different stages of their life c…
Translocal Families: The Challenges of Practicing Filial Piety through Transnational Parental Care (台灣澳洲移民為盡孝道而跨國照顧年長父母的挑戰)
The values of filial piety have strongly influenced the care of older people in traditional Chinese societies. Changes in family structure and relationships have occurred and in recent decades, transnational migration has become a factor in how filial piety is perceived and practiced in contemporary translocal Chinese families. Through the use of in-depth interviews, this pilot study explores transnational family patterns, elder care practices, a…
Immigrant Adaptation in Multi-Ethnic Societies: Canada, Taiwan, and the United States
1. Introduction Eric Fong, Lan-hung Nora Chiang and Nancy Denton Immigrant/Racial/Ethnic Residential Patterns in Multi-Ethnic Cities 2. The Dynamics of Immigrant Residential Incorporation in the United States: Theoretical Issues and Empirical Challenges John Iceland 3. Partial Residential Integration: Suburban Residential Patterns of New Immigrant Groups in a Multi-Ethnic Context Eric Fong 4. Asian Immigrants in Vancouver: From Caste to Class in …
Millionaire migrants: Trans-Pacific life lines (RGS-IBG Book Series)
Feminist geography in Taiwan and Hong Kong
Feminist geography research in East Asia is weak, although Women's and Gender Studies as an interdisciplinary field in this region is strong. This is true of Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea. In this article, we examine how studies on women started in Taiwan and Hong Kong and have become institutionalized in the last two and a half decades. In this period, courses and research proliferated in several disciplines as a result of g…
Astronaut families: Transnational lives of middle-class Taiwanese married women in Canada
Despite increasing interest in the study of Taiwanese migrants, the underlying concept and methodology remain gender-blind. Invisible from the Census are the women who emigrated with their husbands, leaving behind their adopted country to make a living elsewhere. Most of the 'astronaut wives' studied in this research are middle-class women who had careers in Taiwan prior to emigration, but became full-time home-makers upon arrival in Canada, the …
Learning to be Australian: Adaptation and Identity Formation of Young Taiwanese-Chinese Immigrants in Melbourne, Australia
Most immigrant parents cannot or will not send their children back home.They rely instead on the strength of their community or of their family to help preserve some connection with the old country and, through these, some semblance of parental authority.They take their children to church or temple, surround them with relatives, pepper them with proverbs in the home language, and sing karaoke with them in an effort to stem dissonant acculturation
Impact of Tourism on Residents in a Traditional District in Tainan City, Taiwan
The impact of tourism on various communities has been examined by theorists and researchers from a broad range of disciplines since the early 1970s, leading to a literature that is both expansive and diverse. However, a review of this literature reveals a limited amount of research related to tourist impacts on the urban centres of Asian cities, especially areas which are richly endowed with heritages, such as Anping district in Tainan, Taiwan. T…
Locational Decisions and Residential Preferences of Taiwanese Immigrants in Australia
Middle-class Taiwanese Immigrant Women Adapt to Life in Australasia: Case Studies from Transnational Households
Most women have joined the stream of immigrants from Taiwan to Australasia as associational movers and supporters rather than as autonomous migrants, as part of the Business and Skills Migration Programs. Previous research on Taiwanese immigrants to Australasia has not included a gender-sensitive dimension and this study seeks to understand the immigrant experience and types of problems faced by women in particular. The term “tan chi ma ma” was c…
Women's Studies in Taiwan: My Personal Experience as a Woman Scholar
When I wrote my dissertation on female rural-urban I was unaware of the term `feminism in the literature of geography. But geography always borrows from other disciplines and `feminist geography therefore comes about naturally among the social sciences. My Ph. D. dissertation entitled Female Rural-urban Migration Adaptation and Linkages focused on rural women who came to work in Taipei in the late 1970s. I had some arguments with my advisory comm…
Women and Development in Taiwan
Over the last forty years female political leaders at the central level formed a very small minority. Women members serving in the governments Councils comprise less than 20 percent at all levels of government. The highest ranking woman in Taiwan is the director of the Council for Cultural Affairs. Out of twenty-one counties and cities only three (Taoyuan County Chia-yi County and Taichung City) are headed by women. The low representation of wome…
Astronaut families: Transnational lives of middle-class Taiwanese married women in Canada
Despite increasing interest in the study of Taiwanese migrants, the underlying concept and methodology remain gender-blind. Invisible from the Census are the women who emigrated with their husbands, leaving behind their adopted country to make a living elsewhere. Most of the 'astronaut wives' studied in this research are middle-class women who had careers in Taiwan prior to emigration, but became full-time home-makers upon arrival in Canada, the …
Long-distance Filial Piety: Chinese Families in Australasia Caring for Elderly Parents across Borders (長距離的孝道:紐西蘭與澳洲華人家庭的跨國父母照顧)
In this age of transnational migration, family structures and relationships are transformed as a result of family members living in two or more countries. Over the past three decades, the international migration of Chinese from East Asia to Australia and New Zealand is an example of the global phenomenon of transnationalism, where families employ bi- or multi-local strategies to meet the needs of family members at different stages of their life c…
Feminist geography in Taiwan and Hong Kong
Feminist geography research in East Asia is weak, although Women's and Gender Studies as an interdisciplinary field in this region is strong. This is true of Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea. In this article, we examine how studies on women started in Taiwan and Hong Kong and have become institutionalized in the last two and a half decades. In this period, courses and research proliferated in several disciplines as a result of g…
Locational Decisions and Residential Preferences of Taiwanese Immigrants in Australia
Learning to be Australian: Adaptation and Identity Formation of Young Taiwanese-Chinese Immigrants in Melbourne, Australia
Most immigrant parents cannot or will not send their children back home.They rely instead on the strength of their community or of their family to help preserve some connection with the old country and, through these, some semblance of parental authority.They take their children to church or temple, surround them with relatives, pepper them with proverbs in the home language, and sing karaoke with them in an effort to stem dissonant acculturation
Middle-class Taiwanese Immigrant Women Adapt to Life in Australasia: Case Studies from Transnational Households
Most women have joined the stream of immigrants from Taiwan to Australasia as associational movers and supporters rather than as autonomous migrants, as part of the Business and Skills Migration Programs. Previous research on Taiwanese immigrants to Australasia has not included a gender-sensitive dimension and this study seeks to understand the immigrant experience and types of problems faced by women in particular. The term “tan chi ma ma” was c…
Women's Studies in Taiwan: My Personal Experience as a Woman Scholar
When I wrote my dissertation on female rural-urban I was unaware of the term `feminism in the literature of geography. But geography always borrows from other disciplines and `feminist geography therefore comes about naturally among the social sciences. My Ph. D. dissertation entitled Female Rural-urban Migration Adaptation and Linkages focused on rural women who came to work in Taipei in the late 1970s. I had some arguments with my advisory comm…
Cultural Adaptation of Taiwanese Female Marriage Migrants in Hong Kong
This study proposes to explore trans-border marriage migrants from Taiwan to Hong Kong, which are historically and politically separate entities despite similarities in Chinese culture. An understanding of marriage patterns was obtained from 38 in-depth interviews of Taiwanese women married to Hong Kong men. Patrilocal residence and acceptance of the patriarchal customs was the norm for the early female Taiwanese migrants. While encountering vari…
Translocal Families: The Challenges of Practicing Filial Piety through Transnational Parental Care (台灣澳洲移民為盡孝道而跨國照顧年長父母的挑戰)
The values of filial piety have strongly influenced the care of older people in traditional Chinese societies. Changes in family structure and relationships have occurred and in recent decades, transnational migration has become a factor in how filial piety is perceived and practiced in contemporary translocal Chinese families. Through the use of in-depth interviews, this pilot study explores transnational family patterns, elder care practices, a…
Impact of Tourism on Residents in a Traditional District in Tainan City, Taiwan
The impact of tourism on various communities has been examined by theorists and researchers from a broad range of disciplines since the early 1970s, leading to a literature that is both expansive and diverse. However, a review of this literature reveals a limited amount of research related to tourist impacts on the urban centres of Asian cities, especially areas which are richly endowed with heritages, such as Anping district in Tainan, Taiwan. T…
Women and Development in Taiwan
Over the last forty years female political leaders at the central level formed a very small minority. Women members serving in the governments Councils comprise less than 20 percent at all levels of government. The highest ranking woman in Taiwan is the director of the Council for Cultural Affairs. Out of twenty-one counties and cities only three (Taoyuan County Chia-yi County and Taichung City) are headed by women. The low representation of wome…
Women's Studies in Taiwan: My Personal Experience as a Woman Scholar
When I wrote my dissertation on female rural-urban I was unaware of the term `feminism in the literature of geography. But geography always borrows from other disciplines and `feminist geography therefore comes about naturally among the social sciences. My Ph. D. dissertation entitled Female Rural-urban Migration Adaptation and Linkages focused on rural women who came to work in Taipei in the late 1970s. I had some arguments with my advisory comm…
Middle-class Taiwanese Immigrant Women Adapt to Life in Australasia: Case Studies from Transnational Households
Most women have joined the stream of immigrants from Taiwan to Australasia as associational movers and supporters rather than as autonomous migrants, as part of the Business and Skills Migration Programs. Previous research on Taiwanese immigrants to Australasia has not included a gender-sensitive dimension and this study seeks to understand the immigrant experience and types of problems faced by women in particular. The term “tan chi ma ma” was c…
Impact of Tourism on Residents in a Traditional District in Tainan City, Taiwan
The impact of tourism on various communities has been examined by theorists and researchers from a broad range of disciplines since the early 1970s, leading to a literature that is both expansive and diverse. However, a review of this literature reveals a limited amount of research related to tourist impacts on the urban centres of Asian cities, especially areas which are richly endowed with heritages, such as Anping district in Tainan, Taiwan. T…
Locational Decisions and Residential Preferences of Taiwanese Immigrants in Australia
Astronaut families: Transnational lives of middle-class Taiwanese married women in Canada
Despite increasing interest in the study of Taiwanese migrants, the underlying concept and methodology remain gender-blind. Invisible from the Census are the women who emigrated with their husbands, leaving behind their adopted country to make a living elsewhere. Most of the 'astronaut wives' studied in this research are middle-class women who had careers in Taiwan prior to emigration, but became full-time home-makers upon arrival in Canada, the …
Learning to be Australian: Adaptation and Identity Formation of Young Taiwanese-Chinese Immigrants in Melbourne, Australia
Most immigrant parents cannot or will not send their children back home.They rely instead on the strength of their community or of their family to help preserve some connection with the old country and, through these, some semblance of parental authority.They take their children to church or temple, surround them with relatives, pepper them with proverbs in the home language, and sing karaoke with them in an effort to stem dissonant acculturation
Feminist geography in Taiwan and Hong Kong
Feminist geography research in East Asia is weak, although Women's and Gender Studies as an interdisciplinary field in this region is strong. This is true of Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea. In this article, we examine how studies on women started in Taiwan and Hong Kong and have become institutionalized in the last two and a half decades. In this period, courses and research proliferated in several disciplines as a result of g…
Immigrant Adaptation in Multi-Ethnic Societies: Canada, Taiwan, and the United States
1. Introduction Eric Fong, Lan-hung Nora Chiang and Nancy Denton Immigrant/Racial/Ethnic Residential Patterns in Multi-Ethnic Cities 2. The Dynamics of Immigrant Residential Incorporation in the United States: Theoretical Issues and Empirical Challenges John Iceland 3. Partial Residential Integration: Suburban Residential Patterns of New Immigrant Groups in a Multi-Ethnic Context Eric Fong 4. Asian Immigrants in Vancouver: From Caste to Class in …
Millionaire migrants: Trans-Pacific life lines (RGS-IBG Book Series)
Translocal Families: The Challenges of Practicing Filial Piety through Transnational Parental Care (台灣澳洲移民為盡孝道而跨國照顧年長父母的挑戰)
The values of filial piety have strongly influenced the care of older people in traditional Chinese societies. Changes in family structure and relationships have occurred and in recent decades, transnational migration has become a factor in how filial piety is perceived and practiced in contemporary translocal Chinese families. Through the use of in-depth interviews, this pilot study explores transnational family patterns, elder care practices, a…
Long-distance Filial Piety: Chinese Families in Australasia Caring for Elderly Parents across Borders (長距離的孝道:紐西蘭與澳洲華人家庭的跨國父母照顧)
In this age of transnational migration, family structures and relationships are transformed as a result of family members living in two or more countries. Over the past three decades, the international migration of Chinese from East Asia to Australia and New Zealand is an example of the global phenomenon of transnationalism, where families employ bi- or multi-local strategies to meet the needs of family members at different stages of their life c…
Cultural Adaptation of Taiwanese Female Marriage Migrants in Hong Kong
This study proposes to explore trans-border marriage migrants from Taiwan to Hong Kong, which are historically and politically separate entities despite similarities in Chinese culture. An understanding of marriage patterns was obtained from 38 in-depth interviews of Taiwanese women married to Hong Kong men. Patrilocal residence and acceptance of the patriarchal customs was the norm for the early female Taiwanese migrants. While encountering vari…
The challenges of feminist geography in Taiwan
This article explores the development of feminist geography in Taiwan within the time frame of last three decades, since the first author became involved in the IGU Gender and Geography Working Group in 1988. It is found that Anglo-American influences have contributed significantly to the feminist movement in Taiwan. An important outcome over time has been the improved visibility of Women and Gender studies courses in academe. As social geographe…
Practicing feminist geography in Taiwan
Despite lowering fertility level, and rising education for women, traditional gender roles have remained intact in Taiwan. Women and Gender Studies has thrived in the last three decades with the establishment of 18 research programs, while proliferation of courses and increasing publications on women and gender have produced significant impact on the local academic community. However, gender studies in geography occupy a marginal position in femi…
There’s No Place Like Home: Taiwanese Married Women in Hong Kong
This study examines patterns of return migration as a background to understand the intention among marriage migrants to return to their homeland. In a five-year period beginning in 2014, the author conducted qualitative interviews with Taiwanese immigrant women in Hong Kong who had married Hong Kong men and had arrived between 1965 and 2013, to understand major aspects of their adaptation. Despite successful efforts in developing careers, establi…
Contesting patriarchy: Employment and gender roles of East Asian middle-class marriage migrants in Taiwan
Studies of trans-local marriages in Taiwan focused on Mainland Chinese and Southeast Asian women married to Taiwanese men, documenting how they had joined the lower rungs of the work force, and shouldered a major amount of family responsibilities that included reproductive roles. They were projected in literature and the media as subjugated women and objects of commodified marriages and exploitation. In contrast, marriage migration of middle-clas…
Exploring the Lived Experience of Early Taiwan Chinese Immigrants in North America
This research focuses on those who left Taiwan for the United States and Canada, eventually planting their roots in North America. Case studies based on intensive multi-sited fieldwork conducted between 2008 and 2014 in five North American cities reveal their motivations for migration, the processes involved, and their lived experiences. They survived various challenges, such as gaining proficiency in English, adapting to different customs, endur…
Sociology (17 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Geography (13 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Immigration (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (6 works)