Chan Kwok Bun
Biographic Data
| ID | 751765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chan Kwok Bun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chan Kwok |
| FAMILY NAME | Bun |
| SIGNATURE | BUN C K |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Science's Workings and Scientists' Work
Using an interactionist approach, this essay uncovers the complexity of the interactions between the modern worlds of science and non-science, of scientists and non-scientists. While analysing the many moments of the interface between the two social worlds, the sociologist often surprises himself or herself of the magnitude of intrusion, or should we say, penetration of such so-called non-science elements as politics, economics, markets, bureaucr…
Imagining/Desiring Cosmopolitanism
What happens when two cultures meet? While assimilation continues to be a dominant discourse, this essay argues there are indeed several other possibilities such as alternation, hybridization, and innovation. Three narratives of cultural hybridization and innovation are constructed to provide the empirical substance for an exploration into the cosmopolitanism idea: the importation of Buddhism from India into China; China's social history when rea…
Migrant Family Drama Revisited: Mainland Chinese Immigrants in Singapore
This paper attempts to unfold drama of mainland Chinese migrant families in Singapore in terms of their gender and generation politics -- interpersonal as well as role conflicts within domestic domain as they were engendered and negotiated during migration process. The better promise of migration for each and every family member was scrutinized -- each time gazing at a different member in context of his or her institutionalized position in family…
Coping with Work Stress, Work Satisfaction, and Social Support: An Interpretive Study of Life Insurance Agents
A Family Affair: Migration, Dispersal, and the Emergent Identity of the Chinese Cosmopolitan
This essay puts forward two main claims. First, it argues that dispersing the patrilineal Chinese family is, paradoxically, often a rational family decision to preserve the family, a resourceful and resilient way of strengthening it: families split in order to be together translocally. The "astronaut families" of Hong Kong are a model of such dispersion for our time. Second, the essay argues that these spatially dispersed families constitute stra…
Modelling Culture Contact and Chinese Ethnicity in Thailand
Special issue of Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science, Vol. 18, No. 1 (1990)
Rethinking Assimilation and Ethnicity: The Chinese in Thailand
Rethinking Assimilation and Ethnicity: The Chinese in Thailand
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…
Behind the Bamboo Hedge: The Impact of Homeland Politics in the Parisian Vietnamese Community
Smoke and Fire: The Chinese in Montreal
Refugee Camps as Human Artefacts: An Essay on Vietnamese Refugees in Southeast Asian Camps by Linda Hitchcox
Journal Article Refugee Camps as Human Artefacts: An Essay on Vietnamese Refugees in Southeast Asian Camps by Linda Hitchcox Get access CHAN KWOK BUN CHAN KWOK BUN Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 4, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 284–290, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/4.3.284 Published: 01 July 1991
The New Chinatown
Getting Through Suffering: Indochinese Refugees in Limbo 15 Years Later
Hong Kong's Response to the Vietnamese Refugees: A Study in Humanitarianism, Ambivalence and Hostility
Conceptualizing and Defining Refugee and Forced Migrations in Asia
Conceptualizing and Defining Refugee and Forced Migrations in Asia
A Family Affair: Migration, Dispersal, and the Emergent Identity of the Chinese Cosmopolitan
This essay puts forward two main claims. First, it argues that dispersing the patrilineal Chinese family is, paradoxically, often a rational family decision to preserve the family, a resourceful and resilient way of strengthening it: families split in order to be together translocally. The "astronaut families" of Hong Kong are a model of such dispersion for our time. Second, the essay argues that these spatially dispersed families constitute stra…
Rethinking Assimilation and Ethnicity: The Chinese in Thailand
Migrant Family Drama Revisited: Mainland Chinese Immigrants in Singapore
This paper attempts to unfold drama of mainland Chinese migrant families in Singapore in terms of their gender and generation politics -- interpersonal as well as role conflicts within domestic domain as they were engendered and negotiated during migration process. The better promise of migration for each and every family member was scrutinized -- each time gazing at a different member in context of his or her institutionalized position in family…
Imagining/Desiring Cosmopolitanism
What happens when two cultures meet? While assimilation continues to be a dominant discourse, this essay argues there are indeed several other possibilities such as alternation, hybridization, and innovation. Three narratives of cultural hybridization and innovation are constructed to provide the empirical substance for an exploration into the cosmopolitanism idea: the importation of Buddhism from India into China; China's social history when rea…
Rethinking Assimilation and Ethnicity: The Chinese in Thailand
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
Refugee Camps as Human Artefacts: An Essay on Vietnamese Refugees in Southeast Asian Camps by Linda Hitchcox
Journal Article Refugee Camps as Human Artefacts: An Essay on Vietnamese Refugees in Southeast Asian Camps by Linda Hitchcox Get access CHAN KWOK BUN CHAN KWOK BUN Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 4, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 284–290, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/4.3.284 Published: 01 July 1991
Hong Kong's Response to the Vietnamese Refugees: A Study in Humanitarianism, Ambivalence and Hostility
Getting Through Suffering: Indochinese Refugees in Limbo 15 Years Later
Hong Kong's Response to the Vietnamese Refugees: A Study in Humanitarianism, Ambivalence and Hostility
Conceptualizing and Defining Refugee and Forced Migrations in Asia
Refugee Camps as Human Artefacts: An Essay on Vietnamese Refugees in Southeast Asian Camps by Linda Hitchcox
Journal Article Refugee Camps as Human Artefacts: An Essay on Vietnamese Refugees in Southeast Asian Camps by Linda Hitchcox Get access CHAN KWOK BUN CHAN KWOK BUN Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 4, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 284–290, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/4.3.284 Published: 01 July 1991
The New Chinatown
Rethinking Assimilation and Ethnicity: The Chinese in Thailand
Rethinking Assimilation and Ethnicity: The Chinese in Thailand
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…
Behind the Bamboo Hedge: The Impact of Homeland Politics in the Parisian Vietnamese Community
Smoke and Fire: The Chinese in Montreal
Special issue of Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science, Vol. 18, No. 1 (1990)
Modelling Culture Contact and Chinese Ethnicity in Thailand
A Family Affair: Migration, Dispersal, and the Emergent Identity of the Chinese Cosmopolitan
This essay puts forward two main claims. First, it argues that dispersing the patrilineal Chinese family is, paradoxically, often a rational family decision to preserve the family, a resourceful and resilient way of strengthening it: families split in order to be together translocally. The "astronaut families" of Hong Kong are a model of such dispersion for our time. Second, the essay argues that these spatially dispersed families constitute stra…
Coping with Work Stress, Work Satisfaction, and Social Support: An Interpretive Study of Life Insurance Agents
Science's Workings and Scientists' Work
Using an interactionist approach, this essay uncovers the complexity of the interactions between the modern worlds of science and non-science, of scientists and non-scientists. While analysing the many moments of the interface between the two social worlds, the sociologist often surprises himself or herself of the magnitude of intrusion, or should we say, penetration of such so-called non-science elements as politics, economics, markets, bureaucr…
Imagining/Desiring Cosmopolitanism
What happens when two cultures meet? While assimilation continues to be a dominant discourse, this essay argues there are indeed several other possibilities such as alternation, hybridization, and innovation. Three narratives of cultural hybridization and innovation are constructed to provide the empirical substance for an exploration into the cosmopolitanism idea: the importation of Buddhism from India into China; China's social history when rea…
Migrant Family Drama Revisited: Mainland Chinese Immigrants in Singapore
This paper attempts to unfold drama of mainland Chinese migrant families in Singapore in terms of their gender and generation politics -- interpersonal as well as role conflicts within domestic domain as they were engendered and negotiated during migration process. The better promise of migration for each and every family member was scrutinized -- each time gazing at a different member in context of his or her institutionalized position in family…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (7 works) · China (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Asian studies (5 works) · Geography (5 works)