Negotiating Emigration and the Family: Individual Solutions to the 1997 Anxiety

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 547, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 54-67

  Kuah, Khun Eng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 0039416155     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716296547001005     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. See Ming K. Lee, “Family and Social Life,” in Indicators of Social Development. Hong Kong 1988, ed. Siu-kai Lau et al (Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong, Institute of Asia Pacific Studies, 1991), pp. 41-66.
2. See Siu-kai Lau, Society and Politics in Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 1982), pp. 67-85.
3. See Siu Lun Wong, “Prosperity and Anxiety in Hong Kong,” in Conference on Successful Economic Development Strategies of the Pacific Rim Nations, November 14-18, 1988 (Taipei: Chung-Hua Institute for Economic Research, 1988), pp. 549-554. See also idem, “Prosperity and Anxiety in Hong Kong Reexamined,” in The Development of Social Indicators Research in Chinese Societies, ed. Siu-Kai Lau et al. (Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1992), pp. 217-223.
4. Wong, “Prosperity and Anxiety in Hong Kong,” p. 552.
5. Wong, “Prosperity and Anxiety in Hong Kong Reexamined,” p. 219.
6. Ronald Skeldon, ed., Reluctant Exiles? Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese (Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press, 1994).
7. Economist, 26: 60 (Aug. 1989); information on migration to Singapore supplied by the Singapore Consulate General in Hong Kong.
8. South China Morning Post, 8 June 1990.
9. Ronald Skeldon, “Hong Kong in an International Migration System,” cited in Reluctant Exiles, ed. Skeldon, p. 30.
10. The Cantonese vernacular used in this article will be romanized according to the Hanyu Pinyin system of transliterating Chinese, unless specified otherwise.
11. Diana Lary and Bernard Luk, “Hong Kong Immigrants in Toronto,” in Reluctant Exiles, ed. Skeldon, p. 151.
12. Anita Mak, “Hong Kong Immigrants’ Strategies for and Satisfaction with Career Development in Australia” (Seminar presented to the Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong, 16 Dec. 1994).
13. A 1000-square-foot apartment in a middle-class residential district in Hong Kong will cost HK$4-5 million (US$500,000-650,000)-or more.
14. Ronald Skeldon, “Reluctant Exiles or Bold Pioneers? An Introduction to Migration from Hong Kong,” in Reluctant Exiles, ed. Skeldon, p. 11.
15. This point was brought to my attention by a psychiatrist friend in Melbourne.
16. See Lawrence Lam, “Searching for a Safe Haven: The Migration and Settlement of Hong Kong Immigrants in Toronto,” in Reluctant Exiles, ed. Skeldon, p. 173.
17. This phenomenon has been widely reported in Chinese popular magazines, such as Next and East Week. The mistress phenomenon has also been serialized into television drama and broadcast by local television stations.
18. See South China Morning Post, 4 Apr. 1994.
19. For a discussion, see Maria S. M. Tam and Khun Eng Kuah, “Emerging Trends: Legal and Customary Marriage in Hong Kong,” in Marriage Systems and Status of Women in Southern China, ed. Jian Chien Ma, Jian Chiao, and Joel Thoraval (Nanning: Guangxi Minority Publishing House, 1994), pp. 141-158 (in Chinese).
20. South China Morning Post, 5 June 1995.
21. Lary and Luk, “Hong Kong Immigrants in Toronto,” pp. 139-162.