Chan Kwok-bun is Chair Professor of the Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University. His current research interests are in migration, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and diasporas; ethnic identities and ethnicities; business networks and ethnic capitalism; medical sociology; and family and marriage.

Ku Shuk-mei Agnes is Associate Professor of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include cultural sociology, civil society, citizenship, Hong Kong studies, gender issues and urban issues.

Chu Yin-Wah is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Hong Kong Baptist University. She has published on various aspects of economic and political development in East Asia. Presently, she is researching on South Korea’s and Taiwan’s effort to take on the challenge of the information economy as well as on various aspects of land rights movements in Greater China.

Wu Xiaogang is Associate Professor of Social Science at HKUST. His research interests include social stratificationa dn mobility, labor markets, economic sociology and statistical methods.

The annual is a venue of publication for sociological studies of Chinese societies and the Chinese all over the world. The main focus is on social transformations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the mainland, Singapore and Chinese overseas.

SPECIAL FOCUS: SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN CHINESE SOCIETIES

Guest Editor : Wu Xiaogang

Introduction: Institution, Culture, and Social Stratification: Towards a Comparative Study of Chinese Societies - WU XIAOGANG

How Angry Are Chinese Citizens About Current Inequalities? Evidence from A National Survey - MARTIN KING WHYTE AND GUO MAOCAN

Durable Inequality: Who Are China’s New Urban Poor? - WANG FENG, TAI TSUI-O AND WANG YOUJUAN

The Transformation of the Chinese Class Structure, 1978-2005 - LIN THUNGHONG AND WU XIAOGANG

The Effects of Human Capital on Job Promotions in Taiwan: A Comparison of Schooling, Tenure and Training -

TSAY RUEY-MING, JENNIFER YEH HSIU-JEN AND CHUANG CHIH-CHIA

Hong Kong’s Changing Opportunity Structures: Political Concerns and Sociological Observations - LUI TAI-LOK

ARTICLES

Cultural Localization and Its Local Discontents: Contested Evaluations of Cantopop Electronic Dance Music

MATTHEW M. CHEW

A Comparative Study on the Corporatization of Higher Education in Hong Kong and Singapore - DAVID CHAN KIN-KEUNG

Researching Korean Children’s Schooling Experience Behind the Model Minority Stereotype in China: An Ethnographic Approach - GAO FANG

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