Aging, gender and family in Singapore, Hong Kong and China
By: edited by Kenneth Wing-kin Law
Publisher: Program for Southeast Asian Area Studies, Academia Sinica
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9789576718113; 9789576718120
Subjects: Older people; Research; Social conditions; Older women; Economic conditions; Poor; Retirement; Planning; Sex differences; Women intellectuals; Attitudes; Family relationships; Families
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Kenneth Wing-kin Law; title: Aging in Singapore: issues and options / William Keng-mun Lee; title: Issues in elderly research in Hong Kong: a review of 56 social science research reports / Kenneth Wing-kim Law; title: The feminization-of-poverty in an aged popluation in Singapore / William Keng-mun Lee; title: New patterns of poverty in Hong Kong: an assessment of current social security provisions / William Keng-mun Lee; title: Gender differences in retirement planning: an exploratory study of the middle-aged residents of Hong Kong / Kenneth Wing-kim Law; title: The new cultural values of female intellectuals: a comparison between Beijing and Hong Kong / Stephen Shek-lam Lau; title: Does a weaking family network inevitably accompany old age? Family networks of older persons in Guangzhou and Hong Kong / Kenneth Wing-kim Law; title: Family support network and community development in Hong Kong / Hong-kin Kwok; title: Changing family-related values in Communist China / Stephen Shek-lam Lau; title: Filial piety in Communist China: is it a myth or a reality? Stephen Shek-lam Lau.