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Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction -- 2 Stresses and Issues in Parenthood -- 3 Adoption in the Family and Child Welfare Context -- 4 Issues in Adoptive Parenthood and Conceptual Framework -- 5 Methodology -- 6 Ethnographic Insights and Hypotheses for Testing -- 7 Profiles of Adoptive Parents, Adoptive Children and Birth -- Parents -- 8 Demographic Data of Respondent Adoptive Families -- 9 Traditional Adoption: Stresses and Patterns of Coping in -- Descriptive Statistics -- 10 Nontraditional Adoption: Stresses and Patterns of Coping in -- Descriptive Statistics -- 11 Hypotheses Testing and Scale Construction -- 12 Discussion and Recommendations -- v -- Bibliography -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 Semi-structured Interview Guide for the -- Ethnographic Study -- Appendix 2 Profile of Adoptive Parents -- Appendix 3 Profile of Adoptive Children and Birth -- Parents -- Appendix 4 Structured Questionnaire in English -- Appendix 5 Structured Questionnaire in Chinese

Abstract
Preliminary data show that Hong Kong's poor suffer increased exposure to air pollution. People in lower-class areas may be up to five times as likely to be hospitalized for respiratory illness as their counterparts in high-income areas. In addition, variation in household income may explain up to 60% of Air Pollution Index (API) variation between districts. Despite this, air pollution has not been seen as a class issue because of the invisibility of Hong Kong's poor, the nature of environmental activism, and a relative lack of class tensions.
Two of Asia's most significant trends are deepening income inequality and increasing environmental degradation. Yet, these two trends are often examined separately, as parts of entirely different spheres. Using air pollution in Hong Kong as a case study, this article argues that environmental issues and social class are intimately intertwined. Environmental burdens, such as air pollution, disproportionately affect the poor. Social class—who is generating pollution and who is affected—also determines how environmental issues are perceived and addressed. However, little combined analysis of social class and the environment exists outside the United States. Hong Kong's struggle to improve air quality in the post-handover period provides an unusual opportunity to examine the relationship between social class and the environment in Asia.

Hong Kong is one of the most spectacular cities in the world. It has been built in a very short time. Its builders have achieved remarkable results but their contribution had not been documented. the Hong Kong Construction Association decided to correct his omission and commissioned this book to mark its 70th Anniversary.Consequently, the book concentrates on construction rather than design and highlights the main events in the evolution of the industry and its buildings up to the present day.

Perspectives on the situation in and relationship between China and Hong Kong, in light of Hong Kong's retrocession from British to Chinese sovereignty; political, economic, social, and cultural aspects; 22 articles and an interview. Topics include Chinese history since Mao Zedong, communist labor-reform camps (laogai), dissidents, foreign relations, cultural nationalism, minorities, journalism and literature, labor, movies, and Hong Kong's identity, culture, politics, and media.

Preliminary Material /Chan Kwok-Bun , Agnes S. Ku and Chu Yin-Wah -- Introduction Doing Families In Hong Kong: Values, Relations And Strategies /Ng Chun - Hung , Thomas Wong Wai-Pong , Chu Yin - Wah and Anita Chan Kit-Wa -- Family In Flux: Benchmarking Family Changes In Hong Kong Society /Anita C. Koo and Thomas W. P. Wong -- Doing Families In Hong Kong: Strategy, Morality And Emotion /Ng Chun-Hung , Ng Bo-Sze and Anita Chan Kit-Wa -- Who Should Care? Perceptions Of Caregiving Responsibility Within The Household /Odalia M. H. Wong -- Single Working Women In Hong Kong: A Case Of Normal Deviance? /Evelyn G. H. Ng and Catherine W. Ng -- Where Is My Brokeback Mountain? /Travis S. K. Kong -- Familial Ideology And Family Policy In Hong Kong /Shae Wan-Chaw and Wong Pik-Wan -- Sketching The Discursive Outlines Of Cosmopolitan Hybridity In Postwar Hong Kong: City Magazine In The Emergence Of 1980s Popular Culture And Culture Industry /Allen Chun -- Indigenization And The Study Of Chinese Religion And Society /Chan Shun-Hing -- Missing Girls In An Era Of High Quality: Governmental Control Over Population And Daughter Discrimination In Contemporary China /Leslie Kim Wang -- Book Reviews /Chan Kwok-Bun , Agnes S. Ku and Chu Yin-Wah -- Notice To Contributors /Chan Kwok-Bun , Agnes S. Ku and Chu Yin-Wah -- Notice To Subscribers /Chan Kwok-Bun , Agnes S. Ku and Chu Yin-Wah.

Provides a chronology of significant events for Hong Kong, 1837-1997.

"Cover " -- "Editorial boards" -- "Introduction " -- "Civil disobedience movements in Hong Kong: a civil society perspective" -- "A new wave of anti-mainland protests since 2012" -- "Rebel with a c ause" -- "Hong Kong District Council elections 2015" -- "Political radicalization and fragmentation of the democratic blocs and the legislative council elections in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Regio n" -- ""One country, two systems" after the Umbrella movement:problems and prospects " -- "The will and the way of inclusive education in Macao

When discussing inequality and poverty in Hong Kong, scholars and politicians often focus on the failures of government policy and push for an increase in social welfare. Richard Wong argues that universal retirement support, minimum wage, and standard hours of work are of limited effect in shrinking the inequality gap. By comparing Hong Kong with Singapore, he points out that Hong Kong needs a new and long-term strategy on human resource policy.

Applying Samuel Huntington's hypotheses on political modernization, the factors inhibiting political mobilization in Hong Kong in the 1950s & 1960s & the impact of economic development are examined. The emerging demands for democracy since the early 1970s are also explored, including the factors underlying this demand, its moderate nature, & the colonial government's response. In the early 1980s, the prodemocracy movement supported the Chinese recovery of the sovereignty of Hong Kong, which raised the community's expectations regarding political reforms. The prodemocracy movement formed an alliance with the conservative business community. However, this alarmed the mainland government in Beijing, which took measures to suppress the movement there, thus affecting confidence in the movement in Hong Kong with regard to developing democratic institutions after the British leave. Modified AA

THE 1998 HONG KONG ELECTION IS ARGUABLY AMONG THE MOST SIGNIFICANT POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN COMMUNIST CHINA'S HISTORY. THIS ARTICLE ARGUES THAT THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE WILL FIND IT MORE AND MORE DIFFICULT TO RULE HONG KONG IF HE KEEPS ON ACTING AGAINST THE WISHES OF THE PEOPLE. FURTHER, IT PREDICTS THAT CHINA'S COMMUNIST PARTY HAS A CHOICE TO MAKE: WHETHER TO HANG ON TO AN OUTDATED AND ILLEGITIMATE MODEL FOR POLITICAL CONTROL OF ITS PEOPLE, OR TO TAKE THE LEAD IN TRANSFORMING CHINA INTO A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY.