| Series | Asian Women and Society |
| Title | Chinese Women & Their Cultural & Network Capitals |
| Imprint | Marshall Cavendish Academic |
| Specifications | 152 mm X 227 mm, 288 pp, Threadsewn, 500 gms |
| Editors | Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng |
| Target Audience | Sociologists, social work professionals, public administrators, and those interested in gender and women's studies. |
| Price (US) | US$ 19.00  |
Women rely on social and network capital
both within their own community and-especially for those who have migrated to
another country-outside of their native social environment. In both cases,
whenever possible, they would rely on the traditional network resources, but if
they are unable to do so, then they create new sets of network capital to
further their own needs. To do so, they need to have some form of social capital
and this comes in the form of knowledge, skills, as well as social
relationship.
The objective of this book is to explore how Chinese
women create social and network capital and use these resources to further their
own interests in social and economic position as well as to cope and adapt to a
rapidly changing environment today.
About the
Author
Kuah-Pearce Khun
Eng
is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at
the University of Hong Kong. She has been Visiting Scholar to Harvard
University, Harvard-Yenching Institute, and East Asian Institute
(Singapore).
Dr. Kuah-Pearce's other publications include Where China
Meets Southeast Asia (2000), Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in
China (2000), and State, Society and Religious Engineering: Towards a Reformist
Buddhism in Singapore (2003). She is also a member of the editorial board for
the journals Asian Anthropology and Historie et Anthropologie Asien.
