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1. Gender and Family in East Asia

   Edited by Angela Wai-Ching Wong, Maria Siumi Tam, Danning Wang

   Series: Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series

   Modernisation in East Asia has brought about increases in women’s education levels and rate of participation in the labour force, a delay in marriage age, lower birth rates, and smaller family size. This book examines the impact that these changes have had on East Asian gender politics and family...

   To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Hong Kong

   Anthropological Essays on a Chinese Metropolis

   By Grant Evans, Maria Tam

   Series: Anthropology of Asia

   Hong Kong has become a by-word for all that is modern and sparkling in Asia today.Yet tourist brochures still play with the old cliche of Hong Kong as a place where 'East meets West'. Images of so-called 'traditional' China, junks sailing Victoria Harbour or old women praying to gods in smoky...

   Published June 24th 1997 by Routledge