Social Stratification in Chinese Societies

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. (ckb@hkbu.edu.hk) 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. (soagnes@ust.hk) 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. (ywchu@hkbu.edu.hk) Chan Wai-wan is researcher in the Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University. She is currently working together with Prof. Chan Kwok-bun on several research projects about return migrants, mainland professional migrants, and mainland immigrant artists in Hong Kong. (vivienww@hkbu.edu.hk).