Cultural Hybridity

Chan Kwok-bun, Hong Kong Baptist University’s first Chair Professor of Sociology, is Founder and Chairman at Chan Institute of Social Studies (CISS) (www.ci-ss.org). Professor Chan teaches sociology and criminology at Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University, United International College, Zhuhai, China and at the University of Macao, China. He is an expert in migration, identities, hybridity, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism, the family, and race and ethnic relations. Recent publications include Hybridity: Promises and Limits (2011) and Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs (2011).

• 1. Introduction: Thinking Freely, Acting Variously, or Thought As a Practice of Freedom Chan Kwok-bun and Chan Nin 2. Hybridity and its Discontents: Strategies of Adaptation of Hong Kong’s Professional Immigrants from Mainland China Chan Wai-wan and Chan Kwok-bun 3. Innovators or Strangers? The Returnees in Hong Kong Chan Kwok-bun and Chan Wai-wan 4. Dilemmas of Diversity: A New Paradigm of Integrating Diversity Charles Hampden-Turner and Ginger Chih 5. Cultural Hybridization: A Third Way between Divergence and Convergence Chan Kwok-Bun and Peter J. Peverelli 6. Understanding Hybrid Identities: From Mechanical Models to Complex Systems Nikos Papastergiadis 7. Creativity, Culture Contact, and Diversity Alfonso Montuori and Hillary Stephenson 8. Autonomous Cross-Cultural Hardship Travel (ACHT) as a Medium for Growth, Learning, and a Deepened Sense of Self John L. Lyons