Oxford Handbook of Chinese Psychology
Oxford Library of Psychology Series

In recent years China has witnessed unprecedented economic growth, emerging as a powerful, influential player on the global stage. Now, more than ever, there is a great interest and need within the West to better understand the psychological and social processes that characterize the Chinese people. The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Ppsychology is the first book of its kind - a comprehensive and commanding review of Chinese psychology, covering areas of human functioning with unparalleled sophistication and complexity. In 42 chapters, leading authorities cite and integrate both English and Chinese-language research in topic areas ranging from the socialization of children, mathematics achievement, emotion, bilingualism and Chinese styles of thinking to Chinese identity, personal relationships, leadership processes and psychopathology. With all chapters accessibly written by the leading researchers in their respective fields, the reader of this volume will learn how and why China has developed in the way it has, and how it is likely to develop. In addition, the book shows how a better understanding of a culture so different to our own can reveal much about our own culture and sense of identity. A book of extraordinary breadth, The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Psychology ia an essential sourcebook for any scholar or practitioner attempting to understand the psychological functioning of the world's most populous country.

1. The continuing prospects for chinese psychology. 2. What is Chinese about Chinese psychology and who are the Chinese in Chinese psychology?. 3. The cultured brain: Interplay of genes, brain, and culture. 4. Social and emotional development in Chinese children. 5. Parenting and child socialization in contemporary China. 6. Language and the brain: Computational and neuroanatomical perspectives from Chinese. 7. Language and literacy development in Chinese children. 8. Understanding reading disabilities in Chinese: From basic research to intervention. 9. Chinese bilingualism. 10. Chinese children learning mathematics: From home to school.. 11. The thinking styles of Chinese people. 12. Approaches to learning and teaching by the Chinese. 13. Chinese students' motivation and achievement. 14. How unique is Chinese emotion. 15. Beliefs in Chinese societies. 16. The multiple frames of 'Chinese' values: From tradition to modernity and beyond. 17. What do we know about the Chinese self? Illustrations with self-esteem, self-efficacy, and self-enhancement. 18. From indigenous to cross-cultural personality: The case of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory. 19. Psychology and aging in the Land of the Panda. 20. Chinese well-being. 21. The spirituality of the Chinese people: A critical review. 22. Psychiatric disorders in the Chinese. 23. Clinical neuropsychology in China. 24. The tao (way) of Chinese coping. 25. Illness behaviors among the Chinese. 26. Community psychology in Chinese societies. 27. Psychotherapy with the Chinese: An update of the work in the last decade. 28. Face and morality in Confucian society. 29. Chinese cooperation and competition. 30. Interpersonal relationships in rapidly changing Chinese societies. 31. A gender perspective on Chinese social relationships and behavior. 32. Chinese cultural psychology and contemporary communication. 33. Chinese political psychology: Political participation in Chinese societies. 34. Chinese intergroup relations and social identity. 35. Developments in Chinese leadership: Paternalism and its elaborations, moderations, and alternatives. 36. Chinese consumer behavior: The effects of content, process and language. 37. Chinese sports psychology. 38. Chinese acculturation and adaptation. 39. David C. Thomas and Yuan Liao. 40. Peter B. Smith.

Michael Harris Bond completed his undergraduate training in honours psychology at the University of Toronto (1966), before venturing to Stanford University where he gained a PhD in social psychology (1970). Following a post-doctoral fellowship in experimental social innovation at Michigan State University, he travelled to Japan as his wife's dependent in 1971. While she taught English, he worked as a Research Associate at Kwansei Gakuin University, studying non-verbal behaviour and beginning his first cross-cultural studies. These continued for the next 35 years, focusing on Chinese social behaviour during his first, full-time academic position at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He moved to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2009 where he is now Chair Professor of Applied Social Sciences.