With China's recent phenomenal growth, there is great interest in understanding the psychological and social processes that characterize the Chinese people. This book is the first of its kind - a comprehensive and commanding review of Chinese psychology, covering areas of human functioning with unparalleled sophistication and complexity.

• 1: Geoffrey Blowers: The continuing prospects for Chinese psychology


• 2: Ying-Yi Hong, Yung-Jui Yang, and Chi-Yue Chiu: What is Chinese about Chinese psychology and who are the Chinese in Chinese psychology?


• 3: Farhan Ali and Trevor Penney: The cultured brain: Interplay of genes, brain, and culture


• 4: Xin-Yin Chen: Social and emotional development in Chinese children


• 5: Qian Wang and Lei Chang: Parenting and child socialization in contemporary China


• 6: Ping Li and Hua Shu: Language and the brain: Computational and neuroanatomical perspectives from Chinese


• 7: Catherine McBride-Chang, Dan Lin, Yui-Chi Fong, and Hua Shu: Language and literacy development in Chinese children


• 8: Connie Suk-Han Ho: Understanding reading disabilities in Chinese: From basic research to intervention


• 9: Him Cheung, Fong-Ha Yap and Virginia Yip: Chinese bilingualism


• 10: Yu-Jing Ni, Ming Ming Chiu and Zi Juan Cheng: Chinese children learning mathematics: From home to school.


• 11: Li-Jun Ji, Albert Lee, and Tieyuan Guo: The thinking styles of Chinese people


• 12: David Kember and David Watkins: Approaches to learning and teaching by the Chinese


• 13: K-T Hau and Irene T. Ho: Chinese students' motivation and achievement


• 14: Michelle Yik: How unique is Chinese emotion


• 15: Kwok Leung: Beliefs in Chinese societies


• 16: Steve J. Kulich and Rui Zhang: The multiple frames of 'Chinese' values: From tradition to modernity and beyond


• 17: Virginia S.-Y. Kwan and James A. McGee: What do we know about the Chinese self? Illustrations with self-esteem, self-efficacy, and self-enhancement


• 18: Fanny M. Cheung, Shu-Fai Cheung and Jianxin Zhang: From indigenous to cross-cultural personality: The case of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory


• 19: Helene H. Fung and Sheung-Tak Cheng: Psychology and aging in the Land of the Panda


• 20: Luo Lu: Chinese well-being


• 21: Daniel Shek: The spirituality of the Chinese people: A critical review


• 22: Sunita Mahtani Stewart, Peter W.-H. Lee, and Rongrong Tao: Psychiatric disorders in the Chinese


• 23: Agnes S.-Y. Chan, Winnie W. Leung, and Mei-Chun Cheung: Clinical neuropsychology in China


• 24: Cecilia Cheng, Barbara C. Y. Lo, and Jasmine H. M. Chio: The tao (way) of Chinese coping


• 25: Winnie W.-S. Mak and Sylvia Xiaohua Chen: Illness behaviors among the Chinese


• 26: Charles C. Chan: Community psychology in Chinese societies


• 27: Wai-Sum Liu and Patrick W.-L. Leung: Psychotherapy with the Chinese: An update of the work in the last decade


• 28: Kwang-Kuo Hwang and Kuei-Hsiang Han: Face and morality in Confucian society


• 29: Hildie Leung and Winton W.-T. Au: Chinese cooperation and competition


• 30: Darius K.-S. Chan, Theresa Ng, and Chin-Ming Hui: Interpersonal relationships in rapidly changing Chinese societies


• 31: Catherine So-kum Tang, Zhiren Chua, and Jiaqing O: A gender perspective on Chinese social relationships and behavior


• 32: Xu Shi and Bing Feng: Chinese cultural psychology and contemporary communication


• 33: Isabel Wing-Chun Ng: Chinese political psychology: Political participation in Chinese societies


• 34: James Liu, Mei-Chih Li, and Xiao-Dong Yue: Chinese intergroup relations and social identity


• 35: Chao C. Chen and Jiing-Lih Farh: Developments in Chinese leadership: Paternalism and its elaborations, moderations, and alternatives


• 36: Robert S. Wyer, Jr. and Jiewen Hong: Chinese consumer behavior: The effects of content, process and language


• 37: Gang-Yan Si, Hing-Chu Lee, and Chris Lonsdale: Chinese sports psychology


• 38: Colleen Ward and En-Yi Lin: Chinese acculturation and adaptation


• 39: Inter-cultural interactions: The Chinese context: David C. Thomas and Yuan Liao


• 40: On the distinctiveness of Chinese psychology: Or, are we all Chinese?: 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.