From the Editors -- Authors' Biographies -- SPECIAL FOCUS: SOCIOLOGY FOR CHANGE --- GUEST EDITOR: KU HOK-BUN -- Hopeful Sociology for Change (Ku Hok-bun) -- Toward a Hopeful Sociology (Richard Madsen) -- Religion and the (Second) Axial Age: Comments on Richard Madsen (Chan Hoi-man) -- Chinese Religion and the Modern Moral Order: Comments on Richard Madsen (Chan Shun-hing) -- Rejoinder to Chan and Chan (Richard Madsen) -- Public Sociology on a Global Scale (Michael Burawoy) -- Voices from the Margin (Lui Tai-lok) -- A Will to Public Sociology: Parrhesia or Dialectical Regression? (Pun Ngai) -- ARTICLES -- Chinese Immigrant Women in Canada: From Professional to Family Careers (Janet Salaff and Arent Greve) -- Global Transformations and Rising Transparency: With Special Reference to the Recent Development in Four Chinese Societies (Burkart Holzner and Leslie Holzner) -- Where is the Stork? Sociological Insights into Barriers to Fertility in Singapore (Paulin T. Straughan, Angelique Chan and Gavin W. Jones) -- Decentering: The Rise of Hong Kong as a Network Society (Wong Siu-lun) -- REVIEW ESSAY -- Chinese Business Networks and Chinese Entrepreneurship: Myths and Partial Truths-A Review Essay (Chu Yin-wah) -- BOOK REVIEWS -- In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity: Labor and Gender Politics in Taiwan's Economic Restructuring (Tam Yuek-mui) -- Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization: A Comparative Analysis (Alex Chan Wo-shun) -- Unstructuring Chinese Society: The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of "Land" in the New Territories of Hong Kong (Alan Smart) -- The State and Life Chances in Urban China: Redistribution and Stratification, 1949-1994 (Wu Xiaogang) -- Moral Politics in a South Chinese Village: Responsibility, Reciprocity and Resistance (Wu Ka-ming) -- Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace (Janet Salaff).

State, Market, and Religions in Chinese Societies (Cheris Chan Shun-ching) -- Colours of Money, Shades of Pride: Historicities and Moral Politics in Industrial Conflicts in Hong Kong (Shae Wan-chaw) -- Notice to Contributors -- Notice to Subscribers.