CTR OF ASIAN STUDIES
| Researcher : Astarita C |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Astarita C., Book Review on Harmony and Development, Asean-China Relations and China-Asean Relations: Economic and Legal Dimensions , China Perspective. Hong Kong, China Perspective, 2009, 3, issue 73: 123-125. |
| Astarita C., The Ambiguities in the China-India Relationship, The Role of the European Union in Asia China and India as Strategic Partners. FarnhamSurrey England, UK, Ashgate, 2009, 189-209. |
| Researcher : Chang DO |
| Project Title: | Transformation of Labour: Asian Developing Countries in Globalisation |
| Investigator(s): | Chang DO |
| Department: | Ctr of Asian Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research |
| Start Date: | 03/2007 |
| Abstract: |
| (1) To Conribute to a more adequate theorisation of the social dimension of globalisation in Asia. (2) To assess the current transformation of work in developing countries in relation to the growing mobility of capital and integration of Asia into a globalised production system. (3) To assess the potential role of institutions of the labour movement, including non-governmental organisations and trade unions, in preventing deterioration of working and living conditions of the working population in Asian developing countries. (4) To draw conclusions for national and international development agencies regarding the labour policies for more balanced and sustainable social development in globalising Asia. (5) To contribute to the building of research capacity at the local level in the targeted countries by collaborating with local research organisations, including trade unions and research institutes. |
| Project Title: | Asia in the Global Factory |
| Investigator(s): | Chang DO, Zheng VWT, Ho CT |
| Department: | Ctr of Asian Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 11/2007 |
| Abstract: |
| This research aims to identify Asia’s place in contemporary global capitalist development by addressing the way in which Asian economies are being continuously integrated into and reinforcing the ‘global factory’. The theory of the ‘global factory’ lies at the core of this project both as a basic theoretical framework and as a theory to be built up and deepened as a result of this research. As a starting point, the global factory refers not only to a worldwide structure of capitalist production and circulation in which different industries and productions are webbed by ‘global supply chains’, but also a global system where non-capitalist value form of ‘living’ and ‘working’ hardly survives across the globe. In the global factory, the logic of capitalist social relations, which was previously contained within ‘industrial’ time and space, overflows into the entire time-space dimensions of society. In this sense, the global factory is a geographical as well as sociological expression of present-day capitalism in which human livelihood is increasingly subsumed to the circuit of capital. Our major research questions are: ‘What is Asia for the global factory and how the global factory continuously projects itself in Asia?’ The proposed research will be the first step of addressing these questions. We do so by focusing on the first generation of newly industrialising countries, Korea and Taiwan. The concrete objectives of this research are: 1) To identify the internal dynamics and external context of Korean and Taiwanese development that enabled them to be active and integral parts of the global factory 2) To measure current contributions of the two economies to reinforcing the global factory within and beyond their territories 3) To grasp the way in which the global factory projects itself in both societies. This research project is the first part of a wider project that involves the 1st (Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore), 2nd (Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia) and third generation (China, India) of the industrialising countries in Asia as well as small but highly export-oriented economies such as Sri Lanka and Cambodia. The research team will seek other external funding for the wider project, in corporation with Korean and Taiwanese researchers who share the global factory approach. The background of the proposed research is a reinterpretation of the socio-economic history of East Asia in the context of the developing global factory. Asian countries played important but passive roles in making capitalist way of living ‘universal’ in industrialised countries in the West during the earlier colonial expansion. They provided markets, natural resources, plantation labour, and last but not least the impetus of competition for colonies among the western empires. The politics of the Cold War and the triplanetary world order along the first, second and third world then dominated Asia. Asia was divided into three parts according to the Cold War geopolitics: America’s Asia, communist Asia and the third world Asia. It was only America’s Asia in the Far East that achieved sizeable early capital accumulation through the US-Japan-Asia triangle regime of accumulation and under the auspice of the US that offered those countries preferential treatment to the US market, official loans and financial aids. Internally, the civil wars resulted in a peculiar national social dynamics in which a particular mobilisation of capital and labour emerged. The reproduction of capital relations was highly politicised around the excessively equipped authoritarian state apparatus, a partial picture of which has been captured by ‘developmental state theories’. From the Western side, the global factory was driven by capital’s expansionist response to the costly political integration of labour into national reproductive system and the serious overaccumulation problem. On the other hand, over the period from early 20th Century to the 60s, capitalist labour was being standardised and deskilled with the full-scale mechanisation of factory. This recomposition of labour made possible for manufacturing capital to grow, targeting the world market, in the countries without skilled labour in the traditional sense. On this basis started developing a systemise mass production of world scale with East Asian producers including Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore on the one hand, and US and European consumer market on the other. This system later developed into a ‘triangular structure’ of East Asian manufacturing capital, western financial capital and mass-market, and workers in the Asian developing countries. This was again a consequence of the expansionist response of East Asian capital to labour shortage, increasing social cost of labour with emerging class conflicts, and growing cost pressure caused by the fierce competition in the western markets. It was this triangular system that led to the full blossom of the global factory which integrates almost all countries in Asia, now including China and India. The international division of labour, which was found new in the 60s and understood as a strategic division between different competitive factors of production for particular manufacturing industries, has been finally internalised in everyday life of world population. Now individuals exist as nodes of extended value chains. As the organic relations between different nodes of the global factory deepened, each of them has become an inseparable part of the world-space of accumulation. It is in this context that the first generation of the newly industrialising countries in Asia became now not only an integral part but also very active builders of the maturing global factory. Constructing the global factory is indeed as much an issue of division as an issue of integration. While the global factory projects itself in Korean and Taiwanese society by building up hierarchical relations between segmented subjects of the global production and consumption within the societies, Korea and Taiwanese TNCs are building up a new regional division of production by exploiting uneven development in the region. The industrialisation in Asia under the global factory can no longer be understood as a simple result of expanding western civilisation or of the omnipotent power of western TNCs. It is in this sense that the proposed research will make timely contribution to theories of contemporary Asian development. |
| Researcher : Cheng LMCW |
| Project Title: | Television Drama in Greater China |
| Investigator(s): | Cheng LMCW |
| Department: | Ctr of Asian Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research |
| Start Date: | 04/2009 |
| Abstract: |
| The rise of TV culture amongst different regions in the Greater China area requires broader coverage and more elaborate in-depth theoretical exploration. The proposed project to study popular TV drama in the Greater China area will have the following objectives: (1) Why some television dramas are more popular. The meaning of popularity goes beyond a production process that responds successfully to market forces. The popularity of a work of art often suggests layers of semiotic undercurrents in which complicated social messages and values are identified by its audiences. This project will examine the relationship between social identity and the consumption of mass culture (in our case, television drama). It will investigate how far successful commercially driven television productions reflect the public aspirations of the period. (2) How television dramas reflect socio-political undercurrents. Working in parallel with the first objective, the second objective is to explore the ties between television dramas and their "native" socio-political landscape. The various social messages imprinted in the television dramas will be examined for the socio-political implications these messages convey to the public and their social impact on local/neighbouring society. (3) In what ways television drama production achieves its distinct local cultural character. The present state of TV culture(s) in Asian countries and cities suggests that television drama is more than a commercial production with a strictly local target audience. The success of a local TV drama in attracting audiences in neighbouring regions often yields unexpected commercial returns. The producer, actors/actresses and director of a successful "local" TV production usually gain opportunities to undertake a larger scale production designed for "foreign" as well as "local" consumption. In order to translate a distinct local identity for its overseas/global audiences, institutionalization in television production and development of stars requires an appropriate marketing strategy. The third objective of the project is to examine how the institutionalization of TV culture(s) addresses the challenge of adjusting a unique national/local character. (4) Why social-literary theory is important to the study of TV culture In Terry Eagleton's criticism against the study of contemporary culture, he asserts that cultural phenomena often point to complex and compressed social realities which involves history, economics and politics (Eagleton: 2003). Like any other theoretical reception of creative products, to apply textual analysis to television drama requires a critical dimension. The final objective of this proposed project is to position social and literary theory for the more effective study of television culture in Greater China. By doing so, it should be possible to link the study of the television drama in Chinese speaking regions to the existing literature on television culture. |
| Researcher : Chin JK |
| Project Title: | Transnational Entrepreneurship and Ethnic Networks: Chinese Migrant Community in Cambodia |
| Investigator(s): | Chin JK |
| Department: | Ctr of Asian Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research |
| Start Date: | 04/2009 |
| Abstract: |
| The ethnic Chinese in Cambodia formed the country's largest ethnic minority with 60 percent of the Chinese are urban residents engaged mainly in commerce and the other 40 percent in the rural area. Since the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, the once stricken or even perished Chinese community under Pol Pot has been rejuvenating with large number of new Chinese migrant influx from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Companies set up by Chinese migrants can now be seen almost in every city and town of the country, particularly in Phnom Penh. Chinese entrepreneurs own, operate, and built factories, banks, hospitals, restaurants, hotels, discos and casinos in the country. In the meantime, a great many of Chinese skilled labours have been recruited to work in the garment factories owned by entrepreneurs from Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China. Even the triads, mafia and prostitutes from Taiwan and the Chinese mainland have managed to settle down in Cambodia. As admitted by a Congressman of Cambodia, new migrants from China and their enterprises are playing a very important role in Cambodia’s economy as majority of the revenue of the country relies on the duties levied upon them. On the other hand, an extensive ethnic Chinese business network ranging from major cities of mainland China and Hong Kong to ASEAN countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia has gradually been formed with Phnom Penh as one of the key regional headquarters. In other words, the rapid flow of capital, information, goods, and new Chinese migrants in Cambodia over the past decade makes its impact strongly felt on Cambodia’s economy and society, which calls for academic attention and study. |
| Project Title: | Rising Dragon, Soaring Bananas, International Conference 2009 Chinese New Migrants in Cambodia: A Preliminary Study |
| Investigator(s): | Chin JK |
| Department: | Ctr of Asian Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 07/2009 |
| Completion Date: | 07/2009 |
| Abstract: |
| N/A |
| Project Title: | Maritime Trade between Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, 1842-1939 |
| Investigator(s): | Chin JK |
| Department: | Ctr of Asian Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 12/2009 |
| Abstract: |
| 1) To build a research database through a chronological search and systematic amassment of historical records and statistics on the shipping and maritime trade between Hong Kong and various port cities of Southeast Asia from relevant colonial archives, customs reports, local newspapers, almanacs, and directories of commerce collected in Hong Kong, and countries of Southeast Asia, in the hope of laying a solid foundation for long-term, in-depth research on the economic history of Hong Kong. 2) To analyze the developments and changes of maritime trade between Hong Kong and Southeast Asia from 1842 to 1939, with a focus on a number of staple commodities such as rice, sugar, opium, rattans, sandalwood, and seafood. 3) To analyze the composition of, and the role played by, different merchant groups involved in the maritime trade. 4) To conceptualise Chinese business networks and Chinese transnational entrepreneurship through an empirical, critical and analytical study of a number of Chinese migrant communities based in Siam (Thailand), Saigon, Burma (Myanmar), Singapore and Hong Kong. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Chin J.K., "Chinese New Migrants in Cambodia: A Preliminary Study" , Rising Dragon, Soaring Bananas, International Conference, 17-19 July 2009 . Auckland, New Zealand, 2009, 23 pages. |
| Chin J.K., Ho C.T. and Lau E.F.C., New Emigration From Hong Kong, Macau And Taiwan: 1980-2005”, Co-authored With Quian Jiang And Ernest Lau, 1980-2005年香港、澳門、台灣之海外移民, In: Chin Kong and Ji Zong'an, Overseas Chinese Studies. 世界華僑華人研究, Guang Zhou, Jinan University Press, 2009, 2: 103-151. |
| Researcher : Davies SNG |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Davies S.N.G., Lai L.W.C. and Tan Y.K., Small World War II Coastal Gun Casemates, Pillboxes, and Open Machine Gun Positions on Hong Kong Island in Photos, Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 2009, 49: 57-91. |
| Researcher : Guan W |
| Project Title: | Succession of Enterprise Leadership and the Principles of Organization: A Study of the Sumitomo Group |
| Investigator(s): | Guan W |
| Department: | Ctr of Asian Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research |
| Start Date: | 03/2008 |
| Completion Date: | 02/2010 |
| Abstract: |
| The proposed project is a case study of the history of the Japanese business group Sumitomo (住友). The focus of investigation centers on the formation of the organizational foundations of the group. As part of a larger, comparative study on family business in East Asia undertaken collectively by scholars at the Centre of Asian Studies (HKU), this research has the following objectives. First, I will examine the relationship among the founding members of Sumitomo. An important feature of this company is that from its inception the succession of leadership has not followed closely the bloodline of the Sumitomo family. In fact the business enterprise under the Sumitomo family name has been a complex organizational form in which to pool assets and manpower from descendants of different families without blood ties for integrated uses. The business founder of the group, Rihee Soga, was an adopted son of the Sumitomo family, who came from a family running a small store selling books and medicine in the 17th century. He assumed the Sumitomo name after marrying a daughter of Masatomo Sumitomo, head of the adopting family. Based on the copper smelting and refining techniques developed by his own father Riemon Soga (who was a brother-in-law of Masatomo), he shifted the focus of family’s business activities to the manufacturing of copper products. That marked the beginning of the Sumitomo business empire and, equally importantly, initiated a succession and inheritance practice not bound by blood ties. Such a practice, while not uncommon among Japanese family business organizations, stands in sharp contrast with long-standing norms shared by many traditional Chinese family business organizations, which discouraged intermarriage between same-surname families (同姓不婚), restricted adoption of children from families of different surnames (異姓不養), assigned top priority to eldest male descendant in inheritance (嫡長子繼承), and limited inheritance to son(s) in exclusion of daughter(s) and/or to daughter-in-law(s) in exclusion of son-in-law(s) (傳子不傳女, 傳媳不傳婿). Investigating the internal dynamics of the formative authority relations and succession arrangements as well as the surrounding socio-cultural milieu during the early years of Sumitomo will not only help cast light on the origins of path-dependent business institutions in modern Japan but provide a useful benchmark for making comparison with China. Second, I will trace the process of leadership succession through generations in the Sumitomo Group. Among the major issues that I plan to explore are: (1) the composition and structure of ownership; (2) the relationship between the inheritance of assets and the succession of managerial leadership; (3) the relationship and division of authority between owners and top decision-makers and among themselves respectively; (4) the mechanisms by which the interests and concerns of major stockholders in the company were addressed and balanced; (5) the efforts to adjust and adapt ownership and authority arrangements in response to the challenges and opportunities that arose during Japan’s transformation into capitalism. Third, I will analyze the code book of Sumitomo’s organizational philosophy— Founder’s Precepts 文書院旨意書 (Monjuin Shiigaki). Written by Masatomo in the 17th century, this document constituted the spiritual core of a large body of rules and principles governing family relations and business activities developed and accumulated prior to the Meiji Restoration in 1868, which have since served as the most fundamental guiding force for the company’s organization and growth into the modern era. A close examination of its contents, manifestation, implementation and impact will likely cast useful light on the factors that have shaped the business practice of Sumitomo and sustained its organizational longevity. Fourth, through an analysis of the reforms that Sumitomo adopted in the governance of family relations and business practice after the Meiji Restoration I will explore the forces that drove family business to adapt and change from traditional to increasingly modern organizational forms. By looking at the case of Sumitomo, I will seek to understand (1) the causes and characteristics of the so-called “bureaucratization of family asset management” that figured prominently in Japan’s early capitalist development; (2) the tension, clash, as well as symbiosis and even fusion between the Anglo-American contractual model of internal organization and the Japanese-style practice of patronage and personalized subordination; and (3) the cultural roots of the “individualism” and “collectivism” embodied in these different models. Finally, based on findings from the work highlighted above I will reflect on the implications of the proposed case study for comparative research on Japanese and Chinese business organizations during the process of modern capitalist development. In particular, I hope to derive more revealing clues to understanding (1) how variations in historically rooted family institutions as well as the underlying cultural values and norms between the two countries may have defined the differences in the organizational strategies toward the challenges and opportunities faced by business people in pursuit of profits from increasingly extensive division of labor and specialization beyond the scope of the family; and (2) where and in what way such differences may have impacted upon organizational performance and longevity during the process of modernization and capitalist development. |
| Project Title: | Succession of Enterprise Leadership and the Principles of Organization: A Study of the Sumitomo Group |
| Investigator(s): | Guan W |
| Department: | Ctr of Asian Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research |
| Start Date: | 03/2008 |
| Abstract: |
| To study history of the Japanese business group Sumitomo (住友). The focus of investigation centers on the fomation of the organizational foundations of the group. |
| Project Title: | Pre-modern Family Institutions and Origins of Implicit Contract in Japanese Corporate Culture: A Case Study of the Sumitomo Group |
| Investigator(s): | Guan W |
| Department: | Ctr of Asian Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 12/2009 |
| Abstract: |
| To discern essential characteristics of pre-modern Japanese family institutions; to explore the ramifications of male heir adoption for the organization and governance of family business; to study the diffusion mechanisms of implicit contracting |
| Researcher : Ho CT |
| Project Title: | The Politics of Identity Formation: the Case of the Koo Family in Taiwan |
| Investigator(s): | Ho CT |
| Department: | Ctr of Asian Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research |
| Start Date: | 04/2009 |
| Abstract: |
| This one-year project proposes to use the case of the Koo family in Taiwan to examine the politics on formation of one's national identity. This proposal requests funds for interviewing, data collection for the project involving field works in Taiwan, and travel expenses for a conference called Banana-ISSCO to be held in New Zealand, in July 2009, in which, my paper entitled as "Negotiating Identity: a Comparison on Koo Chen-fu and Koo kwan-min" has been accepted by the conference organisation. |
| Researcher : Kao CS |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Ho C.T. and Kao C.S., The Era Of Professionalism And The Development Of The Family Business: The Story Of The Koo's Group, In: Tsai-man C. Ho and Louella Cheng, Economic Dynamism In The Sinospheres And Anglospheres: Identities, Integration And Competition. Hong Kong, Centre of Asian Stuies Occasional Papers and Monographs, 2010, 161: 333-367. |
| Researcher : Lau EFC |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Chin J.K., Ho C.T. and Lau E.F.C., New Emigration From Hong Kong, Macau And Taiwan: 1980-2005”, Co-authored With Quian Jiang And Ernest Lau, 1980-2005年香港、澳門、台灣之海外移民, In: Chin Kong and Ji Zong'an, Overseas Chinese Studies. 世界華僑華人研究, Guang Zhou, Jinan University Press, 2009, 2: 103-151. |
| Researcher : Lee PT |
| Project Title: | Advertising Banks in Hong Kong: An Illustrated History, 1920s-1980s |
| Investigator(s): | Lee PT |
| Department: | Ctr of Asian Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research |
| Start Date: | 06/2008 |
| Abstract: |
| (1) To study the marketing history of local Chinese, mainland Chinese and foreign banks in Hong Kong. (2) To study the business strategy of banks in Hong Kong despite of their ownership or nationality, (c) the characteristics of Hong Kong people in term of economic life. (3) To compare the policy of Hong Kong government in regulating and deregulating the local banking industry. (4) To study the business orientation of banks in Hong Kong towards drastic political and economic changes in China and the world. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Lee P.T., Between Networks and Institution: How Shanghai Commercial and Savings Bank Operated its Branches in the 1920s and 1930s?, The 15th International Economic History Congress, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 3-7 August 2009.. 2009, 18. |
| Lee P.T., Chamber of commerce and the political transformation in modern China. 商會與近代中國政治變遷, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2009, 198. |
| Lee P.T., Chinese merchants' politics and chamber of commerce, 中國的商人政治和商會, In: Lee Pui-tak, Chamber of commerce and the political transformation in modern China. 商會與近代中國政治變遷, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2009, 1-5. |
| Lee P.T., Choosing Colonial Hong Kong: Shanghai Banker after 1949 – The Case of K.P. Chen, Conference on Capitalist Dilemma in China’s Communist Revolution: Stay, Leave, or Return, Cornell University, 9-10 October 2009. . 2009, 25. |
| Lee P.T., Foreign Investment, 1800-1949, In: David Pong, Julia F. Andrews, Jean-Philippe Béja, Flemming Christiansen, David Faure, & Antonia Finnane, Encyclopedia of Modern China. Detroit, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2009, 2: 75-77. |
| Lee P.T., Merchants and networks of chamber of commerce in modern China, 近代中國的商人與商會網絡, In: Lee Pui-tak, The networks and social functions of chamber of commerce in modern China. 近代中國的商會網絡及社會功能, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong University Press, 2009, 1-5. |
| Lee P.T., Seventy-five Years of Hong Kong Manufacturing: Past and Present. 繼往開來──香港廠商七十五年(1934-2009), Hong Kong, Commercial Press (Hong Kong) Limited, 2009, 245. |
| Lee P.T., The Bank of China in the last one hundred years, 近一百年來的中國銀行, Public Lectures on Evolution of Chinese Finance and the Related Laws. Jointly organized by the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Public Libraries.. 中國金融及相關法制之演進專題講座系列, 2009, 65. |
| Lee P.T., The Chinese chambers of commerce in Hong Kong before the end of the Second World War, 二次大戰結束前的香港華人商會, In: Lee Pui-tak, Chamber of commerce and the political transformation in modern China. 商會與近代中國政治變遷, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2009, 91-104. |
| Lee P.T., The Fujian chamber of commerce and the business networks of the Fujian merchants in Hong Kong, 香港的福建商會和福建商人網路, The networks and social functions of chamber of commerce in modern China. 近代中國的商會網絡及社會功能, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2009, 131-146. |
| Lee P.T., The Han-yeh-ping Coal and Iron Co. Ltd. under the Anti-Japan Movement in the 1920s., 1920年代反日風潮下的漢冶萍公司, Workshop on the Japanese Enterprises in Modern China, University of Tokyo, 28 September 2009.. 2009, 9. |
| Lee P.T., The Hong Kong Product Expo and the ‘Industrial Politics’ in Hong Kong, 工展會與香港工業政治, The 15th International Economic History Congress, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 3-7 August 2009.. 2009, 10. |
| Lee P.T., The Shanghai Modernity in Hong Kong: A Transfer of Urban Culture in the Late of 1940s and Early of 1950s, Public Lectures on Material Culture of Shanghai and Hong Kong, organized by Hong Kong Museum of History. 2009, 6. |
| Lee P.T., The expansion of Guangdong merchants in the Bohai region of north China in the late of nineteenth and early of twentieth century: Case of the Tongshuntai Firm, 十九世紀末二十世紀初廣東商幫在渤海圈勢力的擴張： 以同順泰為個案研究, International Conference on Progress of Modernization and Development of Regions since the Ming and Qing Period. Organized by Institute of History, Tianjin Academy of Social Science, Tianjin, 17-19 August 2009. . 明清以來區域發展與現代化進程國際學術研討會, 2009, 6. |
| Lee P.T., The networks and social functions of chamber of commerce in modern China. 近代中國的商會網絡及社會功能, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2009, 190. |
| Lee P.T., the activity of Yi Wen in Hong Kong during the Cold War as viewed by his autobiography., 從《有生之年》看冷戰時期易文在香港的活動, The Third International Conference on the Urban Popular Culture in Modern China, 4-5 July 2009. Jointly organized by Normal University of Central China, Sichuan University, Normal University of Eastern China and Journal of Historical Studies.. 第三屆中國現代城市文化史國際學術研討會, 2009, 10. |
| Researcher : Sun WB |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Ho C.T. and Sun W.B., A Spell Breaker: The Dynamism Of The Koo Family, In: Yin-wah Chu, Chinese Capitalisms: Historical Emergence and Political Implications. UK, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 176-198. |
| Researcher : Wong SL |
| Project Title: | The Experiments with Democracy in East and Southeast Asia: Two Decades After |
| Investigator(s): | Wong SL |
| Department: | Ctr of Asian Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research |
| Start Date: | 03/2008 |
| Abstract: |
| To investigate historical and theoretical overviews on: (1) Evaluating East and Southeast Asian Democracies: institutions and practices; (2) Social and Political Developments; (3) Global and Regional Processes. |
| Project Title: | Rising Dragons, Soaring Bananas International Conference 2009 The Identities of Two Brothers: Robert Ho Tung and Walter Bosman |
| Investigator(s): | Wong SL |
| Department: | Ctr of Asian Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 07/2009 |
| Completion Date: | 07/2009 |
| Abstract: |
| N/A |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Guan W., Wong S.L. and Zheng V.W.T., Three Centuries of Succession in Beijing Tongrentang (in Chinese), 同仁堂三百年來的傳承, 華人家族企業的傳承研究, 香港, 香港大學香港人文社會研究所, 2010. |
| Zheng V.W.T. and Wong S.L., Ho Tung Family: Tradition and Inheritance, 何東家族的繼統與傳宗, In: Zheng, Victor and Mark Chow, A Study on Chinese Family Business and Inheritance. 華人家族企業傳承研究, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sceinces, 2010, 1: 36. |
| Zheng V.W.T. and Wong S.L., Ho Tung and His Compradorial Family Network , 何東買辦家族的政商網絡, Compradore and the Modern China . 買辦與近代中國, Hong Kong, Joint Publishing (Hong Kong) Limited, 2009, 1: 126-167 (in Chinese). |
| Zheng V.W.T., Wong S.L. and Hung E.P.W., Social Capital: A Hong Kong and Macao Comparison , 港澳社會資本初探與比較, The Stories of Twin Cities III: Politics, Economics and Social Development of Hong Kong and Macao . 雙城記III：港澳政治、經濟及社會發展的回顧與前瞻, Macao, Macao Social Sciences Association, 2009, 1: 399-428, in Chinese. |
| Zheng V.W.T. and Wong S.L., Stock Market Forces that have Transformed Hong Kong Family Businesses , 令香港家族企業脫胎換骨的股市力量, Hong Kong Journal of Social Scineces. 香港社會科學學報, Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong Press, 2010, Vol. 38: 29-58. |
| Zheng V.W.T., Wong S.L. and Sun W.B., Taking-off through the Stock Market: The Evolution of Chinese Family Business and Hong Kong's Regional Financial Position , In: Tsai-man C. Ho and Louella Cheng, Economic Dynamism in the Sinospheres and Anglospheres: Identities, Integration and Competition. Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, 2010, 1: 303-332. |
| Researcher : Wong SN |
| Project Title: | Pro-Taiwan Organizations in Hong Kong: A Historical Analysis |
| Investigator(s): | Wong SN, Ho CT |
| Department: | Ctr of Asian Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research |
| Start Date: | 04/2008 |
| Abstract: |
| To investigate historically the formation and development, the functions and changes, and the growth and decline of pro-Taiwan organizations in Hong Kong. |
| Researcher : Zheng VWT |
| Project Title: | Hong Kong as Financial gateway for taiwanese Enterprises |
| Investigator(s): | Zheng VWT, Ho CT, Wong SL |
| Department: | Ctr of Asian Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 10/2008 |
| Abstract: |
| 1) To review the intermediate role of Hong Kong in facilitating Taiwanese firms to start their businesses in the Chinese mainland; 2) To examine why Taiwanese companies choose to be listed in Hong Kong and how the public capital raised adds fuel to their expansion; 3) To understand organizational and managerial changes of Taiwanese companies after listing; 4) To probe the making of Hong Kong as a regional financial centre |
| Project Title: | 2009 Bananas-ISSCO Conference: Rising Dragon, Soaring Bananas Professional mainlanders in Hong Kong: Profile, Prospect and Problem |
| Investigator(s): | Zheng VWT |
| Department: | Ctr of Asian Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 07/2009 |
| Completion Date: | 07/2009 |
| Abstract: |
| N/A |
| Project Title: | Negotiating identities: A comparative study of threee generations of Eurasian women in Hong Kong |
| Investigator(s): | Zheng VWT, Wong SL, Cheng LMCW |
| Department: | HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci. |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 01/2010 |
| Abstract: |
| This project proposes a cross-generational comparative study of Eurasian women in Hong Kong to shed new light on the role of women in Eurasian entrepreneurial families. Key issues of this project are as follows: Female Lineages of the Ho Clan – Why study the women of a Eurasian entrepreneurial family in Hong Kong? The study of the female lineages of the Ho clan will explain the internal mechanisms of the social reproduction of the “rhizomic” entrepreneurial family structure. A “rhizome” refers to a plant that survives without a trunk; it sustains itself by stretching its branches in multiple directions. What kind of life patterns have these women followed? To whom and in what ways did they get married? These questions will reveal the dynamics within a “rhizomic” entrepreneurial family. Thus, their answer will clarify how the expansion of such “rhizomic” entrepreneurial family structure proceeds. Cross-generational comparison of Eurasian women in Hong Kong – How, if at all, have the social identifications of Eurasian women in Hong Kong changed over generations? Empirical findings on the different generations of Eurasian women figures in the Ho clan will serve as a primary source for a comparative study of the changes of social roles and identities of Eurasian women in Hong Kong. It shall give account of the means of survival these Eurasian women adopted, and the social impact they had on their families and communities. Bridging Hong Kong Society with Eurasian communities – Why does the Ho clan appear more entrepreneurial than other Eurasian families? In what ways has the Ho clan managed to survive while other Eurasian groups have faded from prominence? Unlike other Eurasian groups that have depended more closely on colonial governments or institutional employers, the Ho clan has long been primarily entrepreneurial. A comparative study of the social roles, experiences, and communities of Eurasian women (of the Ho’s and other families) and the social institutions with which they are involved may shed light on both the external and internal factors in Hong Kong society that have contributed to their uniqueness. Women's Identities amongst Eurasian Communities – Who are the Eurasian Women in Hong Kong? How can we explain their social-cultural experiences? Under what circumstances have they managed to make their voices heard? From the family to other social sectors, the social engagement of various Eurasian women figures will provide evidence of the survival strategies they adopted to cross social and cultural boundaries of class, race and gender. Their life stories will allow examination of how modern institutions offer space to assert one’s transitional identity into a local social identity, and how they generate social capital for their families. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Guan W., Wong S.L. and Zheng V.W.T., Three Centuries of Succession in Beijing Tongrentang (in Chinese), 同仁堂三百年來的傳承, 華人家族企業的傳承研究, 香港, 香港大學香港人文社會研究所, 2010. |
| Zheng V.W.T., Wong S.L. and Hung E.P.W., Social Capital: A Hong Kong and Macao Comparison , 港澳社會資本初探與比較, The Stories of Twin Cities III: Politics, Economics and Social Development of Hong Kong and Macao . 雙城記III：港澳政治、經濟及社會發展的回顧與前瞻, Macao, Macao Social Sciences Association, 2009, 1: 399-428, in Chinese. |
| Zheng V.W.T., The Chinese Equal Inheritance System and Economic Development, 華人諸子均分制度與經濟發展, In: School of Business, Hangzzhou University, The 5th International Symposium on Entrepreeneurship and Family Business, by School of Business, Hangzhou University. Hangzhou, China, School of Business, Hangzhou University, 2009, 1: 1-16. |