Outputs (6)

Republican personality cults in wartime China: contradistinction and collaboration (2015)
Journal Article

This paper explores the development of the Wang Jingwei personality cult during the Japanese occupation of China (1937–1945). It examines how the collaborationist Chinese state led by Wang sought to distinguish its figurehead from the person he had r... Read More about Republican personality cults in wartime China: contradistinction and collaboration.

Intra- and inter-regional research collaboration across organizational boundaries: Evolving patterns in China (2015)
Journal Article

Both intra-regional and inter-regional research collaboration are significant determinants for regional innovation. However, systematic and empirical studies have seldom been reported integrating both of them. The present study advances a research ag... Read More about Intra- and inter-regional research collaboration across organizational boundaries: Evolving patterns in China.

Variations in village migration profiles in rural China? an analysis based on the second national agricultural census data (2015)
Journal Article

Relatively little attention is paid to variations in rural migration at the village level even though labor supplying villages present considerable diversity in economic and development profiles. This paper examines the relationships between labor an... Read More about Variations in village migration profiles in rural China? an analysis based on the second national agricultural census data.

Gerschenkron Redux? Analysing New Evidence on Joint-Stock Enterprise in Pre-War Shanghai: Joint-Stock Enterprise in Pre-war Shanghai (2015)
Journal Article

Alexander Gerschenkron (1904–78) famously postulated that the more backward an economy was at the outset of industrialisation, the more reliant it would be on state-backed banks as a means of directing investment. Gerschenkron thereby implied that im... Read More about Gerschenkron Redux? Analysing New Evidence on Joint-Stock Enterprise in Pre-War Shanghai: Joint-Stock Enterprise in Pre-war Shanghai.

Chiang Kai-shek’s “secret deal” at Xian and the start of the Sino-Japanese War (2015)
Journal Article

Using newly available archives, particularly the diary and the presidential papers of Chiang Kai-shek, this article challenges the conventional interpretations of the Xian Incident (1936), in particular the widely held belief that the kidnapping of C... Read More about Chiang Kai-shek’s “secret deal” at Xian and the start of the Sino-Japanese War.

Rethinking the "mirroring" hypothesis: implications for technological modularity, tacit coordination, and radical innovation (2015)
Journal Article

Studies of the 'mirroring' hypothesis have demonstrated the relationships between technological modularity and explicit coordination, yet little is known about the 'mirroring' relationship between technological modularity and tacit coordination, and... Read More about Rethinking the "mirroring" hypothesis: implications for technological modularity, tacit coordination, and radical innovation.