Democracy in the age of negativity, abundance and hybridity
(2014)
Journal Article
Sullivan, J. (2014). Democracy in the age of negativity, abundance and hybridity. Taiwan Journal of Democracy, 10(2),
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1919 as watershed?: the Yokohama Specie Bank and HSBC in China (2014)
Book Chapter
Horesh, N. (2014). 1919 as watershed?: the Yokohama Specie Bank and HSBC in China. In H. Bonin, N. Valerio, & K. Yago (Eds.), Asian imperial banking history. Routledge
Growing fat on reform: obesity and nutritional disparities among China's children, 1979–2005 (2014)
Journal Article
Morgan, S. L. (2014). Growing fat on reform: obesity and nutritional disparities among China's children, 1979–2005. China Quarterly, 220, https://doi.org/10.1017/S030574101400112XEconomic growth over the past three decades has greatly improved the nutrition and living standards of people in China. However, increasingly, the Chinese are becoming heavier. As many as a quarter of Chinese school-age urban boys are overweight or o... Read More about Growing fat on reform: obesity and nutritional disparities among China's children, 1979–2005.
China scholars and the media: improving an awkward, important relationship (2014)
Journal Article
Sullivan, J. (2014). China scholars and the media: improving an awkward, important relationship. China Quarterly, 220, 1111-1122. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741014001477Public interest in China, as reflected in the level of media attention, is burgeoning in the West and elsewhere in the world. This interest is driven by China's increasing presence and importance in the lives of people around the world; and for the s... Read More about China scholars and the media: improving an awkward, important relationship.
Managing China's energy sector: between the market and the state (2014)
Journal Article
Lai, H., & Warner, M. (2014). Managing China's energy sector: between the market and the state. Asia Pacific Business Review, 21(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2014.939887As China has now become the largest energy consumer in the world, its energy sector has understandably huge domestic and global implications. In this Special Issue, which is an interdisciplinary one, comprising a set of eight in-depth empirical studi... Read More about Managing China's energy sector: between the market and the state.
Contextualizing the China dream: a reinforced consultative Leninist approach to government (2014)
Book Chapter
Tsang, S. (2014). Contextualizing the China dream: a reinforced consultative Leninist approach to government. In D. Kerr (Ed.), China's many dreams: comparative perspectives on China's search for national rejuvenation. Palgrave Macmillan
Urban wages in China (2014)
Book Chapter
Lina, S. (2014). Urban wages in China. In S. Fan, R. Kanbur, S. Wei, & X. Zhang (Eds.), Oxford companion to the economics of China. Oxford University Press
What determine firms’ capital structure in China? (2014)
Journal Article
Chen, J., Jiang, C., & Lin, Y. (2014). What determine firms’ capital structure in China?. Managerial Finance, 40(10), https://doi.org/10.1108/MF-06-2013-0163Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of capital structure using a cross-section sample of 1,481 non-financial firms listed on the Chinese stock exchanges in 2011. Design/methodology/approach: Employing four leverage... Read More about What determine firms’ capital structure in China?.
Understanding urban wage inequality in China 1988–2008: evidence from quantile analysis (2014)
Journal Article
Appleton, S., Song, L., & Xia, Q. (2014). Understanding urban wage inequality in China 1988–2008: evidence from quantile analysis. World Development, 62, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.04.005This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China from 1988 to 2008 by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition, finding sharp increases in inequality largely due to changes in the wage... Read More about Understanding urban wage inequality in China 1988–2008: evidence from quantile analysis.
Financial liberalisation and international market interdependence: evidence from China’s stock market in the post-WTO accession period (2014)
Journal Article
He, H., Chen, S., Yao, S., & Ou, J. (2014). Financial liberalisation and international market interdependence: evidence from China’s stock market in the post-WTO accession period. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 33, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2014.09.005This paper studies China’s stock market with respect to financial liberalization and international market interdependence after its accession to the WTO in 2001. Using the multi-factor R-squared measure, we derive a normalized index to measure the im... Read More about Financial liberalisation and international market interdependence: evidence from China’s stock market in the post-WTO accession period.
The gravity of China's African export promise (2014)
Journal Article
Johnston, L. A., Morgan, S. L., & Wang, Y. (2014). The gravity of China's African export promise. World Economy, 38(6), https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12229Africa’s largest trade partner, China, criticised for exchanging resources for manufactures, has promised to increase imports and optimise the structure of trade with Africa. Using a gravity model of China’s imports for the years 1995- 2009, we explo... Read More about The gravity of China's African export promise.
Rationale of internationalization of China's national oil companies: seeking natural resources, strategic assets or sectoral specialization? (2014)
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Lai, H., O'Hara, S., & Wysoczanska, K. (2015). Rationale of internationalization of China's national oil companies: seeking natural resources, strategic assets or sectoral specialization?. Asia Pacific Business Review, 21(1), 77-95. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2014.939896The bulk of the existing literature emphasized that China's companies sought strategic assets (technology, brands and access to markets) through internationalization in order to overcome latecomers' comparative disadvantage, while some studies sugges... Read More about Rationale of internationalization of China's national oil companies: seeking natural resources, strategic assets or sectoral specialization?.
Seafarer training and rural development in China: a survey report (2014)
Journal Article
Wu, B., Robinson, B., Chen, A., & Li, P. (2014). Seafarer training and rural development in China: a survey report. China, 12(2), https://doi.org/10.1353/chn.2014.0010So far, most studies of the relationship between migration and development in rural China pay attention to rural-urban migration. As a consequence, less is known about international labour migration and access to it by sending communities. This pheno... Read More about Seafarer training and rural development in China: a survey report.
Transformation of China’s energy sector: trends and challenges (2014)
Journal Article
Lai, H., & Warner, M. (2014). Transformation of China’s energy sector: trends and challenges. Asia Pacific Business Review, 21(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2014.939900The conclusions presented here sum up the contributions in the Special Issue regarding the managing of China's energy sector, particularly regarding the demand and profile of energy as well as the marketization of the sector. Strategic, organizationa... Read More about Transformation of China’s energy sector: trends and challenges.
Cartoons and collaboration in wartime China: the mobilization of Chinese cartoonists under Japanese occupation (2014)
Journal Article
Taylor, J. E. (2015). Cartoons and collaboration in wartime China: the mobilization of Chinese cartoonists under Japanese occupation. Modern China, 41(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/0097700414538386The work of Chinese cartoonists who published their illustrations in the popular press in occupied China from 1937 to 1945 has largely escaped the attention of scholars of both the occupation itself and the broader field of cartoon history. This arti... Read More about Cartoons and collaboration in wartime China: the mobilization of Chinese cartoonists under Japanese occupation.
Learning a lesson from Taiwan? A comparison of changes and continuity of labour policies in Taiwan and China (2014)
Journal Article
Lee, C. (2014). Learning a lesson from Taiwan? A comparison of changes and continuity of labour policies in Taiwan and China. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 43(3),This paper argues that the comparison of labour policies in Taiwan and China has an important bearing on the interaction between state and society. The fact that labour policies have changed over time illustrates a process of bargaining between the s... Read More about Learning a lesson from Taiwan? A comparison of changes and continuity of labour policies in Taiwan and China.
Deepening financial reforms in China (2014)
Journal Article
Luo, D. (2014). Deepening financial reforms in China. World Commerce Review, 8(2),
Examining "The end of revolution": a foretaste of Wang Hui’s thought (2014)
Journal Article
Horesh, N., & Sullivan, J. (2014). Examining "The end of revolution": a foretaste of Wang Hui’s thought. China Report, 50(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/0009445514523647Wang Hui is a significant contemporary Chinese thinker and a key representative of Chinese New Left thought. This article provides a critical review of some of the themes that emerge from Wang’s The End of Revolution as a means of situating his posit... Read More about Examining "The end of revolution": a foretaste of Wang Hui’s thought.
Technology, creativity and the media in engineering China’s future (2014)
Journal Article
Sullivan, J. (2014). Technology, creativity and the media in engineering China’s future. New Media and Society, 16(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444813519408Political, economic and intellectual elites in China have for some time been in the grip of ‘futurology’ as they reflect on thirty years’ of extraordinary economic development and ask ‘what next’? China has a dream, in fact it has many visions of wha... Read More about Technology, creativity and the media in engineering China’s future.
Tan Sitong’s ‘Great Unity’: mental processes and Yogācāra in ‘An exposition of benevolence' (2014)
Book Chapter
Pacey, S. (2014). Tan Sitong’s ‘Great Unity’: mental processes and Yogācāra in ‘An exposition of benevolence'. In J. Makeham (Ed.), Transforming consciousness: The intellectual reception of Yogācāra thought in modern China. Oxford University Press