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Republican personality cults in wartime China: contradistinction and collaboration (2015)
Journal Article
Taylor, J. E. (2015). Republican personality cults in wartime China: contradistinction and collaboration. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 57(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417515000249

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
Sun, Y., & Cao, C. (2015). Intra- and inter-regional research collaboration across organizational boundaries: Evolving patterns in China. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 96, 215-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2015.03.013

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
Wu, B., Robinson, B., & Long, W. (2015). Variations in village migration profiles in rural China? an analysis based on the second national agricultural census data. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 24(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/0117196815579954

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.

Exports and FDI in China (2015)
Book Chapter
Zhang, J., & Zhang, X. (2015). Exports and FDI in China. In O. Morrissey, R. A. López, & K. Sharma, (Eds.), Handbook on trade and development. Edward Elgar

Since it adopted open-door policy and launched economic reforms in 1978, China’s exports, inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and economy have grown rapidly. China has become the largest exporter since 2009 and its exports have grown much faster t... Read More about Exports and FDI in China.

Gerschenkron Redux? Analysing New Evidence on Joint-Stock Enterprise in Pre-War Shanghai: Joint-Stock Enterprise in Pre-war Shanghai (2015)
Journal Article
Horesh, N. (2015). Gerschenkron Redux? Analysing New Evidence on Joint-Stock Enterprise in Pre-War Shanghai: Joint-Stock Enterprise in Pre-war Shanghai. Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, 29(1), 25-46. https://doi.org/10.1111/apel.12089

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.

Growing or perishing? The development of labour NGOs (2015)
Book Chapter
Lee, C. (2015). Growing or perishing? The development of labour NGOs. In A. Fulda (Ed.), Civil society contributions to policy innovation in the PR China: environment, social development and international cooperation. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137518644

It is not easy to set up non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in China. They have to register with the government and, for a long time, the government subjected them to a complicated qualification system. They could not register with the Ministry of... Read More about Growing or perishing? The development of labour NGOs.

Chiang Kai-shek’s “secret deal” at Xian and the start of the Sino-Japanese War (2015)
Journal Article
Tsang, S. (2015). Chiang Kai-shek’s “secret deal” at Xian and the start of the Sino-Japanese War. Palgrave Communications, Article e14003. https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2014.3

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
Hao, B., Feng, Y., & Frigant, V. (in press). Rethinking the "mirroring" hypothesis: implications for technological modularity, tacit coordination, and radical innovation. R&D Management, 47(1), 3-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12106

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.