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Chinese investment in Taiwan: challenge or opportunity for Taiwan’s high-technology industrial development? (2017)
Journal Article
Lee, C., & Yin, M. (in press). Chinese investment in Taiwan: challenge or opportunity for Taiwan’s high-technology industrial development?. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 46(1),

Cross-Strait economic activities are no longer one-directional. The Taiwanese government opened the doors to Chinese investment in 2009. The aim of this paper is to address the crucial question: What are the impacts of Chinese investment on Taiwan’s... Read More about Chinese investment in Taiwan: challenge or opportunity for Taiwan’s high-technology industrial development?.

The ‘Singapore Fever’ in China: policy mobility and mutation (2016)
Journal Article
Lim, K. F., & Horesh, N. (in press). The ‘Singapore Fever’ in China: policy mobility and mutation. China Quarterly, 228, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741016001120

The ‘Singapore Model’ has constituted the only second explicit attempt by the Communist Party of China (CPC) to learn from a foreign country following Mao Zedong’s pledge to contour ‘China’s tomorrow’ on the Soviet Union experience during the early 1... Read More about The ‘Singapore Fever’ in China: policy mobility and mutation.

Gendered Archetypes of Wartime Occupation: ‘New Women’ in Occupied North China, 1937–40 (2016)
Journal Article
Taylor, J. E. (2016). Gendered Archetypes of Wartime Occupation: ‘New Women’ in Occupied North China, 1937–40. Gender and History, 28(3), 660-686. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12244

This article examines the creation and use of gendered archetypes by the Provisional Government of the Republic of China (PGROC), the first collaborationist government established in China following the Japanese invasion of 1937. Drawing on a wide ra... Read More about Gendered Archetypes of Wartime Occupation: ‘New Women’ in Occupied North China, 1937–40.

How networks influence radical innovation: the effects of heterogeneity of network ties and crowding out (2016)
Journal Article
Feng, Y. (2016). How networks influence radical innovation: the effects of heterogeneity of network ties and crowding out. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 31(6), https://doi.org/10.1108/JBIM-09-2012-0165

Purpose – This paper aims to offer a novel set of insights to understand the role of network ties in pursuit of radical innovation. In this sense, the purpose of the study is to analyze how the heterogeneity in the content of network ties affects rad... Read More about How networks influence radical innovation: the effects of heterogeneity of network ties and crowding out.

Dynamic relationship between China’s inward and outward foreign direct investments (2016)
Journal Article
Yao, S., Wang, P., Zhang, J., & Ou, J. (2016). Dynamic relationship between China’s inward and outward foreign direct investments. China Economic Review, 40, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2016.05.005

This paper studies the dynamic relationship of China’s inward and outward foreign direct investments (FDI). It first identifies the key determinants of China’s outward FDI (OFDI) in 172 host countries during 2003-09 using a partial stock adjustment m... Read More about Dynamic relationship between China’s inward and outward foreign direct investments.

Chinese student migration, social networking, and local engagement in the UK (2016)
Journal Article
Wu, B. (2016). Chinese student migration, social networking, and local engagement in the UK. Journal of Chinese Overseas, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341316

The unprecedented growth in the number of Chinese international students since the twenty-first century raises questions about their links to and impact on local communities in host countries. Viewing Chinese students as an important part of diaspori... Read More about Chinese student migration, social networking, and local engagement in the UK.

Global financial crisis and China’s pawnbroking industry (2016)
Journal Article
Zhou, L., Yao, S., Wang, J., & Ou, J. (2016). Global financial crisis and China’s pawnbroking industry. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 14(2), 151-164. https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2016.1173465

In most countries, pawnbroking is an intermediate financial instrument to help private households or individuals meet their short-term and urgent consumption needs. In China, due to market imperfection and institutional discrimination against the sma... Read More about Global financial crisis and China’s pawnbroking industry.

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.