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RESEARCH PROJECTS Resettlement and Indigenous People: A Study of Long Geng Kenyah in Sarawak
Natural Resources and Human Subsistence " TAN Chee Beng Strategies in South China Between 10000 and 10 July 2000 5000 Years Ago CUHK Special Grant for Conducting Research Abroad in Summer " LU Lie Dan z FU Xian Guo* 1 November 2000 This project is an up-dated study of the Kenyah CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct people (an indigenous minority in Sarawak, Grants) Malaysia). Since my study in 1995, the people had been relocated to another site. The study investigates This project aims to investigate the environment, the initial effects of relocation on this people, and natural resources and human subsistence strategies sees how the people cope with their economic and during the period between 10,000 and 5,000 years social life in the relocated area. It contributes to the ago in South China, focusing in the Yong River study of indigenous people and development, and the valley in South Guangxi. This period was a crucial results are useful for comparison with the study of time in prehistory, particularly in East Asia, as indigenous people in China and elsewhere. agriculture occurred both in the Yangzi and the Theoretically the study contributes to the Yellow Valleys, with rice and millet being the major understanding of how disempowered people cultivars respectively. The emergence of agriculture articulate their local interests. was one of the greatest events in human history. It (SS00377) was based upon rice and millet cultivation that Chinese civilization was founded. Please refer to previous issues of this publication The progenitor of domesticated rice is the wild rice, a for more details of the following ongoing research grass still widely distributed in South China today. at the department: Yet evidence for the earliest rice cultivation to date are found in the Yangzi Valley. It has been argued Edition Title/Investigators that agriculture was only introduced into South China from the Yangzi Valley by around 5000 BP. Is this 1994-95 Youth in Hong Kong: Popular Culture, argument correct? Why, in South China, which is the Political Culture (SS94091) heartland of wild rice, rice farming did not occur " TAM Siu Mi Maria indigenously? What were the subsistence strategies for the prehistoric occupants in South China during 1999-00 Coming‘ Home’?: Cultural Identity of the period from 10,000 to 5000 years ago, when their Former Emigrants Returning to Post- neighbouring hunter-gatherers in the Yangzi Valley colonial Hong Kong (SS99006) became farmers? Did people in prehistoric South " TAM Siu Mi Maria China exploit wild rice? Did they also cultivate rice, or were they still relying upon hunting, gathering and 1999-00 Returned Emigrants: Issues of fishing? In each case, what were the causes for the Adjustment and Identity Among Former static, or changing economic activities? Those are the Immigrants in Hong Kong (SS99027) questions that this project will focus on. " TAM Siu Mi Maria (SS00939)
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RESEARCH PROJECTS 1 July 2000 Quality Education Fund, HKSAR Government
Construction of the Model of AMO for the Objectives: The project aims to develop an interactive Exhibition document to provide future school design parameters to guide school sponsoring bodies and design " HO Puay Peng consultants in undertaking future public sector school 1 June 2000 building design, in line with the latest development in education reform, community aspirations and Leisure & Cultural Services Department, international standards. HKSAR Government Targets and expected number of beneficiaries: Over 500 representatives from the following sectors, but To build a model of Antiquating and Monuments the outcome of the project will virtually benefit and Office building. have impact on all future school designs and their (SS99056) users: educational/ curriculum experts; education administrators/ school principals; parents; teachers; Photographic Documentation of Pictorial students; architects from private and public sectors; Decorations building consultants and contractors; urban planners; social workers/ psychologists; financial experts and " HO Puay Peng relevant statutory bodies and departments. 1 November 2000 Implementation Method: The proposed methodology Leisure & Cultural Services Department, of the project involves (1) research and consultation; HKSAR Government (2) surveys; (3) design workshops and seminars; (4) integration and design testings; (5) publicity and The project is to survey key chinese building in rural exhibition; and is intended to be carried out in Hong Kong for pictorial depiction. A database of collaboration with the Education Department and the representative examples will be compiled. Hong Kong Kong Institute of Architects. (SS00364) Process: The development of the design parameters contained within the document will adopt an open, A Model of the Development of Tsuen Wan interactive, participatory and community process, through further workshops and consultation involving " HO Puay Peng the aforesaid sectors. An essential element of the proposed project is to receive evaluation and 1 November 2000 feedback from participants for incorporation into the Leisure & Cultural Services Department, constituents of the school "design parameters". HKSAR Government (SS20004)
The research is for exploring the urban history of An Appraisal of Spatial Standards and Facilities Tsuen Wan for the purpose of developing an Levels of Elderly-care Architecture in Hong Kong exhibition of urban Tsuen Wan. (SS20011) " LIM Wan Fung Bernard z Ng Wing Shun Vincent* z LAW Lilian* Cartographic Survey and Recording of Haw Par 1 November 2000 Mansion and Tiger Balm Gardens CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Grants) " HO Puay Peng 1 April 2001 The key objective of the proposed project is to Leisure & Cultural Services Department, develop a document outlining the current Spatial HKSAR Government Standards and Provisions of Elderly-care Facilities in Hong Kong, with the aim to use such initial appraisal Survey and measurement of Haw Par Villa and Tiger outcome to propose any need of improvements in the Balm Garden. Documentation of existing house, spatial provisions, resulting in the review of the structures and garden features. current policy standards. The project is to be carried (SS20016) out in collaboration with the Services for the Elderly Division of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, Developing Innovative School Design Parameters and the Community Development Committee of the in Hong Kong for 21st Century Hong Kong Institute of Architects. There lacks in Hong Kong a common definition of " LIM Wan Fung Bernard the area standard for the elderly facilities, although a
Faculty of Social Science 546 Department of Architecture required area of 6.5m2 net floor area per resident is have sprung up in many parts of urban areas and the the minimum standard required for the licensing of harbour front, creating equally dramatic views private homes for the elderly. Such standards vary challenging the dominating natural features. As the greatly among the private, subvented and other NGO city continues to grow, more developments of institutions. The CUHK architectural team would significant scale, height and form will take place in carry out a "facilities appraisal" of the range of the coming years, affecting the visibility of city's currently provided elderly facilities to compare the encircling ridgelines. This tendency has become a existing area and spatial provisions, to identify the matter of great concern to some people, since it is not state of the problems and any provision deficiencies. simply an issue of view protection, but also an issue The outcome of the project is to provide an appraisal relating to future development of a large part of our document which provides elderly-care architectural city. This research study and symposium address this design spatial reference parameters to assist NGO issue directly, studying its implications and exploring sponsoring bodies and design consultants in possible ways to achieve the planning objectives undertaking future elderly-care facilities design, in through a variety of urban design, planning measures line with the latest development in "Care for the and development policies. Elderly" policy, community aspirations and (SS00846) international standards. (SS00979) Kowloon Bay Waterfront Development
Study on Housing Density in China " LUI Chun Wan Alex 1 May 2001 " LUI Chun Wan Alex The Real Estate Developers Association of Hong 11 October 2000 Kong Hopson Development Holdings Ltd. As a major city in the world, Hong Kong is blessed As China adopts a market economy, some with a uniquely beautiful natural setting. However, fundamental changes will take place in housing the development of waterfront areas have not yielded development. The market mechanism will influence satisfactory results in the past years. The research decisions by consumers, developers and the local has identified many key factors leading to such government. This research intends to study the failures in urban development, such as fragmentation factors derived from the market mechanism, which in government policies, lack of coordination between would influence the housing density in China in public and private developments, lack of urban future. It is important to examine the market design input in the planning process, lack of suitable orientation, to determine important factors which implementation mechanism. influence decisions by consumers and developers. Kowloon Bay Waterfront will be Hong Kong's last Based on these factors, the research intends to opportunity to have a desirable waterfront analyse the land take requirements to satisfy the development. The research has reviewed the market demand and finally to attempt to draw a government's plan for Kowloon Bay Waterfront conclusion on the amount of land required for critically and explored innovative planning and different types of housing. The results would be design concepts applicable to this unique site of great useful to academia, the consumers, the developers as potential. In order to realise these innovative well as the government. concepts, the researcher has explored various (SS00402) methods in implementation and finally proposed to establish a Development Authority for the Kowloon Ridgeline Controversy Bay Waterfront. (SS00958) " LUI Chun Wan Alex 1 May 2001 A Pilot Study on: Review of Daylight Factors Recommendable / Acceptable to Hong Kong in Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man Architects & Consideration of the Local Climate and Socio- Engineers (H.K.) Limited cultural Aspects Hong Kong is a beautiful city-towering Victoria Peak, " NG Yan Yung z CHAN Ying Keung (Dept of the harbour's expanse of blue water, the meandering Sociology) z TREGENZA Peter* coastline and the city huddling on the slopes, encircled by Kowloon's mountain range. After the 1 March 2001 war, economic development has taken off in Hong CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Kong, and particularly during the last several decades, Grants) the city has transformed into a world metropolis. Like many other world class cities, tall buildings
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It is important to provide adequate daylight to a more meaningful, dynamic, and humanly-scaled building interiors for health and safety reasons. urban groundscape. Researchers have indicated a close relation between The guidelines, in the form of careful, precise the biological well being and the amount of daily drawings and text, will aim to capture the character light dose required. In urban Hong Kong, buildings and spirit of the case studies as well as their facts and are typically spaced much closer together than their details. It is hoped that they will serve as both foreign counterparts. They provide a lower overall inspiration and reference tool for planners, architects, daylight performance. Under such a context, it is and students interested in obtaining greater insight perceivable that inhabitants of Hong Kong would into the design of the pedestrian realm in high-density demand a different level of daylight performance new towns. from their western counterparts. However, there has (SS00575) been no study to guide designers and law makers as to what could be considered minimum, adequate or Environmental Simulation for Investigating High- reasonable. This cross discipline study aims to rise Residential Building Block Design establish the minimum acceptable daylight performance (in terms of average daylight factors) of " TSOU Jin Yeu z ZHU Yimin z KAN Wai Tak residential spaces in Hong Kong. The study focuses Jeff z CHOW Ka Ming z LAM Fung Ki on mass and public housing for low and middle-low 1 July 2000 income groups. The minimum daylight standard will be the basis for establishing town planning and Donation from Jar-San-Lin Real Estate Co. Ltd. building design guidelines as well as assisting the law makers to make new laws to safeguard the health and Through various sources, one of the lands safety aspects of the living environment in Hong development companies in Taiwan, Jar-San-Lin Real Kong. Estate Co. Ltd. (甲山林房屋仲介股份有限公司) (SS00540) has learned that the research team in the Department of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Hong Kong's New Town Urbanism: The Kong, has developed advanced simulation abilities Forgotten Ground Plane and experience in many research projects regarding the built environment. Both parties found a common " SANDERS Nancy Margaret z LONNMAN interest in developing innovative approaches to Bruce Eric achieve environmentally responsible design in a high- density urban context. 1 March 2001 (SS20003) CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Grants) Please refer to previous issues of this publication for more details of the following ongoing research The success of great urban environments around the at the department: world, both new and old, is largely based on the quality and character of pedestrian activity at the Edition Title/Investigators ground level. Hong Kong boasts a dynamic, and almost unparalleled sky-line in terms of design 1998-99 The Vernacular Contained, a Study of innovation, but her "ground-line," largely ignored in Hong Kongs Container Architecture the design and planning process, increasingly offers (SS98024) little to boast about. " BERTIN Vito Daniel z GU Daqing z High-density new town developments exhibit a WOO Pui Leng particularly acute formlessness at the ground plane. Without clear and cohesive spatial definition, 1999-00 Testing Bamboo Reciprocal Frames pedestrians are left in a placeless and chaotic diaspora (EE99039) where civility is ignored and culture is absent. " BERTIN Vito Daniel z LONNMAN Greater design attention and planning of this Bruce Eric "leftover" realm is badly needed if new towns are to achieve identity and community. 1998-99 Vertical School: A New Urban Building In order to improve the design of contemporary new Type (SS98078) town urban form, the researchers propose to " CHAN Freeman Kaye undertake a detailed documentation and evaluation of open space systems and the design strategies that 1999-00 Siting of Schools: Implications for make them viable pedestrian environments. Time- Education Reform (SS99042) tested examples as well as fresh innovations within " CHAN Freeman Kaye z WONG Wai Southeast Asia will serve as the groundwork and Ho (Dept of Government & Public inspiration for a set of design guidelines for achieving Administration)
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" LIM Wan Fung Bernard z LEUNG 1999-00 The Feasibility of “Through-road” Basic Ka Yui Charles (Dept of Economics) Education (SS99048) z ZHANG Junsen (Dept of " CHAN Freeman Kaye z WONG Wai Economics) z WONG Wai Ho (Dept Ho (Dept of Government & Public of Government & Public Administration) z LEUNG Wing Chi Administration) Louis (School of Journalism and Communication) z LEE Paul Siu 1999-00 “Exploring Architecture and Designing Nam (School of Journalism and the Built Environment Programme” for Communication) Primary and Secondary School Students (SS99055) 1998-99 Ritual, Opera and Bamboo Structures " LIM Wan Fung Bernard z Ng Wing (SS98076) Shun Vincent* z Tang Man Bun " CHANG Ping Hung z LEE Tunney Stephen* Fee 1998-99 Development of Models for Teaching 1998-99 A Chain of Memory: Urban Study Along Structural Principles in Architecture Queen’s Road East (SS98025) (ED98031) " CHANG Ping Hung " LONNMAN Bruce Eric
1999-00 A Matrix of Hong Kong's Urban 1999-00 Expanding the Role of Infrastructure: A Planning Histories (SS99043) Study of Pedestrian Bridges in Hong " CODY Jeffrey William z Kong (SS99045) NACINOVIC Corinne " LONNMAN Bruce Eric z GUTIERREZ Laurent# 1997-98 The Meaning of Vernacular Environment: Culture and Architecture in Four Chinese 1999-00 A Pilot Study into the Feasibility of Villages (CU97221) Applying an Integrated and Total " HO Puay Peng z CHEUNG Chin Building Performance Method to the Hung Sidney (Dept of Anthropology) Evaluation of School Buildings in Hong z ZHU Guangya* Kong (SS99008) " NG Yan Yung z LIM Wan Fung 1999-00 Urban Structure of Old Lhasa (SS99044) Bernard z HO Hin Ming# z CHAN " HO Puay Peng Freeman Kaye z LAM Khee Poh* z LAWSON Bryan* 1999-00 Sustainable Urban Housing Design Strategy Development (SS99007) 1999-00 Review of Lighting and Ventilation " LIM Wan Fung Bernard z TSOU Jin Requirements of Buildings (SS99054) Yeu z KAN Wai Tak Jeff z LEUNG " NG Yan Yung z TSOU Jin Yeu Man Kit* 1999-00 Design Improvement of Airduct in 1999-00 Developing “Innovative School Design Residential Building (CU99097) st Parameters in Hong Kong for 21 " TSOU Jin Yeu z HO Hin Ming# Century" (ED99056) " LIM Wan Fung Bernard 1999-00 Beneath the Champion Trees (SS99046) " WOO Pui Leng 1999-00 Quality Education: Intangible Assets with Happy Returns (SS99049)
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Architecture,The National University of Singapore, Dept. of Architecture, Melbourne University. Singapore, 2001.01.18.
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their possible success in producing short-run RESEARCH PROJECTS forecasts. Second, this research employs the Granger (1980) multivariate causality framework rather than Estimating of and Testing for a Break in the bivariate models adopted in the previous Differencing Parameter investigations. This feature is important because statistical inferences drawn from a multivariate " CHONG Tai Leung causality framework are more reliable than those of a bivariate one. 1 August 2000 The outcome of this research will serve two purposes. Research Grants Council (Earmarked Grants) First, the empirical results based on this multi- country study should illuminate the causal (or A time series process yt is said to be integrated of temporal) ordering between consumer attitudes and d order d if (1-L) yt is stationary, where L is a lag household spending. Second, from a policy operator such that Lyt=yt-1. If the value of the perspective, an advanced warning from changes in differencing parameter d is not an integer, then the consumer attitudes that consumption growth is about process is said to be fractionally integrated. The to experience a new period of contraction or process yt is stationary if d<0.5 and nonstationary if expansion would be extremely useful for purposes of d≥0.5. Previous studies in the literature assume that economic planning. the value of the differencing parameter is constant (SS00962) over time, much less is known about the behavior of the process if d is unstable. This research aims to Volatility and Dynamics of Property Prices examine the behavior of a fractionally integrated process when the differencing parameter changes at " LEUNG Ka Yui Charles z KAN Kamhon* z an unknown time. The researcher will focus on the KWONG Kai Sun Sunny z TSE Chung Yi* estimation method of the unknown break date and the 1 September 2000 pre- and post-shift differencing parameters, namely d1 and d2 respectively. Three possible cases will be Research Grants Council (Earmarked Grants) studies: (1) both d1 and d2 are less than 0.5, (2) d1<0.5 and d2≥0.5; (3) d1≥0.5 and d2<0.5. The Property Prices are well known for their unusual researcher will also construct a user-friendly test for volatility and atypical dynamic adjustment. For the stability of the process. Asymptotic and small- instance, from the peak of 1997, the property prices sample distribution of the test statistic and estimators in Hong Kong and Thailand have experienced a drop will be derived. He will apply the test to the data sets of 50%, far larger than the drop in income. As used in the previous studies to check if those residential properties constitute probably the largest observations come from stable fractionally integrated share of the wealth of many households, any processes. significant adjustment in property prices translates (CU00369) into significant adjustment in their physical wealth. In fact, many cases of "negative wealth" (the value of unpaid debt exceeding the value of the housing unit) Can Consumer Attitudes Forecast Household have been reported in Hong Kong since 1998. Since Spending? A Multi-country Study many households are highly leveraged, with their purchases being financed through banks, a significant " KWAN Cheuk Chiu drop in housing price also poses a threat of large- 1 November 2000 scale loan default and bank failures. CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct The theme of the present project centers around the Grants) volatility of housing prices. The principal objectives are, first, to document the volatility of commercial The main objective of this research is to provide and residential property prices. Second, to build a some fresh empirical perspective on the causal dynamic general equilibrium model to study the relationship between consumer attitudes and causes of excessive volatility of housing prices. household spending. Since the existing studies on the Third, in comparing volatility between commercial subject deal solely with the U.S. index of consumer and residential housing prices, it is commonly confidence, it would be interesting to extend a similar observed that commercial housing prices are far more investigation to other economies. In this research, the volatile than residential housing prices. The data on the O.E.C.D. economies are used to examine researchers attempt to establish statistical evidence in their relationship. this regard, and use their model to study the The researchers' analysis differs in two important underlying reasons. Finally, they attempt to study if respects from earlier studies of the predictive powers mortgage financing is a cause of high price volatility of consumer attitudes. First, this research focuses on and whether there is any connection between such the causal relationship between consumer attitudes fluctuations and business cycles. and household spending in the long run rather than on (CU00329)
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discussion on this question. The general mood at Asset, Liquidity and Macroeconomics present is probably too sanguine for this sort of discussion. Nevertheless, optimism always needs to " LEUNG Ka Yui Charles be held within reasonable limits and potential crises 1 March 2001 need to be carefully identified. The significance of this study lies in both its CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct theoretical and empirical implications. The aim of Grants) this study is not to replace optimism with pessimism. Certainly we may stay optimistic. But we need also This project attempts to take a preliminary step to be aware of the potential limits of the information towards a satisfactory theory of housing and uses the economy, especially those which are likely to have theory to match the data, especially the economic devastating consequences, and to start thinking about success of the Asian countries in the late 80s and how to prevent their realization or, failing this task, to early 90s, and the subsequent Asian Crisis, both minimize their harmful effects on the world economy. qualitatively and quantitatively. Existing literature (SS00692) on housing is either silent on the housing price dynamics or the interaction of the housing market and Monetary Policy and Economic Stability in Open the aggregate economy, or both. This project intends Economies to improve along these dimensions. This project would also shed light on the study of the Asian " MENG Qinglai economies. In particular, a unifying theory which explains both the economic successes of the Asian 1 March 2001 countries before the Crisis is still in demand. This CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct project conjectures that the blooming of the real Grants) estate sector plays an important role. An unexpected downturn of the property price not only brings an Keynes' macroeconomic theory has had a profound negative wealth effect to house-owners, which leads impact on the economic theory and policy issues for to a decrease in consumption, but it also directly the last century. The significance of Keynesian squeezes the consumption on non-durables since theory is that government should have a large role to many house-owners have committed to pay their play in managing the macro-economy. Most major mortgages. Both data analysis and theoretical governments subsequently have utilized his theory as modeling will be provided to verify the conjecture. a useful guidance in handling the economies. Establishing a quantitative theory to explain the Studying Keynesian theory is nowadays still a must "Asian miracle" as well as the "Asian Crisis" goes for students of economics. beyond pure intellectual interest. It could also serve There are, however, some problems involved with as a mental laboratory to evaluate different Keynesian theory. First, the theory itself assumes at "stabilization packages" and thus provide some the onset that price level is rigid in the short run so guidance for future policy. that government monetary or fiscal policy may affect (SS00737) the economy by effectively influencing the demand side. Subsequent research work has tried to explain The Possibility of Economic Depression in A in theory why price level is sticky in the short run Globalized Information Economy (i.e., why the prices for most commodities do not vary considerably within not a long time). This body " LIU Chun Wah z LEUNG Ka Yui Charles of work has been termed as "New Keynesian 1 March 2001 Models". Another problem with Keynesian original work is CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct that in his model the economy is assumed to be Grants) closed, and that there is no international trade and capital mobility. Mundel and others later extended This project investigates the possibility of economic his work to open economies, and obtained invaluable depression in a globalized information economy. The insights. This extension is important because most Great Depression was a distant event that took place economies in the world are essentially open ones. almost seventy years ago. Our memories of the Studying in theory how government can do to disastrous event may appear even more remote at a improve the performance of the open economy time when the idea of information economy has system is both theoretically and practically necessary. created so much hope, partly confirmed as it is by the There has been work that uses New Keynesian remarkable performance of the American high-tech Theory in open economies, and in particular to study industry in the midst of the Asian economic crisis. A the implication of government monetary and fiscal worthy question is: will the advent of the information polices in such an environment. The major work in era render economic depression a thing of the past? this literature is summarized in Obstfeld and Rogoff So far few people have attempted any serious (1996). This body of work is relatively new, and still
555 Faculty of Social Science Department of Economics has a lot of work to do. One interesting issue is what accept a determinate equilibrium, can be a potential kind of monetary policies can stabilize or destabilize source of indeterminacy. This will allow for a richer the economy. In view of what has happened and is set of phenomena to be explained. In addition, they happening in real world economies (recent Asian aim to study the potential of monetary policy to serve financial crisis is but one example), such an as a selection device among different equilibrium undertaking is practically very important. The paths. Finally, they will use calibration techniques to researcher hopes to investigate in this area and obtain evaluate the models' performance in matching the results useful in real world open economies like Hong properties of aggregate data. Kong. The significance of the research project is as follows. (SS00521) Firstly, it will provide a complete characterization of the dynamics of monetary equilibrium models in the The Effect of Stock Repurchase on the presence of sustained economic growth. It will also Profitability of Technical Trading in Hong Kong demonstrate that in models in which unbound Stock Market accumulation is possible and nominal externalities are important, trend and cycles in aggregate activity " WONG Ka Fu z KONG Tze Shan can be simultaneously generated by the same 1 March 2001 endogenous economic mechanism. Finally, it will promote a better understanding of the Keynesian-type CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct stabilization role played by monetary policy. Grants) (CU00357) Technical trading rules generate signals of buy and The Impact of Twinning on Educational sell from the past price movement. They have aided Attainment the trading decisions of practitioners for several decades. Yet, the usefulness of technical trading " YUNG Chor Wing Linda z ZHANG Junsen strategies is still controversial in the academic field. Few of them study the sources of profit induced by 1 March 2001 the technical trading rules. This issue is important CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct because the profitability of technical trading rule is a Grants) piece of evidence against the efficient market hypothesis, which is traditionally believed by the This project proposes to investigate whether twins economists. In this paper, the researchers will have a special impact in determining their investigate whether stock repurchase has an effect on educational attainment. In order to do so, the first the profit of technical trading rules. objective of this study is to identify the twins (BS00883) (including identical or fraternal twins) who are recorded in the Chinese census data. The procedure Transitional Dynamics in Monetary Endogenous adopted in this project for the identification of these Growth Models: Theory and Evidence twins from census data will be the method introduced by Bronars and Grogger in 1994. The rest of the " YIP Chong Kee individuals (non-twins) in the census will then serve 15 August 2000 as a comparison group. The second objective of this study is to test whether these identified twins in this Research Grants Council (Earmarked Grants) project have attained significantly different levels of education than the non-twins. Recently, there has been a renewed interest in The finding from this study should add to our indeterminacy (i.e., the existence of a continuum of understanding on the response of the Chinese parents equilibria) in dynamic economic models. In towards twins. Upon the completion of this present particular, a strand of the growth literature uses proposed study, similar analysis can be used on indeterminacy to understand diverse growth Chinese twins in Hong Kong or Singapore (where experiences of countries with similar fundamentals. Chinese are a majority), as well as to other countries More specifically, the presence of indeterminacy can such as Australia, Canada, and the US (where provide an answer to the question: How could two Chinese are not a majority). Comparison of these countries, such as South Korea and the Philippines, results should provide a better understanding of the whose initial conditions were so close, differ so much impact of twins on educational attainment in different in their later growth performance? Indeed, in the cultural background. Besides applying to different presence of indeterminacy, two identically endowed countries, the methodology can also be applied to countries may choose different convergent paths; i.e., future studies on other issues of interests on twins. they may save and grow at different rates. Some of these interesting issues include possible In this research proposal, the researchers intend to relationship between education and earnings, and study how the introduction of money into a typical twins' effect on mother's or father's labor supply. endogenous growth model, which would otherwise (SS00569)
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" LEUNG Ka Yui Charles z KWONG Economics Reform and Labour Markets in China Kai Sun Sunny
" ZHANG Junsen z ZHAO Yao Hui* 1999-00 Increasing Wealth and Increasing 1 November 2000 Instability (SS99010) " LEUNG Ka Yui Charles CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Grants) 1999-00 Monetary Policy, Financial Market and Real Economic Activities (BS99020) Utilizing data from the urban household surveys " LEUNG Ka Yui Charles covering years since 1984 in China, the researchers will document changes in labor market and analyze 1999-00 Education and Economic Growth causes of the changes and consequences. Specifically, (SS99029) their purposes of the project are to: " LEUNG Ka Yui Charles z ZHANG (1) explore many aspects of the Chinese labor Junsen market that have not been discussed in the literature; 1998-99 The Determinants of Technical Change (2) document changes in labor distribution between in Hong Kong and Singapore High-Tech different sectors of the economy; Industries – A Comparative Study (3) analyze factors affecting the decision of (SS98013) employment choice; " TANG Sammy Hak Kan (4) document changes in labor market integration by analyzing wage differences between state and 1999-00 The Positive Political Economy of non-state sector employees of similar Intergovernmental Relations and qualifications and analyze factors behind any Regional Disparities in China (CU99119) progress or lack of progress in such integration; " TSUI Kai Yuen z WANG Youqiang (5) estimate changes in returns to education and z HU Angang* analyze factors influencing such changes; and (6) analyze how labor market changes occurs as a 1998-99 A Housing Price Index in Hong Kong – consequence of economic reform. A Repeated Sales Approach (SS98030) (SS00693) " WONG Ka Fu
Please refer to previous issues of this publication 1999-00 The Interdependence of Housing Prices for more details of the following ongoing research and Housing Price Index in Hong Kong - at the department: - A Spatial Hedonic Price Approach (CU99120) Edition Title/Investigators " WONG Ka Fu z MOK Man Kwong Henry (Dept of Decision Sciences 1998-99 TRIMs, TREMs, and Development and Managerial Economics) z Strategy: Applications to China's WANG Youqiang Foreign-Investment Policy (CU98032) " CHAO Chi Chur 1999-00 Does the Fisher Hypothesis Hold in Long Horizons? Evidence from Multiple 1999-00 The Role of External Sector in the Countries (SS99031) Chinese Economy: Simulations from a " WONG Ka Fu Macroeconometric Model of China (SS99009) 1999-00 Computational Complexity, Bounded " CHOU Win Lin Rationality, and Computational Economics (CU99083) 1998-99 Technological Gains and Trade " WONG Kam Chau Liberalization: An Empirical Analysis (SS98027) 1999-00 Protectionism and Financial Crisis: A " KWAN Cheuk Chiu Policy Analysis on the Barriers on International Capital Flows (SS99011) 1999-00 A Multivariate Cointegration Analysis of " YIP Chong Kee z ESPINOSA Wagner’s Hypothesis (SS99028) Marco* " KWAN Cheuk Chiu 1998-99 Ageing and Long-run Economic Growth: 1998-99 Price Volatility of Commercial and Theoretical and Empirical Analyses Residential Property (SS98028) (CU98027)
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" ZHANG Junsen z ZHANG Jie* 1999-00 Collection of Twins Data and the Return 1998-99 Labour Market Impact of the “Right of to Schooling in China (SS99032) Abode” Issue (SS98054) " ZHANG Junsen " ZHANG Junsen z LIU Pak Wai z CHONG Tai Leung z LEUNG Ka Yui Charles
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such that error analysis is possible, and such that RESEARCH PROJECTS corrections to positions can be appropriately propagated through the database. The proposed study Consultancy Study to Analyze Broad Land Use will concentrate on the conceptual and theoretical Pattern in Hong Kong analysis of MBGIS as well as its design. It will advance a conceptual framework for measurement of " FUNG Tung z NG Sai Leung location and a GIS design within which measurement can be linked to location and vice versa. It will 10 October 2000 depict in details how data and error can be Planning Department, HKSAR Government encapsulated, inherited and propagated through GIS operations in an efficient and effective manner. It This project aims at providing an analysis of the will show that measurement-based designs have broad land use pattern of Hong Kong through an major economic advantages, in addition to a more integration of satellite images, existing digital comprehensive approach to uncertainty analysis in databases and orthophotographs. By broad land use GIS. The project results will not only provide a more pattern, it denotes land use information to be solid foundation for basic research in GIS, but will generated at a scale of 1:75,000. The land use also enhance its practicality in local and global information to be produced includes a Land decision making with large spatial databases. Utilisation Plan together with a Land Usage Table. (CU00362) The Land Utilisation Plan depicts the spatial distribution of land uses whilst the Land Usage Table The Use of Native Vegetation Community as shows the statistical summaries of land uses. The Potential Tourist Resources and Cultural Heritage project duration is 5 months. Within this short period in the Fringes of Hong Kong Cityscape of time, this project makes use of advanced and appropriate remote sensing digital image analysis and " MARAFA Lawal Mohammed z CHAU Kwai change detection technologies together with Cheong z FUNG Tung geographic information systems to produce the Plan 1 November 2000 and Table cost-effectively. (SS20010) CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Grants) Strategy to Promote and Support Tourism in Tsuen Wan There is a great potential to promote and develop the eco-tourism potential of Hong Kong. About 70% of " LAM Kin Che the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is underdeveloped countryside land (Jim and Wong 1 October 2000 1996). 41% of the total area of the region is already Tsuen Wan District Council designated as country parks or areas dedicated to Sites of Special Scientific Interest. In an effort to This study investigates the strength, weakness, further enhance the concepts of education, opportunities and constraints of developing tourist conservation and recreation, the Agriculture Fisheries industry in Tsuen Wan. The project will assess the and Conservation Department has identified 14 sites tourist resources in the district, determines the with potential to be designated as country parks preference of potential clients and proposes measures (Planning, Environment and Lands Branch, 1993b). to manage these resources and promote tourism. These will further enhance conservation of the (SS20008) countryside ecosystem and boost the resources for outdoor recreation and local tourism. Analysis and Development of Measurement-based Within the existing underdeveloped countrysides of Geographic Information System (GIS) Hong Kong, there exist crescents of native woodlands (Feng Shui) located at the periphery of many native " LEUNG Yee z GOODCHILD Michael F* villages particularly in the NT. Most of these areas, 1 November 2000 either within or outside the country parks, are areas of outstanding natural beauty, or sites of cultural, Research Grants Council (Earmarked Grants) historical and scientific interset (Planning, Environment and Lands Branch, 1993a). These To overcome the difficulties in uncertainty native villages and the feng shui vegetation that management intrinsic to conventional GIS, the surrounds them date back to 100-200 years old. proposed project aims at the advancement of a novel These natural resources and relics of cultural heritage GIS design, termed "measurement-based GIS" are therefore valuable to the community as they (MBGIS), capable of handling errors in a more provide good resources for environmental and ethical effective and efficient manner. Measurement-based education while simultaneously promoting the virtues GIS is defined as retaining details of measurements, of conservation.
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This study will attempt to identify, classify and Please refer to previous issues of this publication categorize the settlements crescented by the feng shui for more details of the following ongoing research woods and the resources that will provide visual and at the department: aesthetic interest commonly found in these valuable cultural heritage that has a long history of Edition Title/Investigators environmental conservation ethics. Their understanding and effective categorization, will 1998-99 Impacts of Global Climate Change and help to intensify interest in them and promote outdoor Regional Land-Use Alteration on Water recreation and eco-tourism as a result of which will Resources in the Dongjiang (East River) further elucidate the potentials of a more Basin (CU98188) comprehensive and multidisciplinary research. " CHEN Yongqin David z FUNG (SS00883) Tung z LAM Kin Che z LEUNG Yee z CHEN Junhe* z XIA Jun* Public Perception on the Housing Policy in Hong Kong 1999-00 Parks and Open Space in Urban Hong Kong: Pollution Problems and Design " YEUNG Yue Man Solutions (CU99113) 1 April 2001 " LAM Kin Che z BANIASSAD Esmail (Dept of Architecture) CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Grants) 1997-98 Spatial-temporal Decision Support System for Dynamic Monitoring and Housing policy has been a platform of public Analysis of Air Quality in the South criticism towards the HKSAR Government since the China - Hong Kong Region (CU97229) handover. People seem to be unsatisfied with the " LEUNG Yee z LAM Kin Che z shifting and even contradicting housing policies from FUNG Tung z ANH Vo Van* time to time, which reflects the confusion of values among policy makers. Besides, the hope for recovery 1999-00 A Scale-space Filtering Approach to of the booming property market by which many Spatial Data Clustering (CU99136) people accumulate their wealth in the past, has been " LEUNG Yee z ZHANG Jiangshe* eroded to a large extent. People have grievances towards the government policy for the part of the 1993-94 Development of a Multi-Window System cause. Against this backdrop, it is important to for Exploratory Spatial/Temporal Data explore the public perception on existing housing Analysis (SS94005) policies comprehensively. The findings more or less " LIN Hui give insights to future housing policy direction. (SS00752) 1993-94 Design of a Multimedia-based Investment Environment Information Developing China's West: A Critical Path to System for the Nanchang-Jiujiang Balanced Natural Development Industrial Corridor of the Beijing- Kowloon Railway (SS94006) " YEUNG Yue Man z SHEN Jianfa " LIN Hui z SU Yafang* 1 May 2001 Donation from Lippo Fund for Urban Research 1998-99 Geographic Information Acquisition, Analysis & Application (PS98001) This is a major book project that attempts to " LIN Hui z AU Yuk Fai Kevin (Dept document, evaluate and analyze China's new policy of Management) z CHEN Yongqin initiative to develop its Western again. It involves David z LAM Chi Chung (Dept of the participation of about 30 authors from Hong Curriculum & Instruction) z LEE Kong and Mainland China to examine the challenges Yiu Bun (Dept of Information and opportunities of this new policy from a range of Engineering) z LI Duan (Dept of prospectives. It will follow a similar format to the Systems Engineering & Engin. previous volumes that the principal investigator has Management) z LIEW Soung Chang edited and published by The Chinese University (Dept of Information Engineering) z Press. It is expected that the new book will have a LU Qin (Dept of Computer Science large impact on academic and policy formulation. and Engineering)# z SHEN Jianfa z (SS00566) TONG Fuk Kay Franklin (Dept of Information Engineering) z TSOU Jin Yeu (Dept of Architecture) z TUAN Chyau (Dept of Decision
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Sciences and Managerial Economics) Geoinformation Sci) z YAN z XU Yangsheng (Dept of Auto. & Xiaohai* z LU Guonian* Computer-Aided Engin.) z ZOU Jun (Dept of Mathematics) 1999-00 A Tentative Study on a Hong Kong Database of Vegetation Species and 1998-99 A Joint Experiment on the L-SAR All- Biophysical Parameter Information from Weather Remote Sensing System for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data Landslide Monitoring in Hong Kong (PS99003) Region (CU98334) " LIN Hui z ZHANG Liangpei* " LIN Hui z GUO Huadong* z SHAO Yun* z CHEN Yongqin David z 1999-00 Applications of Magnetic Susceptibility WANG Changling* Measurements to the Monitoring of Heavy Metal Contamination in the 1998-99 Airborne Remote Sensing for Developing Marine Sediment of Hong Kong Hong Kong Spatial Data Infrastructure (PS99026) (EE98050C) " NG Sai Leung z CHAN Lung Sang* " LIN Hui z GUO Huadong* z SHAO Yun* z CHEN Yongqin David z 1998-99 Urbanization and Development in China: SUN Hanqiu (Dept of Computer Processes, Problems and Opportunities Science and Engineering) z ZHOU (SS98035) Qiming* z ZHOU Chenghu* " SHEN Jianfa
1999-00 Development of a Virtual Studio for 1999-00 Urban Economic and Spatial Designing the Ecological Security Pattern Transformation in Guangzhou and of the Country Park System in Hong Shenzhen (SS99012) Kong (CU99132) " SHEN Jianfa " LIN Hui z ZOU Jun (Dept of Mathematics) z CHEN Yongqin 1998-99 Urbanization and Governance in David z SUN Hanqiu (Dept of Zhujiang Delta: Analysis and Policy Computer Science and Engineering) Implications (CU98017) z GONG Jianhua (Joint Laboratory " WONG Kwan Yiu z CHU David For Geoinformation Sci) z YU Kim Yee# z SHEN Jianfa Kongjian* 1998-99 Urban Population Dynamics (SS98064) 1999-00 A Decision Support System for Coastal " YEUNG Yue Man z Richard Stren* Environmental Monitoring and z Charles Becker* Management of Hong Kong (PS99002) " LIN Hui z CHENG Tao# z GONG Jianhua (Joint Laboratory For
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Asian NICs in adopting reform measures that suit RESEARCH PROJECTS local needs. (CU00374) "Learning, Electoral Behaviour, and Democratization in Hong Kong" The Politics of Listing Chinese State Enterprises on Hong Kong " KUAN Hsin Chi z LAU Siu Kai (Dept of Sociology) " MA Shu Yun 1 July 2000 31 December 2000 Research Grants Council (Earmarked Grants) Research Grants Council (Earmarked Grants)
Unlike the study of electoral behaviour in Listing of Chinese state enterprises in Hong Kong consolidated democracies, a similar study in Hong began in the mid-1980s, first in the form of "red chip" Kong must start from the recognition that election is companies, and later through the issuing of "H- a young phenomenon. Thus, everybody has to learn shares". As of end of 1999, there were 42 "red chip" afresh. Also, one should not take the development of and 44 "H-share" companies. The project will study election as a respected institution for granted. Rather, the formation of these "red-chip" and "H-share" it depends on the results of collective learning. companies from a political perspective. It will use Successful institutionalization of election is important this case to examine the relative strength of the for the stability and performance of any new Chinese state. democracy. The researchers therefore propose to (CU00354) study the election in 2000 with an emphasis on political learning and its implications for the political Associational Revolution in China future of Hong Kong. (CU00359) " WANG Shaoguang z WANG Ming* 1 June 2001 Comparing the New Public Management Reforms Aspen Institute in Hong Kong and Singapore If there has been a "striking upsurge around the " LEE Wing Yee Eliza z HAQUE Shamsul* global in organized voluntary activity and the 1 October 2000 creation of private, nonprofit or non-governmental Research Grants Council (Earmarked Grants) organizations" (Salamon, 1994), it is quite important and timely to ask whether the "global associational This project aims to compare the New Public revolution" has reached China, the world's most Management (NPM) reforms in Hong Kong and populous country with a population of 1.25 billion. Singapore from 1980 to 2000 that have critically The purpose of this study to chart the overall scope, shaped their public governance. NPM reforms structure, role, and operations of the nonprofit sector originated in Western countries in the late 1970s, and in China, and to do so in a way that not only yields are often regarded as devices to facilitate the solid and objective information about China, but also withdrawal of the interventionist welfare state. makes it possible to undertake cross-society However, the objective, content, and significance of comparisons later. In addition to providing a detailed such reforms may be quite different in the case of overview about China's nonprofit sector, this study Asian countries, given the differences in their social, seeks to offer a conceptual analysis of the nonprofit economic, political, and cultural contexts. The sector within the context of the economic and researchers contend that the uniqueness of the political transformation that are taking place in China. reforms in Hong Kong and Singapore lies in the role In particular, this study will investigate how the they play in adapting the developmental state to economic transition has transformed the relations social and political changes that are generated by between the state and nonprofit organizations (NPOs). economic development. To illustrate their thesis, the It will also highlight the challenges that may be researchers will systematically compare the contents generated by such new state-NPO relations. and reasons for NPM reforms in Hong Kong and (SS00362) Singapore, and explain their similarities and differences in terms of the social, economic and Public Administration in the Age of Globalization: political development of the two places. The findings Study the Effect of Interaction between Global of this study are likely to benefit experts, Pressures and Domestic Contexts on Public practitioners and scholars in comparative public Bureaucracy management and development studies. It will also better inform policymakers in Hong Kong and other " WONG Wai Ho z WELCH Eric* 1 November 2000
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CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct leadership, with which central control interacts with Grants) provincial autonomy in elites selection; (3) decentralization of mass media, which indicates how This project applies and further extends a framework political agendas and resources are localized. As developed by the two researchers for comparative referring "local" to the provincial level, the project analysis in which global pressures of information selects Guangdong in the coast area and Shaanxi in technology, global institutions and public sector the inland as locations for in-depth fieldwork. efficiency affect bureaucratic change (Welch & Aiming to break a new ground to conceptualize the Wong, 1998). According to this framework, global political impacts of economic reforms, this study pressures are filtered through the social, economic could be significant to an understanding of China's and political systems that comprise the domestic political development and national integration, the context. In this way, global pressures are thought to latter being a critical issue for China's relations with cause indirect and direct bureaucratic change. While Hong Kong, Taiwan, and foreign countries. all public bureaucracies are believed to be exposed to (CU00347) global pressures, the degree of their exposure and the final impact on the public bureaucracy of each nation Constitutional Interface Between Hong Kong and can be different. This project moves beyond the the Mainland existing framework by further conceptualizing and operationalizing measures of the global pressures and " YU Xingzhong the components of the domestic context. It will 1 March 2001 develop hypotheses and test them empirically. Case studies and quantitative analysis will be conducted CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct with the guidance of the framework to deepen Grants) understanding about the effects of globalization on public bureaucracy. To keep the project manageable This project is an attempt to find out solutions for the and make it feasible under the budget, the sample of constitutional crisis that Hong Kong has experienced countries for comparison will include mainly the since its reversion to China, epitomized by the Court western industrialized democratic countries, such as of Final Appeal's right of abode decisions and the the US, and the major industrial countries in Asia, subsequent interpretation of the HKSAR Basic Law including Hong Kong. It is expected that results of by the National People's Congress Standing this project will allow researchers to discern different Committee (NPCSC). Employing analytical and generalizable patterns of bureaucratic response to and comparative approaches this research explores the effect of global pressures. Findings also promise to possibility of fostering a system of multi-interpretive help inform policy-makers and top level managers authorities in Hong Kong law within the existing about how adaptive responses of other nations and political and legal framework, so that the localities are linked to specific domestic contexts. interpretation of the Basic Law can truly be shared by (SS00555) a number of authorities including the Court of Final Appeal and the NPCSC. It draws inspiration and experience from three sources: the practice of Shaping Political Localism in Reform China constitutional interpretation by reference to the common law tradition in Britain and the United " WU Guoguang z TSAO King Kwun States, Chinese experience of sharing interpretive 10 September 2000 authorities among the legislature, executive and the Research Grants Council (Earmarked Grants) judiciary and the success in implementing multi- authoritative interpretations in some parts of the The change of central-local relations is a focal topic United States. It argues for a transition from in studies of Chinese reform; one conclusion of such oligarchical interpretive structure to a polygarchy of studies is the rise of localism. As the existing interpretive authorities. The research is an effort to literature has examined how reforms have expanded smooth the differences confronting the interface of local economic power, this project moves the focus the two different constitutional systems in Hong of research to political localism by investigating its Kong and the Mainland China. origins, reflections, and institutional operations. (SS00520) Defining political localism as opportunities available to local elites to influence political decisions Please refer to previous issues of this publication concerning local interests, this project employs for more details of the following ongoing research comparative methods to analyze how, in the political at the department: arena, local interests are shaped, managed and reflected in three aspects: (1) the performance of Edition Title/Investigators provincial legislatures in law-making, concerning the central-provincial distribution of power on rule- making; (2) personnel arrangements in provincial
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1997-98 Between Family and State: Social Capital 1999-00 Hong Kong's Cyberport: A Case Study in and Social Change in Three Chinese Epistemology and Policy-Making Societies (SS97060) (SS99033) " KUAN Hsin Chi z CHAN Kin Man " OSTROV Benjamin Charles (Dept of Sociology) 1999-00 The Third Sector in China (SS99034) 1998-99 Colonialism and the Evolution of Public " WANG Shaoguang Administration systems: Comparing Hong Kong and Singapore (SS98015) 1999-00 Civic Education and Life-long Learning: " LEE Wing Yee Eliza A Comparative Study (SS99035) " WONG Wai Ho z LEUNG Wing 1998-99 The Politics of Listing Chinese State Chi Louis (School of Journalism and Enterprises on Hong Kong (SS98036) Communication) z LO Wing Hung " MA Shu Yun Carlos*
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Community: Toward a Corporate Millennium,", organized by International Political Science Association 30 pgs. Quebec, Canada, 2000.08.06.
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shopping, skating and bowling etc.) in various urban RESEARCH PROJECTS spaces and settings. A significant body of literature in the fields of cultural studies, youth subculture Examining the Economic Nature of Online studies, and media consumption studies both in the Content: From the User's Perspective West and in Asian contexts points to the centrality and power of cultural consumption in the formation " CHYI Hsiang Iris of cultural identities, values, and a sense of belonging among youth. By employing multiple research 1 March 2001 methods (namely participant observation, focus CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct groups, in-depth interviews, textual analysis and Grants) spatial analysis), the researchers explicate specific processes in which media consumption and shopping The proposed study will investigate the economic practices shape the changing behaviors, attitudes, nature of the Web as a news medium. The purpose is beliefs, tastes, lifestyles and values among Hong to examine plausible factors differentiating the Kong youth. Understanding of the youth culture feasibility of various revenue models for content- helps explicate various youth problems such as oriented websites. Attention will be given to how suicide, drug abuse, gang activities, premarital sex consumers perceive and assign value to online and relationships and juvenile delinquency. Equally offline content. important, given the close relationship between the A telephone survey of Hong Kong residents is culture of everyday life and historical context, their proposed to closely examine the economic nature of research sheds light on youth identity formation in online content -- how they perceive the relative value terms of cultural and political citizenship. The or utility of online content, and what determines their research results will provide a locus for educational, preferences. cultural and youth policy debates, and have This study attempts to serve as the first step toward significance for the allocation of resources for social building theories applicable to online content services aiming at better addressing the needs of local consumption. The theory presented in this study will youth. be supported by empirical data, and the data analyzed (SS99461) from a theoretical perspective. The goal is to contribute a new perspective to the study of online Assessing the Role of Foreign Television in Hong news and to provide valuable information to the Kong: Local Culture and Global Identity industry to improve news services for online audiences. " LEE Paul Siu Nam (SS00785) 31 December 2000 Popular Culture Consumption and Youth Research Grants Council (Earmarked Grants) Identities in Hong Kong: Trajectories and Transitions This study examines the impact of foreign TV on Hong Kong. HK audience can receive up to 45 " FUNG Ying Him Anthony z ERNI John* z domestic and foreign TV channels, including 4 GROSSBERG Lawrence* terrestrial channels, 37 pay channels, and a variety of free-to-air satellite channels. A video- on-demand 1 November 1999 service was introduced in 1998. People can have Research Grants Council (Earmarked Grants) access to many foreign channels, e.g., CNNI, HBO, ESPN, Channel [V], Australia TV, DW, TV5 Asia, This project explores how youth in Hong Kong in the RAI, etc. However, most people prefer local 1990s construct their cultural identities (including programs on the free-to-air Chinese channels of sub-cultural and gang identities) in relation to the TVB-Jade & ATV-Home. Although regional consumption of popular culture images, icons, and productions from Taiwan & China occasionally make narratives and through various multi-dimensional the free-to-air TV screen during prime time, local consumption practice spaces. This study focuses on productions of TVB-Jade channel consistently the specificity of youth consumer culture in Hong command 70% of rating while those of ATV have Kong and attempts to empirically examine the about 30%. The study focuses on the question impacts of two aspects of consumption on the whether HK people's cultural values & identity are formation and development of local youth's adversely affected by foreign programs. The findings development of identities and social relations: (a) will throw light on the issues of cultural imperialism, media texts which specially target at local teenagers global culture & global identity. It will also help (e.g. youth magazines, comic books, fiction, policymakers to make informed choices regulating electronic and video games, and films); (b) the foreign TV. multiple forms and practices of popular culture (CU00344) consumption undertaken by local youth (e.g. dining,
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Please refer to previous issues of this publication 1999-00 A Study of Media’s Role in Life-long for more details of the following ongoing research Learning (SS99036) at the department: " LEE Paul Siu Nam z LEUNG Wing Chi Louis Edition Title/Investigators 1999-00 Predicting Use of New Media 1999-00 Submission, Resistance and Technologies for Social Identity and Life Circumvention: The Changing Stress Reduction (SS99013) Journalistic Practices and Culture in " LEUNG Wing Chi Louis Chinese Media (CU99121) " CHAN Joseph Man z CHEN 1999-00 Expectations on Competencies and Skills Huailin# z LEE Chin Chuan* in Career Preparation: Comparisons Between Employers and University 1997-98 The Images of Asia-Pacific in Hong Educators (SS99037) Kong: How Close are Hong Kong People " LEUNG Wing Chi Louis z WONG to Others? (CU97209) Wai Ho (Dept of Government & " LEE Paul Siu Nam Public Administration)
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normal subjects. (2) AD patients will demonstrate RESEARCH PROJECTS learning and memory deficits in the HKLT (3) and the memory training strategies, as evaluated by the Negotiating Survival: A Study of Hong Kong, HKLT, will affect AD patients and normal control Guangzhou, and U.S. Students' Negotiation and subjects in different ways. Dispute The objectives of the study are: (1) to understand the factors contributing to " BOND Michael Harris z TARDIF Twila intellectual decline in dementia; (2) to develop a framework for cognitive 1 November 2000 rehabilitation in the context of a clearer CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct formulation of the cognitive deficits and residual Grants) strengths in dementia; (3) to evaluate the effectiveness of repetition The proposed study intends to examine the disputing practices and external organization cues as and negotiating behaviors engaged in by strangers memory training for AD patients in comparison when they are asked to come up with a consensus in with normal controls and; two Chinese cultures (Hong Kong and Guangzhou) (4) to develop local norms and explore the factor and one Western culture (U.S.A.). Negotiating structure of the assessment tools. disagreement is a critical social skill for individuals (MD20006) in all cultures, particularly when that negotiation occurs in a group setting. There are suggestions from Neuropsychological Functions in Late Life of the previous research that Chinese persons will be more Hong Kong Elderly: An Exploratory Study on conflict-avoidant than Americans as will women be Psychosocial and lifestyle Predictors with respect to men. These conclusions may be premature, however, since the specific ways in which " CHAN Sui Yin Agnes z PUN Shuk Han z CHIU Chinese and women negotiate may simply be Fung Kum Helen (Dept of Psychiatry) z LAM different, leading to presumptions that they are more Chiu Wa (Dept of Psychiatry) z WOO Jean conflict-avoidant. This research attempts to (Dept of Medicine & Therapeutics) document the various ways in which people may 1 March 2001 agree or disagree as well as support or undercut one another during negotiations, so as to more fully CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct understand the full range of responses by which Grants) different groups communicate to achieve consensus. These differences in style may lead to important The increase in elderly population has raised a misperceptions if they are interpreted by members of number of social and economic issues in Hong Kong. another group, and this research will enable questions While there is an increasing burden to balance the about cross-cultural misunderstanding to be needs of the old and young within their families, addressed also. The inclusion of two Cantonese there is a strong economic pressure to support and samples will enable us to understand if the social- care for a growing population of older people within political differences between Hong Kong and our medical system. If our elderly can maintain their Guangzhou have resulted in different negotiation functioning capacities, they can live independently styles, despite their linguistic and familial similarities. and remain productive after retirement. To be (SS00736) functioning capable, an elderly needs to maintain a good physical health and reasonable cognitive Utilizing Neuropsychologyical Assessment in the abilities. Cognitive function in terms of domains of Early Diagnosis & Cognitive Interventions in ability--including attention, language, memory, Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease spatial ability and conceptualization-is known to decline with. This cognitive decline is a significant " CHAN Sui Yin Agnes factor that affects the daily functioning and quality of life of an aging individual. For instance, an elderly 1 July 2000 with severe cognitive impairment such as the one Health Care & Promotion Fund, Hospital resulting from Alzheimer's disease will require 24 Authority hours assistance even they are physically healthy. It is, therefore, both important and urgent to investigate The present study proposed to utilize the Hong Kong how cognitive functions can be preserved in older List Learning Test (HKLT) and the Cantonese persons. The proposed project aims to identify the version of the Dementia Rating Scale (DRS) to study psychosocial and lifestyle factors that account for the cognitive profile and memory function of changes in cognitive function in local elderly demented patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and population. A community sample of 60 elderly normal elderly. It is anticipated that (1) the DRS will people aged between 65 and 74 will be recruited to be very sensitive in differentiate between patients and undergo interviews and a series of
Faculty of Social Science 576 Department of Psychology neuropsychological tests. The findings will be vital sentences sets the stage for advanced cognitive and to the development of evidence-based programs to thinking development. The rationale is that complex maintain the cognitive functions of elderly in Hong sentences often convey complex thoughts, and thus Kong. being able to appreciate subtle conceptual differences (SS00584) via grammar should facilitate the understanding of multiple and even conflicting mental states. The The Nature of Subliminal Perception proposed study capitalizes on the fact that English and Cantonese employ very different grammatical " CHAN Tin Cheung devices to convey complex thoughts. It seeks to 1 September 2000 demonstrate that these grammatical devices are differentially related to thinking development in the Research Grants Council (Earmarked Grants) two languages due to their different roles in mapping complex thoughts. When the presentation of a stimulus is too brief for (SS00375) identification, aspects of the stimulus such as its meaning may affect the perceiver's behaviors. This Universal and Indigenous Dimensions of the phenomenon is called subliminal perception. For Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI) many years, the unconscious nature of this phenomenon has been denied. Recently, mounting " CHEUNG Fanny Mui Ching z LEONG T L evidence supports such an effect to be unconscious Frederick* z LEUNG Kwok* because it is qualitatively different from a conscious one. Now it is the time to explore why and how 1 September 2000 subliminal perception is produced. As parallel Research Grants Council (Earmarked Grants) processing is pervasive in cognition, an explanation with multiple outputs is preferred. Earlier studies with the Chinese Personality In this proposal, the researcher hypothesizes that Assessment Inventory (CPAI) found that the normal perception consists of a number of outputs indigenously developed personality test contains an besides recognition such as semantic, motoric, and additional personality dimension, originally labelled emotive components. They can be processed through as the Chinese Tradition factor, beyond those deemed autonomous channels and can be varied quite to be universal in the current Five-Factor Model independently. Recognition is recursive in nature and (FFM) of personality. The CPAI, however, does not takes more time to process, whereas the other outputs tap the Openness factor from the FFM. To establish are more automatic in nature and can be processed the completeness of the CPAI, a set of scales defining faster. When recognition is halted with some other the Openness factor in the Chinese culture will be outputs processed enough to produce a behavioral developed in the first phase of this study. The scales effect, subliminal perception occurs. These outputs, will be standardized in China and Hong Kong. In the though independent of recognition, can affect a second phase, both Chinese and American data will person to reach a better guess of the stimulus. be collected and the updated CPAI will be submitted Besides, cortical EEG should be able to show brain to a joint factor analysis with the NEO-FFI, which activities corresponding to such subliminal measures the Five-Factor Model of personality. processing. Four sets of experiments will be carried Results of the joint analysis will show that the out to test the above hypotheses. interpersonal relatedness (IR) dimension tapped by Results of this project should contribute to the better the Chinese Tradition factor is needed for a complete understanding of subliminal perception, its description of Chinese personality on top of the FFM. application, and the theory of perception. They will also clarify whether the Chinese Tradition (CU00338) factor is a culture-general domain tapping the interpersonal relatedness dimension that is also A Cross-language Study on Language and relevant to Western culture, but has been neglected Thinking Development previously in Western theories of personality. (CU00333) " CHEN Hsuan Chih 1 March 2001 Re-examining the Role of Parts in Object Recognition CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Grants) " HAYWARD William Gordon The aim of the project is to examine how the 15 September 2000 understanding of complex grammatical structures Research Grants Council (Earmarked Grants) would promote thinking development in 3-, 4- and 5- year-old English versus Cantonese speakers. It has We effortlessly recognize objects around us all the been suggested that the ability to process complex time, yet their appearance constantly changes; the
577 Faculty of Social Science Department of Psychology object we saw from the front in the morning may be extent and nature of bulimic behaviors among observed from the back in the afternoon. How do we adolescent girls in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai. know that these distinct views represent one single Comparing findings from people of the same ethnic object? An influential class of theories has proposed heritage but growing up in different physical and that the parts of an object are encoded in memory, social environment may also reveal interesting socio- and allow recognition to occur whenever the same environmental variables that play a role in the parts are visible, regardless of any change in development of bulimic behaviors. viewpoint. Some recent experiments, however, have (SS00914) produced results which these theories cannot account for. In this project, the researcher proposes to An Electrophysiological Examination of Incidental examine whether part-based theories can account for and Intentional Memory Retrieval of Novel Visual a different part of the object recognition problem; Objects judgments of "best," or canonical, views. To do so, the project has two distinct phases. In Phase one, " PENNEY Trevor Bruce subjects will make subjective evaluations of views of 1 November 2000 objects, to determine whether views that maximize visible parts are preferred. In Phase two, subjects CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct will recognize objects based upon studied and test Grants) views, to determine if views that maximize visible parts facilitate object learning. If parts are found to The research project builds upon a set of event be the basis for canonicality judgments, and to related potential (ERP) results obtained with novel facilitate object learning, parts-based theories will be visual objects and line drawings of everyday objects shown to be valid under restricted conditions. under conditions of incidental and intentional (CU00332) memory encoding and retrieval. In those studies, the researchers found that repeated visual stimuli elicited different ERP patterns over parietal electrode sites in Comparison of Psychological Characteristics of incidental and intentional memory tasks. Relative to Adolescent Girls Displaying Bulimic Behaviors in initial presentations, repeated stimuli in the incidental Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong task elicited a reduction in a positive going waveform whereas repeated stimuli in the intentional task " LEUNG Yiu Kin Freedom z QIAN Ming Yi* elicited an increase in a positive going waveform. 1 April 2001 The former effect was interpreted as reflecting the CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct availability of a short-term visual representation (i.e., Grants) a visuo-spatial token) whereas the latter effect was interpreted as reflecting retrieval of a longer-term The present study examines and compares representation of the stimulus. psychological characteristics of adolescent girls The present project will use stimuli that do not displaying bulimic behaviors in Hong Kong, Beijing, contain any semantic meaning and do not easily lend and Shanghai. One thousand adolescent girls in each themselves to semantic associations. This should of the three cities will be tested. To explore possible allow the contribution of semantic content to both developmental differences in the manifestation of incidental and intentional memory encoding and bulimic features across different developmental retrieval processes, as reflected in ERP measures, to stages, comparable number of subjects in two be effectively removed. The effect of changing the different age groups (age 12-14 and age 15-18) will view of the repeated stimuli will also be examined. be recruited. Subjects will complete a questionnaire One might expect token representations to be view- package designed specifically to assess bulimic specific with the result that changing the view behaviors and relevant psychological characteristics. eliminates the parietal repetition effect in the The prevalence rates of different bulimic behaviors incidental task but not in the intentional task. Finally, among girls in the three cities will be examined and the effect of introducing intervening stimuli between compared. Psychological characteristics of purgers the first and second presentations will be examined. (those who self-induced vomiting and abuse laxatives) A token representation should be more disrupted by and nonpurgers (those who do not purge) will be such a manipulation than an intentionally encoded explored. Multivariate relationship patterns among representation. bulimic features and the associated physical and (SS00576) psychological characteristics in the three samples will also be examined. Structural equation analyses will Is Language Processing Cognitively Encapsulated? be conducted to explore potential causal relationships A Brain Imaging Analysis of Tonal and Non-tonal among different psychological variables in the Languages development of bulimic behaviors in the three cities. Findings from this study will provide valuable " PENNEY Trevor Bruce z Besson Mireille* z information to mental health professionals about the Schon Danielle*
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5 February 2001 The research proposed here tests this model using France/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme psychophysical techniques. Specifically, a covert orienting of attention (COA) manipulation will be The question of whether the computations performed used to manipulate the amount of attention subjects by the brain to process language are specific to allocate to visual timing signals. In a COA task, language or whether they rely on more general attentional resources are inadvertently allocated to cognitive principles is unresolved. While the claim stimuli that are presented in the periphery even for specificity is central to some linguistic theories, though the subject maintains fixation on the target of such as the generative grammar developed by interest, e.g. the visual timing signal. If the timing Chomsky and followers (1) other linguistic theories, model mentioned above is correct, then it should be such as the cognitive grammars developed by Lakoff possible to systematically manipulate a subject's and others (2) assume that language is a cognitive subjective experience of duration using such covert function that shares the same functional and distracters. That is to say, it should be possible to organisational principles as other cognitive functions, slow down the clock rate for visual signals, thereby such as music processing. providing additional evidence supporting an The research proposed here takes a first step toward attentional account of modality differences in addressing the general problem of the specificity of temporal processing. language processing by asking two, complementary, (SS00945) experimental questions. First, the researchers want to elucidate the neurophysiological basis of musical The Construction of a Chinese Communicative consonance. That is to say, they want to determine Development Inventory why two notes played simultaneously can sound pleasant or unpleasant. Second, they want to " TARDIF Twila z Fletcher, Paul* z Leung, C.S.* examine the neurophysiological basis of prosody, i.e. z Zehava, Weizman* the melodic contour of the voice, and the way it is 1 October 1999 implemented in the brains of speakers of tonal and Research Grants Council (Earmarked Grants) non-tonal languages. Specifically, the researchers want to determine if the brain's response to The aim of this project is to provide a reliable and semantically congruent and incongruent sentences is valid instrument for the assessment of vocabulary and modulated by whether or not the sentences are early syntactic development in Chinese children prosodically congruent. The answers to these two between 10 and 30 months of age. The researchers questions will lay the necessary groundwork for will build on research initiated with English-speaking future experiments directed at legislating between the children in the United States, using guided parental specificity and generality models of language reports of children's language use. This work function. resulted in the MacArthur Communicative (SS20013) Development Inventories (Fenson et. al 1993), and has been followed up in more than a dozen languages. Attentional Modulation of Internal Clock Speed Separate versions of the instrument for Mandarin- and Temporal Memory speaking and Cantonese-speaking children will be provided. The Chinese Communicative Development " PENNEY Trevor Bruce Inventory is an instrument designed to characterise 1 March 2001 young children's early language abilities. As an CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct assessment procedure normed on large samples of Grants) children, it can be used to describe the lexical and syntactic development of normal children in the age When auditory and visual signals are presented in the range 12 -30 months, and to identify children at risk same test session and subjects have to classify the for language delay. It will be available for academics signals according to their duration, visual signals are and professionals for research and for diagnostic classified as shorter than equivalent duration auditory purpose. It will add considerably to our knowledge signals. When auditory and visual signals are of early language development in Chinese. presented in separate test sessions, however, (AL99951) equivalent physical durations are experienced as subjectively equivalent. Penney and colleagues Child's Theory of Mind (Penney, Meck, & Gibbon, 2000) recently posited a model in which auditory and visual signals drive an " TARDIF Twila z Wellam, Henry M.* internal clock at different rates because of differences 1 May 2000 in the allocation of attention to auditory and visual National Institute of Health and Child signals. Development
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This project involves understanding how children's " TARDIF Twila z Fletcher, Paul* z Stokes, understanding of their own and others' thoughts and Stephanie* beliefs develops. It involves multiple experimental 1 January 2001 studies in the U.S., Hong Kong, and Beijing, China Research Grants Council (Earmarked Grants) with preschool-aged children. (SS99503) This study involves following over 300 children's language development in two locations, Hong Kong Emotional Understanding and Emotional and Beijing, for three years. The children were Competence in Hong Kong Chinese Children selected based on their results on the administration of a "Communicative Development Inventory" " TARDIF Twila (Cantonese or Putonghua version, depending on 1 November 2000 location) when the children were 8- to 20-months-old. CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct The top, middle, and lowest 10% of scorers in each Grants) age group will be re-examined for aspects of their phonological, lexical, and grammatical development This project intends to examine Hong Kong Chinese at yearly intervals for two additional years. children's emotional understanding and emotional (SS00769) competence and their relation to children's theory of mind, rule understanding, and parental socialization The Development of Lying and Modesty in practices. Two studies are proposed, involving a total Canadian and Chinese Children of 500 Hong Kong children, aged 3 to 10, and their mothers. Study one is a study of school-aged " TARDIF Twila z Lee, Kang* children's emotional understanding and its relation to 1 May 2001 children's theory of mind, attribution styles, moral Social Sciences and Humanities Research rule understanding, their parents' emotion Council socialization practices, and parents' own emotional competence. It will involve sending questionnaires about the parents' own empathy, emotional intensity, An international team that comprises of Canadian and and a number of other emotional competence scales Chinese researchers and their students will as well as a scale measuring emotional socialization collaborate on six studies to investigate practices in parenting to 350 mothers of children aged systematically three interrelated questions: (1) 6, 8, and 10 in local schools. Children of the parents whether Canadian and Chinese children give similar whose questionnaires are completely filled out (i.e., or different moral evaluations of lying to conceal no missing data) will then be asked to participate in a transgressions and whether such conceptual 20-minute experimental testing session. In the understanding is related to children's actual lie- or experimental session, children will be presented with truth-telling behaviors when they themselves have a number of story tasks measuring their transgressed; (2) whether Canadian and Chinese understanding of their own and others' emotions, a children have differential moral evaluations of white simple and complex false belief test, a measure of lies or face-saving lies and whether such differences, their attributional style (internal vs. external), and if any, result in differences in actual behaviors when their understanding of social rules and conventions they themselves are faced with a situation where they about events likely to cause shame or guilt in an are required to tell falsehoods to protect another imaginary story character. Study two examines person's feelings or social standing; and (3) whether emotional understanding and emotional competence Canadian and Chinese children tell the truth or lie in preschool-aged children and its relation to their about their own good deeds or achievements when theory of mind, ability to delay gratification, truthful statements in such situations may be emotional responses during a potentially guilt- construed as immodest or self-aggrandizing, and inducing situation (peeking at a toy when asked not whether their actual behaviors are related to their to), scores on the Child Behavior Checklist, and their moral evaluations of modesty-related truth- and lie- parents' emotional competence and emotion telling. socialization practices. Taken together, these studies (SS00491) will add enormously to our knowledge of Chinese children's baselines for emotional understanding and Please refer to previous issues of this publication competence and form a strong basis for further cross- for more details of the following ongoing research cultural research in this area. at the department: (SS00381) Edition Title/Investigators Late Talkers in Chinese: A Longitudinal Study
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1999-00 A Systematic Investigation of the Response Scale Effect on Group 1999-00 Predicting Job Performance with the Decision Making (CU99104) Chinese Personality Assessment " AU Wing Tung Inventory (SS99040) " CHEUNG Fanny Mui Ching 1999-00 Developing an Integrity Assessment Inventory (SS99038) 1999-00 Studying Automatic Processes in Human " AU Wing Tung Object Recognition (SS99017) " HAYWARD William Gordon 1989-90 Mutual Perceptions Around the Pacific Rim (AB88005) 1999-00 Understanding the Role of Silhouette " BOND Michael Harris Information in Human Object Recognition (SS99024) 1999-00 A Multi-cultural Study of Social Beliefs " HAYWARD William Gordon z (SS99015) BRANKA Spehar* " BOND Michael Harris z LEUNG Kwok* 1998-99 A Test on the Psychometric Properties of CBCL/YSR and DISC-4P/Y in a 1999-00 Evaluation of “Support for Self-reliance Community Sample: A Pilot Study on a (SFS)” Scheme (SS99002C) Two-stage Approach to the " CHAN Kwan Shing Darius z CHAN Epidemiology of Adolescent Mental Wai Health (CU98348) " LEUNG Wing Leung Patrick z HO 1999-00 Neuropsychological Sequelae of Ting Pong* z HUNG Se Fong* z Radiation-induced Brain-damage and its LEE Chi Chiu (Dept of Psychiatry) z Risk Factors (CU99110) TANG Chun Pan* " CHAN Sui Yin Agnes z LAW Stephen* z TSE Kin Chuen 1998-99 A Pilot Study on the Genetic Basis of Vincent* Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Chinese Children (SS98051) 1999-00 The Invariant of Force Pattern for the " LEUNG Wing Leung Patrick z Haptic Perception of an Occluded Hand- SWANSON Jim* z HO T. P.* z held Rod (SS99039) HUNG S. F.* z LEE C. C.* z TANG " CHAN Tin Cheung C. P.*
1999-00 The Analysis of Dose-Response Data: An 1998-99 Psychosocial Adjustment of Adolescents Exact Unconditional Approach Displaying Borderline Personality (CU99170) Disorder Features: A 2-Year Follow-up " CHAN Wai z TANG Man Lai (Dept Study (SS98041) of Statistics)# z CHAN Ping Shing " LEUNG Yiu Kin Freedom Ben (Dept of Statistics) 1998-99 The Nature and Stability of Phonological 1996-97 Auditory Word Recognition in Chinese Processing and Its Importance Relative to (CU96203) Visual Processing for Reading Chinese " CHEN Hsuan Chih and English (CU98207) " MCBRIDE Catherine Alexandra 1995-96 Clinical Validation of the CPAI (SS95057) 1999-00 Predictors of Adjustment to Secondary " CHEUNG Fanny Mui Ching School: A Short-term Longitudinal Study of Hong Kong Youth (SS99018) 1995-96 Adjective Descriptors of Chinese " MCBRIDE Catherine Alexandra Personality (SS95058) " CHEUNG Fanny Mui Ching z 1999-00 What’s in a Letter? What Letter LEUNG Kwok (Hong Kong Institute Knowledge Contributes to Reading in of Asia-Pacific Studies) Chinese and English (ED99028) " MCBRIDE Catherine Alexandra z 1999-00 Behavioral Correlates of Interpersonal TREIMAN Rebecca* Relatedness and Openness in Chinese Culture (SS99016) 1998-99 Concepts and Theories in Human " CHEUNG Fanny Mui Ching Development (SS98067)
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" TARDIF Twila z GELMAN Susan A* z FU Xiaolan* 1999-00 Value of Children to Mothers and Grandmothers Under the One-child 1999-00 Theories of Mind and Body in Two Policy in China (SS99041) Cultures (CU99116) " TARDIF Twila " TARDIF Twila z LEUNG Yiu Kin Freedom z WELLMAN Henry M.*
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Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, organized by Biennial International Society Beijing, China, 2000.07.14.
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organized by Institute of Psychology and Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw, Poland, 2000.07.19.
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“Culture and Deception in Business Negotiations: A Multilevel Analysis”. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management vol.1 no.1, pp.73-90. London, UK: Sage Publications, 2001.
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gap in research, this study attempts to use the RESEARCH PROJECTS methodology of narrative analysis in qualitative research to investigate the migration experiences of Citizenship and Social Development in Post- the young new arrivals through their own stories. Colonial Hong Kong The major objectives of the study are: (1) to understand the experiences of young " CHAU Kin Lam Kenneth z PUN Shuk Han immigrants in their adjustment to the daily (Dept of Psychology) z WONG Chack Kie living in Hong Kong through their own interpretation; 1 November 2000 (2) to examine the meanings which young Research Grants Council (Earmarked Grants) immigrants have constructed out of their overall migration experience; Recent economic and constitutional crises have (3) to identify similarities and differences in the reminded Hong Kong people of their vulnerabilities- trajectories of adjustment of young immigrants the weaknesses of Hong Kong as a player in the who are identified as well-adjusted, moderately- global economy and the barriers in her integration adjusted and poorly-adjusted; and with China. This poses a threat to her social and (4) to formulate hypotheses about factors economic development. The identity as contributing to successful and unsuccessful Hongkongese - some sense of "citizenship" that used adjustments of young immigrants. to be the basis of solidarity for Hong Kong people to It is expected that findings from this study will enrich tackle various crises during the colonial period, our understanding of the culture of the newcomers, seems no longer applicable in understanding diverse their migration experiences, and the issues they face and conflicting public reactions to those recent crises. in the process of adjusting to daily living. This study aims to provide a deeper understanding Furthermore, the findings can definitely have about the concept of citizenship as an engineering significant theoretical and practical contributions to tool for social development and help develop a policy formulation and direct practice so that social reflective "civic professionalism" for human service services for young new arrivals from the Mainland in Hong Kong. Given the job nature and professional could be more responsive to their genuine needs and status of human service professional, like teachers problems. and social workers, they should be able to help (CU00367) engender a "positive citizenship" within the general public. Firstly, the study will examine how Hong A Model of Successful Aging for the Elderly Kong people conceptualize citizenship rights and Living Alone in the Community: A Pilot Study duties in relation to the power and capability of the government for social development through a " LEE Jik Joen z SHEK Tan Lei Daniel household survey. Then, based on a participatory 1 November 2000 action approach, it will guide the professionals through focus-group discussions to explore new CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct practice strategies by identifying the gaps in the Grants) knowledge and expectations between practitioners and clients given the findings from the survey. Lastly, This is a pilot study of a large scale study of the workshops will be conducted for the professionals to elderly living alone in Hong Kong. A severe lack of evaluate, refine and disseminate these new strategies. scientific findings in the local context and the (CU00351) existence of contradictory research findings in the literature concerning the psychosocial/health needs Experiences and Adjustment of Young New and adjustment of elderly people living alone in the Arrivals from Mainland China: A Narrative community are sufficient to warrant a systematic; Analysis large scale investigation in Hong Kong. The objectives of this study are: (1) to depict the " LAM Mong Chow Amy z FONG SOONG Tong elderly people who live alone in terms of Kou (Hong Kong Institute of Educational psychosocial and sociodemographic characteristics; Research) z TSOI Kcon Wah (2) to identify the determinants of living alone in old age, (3) to understand the experience of living alone 1 December 2000 in a modern Chinese society, (4) to investigate Research Grants Council (Earmarked Grants) personal coping skills, formal and informal supports as well as the utilization patterns for psychosocial and Most of the existing studies on young new arrivals health services by the elderly people living alone, (5) from Mainland China are quantitative survey research to examine the psychosocial adjustment of the elderly and very few have attempted to understand these people living alone, and (6) to construct a model of immigrants' unique personal experiences in adjusting successful aging for the elderly living alone. to their new lives in Hong Kong. In order to fill this
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This study will be a pioneer, cross-sectional study (Civil Education, Social Skills, Information concerning the elderly aged 60 or over living alone in Technology, etc.). the community. Conceptually, the strength of this The proposed research is an exploratory, cross- study is that it attempts to build up a model of the sectional study. It is the best one of its kind in the determinants of successful aging for elderly people local field of educational gerontology. The study living alone in a modern Chinese society. aims at providing the service provider (i.e., Methodologically, the strength of this study is that a HKSKHWC) with the useful information about the large and random sample will be used, and that the quality and usefulness of the courses offered. The situations of non-institutionalized elderly people data collected will be used for possible program living alone will be compared with (a) the elderly perfection. In addition, elderly students' learning people living with others in the community, and (b) experience, their levels of satisfaction toward the those elderly people living alone in the community program, plus the applicability of the knowledge who have been identified as high-risk by the Social obtained and the impact of such knowledge upon Welfare Department. Academically speaking, this their daily life activities will be examined. The result study will generate findings that can clarify our of this study will be sent to the Elderly Commission understanding of elderly people living alone. for long term planning and policy making in Practically speaking, this study will help local human educational gerontology, too. service providers to find appropriate ways to prevent (SS20012) premature institutionalization and to avoid the negative impact of overcaring or undercaring for the Elderly Hostel Residents' Physical and elderly by delivering the needed services to the right Psychosocial Status, Life Satisfaction, Service elderly clients. Needs, and the Hostel's Future Development: A (SS00387) Case Study of the Kaohsiung Country Hostel, Taiwan Lifelong Education for the Elderly: A Case Study of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Welfare " LEE Jik Joen Council Institute of Continuing Education for 1 March 2001 Senior Citizens CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Grants) " LEE Jik Joen z Wong S Y Rebecca* z Wan K P Catherine* z Shun Wai Chuen* z Chan K H Charles* Many Chinese elderly hold a strong impression that they will be taken care of at home by their offspring 1 January 2001 in their old age. It may not be true for some elderly, Donation from the Advantage Trust as their offspring apprehend that caring for frail elderly at home is beyond their limits timely, In 1982, continuing lifelong education for the elderly financially, mentally and physically. Some families was acknowledged as one of the basic human rights simply send their aging members to elderly hostels by the World Assembly on Aging, an international regardless of the elderly's intention. And, when the conference organized by the United Nations. Since elderly people's health status gets worse, they will be then, educational gerontology has become a policy continuously transferred to other institutions, issue as well as an educational concern for many sometimes without the consent of the elderly. Such countries in the West, and, to a lesser extent, in some kinds of forceful relocation may happen to all of us. of the Eastern countries, notably Japan, Taiwan and Clearly, forceful move and uproot will have negative China. In Hong Kong, education for the elderly has impact upon the elderly's well-being. Overseas been much underdeveloped in the government sector. studies have proven that the elderly's normal life may It is not a concern for local policy makers at all. be shortened because of unnecessary or non-agreed- Fortunately, the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui upon relocation. Welfare Council (HKSKHWC), one of the non- The objectives of this proposed study are: governmental organizations in Hong Kong, has (1) to study residents' reasons of entering the hostel; developed a relatively large scale, educational (2) to assess residents' psychosocial, physical and program for the elderly since 1998, there have been mental health status; 25 centres offering courses for the elderly territory- (3) to measure residents' self-esteem and self image; wide. Last year there were 696 courses with 1,650 (4) to examine the hostel's extent of meeting elderly registered elderly students. The program is basically residents' social, psychological, biological, and divided into three faculties, namely, Faculty of Arts mental health needs, i.e., to identify possible (Chinese, English), Faculty of Sports and Fine Arts service gaps; (Singing, Cantonese opera, Dance, Physical (5) to find out the number and percentage of elderly Education, Physical Exercises, Dance, Handicrafts, residents who want to stay in the hostel even Painting, Drawing), and Faculty of Social Sciences though their failing physical and mental health statuses do not allow them to do so;
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(6) to develop proper measures to meet the needs of The results of the study will on the theoretical level those frail elderly so as to help them remain in enrich the existing youth services literature by the hostel for as long as possible by using the explicating how the complexity of power is played theoretical framework of aging in place; out via the fluidity of everyday youth work practices. (7) to explore the hostel's future role and On the practice level, they will help elucidate how development in the residential care setting; and youth workers negotiate the vagaries of power (8) to propose recommendations for short-term and through political actions in various social contexts, long-term policy consideration. thus have implications for conceiving more The findings of this study will be used to compare empowering youth services in Hong Kong on the turn with the data collected in Hong Kong. of the century. (SS00655) (SS00433)
Public Perception on Health Care Policy in Hong Public Perception on Education Policy in Hong Kong Kong
" MA Lai Chong z LEUNG Chi Ming Michael " WONG Chack Kie z LO Nai Kwai Leslie (Dept (Dept of Decision Sciences and Managerial of Educational Administration & Policy) z TIK Economics) z WONG Tai Wai* Chi Yuen* 1 April 2001 1 April 2001 CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Grants) Grants)
The project aims to conduct a telephone poll to The education policy affects all walks of life and understand the public perception of the Government's education is commonly regarded as the key to the health policy and recent reform initiatives. In the last success of Hong Kong society. In the last few years, few years, different health financing proposals have education sector is flooded with many reform been raised by the Government from time to time. It initiatives which have largely changed the landscape seems that the Government intend to retreat her of local education development. Accompanied with commitment to health care service provision and let these policy changes is a set of new concepts or the service users take up more responsibility. values towards education advocated by the Whether the general public is aware of this policy Government. Whether the public welcomes these trend and how they perceive it are worth investigating. concepts or values will affect the implementation of (SS00970) different reform initiatives. Besides, people's expectation of the roles of the different parties The Politics of Identity Constitution Among Youth involved in education business, such as government, Workers in Hong Kong parents, schools, and so on will be examined in the telephone survey. " NGAI Sek Yum (SS00627) 1 November 2000 Public Perception on Social Welfare Policy in CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Hong Kong Grants)
" WONG Chack Kie z CHAU Kin Lam Kenneth This study aims to develop an in-depth understanding of the politics of identity constitution among Hong 1 April 2001 Kong youth workers. Based on a theoretical CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct framework drawn from the works of Derrida, Grants) Foucault, and Laclau and Mouffe, it will conduct a discourse analysis on the local youth services texts The Government has reformed the social welfare and the interviews with 40 youth workers. services in various areas with a clear intention to Specifically, the present study seeks to answer the reduce the Government's role and her financial following 3 research questions: responsibility. On the other hand, public expectation (1) How do youth workers invent their identities by of government support in welfare provision is re-articulating discourses in their environment? mounting all the time. The telephone survey aims to (2) How do youth workers constitute their identities explore further people's values or perceptions on through resisting the social control demands social welfare development in Hong Kong. made on them? (SS00674) (3) How do youth workers develop new identities through making use of the transitional political space in Hong Kong?
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Please refer to previous issues of this publication 1998-99 Prevalence, Role and Functions of Self- for more details of the following ongoing research help Groups in Hong Kong (CU98060) at the department: " MOK Bong Ho z CHAU Kin Lam Kenneth z FUNG Ho Lup z NGAI Edition Title/Investigators Ngan Pun
1998-99 Needs, Welfare Choices and Welfare 1997-98 Perception of Family Functioning Socialization in Reform China (CU98204) amongst Adolescents in Hong Kong " CHAU Kin Lam Kenneth z WONG (CU97203) Chack Kie z NGAI Ngan Pun z " SHEK Tan Lei Daniel PUN Shuk Han (Dept of Psychology) 1999-00 Growing up Poor: Why Adolescents 1999-00 Need, Welfare Choices and “Welfare Experiencing Economic Disadvantage Socialization” in Reform China - Beijing Succeed or Fail (CU99087) (SS99020) " SHEK Tan Lei Daniel z LAM Mong " CHAU Kin Lam Kenneth z NGAI Chow Amy z TSOI Kcon Wah z Ngan Pun z WONG Chack Kie z LAM Ching Man z HO Tsang Kit- PUN Shuk Han (Dept of Psychology) man*
1999-00 Evaluation of Structural Family Therapy 1999-00 A Pioneering Longitudinal Study of the for Chinese Anorexia nervosa Patients in Development and Validation of a Drug Hong Kong (CU99090) Prevention Program in Hong Kong " MA Lai Chong z LAI Yee Ching (SS99052) Kelly (Dept of Psychiatry) z LEE " SHEK Tan Lei Daniel Sing (Dept of Psychiatry)
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grassroots communities. The researchers' previous RESEARCH PROJECTS studies, in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, have covered villages in North Academic Study of Community Resistance to China. Using the same methodology and research Kowloon Bay Health Centre tools, this study is expected to yield richer comparative information on the mechanisms behind " CHAN Kin Man China's economic miracle in recent decades. (SS00685) 1 September 2000 Community Liaison Group of Kowloon Bay Social and Political Change in a Period of Reform Health Centre & Nursing Home and Readjustment: Indicators of Social Development in Hong Kong 2001 The objective of the study is to undertake a fair, objective and analytical review into the controversy " LAU Siu Kai z WAN Shirley Po San (Hong on the establishment of Kowloon Bay Health Centre. Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies) z LEE Specifically, the study will identify the social and Ming Kwan* z WONG Siu Lun* legal barriers in establishing AIDS facilities in Hong 31 December 2000 Kong, and propose measures in promoting community acceptance of AIDS facilities in the Research Grants Council (Earmarked Grants) future. (SS00651) This project is part of a long-term research programme that focuses on the measurement and Development of Private Enterprises and Social study of social development in Hong Kong. Its prime Participation in China purpose is to build up a set of longitudinal data on the subjective and objective dimensions of social " CHAN Kin Man z QIU Haixiong* z ZHANG conditions and social change in Hong Kong. The Houyi* z DAI Jianzhong* project will focus on social issues and political problems engendered by Hong Kong's sudden 1 June 2001 economic downturn, its long and painful road to Lingnan Foundation economic recovery and the HKSAR government's multifarious reform initatives. It consists of two The purpose of this study is to investigate the social components: base of democratization in China. Using (1) A Hong Kong-wide household survey focusing on Modernization Theory as a theoretical reference, this the social, economic, political and cultural changes project considers that economic development may among Hong Kong people in a period of economic lead to the emergence of middle class, civil society, readjustment and institutional reform. Findings from moderate political ideology, and the promotion of this survey should yield a valuable record of the state education and communications, that will benefit the of mind of our community in economic hard times development of democracy. This "modernization and socio-political turbulence and draw the attention effect" will be tested by surveying 600 people, of policy-makers to issues and problems that merit including entrepreneurs, middle management their attention. personnel/professionals, and workers/service staff (2) A computerized social data bank compiling selected from 200 private enterprises in two cities of statistics on all major areas of objective social China. Their social and political values, political activities generated by the government and other efficacy, and actual social participation will be public organizations. It should enable us to explore studied by structural questionnaire. and analyze the relationship between the subjective (SS00393) and objective aspects of our social development, and to formulate appropriate and more rigorous social The Rise of Rural Industrialization in China: A indexes for the purpose of measurement and Grass Roots Survey comparison. (CU00331) " LAU Chong Chor z PENG Yusheng z CAI He* z Liu Linping* Explaining the Phenomenon of Hospital 1 June 2001 Readmission: A Social Analysis Approach The Lingnan Foundation " LEE Pui Leung Rance z WONG Kam Yuet Frances* z CHOW Susan* z CHANG This project proposes to survey 300 administrative Katherine* z LEE Wai Man* z CHAN Cecila* z villages in two southern provinces of China, CHAN Kit Choi* Guangtong and Fujian, to study the factors contributing to the level of industrialization in the 1 April 2001
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Hong Kong Polytechnic University Direct Grant 1995-96 Legal Culture of Hong Kong (AB89092) " LAU Siu Kai This is an exploratory study for developing an explanatory model of the factors contributing to 1995-96 Political Culture and Political hospital readmission. Data are to be collected from Participation in China, Taiwan and Hong patients readmitted in the Medical Departments of Kong (AB92030) two acute hospitals in Hong Kong. Specifically, the " LAU Siu Kai z KUAN Hsin Chi hospital admission patient profile will be a major (Dept of Government & Public source of information for constructing measures for Administration) analyzing the relationships among the environmental factors (health care environment), population 1998-99 Social Issues and Social Problems in the characteristics (predisposing factors, enabling Early Years of the Hong Kong Special resources, needs), health behavior (personal health Administrative Region (HKSAR): practices, use of health services), and the outcome Indicators of Social Development 1999 variables (perceived health status, evaluated health (SS98048) status, consumer satisfaction). A phenomenological " LAU Siu Kai z LEE Ming Kwan* z approach involving in-depth interviews will also be WONG Siu Lun* used to uncovering the internal meaning structures of the lived experiences of the readmitted patients. 1998-99 China’s New Managerial Elite (SS98044) (SS00839) " LEE Ching Kwan
Please refer to previous issues of this publication 1999-00 A Comparative Study of Social Networks for more details of the following ongoing research and Mental Health in Hong Kong and at the department: Beijing (CU99135) " LEE Pui Leung Rance z CHAN Edition Title/Investigators Ying Keung z PENG Yusheng z LAI Wan Foon Gina* 1998-99 Dynamics of Civil Organizations in China (SS98069) 1989-90 Urbanization in China (AB84002) " CHAN Kin Man z QIU Haixiong* " MAN Jic Leung Peter
1999-00 A Longitudinal Study of Chronic Drug 1989-90 Youth Life Satisfaction in Hong Kong Abusers in Hong Kong (SS99025) (AB85012) " CHEUNG Yuet Wah z TANG So " MAN Jic Leung Peter Kum Catherine (Dept of Psychology) z Ch'ien James* z PI Peter* 1993-94 Leisure and Social Change in Hong Kong (SS93018) 1990-91 The Organizational Culture of Chinese " NG Pedro Pak Tao Factories (AB91005) " LAU Chong Chor z QIU Hai Xiong* 1999-00 An Empirical Investigation of Local State Corporatism in Chinese Cities (SS99985) 1989-90 Subjective Social Indicators Research " PENG Yusheng Programme (AB85008) " LAU Siu Kai
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Rationality and Communicative Rationality". The 13th Annual Meeting on Socio-Economics, University of Amsterdam 25 pgs. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: University of Amsterdam, 2001.06.28.
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