ANNUAL REPORT July 2013 – June 2014

Prepared by

The David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies

Hong Kong Baptist University

September 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION TO LEWI P. 3 1.1 RESEARCH FOCI P. 4 1.2 LEWI MANAGEMENT & RESEARCH TEAM P. 5 1.3 LIST OF LEWI FELLOWS P. 12

2. MAJOR ACTIVITIES 2.1 CONFERENCE P. 13 2.2 RESEARCH SEMINARS P. 14

3. PROGRAMMES 3.1 VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAMME & VISITATIONS P. 16 3.2 RESIDENT GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME P. 21 3.3 SUMMER STUDIES PROGRAMME 3.3.1 SUMMER GLOBAL IMMERSION PROGRAMME P. 23

4. FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS: ON-GOING AND FUNDED OVER THE PERIOD P. 24

5. RESEARCH OUTPUTS P. 43

6. TEACHING SUPPORT / INITIATIVES P. 58

7. RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT P. 59

8. FINANCIAL REVIEW P. 62

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Major Achievements, July 2013 - June 2014

1. Summary of major activities held:

 1 major conference

 15 research seminars

 6 visiting scholars

 A summer immersion programme for Southern Methodist University

2. Grants Secured / Research Outputs by Research Staff:

 8 on-going research projects

 10 grants secured, 4 external (GRF) and 6 internal (HKBU), totalling HKD2,766,332

 3 authored books, 3 edited books, 22 book chapters & 35 journal articles

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1. Introduction to LEWI

David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies (LEWI or the Institute) is a consortium of 28 universities from North America, Europe and Asia. The Institute, with Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU or the University) as the host institution, was established in 1993 with the aim to: 1) promote mutual understanding between East and West through research, academic exchange and other scholarly activities; 2) promote inter-disciplinary research in social sciences and humanities from the perspectives of both the East and the West.

LEWI was named after Dr. David C. Lam, former Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, Canada, who helped raise funds for the construction of the David C. Lam Building, where the Institute was housed, and who continued to extend generous donations to LEWI until he passed away in 2010. Under the leadership of Mrs Doreen Lau and Mr Philip Lau, his daughter and son-in-law, the David & Dorothy Lam Foundation of Vancouver, Canada, instituted to commemorate Dr. and Mrs. Lam, has provided support of all kinds to LEWI and HKBU throughout the years. In the period under review, the Lam Foundation donated HK$300,000 to HKBU, half of which was given to LEWI.

At present, the Director of LEWI is appointed by the President/Vice Chancellor and reports duty to the Vice President (Research and Development) of the University. In Academic Year 2011-12, LEWI experienced a major facelift, with the view to developing into a leading hub in social sciences and humanities research in East Asia, particularly in the three themes spelled out below. As an integral part of the restructuring exercise, for the first time full time research staff was recruited to join the Institute’s research team. Over the past three years members of the research team have embarked on a highly active research agenda and initiated a wide range of projects and activities, including workshops and conferences, seminars and public lectures, book and/or journal special issue projects, invitation of world-leading scholars, and forum for academic exchanges. All these have substantially strengthened the research profiles of LEWI and helped established its place in the international academic arena.

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1.1. Research Foci

LEWI currently organizes research primarily via three working or theme groups, namely, urbanization and mobility working group, cross-cultural studies working group, and environment, health and sustainability working group. Each working group comprises a convenor and group members/research fellows from various academic units within HKBU appointed by the Director. The groups' research agenda are listed below:

Urbanization and Mobility Working Group: - Race and the cultural politics of belonging: African diaspora communities in Guangzhou - Spatial evolution of urban villages in Shenzhen - Land and housing policies in post-handover Hong Kong - Residential inequalities in urban China under spatial restructuring

Cross-Cultural Studies Working Group: - The Catholic Church in China, 1978 to the present - The Glocalization of the Catholic Church in the context of higher education in China - The annotation question of the Chinese Protestant Bible, 1877-1917 - National history inside out: The importance of China and Vietnam for the radicalization of Sweden

Environment, Health and Sustainability Working Group: - Predicting healthy eating behaviour among adolescents - Live to contend: The emergence and development of the health rights defence movement in contemporary China - Perceptions and acceptability of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination among Hong Kong women and mothers - Burnouts among communication professionals in Hong Kong and Austria - Social inclusion and health conditions among mental health services users - Perception of acupuncture among users and non-users - Reporting of acupuncture in Hong Kong newspapers

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1.2. LEWI Management & Research Team

 Prof. Si-ming Li, Director of LEWI, Convenor of Urbanization and Mobility Working Group & Chair Professor of Geography, HKBU

Prof. Si-ming Li obtained his B.S., M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the University of Alberta and Queen’s University, Canada, respectively, all in the field of Geography.

Previously, Prof. Li served as Director of the Centre for China Urban and Regional Studies (2001-2011), Interim Dean of Social Sciences (February-July 2010), Head of the Department of Geography Department (June 1997 - August 2003), and Course Leader of China Studies (January 2001 - August 2004). In Academic Year 1994-95 he spent his sabbatical leave as Visiting Professor at the Department of Geography of National Taiwan University, where he helped organize probably the first major conference on China’s regional development in Taiwan. An edited volume based on this conference was published jointly by LEWI and the Population Research Center of the National Taiwan University. This book has remained a required reading for courses on the topic in many universities in Taiwan.

His current research focuses on housing and residential change in urban China, supported by 6 General Research Fund (GRF) awards from the Hong Kong Research Grant Council, 1 Public Policy Research (PPR) grant from the Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong SAR Government, and grants awarded by the Urban China Research Network based at the State University of New York at Albany and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy based at Cambridge, Massachusetts. His publications include 18 authored/edited books and journal special issues and some 140 journal articles, book chapters and book reviews on different aspects of urban and regional development in Hong Kong and mainland

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China, many of which are among the most frequently cited works on China urban housing. Recent edited volumes/journal special issues include: Housing Inequalities in Chinese Cities, co-edited by Youqin Huang and Si-ming Li (2014); Special Issue: Living in Chinese Enclave Cities. Urban Geography, Vol. 33, No. 2, co-edited with Ronald van Kempen & Bart Wissink; A New Geography of Hong Kong, Vols. I and II, co-edited with Chi-Yung Jim and Tung Fung (2010). He serves on the editorial board of Housing Studies, Urban Geography, China Review, Asian Geographer and Journal of Geographical Science. He also served in the 1999, 2006 and 2014 Social Science Panel of the Research Assessment Exercise conducted by the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong.

 Prof. Cindy Yik-yi Chu, LEWI Associate Director, Convenor of Cross-Cultural Studies Working Group & Professor of History, HKBU

Cindy Yik-yi Chu took office as the Associate Director of LEWI on January 1, 2011. She received her doctoral degree in History from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and was a degree fellow of the East-West Center in Honolulu.

Her books include Chinese Catholicism from 1900 to the Present (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 forthcoming); The Catholic Church in China (New York: Palgrave Macmillan); Chinese Communists and Hong Kong Capitalists: 1937-1997 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), The Diaries of the Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1966 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1969: In Love with the Chinese (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and its Chinese translation (Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book Co., 2007), Foreign Communities in Hong Kong, 1840s-1950s (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), China Reconstructs (Lanham: University Press of America, 2003), and Yapian zhanzheng de zai renshi (A Reappraisal of the Opium War) (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2003, in Chinese). Chu has published numerous articles in journals and edited volumes in the United States, Germany, Hong Kong, and Korea.

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Chu serves on the editorial boards of Cheng Feng: A Journal on Christianity and Chinese Religion and Culture, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, and Hong Kong Journal of Modern Chinese History. In 2009 she was a member of the editorial board of the “Foreign Office Files for China, 1949-1980: Complete FO 371 and FCO 21 Files from The National Archives, Kew” produced by Adam Matthew, U.K.

Her research interests include: (1) Modern and Contemporary China, (2) Cross-Cultural Studies, (3) Cultural Relations, (4) International History, (5) History of the Catholic Church in China, (6) Chinese Foreign Relations, (7) Sino-Vatican Relations, (8) Sino-American Relations, and (9) Hong Kong History.

Chu is one of the Directors for the Christian Study Centre on Chinese Religion and Culture, Chung Chi College, and Vice President of the Society for the Study of History of Christianity in China, Hong Kong. Also she is appointed as the HKCAAVQ (Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications) Specialist.

 Prof. Kara Chan, Professor of Communication Studies, HKBU & Convenor, Environment, Health and Sustainability Working Group, LEWI

Prof. Chan joined the HKBU in 1993. She is currently Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University. She worked in the advertising and public relations profession and as a statistician for the Hong Kong Government before she joined the academia. She is convener of Environment, Health and Sustainability Working Group of LEWI. In the year under review she published one sole-authored book, 11 journal articles and 3 book chapters, and had 5 more articles accepted by premier journals in advertising and communication studies. She recently received a competitive GRF grant to work on a project on promoting healthy eating among adolescents in China.

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 Dr. Dong Dong, Research Assistant Professor, LEWI Environment, Health and Sustainability Working Group

Dr. Dong joined LEWI in 2011. She obtained her doctoral degree in Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her work has been published in the Journal of Health Communication and the International Communication Gazette. Dong also presented more than a dozen of research papers at numerous international conferences. Her current research interests are: (1) Health communication, with an emphasis on the social construction of infectious diseases and public health crises; (2) Environmental communication, including effect studies on green advertising and sociological research on Chinese environmental journalism; (3) International communication, especially the global formation of information networks and its implication for social movements; (4) Media sociology that investigates both the process and the products of the news institution from a comparative perspective. Dr. Dong secured a grant of HK$665200 from the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation to study the Emergence and Development of the Health Rights Defense Movement in Contemporary China.

 Dr. Pu Hao, Research Assistant Professor, LEWI Mobility/ Urbanization Working Group

Dr. Hao obtained his B.Sc. from Wuhan University, M.Sc. degrees from Wuhan University and the International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation and Ph.D. in Human Geography and Urban Planning from Utrecht University. His research interests include global urbanism, urban morphology, urban spatial and social dynamics and the application of GIS techniques to urban studies and planning. His publications appear in books and international journals, such as Urban Studies, Environment and Planning A, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and Rural Migrants in Urban China: Enclaves and Transient Urbanism (Routledge 2013).

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 Dr. Perry Johansson, Research Assistant Professor, LEWI Cross- Cultural Studies Working Group

Dr. Johansson holds a Ph.D. and a Docent degree (Privatdozent, Habilitation) from Stockholm University. He has served as Senior Research Fellow at Singapore National University, Postdoc researcher at the Center for Pacific Asia Studies in Stockholm, the Nordic Institute for Asian Studies in Copenhagen and the China Research Center in Taipei. From 2005 to 2006 he was a visiting scholar at the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. His fields are in History and Chinese Studies with a focus on Twentieth Century Sinography, Western Maoism, and Sino-European relations. In 2012 his book Saluting the Yellow Emperor: A Case of Swedish Sinography was published by Brill, He has also written a large number of peer reviewed book chapters and articles for journals such as Postcolonial Studies and China Information and also recently translated from Chinese Zhao Ziyang’s political memories and a number of articles for a compilation of Liu Xiaobo’s writings.

 Dr. Shanshan Lan, Research Assistant Professor, LEWI Mobility/ Urbanization Working Group

Dr. Lan received her doctoral degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007. Before joining Hong Kong Baptist University, she worked as an Andrew W. Mellow postdoctoral research fellow in Northwestern University and Connecticut College. Dr. Lan’s research interests include: urban anthropology, race and immigration, globalization and transnational labour migration, Asian diaspora in North America, Chinese Americans, class and social service, multiculturalism, interethnic relations among U.S. minorities, China and East Asia. Her first book, Diaspora and Class Consciousness: Chinese Immigrant Workers in Multiracial Chicago, was published in December 2011 by Routledge Press. Based on sustained ethnographic research in Chicago’s Bridgeport and

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Chinatown communities, the book examines the various dilemmas and contradictions in Chinese immigrant workers’ development of knowledge on racial and class differences in a multiracial urban environment. Currently Dr. Lan is studying African migrants in the City of Guangzhou. For this she was awarded a General Research Fund award from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council to conduct anthropological fieldworks both in Guangzhou and in Nigeria.

• Dr. George Kam-wah Mak, Research Assistant Professor, LEWI Cross-Cultural Studies Working Group

George K. W. Mak obtained his Ph.D. in Chinese Studies from the University of Cambridge. His academic interests include Bible Translation, History of Chinese Protestantism, History of Late Qing and Republican China and Sino-Foreign Cultural Relations.

Mak is the author of 《大英聖書公會與官話〈和合本〉 聖經翻譯》(The British and Foreign Bible Society and the Translation of the Mandarin Chinese Union Version) (Hong Kong: Christian Study Centre on Chinese Religion and Culture, 2010). His second monograph, Protestant Bible Translation and Mandarin as the National Language of China, will be published by Brill in its series ‘Sinica Leidensia’.

Mak’s other forthcoming publications include “The Colportage of the Protestant Bible in Late Qing China: The Example of the British and Foreign Bible Society”, in Religious Publishing and Print Culture in Modern China, 1800-2012, ed. Philip Clart and Gregory Adam Scott (De Gruyter, 2014); “Catholic Bible Translation in Twentieth-Century China: An Overview” (co-authored with Daniel K.T. Choi), in Catholicism in China, 1900-Present, ed. Cindy Yik-yi Chu (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Mak is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (FRAS). His article published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society was shortlisted for the second Sir George Staunton Prize (2009). He was awarded Honorable Mention in Stephen C. Soong Translation Studies Memorial

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Awards (2010) for his Chinese article published in《近代中國基督教史研究 集刊》(Journal of the History of Christianity in Modern China). Mak currently serves on the board of directors of the Christian Study Centre on Chinese Religion and Culture. He is also the treasurer of the Society for the Study of History of Christianity in China.

 Dr. Judy Yuen-man Siu, Research Assistant Professor, LEWI Environment, Health and Sustainability Working Group

Dr. Siu received her PhD from the School of Population Health in the University of Queensland, Australia, and both MPhil and BSSc from the Department of Anthropology of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Judy is a medical anthropologist with a strong research interest in the areas of social and cultural determinants of health, perceptions and responses on health and diseases, health and illness behaviours, illness experiences, health inequalities, stigma in relation to illnesses, and public health. Before joining Hong Kong Baptist University, Judy received her post-doctoral fellow training in the Nethersole School of Nursing and the School of Public Health and Primary Care, under the Faculty of Medicine of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, involving in the study of infectious diseases from a social and cultural angle, perceptions on vaccinations, chronic patient self-care strategies, and a system of care for chronically ill patients under a family doctor model.

Judy has published articles in different international health journals and books, mainly covering the qualitative study of different health issues, such as: the use of complementary and alternative medicine by chronically ill patients, stigma and health behaviours in relation to infectious diseases after the outbreak of SARS, perceptions on influenza vaccination among chronically ill patients, HPV vaccination among women, chronically ill patients’ views on family doctors in Hong Kong, and illness experience of chronic overactive bladder patients in Hong Kong.

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1.3. List of LEWI Fellows

Faculty members of the University and also overseas academics interested in pursuing LEWI’s objectives have been invited to become LEWI Fellows. Below is a list of LEWI Fellows in AY 2013-14:

 Prof. Adrian Bailey, Dean of Social Sciences, HKBU

 Prof. Jack Barbalet, Head and Professor, Department of Sociology, HKBU

 Prof. Ling Chen, Professor, Department of Communication Studies, HKBU

 Prof. Zhi Chen, Head and Professor, Department of Chinese Language, HKBU

 Dr. Yuk Shing Cheng, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, HKBU

 Dr. Marcus Chiu, Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, National University of Singapore

 Dr. Yin-wah Chu, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, HKBU

 Dr. Sherrill Evans, Senior Lecturer, College of Health & Human Sciences, Swansea University

 Dr. Alex Lau, Associate Professor, Department of Accountancy and Law, HKBU

 Prof. Ping-cheung Lo, Professor, Department of Religion and Philosophy, HKBU

 Dr. Daphne Mah, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, HKBU

 Prof. King-sang Mak, Professor, Department of History, HKBU

 Prof. Lauren Pfister, Professor, Department of Religion and Philosophy, HKBU

 Dr. Danny Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing, HKBU

 Prof. Donggen Wang, Professor, Department of Geography, HKBU

 Prof. Kenneth Wong, Professor, Department of Geography, HKBU

 Prof. Timothy Wong, Professor, Department of History, HKBU

 Prof. Emilie Yeh, Professor, Academy of Film, HKBU

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2. Major Activities

2.1. Conference

2.1.1. Conference on “Mobility & Communities: Socio-Spatial Transformations in Chinese Cities”, 29-30 November 2013, Hong Kong Baptist University

The conference aimed to provide updated and sophisticated analyses on various aspects of China’s unprecedented urban transformation and spatial change. A total of 12 scholars, all of whom were affiliated with LEWI and HKBU in one way or another, presented papers in the four panel sessions, which covered the following themes: Migration and urban experiences, neighbourhood and communities, and housing decisions and residential segregations.

In the afternoon of 29 November, keynote speaker Prof. Shenjing He of Sun Yat-sen University, kicked off the conference with a presentation on “Homeowner Association and Neighbourhood Governance in Guangzhou, China”. In her presentation, Prof. He shared with the audience some preliminary findings on a synthesized explanation for China’s Homeowner Association. The second day of the conference began with a keynote speech delivered by Prof. Chan Kam-Wing of University of Washington at Seattle, who spoke on “In Search of the Road to Hukou Reform”. Other papers in the conference shed insights on mobility and community change; and on their implications for neighbourhood governance, housing processes, and residential differentiation over space. Selected papers of the conferences have been submitted to Eurasian Geography and Economics for consideration of publication as a special issue of the journal.

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The LEWI conference on “Mobility & Communities: Socio-Spatial Transformations in Chinese Cities” was held on 29-30 Nov 2013

2.2. Research Seminars

Research seminars are regularly held to promote academic exchange and cross-fertilization between the East and the West, and to publicize LEWI’s research accomplishments to the academic community and the community at large. From July 2013 to June 2014, LEWI held 15 research seminars, all of which drew sizeable audience from within and outside HKBU and engendered lively discussions. Details of the seminars are listed below.

Date Seminar Title Speaker(s) Dr. Allison Hui, LEWI Material migrations: The object Postdoctoral Research Fellow 3 July 13 stories, networks and practices of and Miss Kelly Li, Research return migrants in Hong Kong Assistant, LEWI Dr. Chong Han, Associate Victims in a foreign land: Lecturer in Linguistics, 10 July 13 Self-representation of Chinese Translation and Interpreting, expatriates in Australia on Weibo University of Western Sydney

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Date Seminar Title Speaker(s) Prof. Chung-Tong Wu, Emeritus Professor (University of New South Wales & Myanmar: Urban development 13 Aug 13 University of Western Sydney) issues and prospects and Adjunct Professor, University of Technology, Sydney Prof. Werner Breitung, Migrants in a Chinese mega city – Professor, Department of Urban 29 Aug 13 diversity of urbanising life-worlds Planning & Design, Xi’an in Guangzhou Jiaotong Liverpool University, China

Consuming urban living in Dr. Shenjing He, Professor and ‘Villages in the City’: Assistant Dean of the School of 15 Oct 13 Studentification in Guangzhou, Geography and Planning, Sun China Yat-Sen University

From enclaves to citadels: A dynamic and contested Dr. Pu Hao, LEWI Research 5 Nov 13 transformation of China’s urban Assistant Professor villages Prof. Yves Boquet, Professor of 13 Dec 13 MetroManila: Urban challenges Geography, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France The role of green infrastructure for Dr. Jason Byrne, Senior climate change adaptation in China: Lecturer, School of 16 Dec 13 A case study of residents in Environment, Griffith Hangzhou and comparisons with University, Australia Gold Coast city, Australia Prof. Kara Chan, Professor of Communication Studies, Hong Kong consumers’ attitudes HKBU & Convenor, 10 Jan 14 toward acupuncture Environment, Health and Sustainability Working Group, LEWI Dr. Sandra Diehl, Professor, Department for Media and Intercultural perception of cultural 6 Mar 14 Communication, Alpen-Adria dimensions in advertising Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria

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Date Seminar Title Speaker(s)

The European 1968: A Dr. Perry Johansson, LEWI 3 Apr 14 world-historical and Research Assistant Professor psychoanalytical interpretation

Fr. Gianni Criveller, Holy Spirit Lost in translation: The Chinese 25 Apr 14 Seminary College of Theology rites controversy and Philosophy

Prof. Si-ming Li, LEWI Hong Kong’s changing land and 30 Apr 14 Director and Chair Professor of housing policies since 1997 Geography, HKBU

Events, event-space, anti-event Prof. Robert Kaiser, Professor 19 Jun 14 space: Constructing places where of Geography, University of nothing happens? Wisconsin – Madison

State regulation of undocumented Dr. Shanshan Lan, LEWI 27 Jun 14 African migrants in China: A Research Assistant Professor multi-scalar analysis

Dr. Jason Byrne’s seminar on 16 Dec 2013 attracted a large audience

3. Programmes

3.1. Visiting Scholar Programme and Visitations

The Visiting Scholar Programme was launched in 1996 with a view to promoting collaborative research and other scholarly activities with an

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East-West axis. From July 2013 to June 2014, LEWI hosted 6 visiting scholars to conduct collaborative research with LEWI researcher or HKBU faculty.

1. Dr. Chong Han (Jul 2013), Associate Lecturer in Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting, University of Western Sydney

Dr. Chong Han is Associate Lecturer in Linguistics, Interpreting & Translation Studies at University of Western Sydney. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Sydney. She is also a NAATI accredited Professional Translator & Interpreter (English-Chinese). Her research interests include media discourse analysis, intercultural communication, pragmatics and Chinese linguistics.

The purpose of Dr. Han’s visit is to conduct a collaborative research project with Prof. Adrian Bailey, Dean of HKBU’s Faculty of Social Sciences, on “How to reach home: Construction of ‘Disbelongingness’ on Weibo by mainland Chinese immigrants in Hong Kong”. The project aims to investigate mainland Chinese immigrants in Hong Kong and their language practice in social media communication.

Dr. Chong Han of University of Western Sydney

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2. Prof. Shenjing He (mid-Sep to mid-Nov 2013), Professor, School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yet-Sen University, China

Shenjing He (Ph.D. in Geography, University of Southampton, 2006) is Professor and Assistant Dean at the School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yet-Sen University. She is the regional editor of Urban Studies, and a member of the international editorial advisory board of International Planning Studies.

Prof. He’s research interests focus on urban redevelopment, gentrification, urban poverty, and neoliberal urbanism. She has published more than fifty journal articles and book chapters in English and Chinese, including papers in Antipode, Environment and Planning A, Urban Studies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Population, Space and Place, Urban Geography, Social & Cultural Geography etc. She is the co-author of “Urban Poverty in China” (Edward Elgar, 2010), co-editor of “Locating Right to the City in the Global South” (Routledge, 2013). She is also the lead editor of several special issues, including a recent one on “Interrogating Unequal Rights to the Chinese City” for Environment and Planning A (December 2012), and two issues for Urban Studies and Urban Geography.

Prof. Si-ming Li (right), LEWI Director, presenting a souvenir to Prof. Shenjing He (left), keynote speaker of the LEWI conference on “Mobility & Communities: Socio-Spatial Transformations in Chinese Cities”, 29-30 November 2013

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3. Ms. Li Jiang (Jan - Dec 2014), Associate Researcher, Guangzhou Academy of Social Science

Ms. Li Jiang is Associate Researcher at Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences. Her research interests include: subcentres and polycentricity, urban and regional economic studies, and urban planning and development. She has published journal articles, including papers in Modern Urban Research, Economic Geography, Tropical Geography etc. The purpose of Ms. Jiang’s visit is to collect data for her research on “Employment subcentres and sectoral clustering in polycentricity: Guangzhou case”.

4. Dr. Sandra Diehl (Mar 2014), Associate Professor and Vice Head, Department for Media and Communication, Alpen-Adria Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria

Dr. Diehl’s research interests include international and intercultural advertising, health communication, CSR and media and convergence management. She has published in journals such as the International Journal of Advertising, Advances in International Marketing, Advances in Consumer Research, International Marketing Review and European Advances in Consumer Research. She is reviewer and editorial board member of different advertising and communication journals.

Dr. Diehl gave a research seminar for LEWI on 6 March 2014

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5. Dr. Gladys Chong (Mar-Aug 2014), Lecturer, Amsterdam University College

Dr. Chong is a lecturer at Amsterdam University College and a postdoctoral fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS). Her research interests lie in Chinese youth, power relations, globalisation, nationalism, gender and the politics of identity. She is also affiliated to the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA).

Dr. Chong’s research focuses on young people in Hong Kong and Beijing. During her visit at LEWI, she conducts literature review with particular focus on sources in Chinese, which are not readily available in the Netherlands.

6. Prof. Yiming He (Jun-Nov 2014), Associate Professor, South China Agricultural University

Prof. He’s research interests include regional transition, cultural turn and institutional analysis. He has authored/co-authored two books and published 52 journal articles. During his stay in LEWI, he works on a research project on “A study on the institutional transition in Pearl River Delta under the impact of the business culture of Hong Kong”.

Visitations

LEWI encourages the exchange of ideas of scholars from different fields of interest. Below is a summary of visitations that took place in AY 2013-14:

Date Details of Visit Dr. Werner Breitung, Professor, Department of Urban Planning & Design, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, China. Prof. Breitung visited LEWI for a month to conduct research for his Aug 13 project. On 29 August 13, he gave a seminar on “Migrants in a Chinese mega city – the diversity of urbanizing life-worlds in Guangzhou”.

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Date Details of Visit Prof. Nora Chiang, Professor Emerita, National Taiwan University. Prof. Chiang visited LEWI for a month to conduct a Nov 13 research on Taiwanese on the Move: the Case of Singapore and Hong Kong”

Eric Fong, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto. Prof. Late Nov Fong came to Hong Kong to attend the LEWI conference on 13 “Mobility & Communities: Socio-Spatial Transformations in Chinese Cities”. Dr. Jay Black, Assistant Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Mercer University. Dr. Black discussed the possibility of 30 Apr 14 collaborating with LEWI and the Journalism Department of HKBU in offering short term cultural exchange program for students of Mercer University.

3.2. Resident Graduate Scholarship Programme

The Resident Graduate Scholarship (RGS) Programme was launched in September 2002 to advance bilateral collaboration between Hong Kong Baptist University and participating member institutions. The programme is conceived with a reciprocal vision to bring students of participating universities to Hong Kong, under the co-supervision of HKBU faculty and vice versa. Students stay for a semester to conduct research under the co-supervision of HKBU faculty.

In 2013-2014, LEWI sponsored four research students to conduct research at the Institute under the supervision of HKBU faculty. The students are:

1) Wenwen Li, Master Candidate, Lanzhou University. Thesis topic: “Encounter, Adjustment and Interaction: On the Dissemination of American Christian and Missionary Alliance in Gannan Tibetan Areas”. Field supervisor at HKBU: Dr. George Kam-wah Mak, LEWI Research Assistant Professor.

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2) Meihua Liu, Ph.D. candidate, Beijing Foreign Studies University. Thesis topic: “William Milne and Sino-UK Cross-cultural Communication”. Field supervisor at HKBU: Prof. Lauren Pfister, Department of Religion and Philosophy.

3) Leonie Schmidt, Ph.D. candidate, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. Thesis topic: “Visions of the Future: Imagining Islamic Modernities in Post-Suharto Visual Culture”. Field supervisor at HKBU: Prof. Emilie Yeh, Academy of Film.

4) Rui Jiang, Master candidate, Lanzhou University. Thesis topic: “Gender and Professionalism: A Critical Review of the Research on Male Obstetrician-gynaecologist”. Field supervisor at HKBU: Dr. Dong Dong, LEWI Research Assistant Professor.

RGS students Rui Jiang (2nd from the left), Leonie Schmidt (3rd from the left) and Meihua Liu (right)

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3.3. Summer Studies Programme

3.3.1. Summer Global Immersion Programme for Southern Methodist University, U.S.A.

In June 2014, LEWI once again organized the Summer Global Immersion Programme for students from the Southern Methodist University (SMU). The group of 5 students are master’s students of SMU’s Temerlin Advertising Institute. They were accompanied by Director of Graduate Studies & Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor of SMU, Dr. Carrie le Ferle, who gave lectures to the students on advertising in the mornings. In the afternoons, LEWI organized seminars, cultural outings and agency visits for the students. The seminars were given by Prof. Kara Chan, convenor of the Environment, Health and Sustainability Working Group and Dr. Shanshan Lan, Research Assistant Professor of LEWI. The students considered their three-week stay at HKBU a highly rewarding and enjoyable experience.

SMU students visiting OMD, a media agency in HK

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4. Funded Research Projects: On-going and Funded over the Period

The directors, working group convenors and researchers of LEWI have undertaken a variety of research projects financed by HKBU and the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC). In 2013-14, LEWI secured 6 Faculty Research Grants (FRG) and 4 external grants from the RGC, Central Policy Unit, and the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, totalling HKD2,766,332.

Grants secured (from July 2013-June 2014):

Number of internal Number of external grants/ Working Group grants/Amount secured Amount secured Urbanization & 2 / HKD149,800 2 / HKD1,132,752 Mobility Cross-Cultural 2 / HKD100,000 1 / HKD529,000 Studies Environmental, Health & 2 / HKD199,580 1 / HKD655,200 Sustainability Total 4 / HKD449,380 4 / HKD2,316,952

The following are the on-going projects and projects initiated over the year under review.

4.1.1 Predicting Healthy Eating Behaviour among Adolescents using the Theory of Planned Behaviour (on-going project)

Principle Investigator: Prof. Kara Chan, Professor, Department of Communication Studies, HKBU & Convenor, Environment, Health and Sustainability Working Group, LEWI Co-Investigator: Prof. Gerard Prendergast, Professor, Department of Marketing, HKBU Source of Funding: General Research Fund, Research Grant Council, Hong Kong Amount Awarded: HKD163,000

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Brief Introduction:

This study will investigate Hong Kong and mainland Chinese adolescents’ intentions toward healthy eating. The Theory of Planned Behaviour will be used as the theoretical framework to examine how the intention to engage in healthy eating is affected by attitudes towards healthy eating, perceived behavioural control and subjective norms related to healthy eating. Data collection will involve a sample survey in Hong Kong and two cities in mainland China. Applications of the Theory of Planned Behaviour and the associated Theory of Reasoned Action are commonplace in western countries, but the theory has been applied less often in a Chinese context and there is evidence to suggest that for some behaviours predictions may vary depending on the social and cultural settings (Bagozzi et al, 2000). How would the theory apply to the adoption of healthy eating behaviour in China? Although the focus of this research is on the theoretical contribution, given the magnitude of the obesity problem in Hong Kong and mainland China the results of the study will also be of practical importance in assisting parents, educators and policy makers in designing health communication strategies for adolescents.

4.1.2 Perceived Gender Roles and Ideal Gender Identities among Hong Kong Female Adolescents (on-going project)

Principle Investigator: Prof. Kara Chan, Professor, Department of Communication Studies, HKBU & Convenor, Environment, Health and Sustainability Working Group, LEWI Source of Funding: Seed money, Department of Communication Studies, HKBU

Brief Introduction:

The study investigated dimensions related to the gender role and identity perceptions of adolescent girls in Hong Kong. A typology based on the dimensions was developed and its ability to predict brand relationship variables was examined. A convenience sample of 355 Hong Kong female secondary school students aged 12 to 19 were asked to answer questions

25 about gender roles and identities, ideal female images, and liking of global brands. A segmentation approach was employed to classify the respondents. Four distinct clusters of adolescent girls were identified and profiled. They were Middle of the roaders, Achievers, Conservatives, and Inactives. Understanding the unique characteristics of the clusters and the similarities and differences among them can enhance the targeting of marketing communication to adolescent girls, including the selection of celebrity presenters and visual images.

4.1.3 Reporting Acupuncture in Hong Kong’s Local Newspapers Before and After SARS: A Comparative Study (on-going project)

Principle Investigator: Prof. Kara Chan, Professor, Department of Communication Studies, HKBU & Convenor, Environment, Health and Sustainability Working Group, LEWI Co-Investigator: Dr. Dong Dong, Research Assistant Professor, LEWI Source of Funding: Department of Communication Studies, HKBU Amount Awarded: HKD30,000

Brief Introduction:

The SARS epidemic in 2003 is regarded as a crucial turning point in public perceptions on traditional Chinese medicine, including acupuncture, in Hong Kong. This study aims at examining and comparing how the theories and practices of acupuncture were reported and discussed in major local newspapers right before and ten years after SARS. A quantitative content analysis was employed. Two Chinese newspapers, Apple Daily and Ming Pao, which represent the major tabloids and elite newspapers in Hong Kong, were selected for data collection. Variables including the type of news, primary news sources, usages and effectiveness of acupuncture, and the tone of coverage were coded by two independent coders from the total 642 news articles (169 from June 2001 to May 2003 and 473 from June 2011 to May 2013). Interesting and significant differences between the two newspapers across the ten years were found and discussed.

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4.1.4 The Glocalization of the Catholic Church in the Context of Higher Education in China in the First Half of the 20th Century (new project initiated in AY 2013-14)

Principle Investigator: Prof. Cindy Yik-yi Chu, LEWI Associate Director, Convenor of Cross-Cultural Studies Working Group & Professor of History Source of Funding: Faculty Research Grant, HKBU Amount Awarded: HKD50,000

Brief Introduction:

This project asks the research question: “What was the process of the glocalization of the Catholic Church in the context of higher education in China in the first half of the 20th century?” Glocalization is a contemporary vocabulary which means to think global and yet to act local. This project explores the expansion of the Catholic Church through the dispatch of foreign missionaries worldwide. It tries to understand what were the motives and objectives of the Catholic Church in establishing its presence overseas. In the early 20th century, China was the most popular country for the missionaries, Catholics and Protestants alike, to preach the Good News and to convert the local people to Christianity. While the Protestant Churches already secured their foothold in Chinese cities, the Catholic missionaries were still searching for suitable mission fields for evangelization. This project investigates a highly significant contribution of the Catholic Church in China. It refers to the concerted efforts of the Catholic Church in establishing two institutions of higher education. They were Zhendan University (Aurora University 震旦大學 1903-1952) in Shanghai and Furen University (輔仁大學 1925-1952) in Beijing.

4.1.5 The Catholic Church in China: 1978 to the Present (on-going project)

Principle Investigator: Prof. Cindy Yik-yi Chu, LEWI Associate Director, Convenor of Cross-Cultural Studies Working Group & Professor of History Source of Funding: Faculty Research Grant, HKBU Amount Awarded: HKD86,760

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Brief Introduction:

This is a history of the Catholic Church in China since the country opened itself to the world in December 1978. This project critically evaluates the Chinese Catholic Church on a number of different levels. First, it addresses the diplomatic level through an analysis of Sino-Vatican and Sino-foreign relations. Second, the governmental level is explored by examining the control over church activities by the Beijing government and the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association. Third, the discussion of the societal level focuses on the supervision of local church groups, as well as religious and cultural exchanges between foreigners in China and Chinese abroad. Fourth, the individual level inquiry concerns the treatment of released clergy, the consecration of government-approved bishops, and the lives of Chinese Catholics.

4.1.6 Live to Contend: The Emergence and Development of the Health Rights Defense Movement in Contemporary China (new project initiated in AY 2013-14)

Principle Investigator: Dr. Dong Dong, Research Assistant Professor, LEWI Source of Funding: Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Amount Awarded: HKD655,200

Brief Introduction:

This proposed study is the first academic attempt to investigate the health rights defense movement in contemporary China. The right to health is one fundamental part of human rights. However, in the People’s Republic of China, the right to health is often regarded as secondary to economic development and social stability. Harmed by the malfunctioning health care system and disappointed by the difficulties in seeking justice through the legal system, Chinese citizens have gradually developed consciousness of health rights and coalesced into a social movement. This movement is one integral part and a forceful dimension of the burgeoning Chinese civil society. Through the theoretical lens of issue entrepreneurship, this study will look into the issues that Chinese health rights defenders strategically create, frame,

28 and bring into the public arena. Drawing on a multiple-case study approach, this 30-month research project will employ an in-depth look at the forms, processes, and consequences of the Chinese health rights defense actions, in both real and virtual space. Six active health rights defense groups are selected for online observations and in-depth interviews. This study will make theoretical and empirical contributions to the literature on social movements, civil society, and contentious politics. It will also deliver deep insights for scholars, social activists, and policy makers on domestic and global health governance.

4.1.7 Discourses of Dis/trust: Media Construction of the Doctor-patient Relationship in China (new project initiated in AY 2013-14)

Principle Investigator: Dr. Dong Dong, Research Assistant Professor, LEWI Source of Funding: Faculty Research Grant, HKBU Amount Awarded: HKD99,980

Brief Introduction:

Trust is the foundation of the doctor-patient relationship. However, in recent years, Chinese society has witnessed an astonishing erosion of trust in medical institutions and professionals. As a result, doctors’ lives have been under constant threats. Surprisingly, the mass media is blamed for causing the tension between doctors and patients. They are criticized for demonizing the images of doctors through falsely reporting medical disputes. But we have to wonder: is there any substantial evidence to support such criticism? If yes, what are the reasons for the media to negatively portray doctors? If not, why is the media being blamed? What are the individual, organizational, and social mechanisms behind the news about the doctor-patient relationship in China? This project proposes to explore these questions through the theoretical lens of discursive repertories of dis/trust (i.e. trust and distrust). It will display the backstage of news production on medicine and medical professionals, and the extension of the media stage from the newsroom to hospitals. This project shall make a contribution to our understanding of trust and distrust and of the changing roles played by the media, doctor, and

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4.1.8 Rural-urban Migration in Post-reform China: A Trade-off between Rural Land and Urban Residency (new project initiated in AY 2013-14)

Principle Investigator: Dr. Pu Hao, Research Assistant Professor, LEWI Source of Funding: Faculty Research Grant, HKBU Amount Awarded: HKD99,800

Brief Introduction:

The industrialization in China has driven a huge portion of the rural population to work and live in urban areas. Discriminating institutions associated with the hukou system exclude most rural migrants from urban rights and benefits; however, in several provinces, the option of converting hukou becomes increasingly available for rural migrants. Nevertheless, few rural migrants choose to settle down in cities by obtaining an urban hukou, which contradicts the common perception of rural migrants’ desire for urban hukou. Based on a recent migrant survey in Jiangsu Province, this research aims to explore rural migrants’ intention of hukou conversion with respect to the availability, type, and quantity of rural landholdings in their home countryside, as well as their socioeconomic attributes. More specifically, it will investigate to what extent the possession of farmland and housing land at rural origins influences the intention of rural migrants to obtain permanent urban residency in their destination cities. Variances in settlement intention between different cohort groups and between migrants from the more and less affluent regions will be examined. The findings of the research will provide helpful policy recommendations to promote urbanization by addressing the needs and concerns of rural migrants in terms of hukou conversion.

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4.1.9 Understanding the economic geography of urban informal settlements in China, Hong Kong Baptist University (new project initiated in AY 2013-14)

Principle Investigator: Dr. Pu Hao, Research Assistant Professor, LEWI Source of Funding: Faculty Research Grant, HKBU Amount Awarded: HKD50,000

Brief Introduction:

In the global South the development of informal settlements often dominates urban form and growth. These settlements are housing enclaves for the urban poor but they also accommodate incredible percentage of social and economic activities. These activities emerge and proliferate in certain settlements or particular sections of a settlement. However, the reason for the spatial distribution and dynamics of informal social and economic activities are unclear. This research undertakes a thorough analysis of the urban form and economic geography of selected informal settlements in Shenzhen, one of the most dynamic cities in China. Empirical exploration is foremost aiming at identifying the factors that explain the spatial distribution of retail and service establishments in informal settlements. Research findings will contribute to urban planning and policies in coping with the current state and future development of informal urban development. In addition, the analytical methods developed will be applicable for spatial analysis of informal urban development worldwide. Surveys conducted by the PI supplemented with the official municipal building database will be the primary data source for this research.

4.1.10 Sweden in World History: The Importance of China and the Vietnam (on-going project)

Principle Investigator: Dr. Perry Johansson, Research Assistant Professor, LEWI Source of Funding: General Research Fund, Research Grant Council, Hong Kong Amount Awarded: HKD187,360

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Brief Introduction:

Although postcolonial studies have managed to communicate the bias of Western historiography of the non-West, few attempts have been made to explore the importance of the non-West for the history of Western nations. Stressing the role China and the Vietnam War had for changing its political landscape this project aims for a fundamental revision of Sweden’s contemporary history along this line. By shifting focus from Sweden’s role internationally to the importance of global events for the development of its domestic politics a new understanding for the emergence of radicalization under Olof Palme is pursued. Proceeding from newly opened archives and recently published memoirs this proposed investigation attempts to explain the appearance of an influential Maoist movement in the late 1960s - laying bare the reactions and changes this movement forced upon Swedish foreign and domestic policy of the 1970s. A first hypothesis, already tried in a pilot study, indicates it was the Chinese Communist Party who laid the foundation for a Maoist led united front in Sweden by inviting and training a small number of Swedes. A second hypothesis following directly from the first is that the radicalization of the ruling Swedish Social Democratic Party was directly caused by political provocations and its relentless focus on American atrocities in Vietnam by the United Front. A third idea that follows from this is that the Social Democratic Party came to use the Vietnam War for domestic politics; especially during national political elections. This proposed revisionist narrative of contemporary Swedish history is to be framed by an epistemological discussion about state influence over Swedish historiography during Social Democratic Party rule. Much of the material from Chinese and Swedish archives has been collected already. The part of the project founded by the RGC will run for two years and result in one article, two conference presentations, and a monograph. The general lesson presumptively drawn from this proposed study is that local history is not comprehensible without its global context. This study might become an important first step for a much needed change of focus in historiography from National history to world history.

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4.1.11 National History Inside Out: The Importance of China and Vietnam for the Radicalization of Sweden (on-going project)

Principle Investigator: Dr. Perry Johansson, Research Assistant Professor, LEWI Source of Funding: Faculty Research Grant, HKBU Amount Awarded: HKD25,760

Brief Introduction:

This project aims for a fundamental revision of Sweden’s contemporary history. By shifting focus from the country’s role internationally to the importance of global events for the development of its domestic politics, a new understanding is sought for the emergence of a more radical Sweden under Olof Palme. Proceeding from newly opened archives and recently published memoirs, this proposed study will explain first the appearance of an influential Maoist movement in the late 1960s laying bare the reactions and changes this movement managed to force upon Swedish foreign and domestic policy of the 1970s. A first hypothesis states that it was China’ Communist Party, by inviting and training a small number of Swedes who laid the fundament for a Maoist led united front in Sweden. A second hypothesis, following from the first, is that the radicalization of the ruling Swedish Social Democratic Party under Olof Palme was directly caused by the provocation that this united front produced by its relentless focus on American atrocities in Vietnam. A third theory that follows from this is that the Social Democratic Party came to use the Indochinese wars for their domestic politics; especially during election times. This proposed revisionist narrative of contemporary Swedish history will be framed by a metadiscussion on state influence over Swedish historiography during social democratic rule and a psychoanalytic reading of the trans- generational guilt dynamics caused by the nation’s tacit help to the Nazi war machine.

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4.1.12 Class and Transnational Mobility Dreams: A Multi-Sited Study of Mainland Chinese Families with Young Study Abroad Students (new project initiated in AY 2013-14)

Principle Investigator: Dr. Shanshan Lan, Research Assistant Professor, LEWI Source of Funding: General Research Fund, Research Grant Council, Hong Kong Amount Awarded: HKD715,992

Brief Introduction:

China’s study abroad fever has been steadily gaining momentum. Since 2000, the number of Chinese students abroad has been increasing 20 percent annually (People’s Daily Online, 2011). In addition to traditional student migrants who travel abroad to pursue Master’s or PhD degrees, there is a rising number of younger students who go abroad for high school or undergraduate education. With the expansion of China’s middle class population, and the increasing participation of less-wealthy families, studying abroad at a young age is no longer a privilege for the rich and the elite, but a popular alternative for Chinese families from various social and economic backgrounds (Zeng 2013). Existing Chinese media reports on young overseas students mainly focus on their problematic behaviors and failure stories and little is known about the pre-migration decision making process within the family. Following scholars who treat migration as a family strategy (Salaff et al 2010), this research interprets young Chinese students’ educational migration as a family project that is loaded with financial, emotional, and even political investments from the parents.

According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the number of Chinese students in private American high schools increased from 65 in 2005 to 23,795 in 2012 (Zhao 2013). Another source shows that there was a 43 percent increase in Chinese undergraduates in the U.S. in 2012 (Cross 2013). The decrease of age in overseas Chinese students and the amazingly fast growth in their number prompted one educational agent to predict that by 2014 these younger students would make up 70 percent of the Chinese study

34 abroad population (People’s Daily Online, 2011). Scholars have noted the key role of consumption practices in shaping people’s class identity and lifestyle (Freeman 2000; Mills 1999; Zhang 2008). This study treats the study abroad projects of Mainland Chinese families as a special type of educational consumption that is marked by class distinctions. I am interested in how parents’ investments in their children’s transnational mobility dreams are burdened by their own feelings of insecurity or anxiety about political instability, social unrest, and class disparities in Chinese society. Building on literature on transnational split families in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea, this research also examines the relationship between international education and class reproduction, namely, how Mainland Chinese parents and children’s participation in the study abroad projects impacts or transforms their class positions and subjectivities in China’s new social order.

4.1.13 The Shifting Meanings of Blackness: African Diaspora Communities in Guangzhou (on-going project)

Principle Investigator: Dr. Shanshan Lan, Research Assistant Professor, LEWI Source of Funding: General Research Fund, Research Grant Council, Hong Kong Amount Awarded: HKD489,500

Brief Introduction:

With the expansion of Sino-African trade, African migrants are becoming an increasingly visible population in urban China. In the past decade, the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou has witnessed unprecedented growth in its African population and the formation of the most conspicuous African diaspora communities in China, dubbed by local Chinese as “Chocolate City” or “Little Africa.” According to an unofficial estimate, there are currently around 20,000 legal African immigrants in Guangzhou and the number of undocumented immigrants may be close to 200,000. The increase of African migrants in Guangzhou has raised pressing questions on issues of race, immigration control and cross-cultural communications in urban China. This project adopts a comparative perspective by placing African immigrants in

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China in the broader context of globalization and transnational migration. By comparing the African diaspora experience in China and in the United States, it investigates the changing meanings of race and racism in different cultural contexts. Specifically I am interested in how knowledge about Africa and blackness is constructed in China’s rising market economy and to what extent it contributes to the reproduction of a global racial hierarchy.

4.1.14 Land and Housing Policies in Post-Handover Hong Kong: Political Economy and Urban Space (new project initiated in AY 2013-14)

Principle Investigator: Prof. Si-ming Li, Director of LEWI, Convenor of Urbanization and Mobility Working Group & Chair Professor of Geography Source of Funding: Public Policy Research Funding Scheme, Central Policy Unit, Hong Kong SAR Government Amount Awarded: HKD416,760

Brief Introduction:

Momentous events have characterized the first sixteen years of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR). Among these were drastic and repeated changes land and housing policies, swinging from one end of the state versus market pendulum to another. These developments took place in the context of phenomenal upheavals and shifts in the world economy, as well as the vastly heightened politicization of Hong Kong's internal affairs under the pledge of "Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong" enshrined in the Basic Laws. Unravelling the intricate and complex relations underlying the drastic changes in Hong Kong's land and housing policies has significance beyond the SAR. In many respects what Hong Kong has experienced is reflective of major developments in the world politico-spatial economy at large: the financialization of economic activities through spatial fix, and growing worldwide economic instability epitomized by periodic burst of property bubbles. Clearly, such an analysis helps to inform theoretical debates on the causes of the current global economic crisis instigated by the sub-prime mortgage saga and its implications for the realignment of the world economy and world cities, Hong Kong included.

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On a more local level, situating the SAR's land and housing policy emphases under varying economic, political and spatial contexts is of significance in terms of identifying relevant policy options, both short-term and long-term, so as to enhance housing affordability without causing another burst of the property bubble; the latter has proved to be detrimental to social and political stability. In fact one might argue that a major factor behind the difficulties faced by the SAR administration since the handover was the sudden collapse in property prices immediately after the founding of the SAR in 1997, and the associated prolonged deflation, high unemployment and falling nominal incomes.

Furthermore, the proposed contextual analysis contributes to formulating appropriate strategies to achieve the policy objectives. This is of major importance, given the increasing prevalence of political battles fought over land and housing issues in the name of defending social and environmental justice, which has severely undermined the launching of well-intended policies, including the efforts to cool down the overheated property market, increase public housing provision, and revamp the planning of new development zones to ensure adequate land and housing supply. How to solicit the support of relevant interest groups and stakeholders is therefore a top policy concern for the SAR government.

4.1.15 Residential Inequalities in Urban China under Spatial Restructuring (on-going project)

Principle Investigator: Prof. Si-ming Li, Director of LEWI, Convenor of Urbanization and Mobility Working Group & Chair Professor of Geography Source of Funding: General Research Fund, Research Grant Council, Hong Kong Amount Awarded: HKD744,953

Brief Introduction:

Ever since the implementation of the paid transfer of land use rights in the late 1980s, China’s major cities have undergone immense spatial structuring. A coalition between municipal governments and real estate interests has

37 emerged to exploit the huge rent gaps, arising largely from institutionalized segmentation of urban and rural land tenures. To counteract the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-98, the Chinese government designated real estate and auto production as growth engines. Accompanying this was the ending of the welfare allocation of housing in 1998. Accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 implied the subjection to the full force of globalization, a consequence of which was world city formation. The world’s largest transnational corporations (TNCs) have since scrambled to set up regional headquarters in China’s leading metropolises. They are joined by China’s own emerging TNCs, primarily large state-owned enterprises corporatized under the enterprise reform.

Typical of world cities are workforce polarization, growing income spreads, rapidly rising housing costs, and increased spatial segregation. In China the contrast between traditional work-unit compounds and gated commodity housing estates is particularly striking. Complicating the picture is the proliferation of migrant communities on urban-rural fringes. Growing economic and housing inequalities have brought widespread discontents, as testified by repeated efforts by the Chinese government to cool down the overheated housing market. The discontents are particularly severe among the urban poor, many of whom were forced to move to inaccessible suburban locations due to redevelopment programmes, and young professionals who were too young to benefit from the housing reform of the 1990s.

The proposed study aims to conduct a multi-facet analysis of the changing nature of residential inequality in China cities under phenomenal spatial restructuring. More specifically, two major dimensions of residential inequality will be examined. The first concerns the extent and nature of housing inequality, especially after the 1998 housing reform and under increased workforce polarization. In relation to the above, the second concerns how this inequality is exacerbated by spatial segmentations in the housing and labour markets. Phenomenal suburbanization, massive investments in urban freeways, and rising car ownership have further enlarged the differences in mobility over space and hence accessibility to jobs, housing and other urban amenities between socioeconomic groups. Surveys conducted by the PI in Guangzhou will form the primary data source for the

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4.1.16 Institutional Indigenization of Bible Work in China: A Study focusing on the China Bible House (new project initiated in AY 2013-14)

Principle Investigator: Dr. George Mak, Research Assistant Professor, LEWI Source of Funding: Faculty Research Grant, HKBU Amount Awarded: HKD50,000

Brief Introduction:

This project investigates the history of the China Bible House, the first national Bible society of China, as a Sino-Foreign institution which aimed at achieving eventually self-management and self-support by Chinese Protestants during the Republican era and the nascent years of the People’s Republic of China. This project will explain how the China Bible House played a dual role in Protestant Christianity in China: It was intended as a national organization manifesting the Chineseness of the Protestant Church and a member of the global fellowship of Bible societies. The project will then throw light on how the Second Sino-Japanese War and the subsequent Chinese Civil War, while posing obstacles to the operation of the China Bible House, moved it to the direction of Chinese control. Finally, the project will investigate how the Communist government’s policy on Christianity during the early 1950s helped the China Bible House become a Bible society entirely owned and run by Chinese Protestants themselves.

4.1.17 The Annotation Question of the Chinese Protestant Bible, 1877-1917 (new project initiated in AY 2013-14)

Principle Investigator: Dr. George Mak, Research Assistant Professor, LEWI Source of Funding: General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong Amount Awarded: HKD529,000

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Brief Introduction:

The proposed research will explore the ‘annotation question’ of the Chinese Protestant Bible (i.e. whether the Chinese Protestant Bible needed to be published with annotations explaining the biblical world to Chinese readers) provoked by the ‘without note or comment’ principle of Bible societies in late Qing and early Republican China. The proposed research will offer an opportunity to understand that the China experience of the Protestant mission not only involved the Christian Bible’s eastward cross-cultural journey but also challenged the traditional Western understanding of Christian beliefs.

The first part of the proposed research is a study focusing on the controversy over the ‘annotation question’ between Protestant missionaries in China and Bible societies during the 1870s and the 1910s. By critically examining archival sources and relevant published materials, the study will probe into the challenge posed by the missionary experience in China to the traditional Western understanding of Christian beliefs and the doctrinal issues central to the debate over the necessity of annotations for the Chinese Protestant Bible. The study will then elucidate the views of Protestant missionaries and Bible societies on the value, necessity and scope of annotations for the Chinese Protestant Bible and the kinds of ideological positions taken by the two parties to support their views. In addition, the study will look at the power relationship between the two parties in the mission context and how much this weighed in Bible societies’ decisions to consider deviating from their long-established ‘without note or comment’ principle for the sake of the China mission field.

The second part consists of textual analyses of the draft annotations compiled by Protestant missionaries in China and the annotations eventually printed in Chinese Bibles by Bible societies. Particular attention will be given to the annotators’ strategies to explain the biblical world to Chinese readers with reference to their socio-cultural context. The annotation practices adopted by Protestant missionaries and native Chinese writers will also be compared to cast light on whether and how missionary Bible annotators followed local textual practices to facilitate the Chinese reception of Christianity.

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Through an archive-based, well-researched study of an overlooked aspect of the Chinese Protestant Bible in late Qing and early Republican China, the proposed research will not only further our historical knowledge of Chinese Bible translation and publishing but also enhance our understanding of the complexity of the historical process by which Christianity was spread in the non-Christian world.

4.1.18 A Qualitative Study on the Perceptions and Acceptability of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination among Hong Kong Women and Mothers (new project initiated in AY 2013-14)

Principle Investigator: Dr. Judy Siu, Research Assistant Professor, LEWI Source of Funding: Faculty Research Grant, HKBU Amount Awarded: HKD99,600

Brief Introduction:

Cervical cancer, which is caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) infection of the genitals, is the second most common cancer suffered by female populations worldwide. In Hong Kong, cervical cancer is the cancer with the 10th highest morbidity rate among women. Besides cervical cancer, HPV can also lead to other diseases, such as genital warts and cancers of the vulva, vagina, anus, and oropharynx.

HPV vaccination has been clinically recognized as one of the most effective preventive measures against cervical cancer and other HPV-related diseases. Many countries have implemented HPV vaccination programs for their female citizens. However, the coverage and acceptance of HPV vaccination among female populations has not been satisfactory in some places. In Hong Kong, HPV vaccination is voluntary. Statistics have noted a relatively low vaccine uptake in Western and Asian countries, including Hong Kong. The principal investigator’s previous research on the barriers to HPV vaccination among female university students in Hong Kong shows that there is a need for a communication strategy that is socially and culturally sensitive to enhance Hong Kong women’s knowledge and motivation to get the HPV vaccination.

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The proposed 12-month project will investigate the social and cultural barriers to HPV vaccination, as well as the socially and culturally sensitive agents that are effective in determining HPV vaccination among Hong Kong women, which can help public health advocates convince women to accept the vaccination as an effective preventive health behaviour. Besides personal perceptions, research has shown that social and cultural factors and the social environment have a remarkable influence on people’s motivation to undertake preventive health behaviours. Indeed, both social norms theory and the theory of planned behaviour hold that social norms and significant others influence people’s behaviour. However, little has been done to investigate which specific social norms and significant others have the most influence on motivating vaccination against HPV. Understanding these factors is crucial in developing promotion strategies to encourage women to get the HPV vaccination.

In addition, there is a lack of studies on mothers’ perceptions about the HPV vaccination and the idea of vaccinating their daughters, in particular in the Asian countries. Mothers’ perceptions and motivations are highly significant in the acceptability of HPV vaccine not only for themselves, but also for their daughters, due to the socialization effect. Therefore, the proposed project will identify how mothers as significant others affect women’s understanding of and motivation to get the HPV vaccination in Hong Kong.

The proposed project will use qualitative approach by adopting focus groups to investigate women’s (who are aged 18 to 46) perceptions of HPV vaccination in depth, including: (1) knowledge of HPV and perceptions of risk, (2) knowledge and perceptions of the HPV vaccine, (3) incentives and barriers to receiving HPV vaccination, (4) the influence of social norms and significant others on decisions to get the HPV vaccination, (5) perceptions of which ages are suitable for receiving the HPV vaccination, and (6) perceived benefits and negative influences of the HPV vaccination

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5. Research Outputs

LEWI researchers have been active in publishing books and articles in leading academic journals as well as in the form of book chapters. Below is a summary of the publications by LEWI research groups (excluding working papers), from July 2013 to June 2014.

Books Book chapters Journal articles Working Edited Published/ published/ published/ Group Books forthcoming forthcoming forthcoming Urbanization & 0 2 12 12 Mobility Cross-Cultural 2 1 6 3 Studies Environmental, Health & 1 0 4 20 Sustainability Total 3 3 22 35

Research outputs by group members:

Professor Si-ming Li, Director of LEWI, Convenor of Urbanization and Mobility Working Group & Chair Professor of Geography

Edited Books:

 (with Huang, Y.Q.) (Eds.). Housing Inequalities in Chinese Cities. London and New York: Routledge, 2014.

 李思名、黃枝連、陳尚懋、唐欣偉 (主編)，《全球化與區域合作: 兩 岸四地的經濟、社會和政治新關係》 (Globalization and New Relations among Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau)。香港教育圖 書公司 (Hong Kong Educational Publisher)，2013 年 12 月。

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Book Chapters:

 (forthcoming). Residential mobility. In Richardson D. (Ed.), The Wiley-AAG Encyclopaedia of Geography: People, Environment, the Earth, and Technology.

 (with Huang, Y.Q.) (2014). Housing inequality, residential differentiation, and socio-spatial stratification: Chinese cities in the early 21st century. In Huang, Y.Q. and Li, S.M. (Eds.), Housing Inequalities in Chinese Cities. London and New York: Routledge, 3-17.

 (with Du, H.M.) (2014). Residential change and housing inequality in urban China in early 21st century: Analysis of Guangzhou survey data. In Huang, Y.Q. and Li, S.M. (Eds.), Housing Inequalities in Chinese Cities. London and New York: Routledge, 18-36.

 (with Wang, Y.P. and Du, H.M.) (2014). Migration and the dynamics of informal housing in China. In Huang, Y.Q. and Li, S.M. (Eds.), Housing Inequalities in Chinese Cities. London and New York: Routledge, 87-102.

 (with Li, L.M.) (2014). Living the networked life in commodity housing estates: Everyday use of online neighborhood forums and community participation in urban China. In Huang, Y.Q. and Li, S.M. (Eds.), Housing Inequalities in Chinese Cities. London and New York: Routledge, 181-198.

 〈中國的崛起與城市與經濟空間在全球範圍的重構〉 (The Rise of China and the Global Realignment of Urban and Economic space)。刊於 李思名、黃枝連、陳尚懋主編，《全球化與區域合作: 兩岸四地的經 濟、社會和政治新關係》（ Globalization and New Relations among Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau）。香港：教育圖書公 司，2013，頁 73-95。

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Journal Papers:

 李思名、杜慧敏、陸惠賢，〈特區成立後香港的土地與住房政策〉。《紫 荊論壇》。2014 年 3-4 月號，頁 38-75。

 (with Cheng, H.H. and Wang, J.) (2014). Making a cultural cluster in China: A study of Dafen oil painting village, Shenzhen. Habitat International, 41, 156-167.

 王亞平、杜慧敏、李思名，〈中國的城市化與非正規住房〉。《城鄉規 劃》 (Urban and Rural Planning)。2013 年 7 期，頁 52-58 頁。

 (with Yang, C.) (2013). Transformation of Cross-boundary Governance in the Greater Pearl River Delta, China: Contested Geopolitics and Emerging Conflicts. Habitat International. 40, 25-34.

Conference/Workshop Presentations:

 《回歸後香港的土地和住房政策: 政治經濟分析》。發表於廣東省社 會科學院，二零一四年六月十七日。

 (January 2014). Hong Kong’s changing land and housing policies since 1997. A paper presented at the International Conference on China’s Urban Transformation and Restructuring, Guangzhou, 3-5 January 2014.

 (December 2013) (with Du, H.M.). Hong Kong’s changing housing policies post-1997: A political economy analysis. A paper presented at the International conference on China’s Urban Transformation and Restructuring, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 13-15 December 2013.

 (November 2013) (with Zhu, Y.S.). Intra-Urban residential mobility in Guangzhou, China, 1990-2010, with special reference to rural migrants. A paper presented at the Conference on Mobility and Communities: Socio-spatial Transformation in Chinese Cities, Hong Kong Baptist University, 29-30 November 2013.

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 (November 2013). Residential mobility in Chinese cities: A relatively neglected topic in urban China research. A paper presented at the Forum on Urban China Research is Dead, Long Live Urban China Research, Hong Kong Baptist University, 19 November 2013.

 《回歸後香港的土地和住房政策: 政治經濟分析》。發表於“中國發 展新階段：港澳地位與角色國際研討會”。廣州中山大學港澳台研究 中心，二零一三年十一月十五至十六日。

 (October 2013) (with Zhu, Y.S.). Changing residential mobility in Guangzhou city: Permanent residents versus migrants. A paper presented at the 2013 Beijing Forum, Beijing, 31 October - 3 November 2013.

Professor Cindy Yik-yi Chu, LEWI Associate Director, Convenor of Cross-Cultural Studies Working Group & Professor of History

Edited Book:

 (forthcoming). Catholicism in China, 1900-Present: The Development of the Chinese Church. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Book Chapter:

 (forthcoming). The Catholic Church in China during the republican period. In Stolte, C. and Kikuchi, Y. (Eds.), Eurasian Encounters: Intellectual and Cultural Exchanges, 1900-1950. Leiden: Amsterdam University Press.

Journal Paper:

 (2013). A review of Stuart Wolfendale’s imperial to international: A history of St. John’s cathedral, Hong Kong. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, Vol. 53, 329-31.

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Conference/Workshop Presentations:

 (May 2014). The glocalization of the Catholic church in the context of higher education in republican China. A paper presented at the International Conference on “The Glocalisation of Christianity in China”, University of Manchester, 15-16 May 2014.

Professor Kara Chan, Professor, Department of Communication Studies, HKBU & Convenor, Environment, Health and Sustainability Working Group, LEWI

Book:

 (2014). Girls and Media; Dreams and Realities. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.

Book Chapters:

 (with Huang, A.) (forthcoming). Understanding of public service advertisements among Chinese children. In Global Social Marketing.

 (forthcoming). Advertising to children in China. In Blades, M., Oates, C., Blumberg, F. and Gunter, B. (Eds.), Advertising to Children: New Issues and New Media.

 (2014). International research on advertising and children. In H. Cheng (Ed.), The Handbook of International Advertising Research (pp. 414-433). Malden, MA & Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell.

 (2014). Case study: Advertising using microfilms in Hong Kong. In Belch, G.E., Belch, M.A., Kerr, G., and Powell, I. (Eds.), Advertising, (pp. 141-142). McGraw-Hill, Australia.

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Journal Papers:

 (with Han, X.) (forthcoming). Effectiveness of environmental advertising for hotels. Services Marketing Quarterly.

 (with Ng, Y.L. and Liu, J.) (forthcoming). How Chinese young consumers respond to gendered advertisements. Young Consumers.

 (with Siu, J. and Fung, T.) (forthcoming). Perception of acupuncture in Hong Kong: A qualitative study. Health Marketing Quarterly.

 (with Ng, Y.L.) (forthcoming). Do females in advertisements reflect adolescents' ideal female image? Journal of Consumer Marketing.

 (with Ng, Y.L. and Prendergast, G.) (forthcoming). Should different marketing communication strategies be used to promote healthy eating among male and female adolescents? Health Marketing Quarterly.

 (with Cheng, B.K.L.) (forthcoming). Tourists’ awareness and liking of outdoor advertising. Journal of Journalism and Mass Communications.

 (with Dong, D.) (2014). Adolescent girls’ evaluation of brands during liminal life stages. International Journal of Trade, Economics and Finance, 5(3), 249-254.

 (with Hui, A.N.N., Yeung, D.Y.L., Sue-Chan, C., Hui, D.C.K. and Cheng, S.T.) (2014). Gains and losses in creativity personality as perceived by adults across the lifespan. Developmental Psychology, 50(3), 709-713.

 (with Lemish, D., McMillin, D. and Parameswaran, R.) (2013). Beyond the West to the Rest: A roundtable on global children’s media flows. Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture, 4(3), 211-220.

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 (with Evans, S., Ng, Y.L., Chiu, M.Y.L. and Huxley, P.) (2013). A concept mapping study on social inclusion in Hong Kong. Social Indicators Research, doi:10.1007/S11205-013-0498-1

 (with Fung, M.) (2013). Effectiveness of subway advertising in Hong Kong. Journalism and Mass Communication, 3(12), 757-767.

 (With Hui, A., Cheng, S.T. and Ng, Y.L.) (2013). Perception of age and creativity in work context. Journal of Creative Behavior, 47(4), 256-272.

 (with Leung, V. and Tsang, L.) (2013). Health information and advertising appeal in food commercials: A content analysis. Journal of Nutritional Therapeutics, 2(3), 137-144.

Conference/Workshop Presentations:

 (with Tsang, L. and Fung, T.K.F.) (June 2014). Hong Kong consumers’ attitudes toward acupuncture: A quantitative study. A paper presented at the 13th International Conferences on Research in Advertising (ICORIA), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 26-28 June 2014.

 (with Liu J. and Ng, Y.L.) (April 2014). Young consumers’ responses to gendered advertisements: An experimental study. A paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Teen Consumption, Edinburg, U.K., 9-11 April 2014.

 (with Evans, S., Huxley, P. and Chiu, M.) (October 2013). Social inclusion of people with mental health problems in the UK and Hong Kong: A comparison study. A paper presented at the World Psychiatric Association Conference, Vienna, Austria, 27-30 October 2013.

 (with Han, X.) (October 2013). Effectiveness of environmental advertising for hotels. A paper presented at the 19th International Conference of the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies (IAICS), Russian Federation Vladivostok, Russia, 3-5 October 2013.

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 (with Siu, J. and Fung, T.) (October 2013). Perception of acupuncture among users and non-users in Hong Kong. A paper presented at the 19th International Conference of the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies (IAICS), Russian Federation Vladivostok, Russia, 3-5 October 2013.

 (with Cheng, B.) (July 2013). Tourists’ awareness and liking of outdoor advertising. A paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Chinese Communication Society, Taipei, Taiwan, 12-14 July 2013.

 (with Ng, Y.L.) (July 2013). Communicate healthy eating to adolescents in Hong Kong. A paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Chinese Communication Society, Taipei, Taiwan, 12-14 July 2013.

Dr. Dong Dong, LEWI Research Assistant Professor (Environment, Health and Sustainability Working Group)

Journal Papers:

 (2014). Covering news with provincial characteristics: Comparing news coverage on health crises in China’s Guangdong and Henan provinces. Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, 3(1), 71–95, doi: 10.1386/ajms.3.1.71_1

 (with Chan, K.) (2014). Adolescent girls’ evaluation of brands during liminal life stages. International Journal of Trade, Economics and Finance, 5(3), 249-254.

 (2013). Legitimating journalistic authority under the state’s shadow: A case study of the Environmental Press Awards in China. Chinese Journal of Communication, 6(4), 397-418.

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Conference/Workshop Presentations:

 (August 2013). Legitimating journalistic authority under the State’s shadow: A case study of the environmental press awards in China. A paper presented at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, International 13 Communication Division, Washington D.C., U.S.A., 8-11 August 2013.

Dr. Pu Hao, LEWI Research Assistant Professor (Urbanization and Mobility Working Group)

Book Chapters:

 (2014). Spatial development patterns and trends of ‘villages in the city’ in Shenzhen. In Shannon, L., Meulder B. De. and Lin Y. (Eds.), Village in the City: Asian Variations of Urbanisms of Inclusion (pp. 124-141). Zürich: Park Books.

 (with Geertman, S., Hooimeijer, P. and Sliuzas R.) (2013). Spatial evolution of urban villages in Shenzhen. In Wu, F.L., Zhang F. and Webster C. (Eds.), Rural Migrants in Urban China: Enclaves and Transient Urbanism (pp. 202-219). London: Routledge.

Journal Articles:

 (forthcoming, in Chinese). Analyzing the land development intensity of urban villages based on the bid-rent theory: A case study of Shenzhen. City Planning Review.

 (with Lin, Y. and Geertman, S.) (forthcoming). A conceptual framework on modes of governance for the regeneration of Chinese ‘villages in the city. Urban Studies. doi: 10.1177/0042098014540345

 (with Yang, Z. and Cai, J.) (forthcoming). Economic clusters: A bridge between economic and spatial policies with a case of Beijing. Cities. doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2014.06.005

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 (with Geertman, S., Hooimeijer, P. and Sliuzas, R.) (2013). Spatial analyses of the urban village development process in Shenzhen, China. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37(6), 2177-2197.

 (with Hooimeijer, P., Sliuzas, R. and Geertman, S.) (2013). What drives the spatial development of urban villages in China? Urban Studies, 50(16) 3394-3411.

Conference/Workshop Presentations:

 (June 2014). Measuring the divided city: Housing provision and residential segregation in Shenzhen. A paper presented at the 8th International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference, 21-22 June 2014, Guangzhou, China.

 (December 2013). Shenzhen’s unregulated urban development: A spatial analysis of urban villages. A paper presented at the International Conference on China’s Urban Transformation and Restructuring: Urban Development, Planning and Education, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, 13-15 December 2013.

 (November 2013). Residential segregation and the spatial pattern of housing choices in Shenzhen. A paper presented at the LEWI Conference on Mobility and Communities: Socio-Spatial Transformation in Chinese Cities, Hong Kong Baptist University, 29-30 November 2013.

Dr. Perry Johansson, LEWI Research Assistant Professor (Cross-cultural Working Group)

Book:

 (forthcoming). The Libidinal Economy of China: Sexual Fantasy in International Relations. Rowman and Littlefield.

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Book Chapters:

 (2014). Cross-cultural epistemology: How European sinology became the bridge to China’s modern humanities. In Bod, R., Weststeijn, T. and Maat, J. (Eds.), The Making of the Humanities: Volume III. Amsterdam University Press and the University of Chicago Press.

 (forthcoming). The libidinal economy of ‘China’. In Doll, M. and Kohns, O. (Eds.), Figurationen des Politischen I und II. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag.

 (forthcoming). China and the European 1968. In Monde(s): Histoire, Espaces, Relations.

Conference/Workshop Presentations:

 (April 2014). Repetition, resistance, memory: The holocaust and the Vietnam war protests in Europe. A paper presented at the Tenth European Social Science History conference, Vienna, 23-26 April 2014.

 (December 2013). Crypts from the past. A paper presented at the International Conference on Resisting War in the 20th Century. Nova Universidad de Lisboa, 13-15 December 2013.

Dr. Shanshan Lan, LEWI Research Assistant Professor (Urbanization and Mobility Working Group)

Book Chapters:

 (forthcoming). Race and the politics of space: Doing walking ethnography in Urban Chicago. In Shortell, T. and Brown, E. (Eds.), Walking in the City: Quotidian Mobility and Ethnographic Method. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

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 (forthcoming). The Catholic Church’s role in the African diaspora in Guangzhou, China. In Chu, C. (Ed.). Chinese Catholicism from 1900 to the Present. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

 (2014). Chinese American youth in multiethnic Chicago. In Zhao, X.J. and Park, E.J.W. (Eds.), Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History. Santa Barbara: Greenwood Press, 234-237.

 (2014). Chinese immigrant workers in multiethnic Chicago. In Zhao, X.J. and Park, E.J.W. (Eds.), Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History. Santa Barbara: Greenwood Press, 275-278.

Journal Papers:

 (2014). State regulation of undocumented African migrants in China: A multi-scalar analysis. Journal of Asian and African Studies. doi: 10.1177/0021909614531903

 (with Xiao, H.) (2014). Trans-border mobility and cross-cultural business networking among Chinese and Nigerian petty entrepreneurs. Politique Africaine, (134), 45-67.

 (2013). Review of Chinese Chicago: Race, transnational migration and community since 1870 by Huping Ling. Journal of Illinois History, 15 (4), 290-292.

Conference/Workshop Presentations:

 (November 2013). Transnational business and family strategies among Chinese/Nigerian couples in Guangzhou and Lagos. A paper presented at the Conference on Mobility and Communities: Socio-Spatial Transformation in Chinese Cities. Hong Kong Baptist University, 29-30 November 2013.

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 (November 2013) (with Xiao, H.). Trans-border mobility and cross-cultural business networking among Chinese and Nigerian petty entrepreneurs. A paper presented at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, 21-24 November 2013.

 (November 2013). Transnational trade networks and circumscribed mobility among undocumented African migrants in China. A paper presented at The American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 20-24 November 2013.

 (November 2013). Issues of integrity and trust in Chinese-African small business transactions in Guangzhou. A paper presented at the International Conference on Hong Kong, Macao and Pearl River Delta in the Development of Contemporary China, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 15-16 November 2013.

Dr. George Mak, LEWI Research Assistant Professor (Cross-Cultural Studies Working Group)

Book:

 (forthcoming) Protestant Bible Translation and Mandarin as the National Language of China. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.

Book Chapters:

 (forthcoming). The colportage of the protestant Bible in late Qing China: The example of the British and Foreign Bible Society. In Clart, P. and Scott, P.C. (Eds.), Religious Publishing and Print Culture in Modern China, 1800-2012. Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter.

 (with Choi, K.T.) (forthcoming). Catholic Bible translation in twentieth- century China: An Overview. In Chu, C. (Ed.), Catholicism in China, 1900-Present. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

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Journal Papers:

 (forthcoming). To add or not to add? The British and Foreign Bible Society’s defence of the “without note or comment” principle in late Qing China. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.

 (forthcoming). The belated formation of the China Bible House (1937): Nationalism and the indigenization of Protestantism in Republican China’. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Conference/Workshop Presentation:

 (May 2014). Institutional indigenization of bible work in China: A study focusing on the China Bible House. A paper presented at the International Conference on the Glocalisation of Christianity in China, the University of Manchester, 14-16 May, 2014.

Dr. Judy Siu, LEWI Research Assistant Professor (Environment, Health and Sustainability Working Group)

Journal Papers:

 (forthcoming). Book review on “Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine: The creation of an industry and the moral economy of Tibetanness”. Asian Anthropology.

 (with Chan K. and Fung T.K.F.) (forthcoming). Perception of acupuncture among users and non-users: A qualitative study. Health Marketing Quarterly.

 (2014). Perceptions of and barriers to vaccinating daughters against Human Papillomavirus (HPV) among mothers in Hong Kong. BMC Women’s Health, 14: 73. doi: 10.1186/1472-6874-14-73

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 (2014). The illness experiences of women with overactive bladder in Hong Kong. Qualitative Health Research, 24(6): 801-810. doi: 10.1177/1049732314530811

 (2014). “Seeing a doctor is just like having a date”: A qualitative study on doctor shopping among overactive bladder patients in Hong Kong. BMC Family Practice, 15: 27. doi:10.1186/1471-2296-15-27

 (2013). Barriers to receiving human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination among female university students in Hong Kong. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 15(9): 1071-1084. doi:10.1080/13691058.2013.807518

Conference Presentations:

 (November 2013). The relationship between illness experience and poor mental health status of patients with overactive bladder in Hong Kong. A paper presented at the Asia Mental Health Conference, Hong Kong Baptist University, 22 November 2013.

 (October 2013). Barriers of receiving human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination among young female university students in Hong Kong. A paper presented at the International Conference of HIV/AIDS, STDs, and STIs, Orlando, FL, U.S.A., 23 - 25 October 2013.

 (with Chan K., and Fung T.K.F.) (October 2013). Perception of acupuncture among users and non-users in Hong Kong. A paper presented at the 19th International Conference of the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies (IAICS), Vladivostok, Russian Federation, 3-5 October 2013.

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6. Teaching Support/Initiatives

While LEWI is essentially a research institute, in order to capitalize on our academic strength and further develop our international networks of connection it is useful for LEWI to launch limited teaching programmes. In addition, this provides opportunities for our full-time research staff to fully develop their academic career and enables LEWI to maintain good working relationships with individual academic departments of the University. In AY2013-14, LEWI Research Assistant Professors taught 6 courses for different academic departments. These include:

• Dr. Shanshan Lan – “Women in China” for the Sociology Department • Dr. Pu Hao – “Introduction to Spatial Numeracy” for the Geography Department • Dr. Geroge Mak – “Introduction to China Studies” (team teaching) for the China Studies Program • Dr. Dong Dong – “Special Topics in Sociology: Media, Culture and Society” for the Sociology Department • Dr. Perry Johansson – “Sino American Relations” and “The Rise of Contemporary China” for the History Department

Over the academic year under review, the LEWI staff team made strenuous efforts to launch a taught master’s programme, with the view to developing a synergetic and interactive approach to pursue academic excellence in both teaching and research, in addition to securing a stable and sizeable financial source. However, LEWI was confronted with institutional hurdles of all kinds, which resulted in repeated aborted planning efforts. Early in the academic year, after a few months of hard work it became clear that the launching of a joint master’s programme on Urban Studies with the Department of Geography mentioned in last year’s annual report was unlikely to materialize. We decided to restart the planning process by drawing essentially on our own staffing strength, and we proposed to launch an interdisciplinary master’s programme on Global Studies, with concentrations initially in Cultural and Historical Perspectives and Urbanization and Environmental Concerns. The fact that LEWI is not a teaching unit in the University dictated that we had to collaborate with the Faculty of Social Sciences, and we received strong

58 support from Dean Bailey. A draft proposal was submitted to the Faculty for discussion in the Faculty Management Committee (FMC) in January 2014. A marketing survey was conducted in the next few months. A revised proposal which incorporated the results of the marketing survey and which tried to address the concerns raised by the FMC was forwarded to the Faculty in April. However, members of the FMC remained sceptical of the role of LEWI in offering teaching programmes.

Fortunately, to a significant extent our efforts were resurrected with Dean Bailey’s strenuous support. The Dean convinced members of the PMC that a master’s global studies fell within the purview of the Faculty, and that every academic unit within it would benefit from it. Instead of offering a single programme, the newest thought is to have a series of master’s programmes under the umbrella of Global Social Sciences. LEWI will be heavily involved in the planning and teaching of these programmes. The Director and Associate Director of LEWI will respectively head the planning team for the programmes in Global Urban Systems and Global Cultures. It is envisaged that at least three among the family of programmes will be launched in September 2015. A great deal of collaborative works over the next academic year is needed to bring all these efforts to fruition.

7. Retrospect and Prospect

In the period under review, LEWI as a research institute continued to show highly satisfactory performance in terms of the quality and quantity of publications produced, success in grant applications, fostering new and strengthening existing academic exchanges and collaborations, and the holding of research seminars and conferences. This represents not only the hard works of the LEWI research staff, but also the dedication of the Institute’s administrative staff, as well as continuing support of the senior administration of the University, more specifically, President/Vice Chancellor Professor Albert Chan, Vice President (Research and Development) Professor Rick Wong, to whom the Director of LEWI reports, and Dean of Social Sciences Professor Adrian Bailey, who previously served as the Convenor of the Mobility/Urbanization Working Group and who has continued to extend strong support to the advancement of LEWI, the mission

59 of which largely fall within the realm of social sciences and humanities. Professor Bailey has also been instrumental in initiating the family of MA programmes in Global Social Sciences, in which LEWI will play a significant part.

The achievements accomplished notwithstanding, the question of long-term financial viability, an overriding concern raised in last year’s report, continues to plague LEWI. For research in the social sciences and humanities, staffing is the single most important cost item. Cost considerations preluded LEWI from seeking replacement for a RAP who left in August 2013. But even with the reduced staff size, maintaining a staff of six RAPs would cost us in the region of HK$4 million per year. Similar non-replacements to reduce budget deficit in future are a definite possibility, but this would seriously damage our staffing strength and pose a serious threat to the integrity of the Institute. It may be noted that grants income has been quite sizeable. Yet, funding the PI is not permitted by either the FRG or the GRF. There has been some success in obtaining grants outside the UGC/RGC ambit, including a major grant from the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation and a PPR grant from the Central Policy Unit; however, like the case of the GRF the concerned funding agencies stipulate specifically that paying the PI is not allowed. In this regard, consultation incomes might be less restrictive. Clearly, more efforts should be made on this front.

In recognition of the strenuous efforts made in the past few years to re-invigorate LEWI as a world-class research centre, under the auspices of Mrs Doreen and Mr Philip Lau the David and Dorothy Lam Foundation once again extended a generous donation to LEWI. However, this is the only major donation that LEWI received since the present Director assumed office more than three years ago, largely reflecting his lack of connections in the business community. While more efforts are to be made to locate funding bodies, it is highly unlikely that donations will significantly ameliorate the Institute’s financial situation. Another possibility that was highlighted in last year’s annual report is the launching of a professional enhancement programme for academics in mainland universities. But like donations, this is unlikely to generate substantial incomes.

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Probably, the single-most important income source in future will be our participation in the family of master’s programmes in Global Social Sciences. While LEWI is only one among several academic units that will offer courses in these programmes, preliminary calculations suggest that incomes from this source would still be quite substantial, provided that the programmes prove attractive to prospective students. Prudence in financial management is important. However, at this junction a word of cautious optimism is appropriate. Together with other income sources, LEWI should be able to thrive as a hub and incubator of academic exchange as well as the home of fine scholars with international repute in the years to come.

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8. Financial Review (1 July 2013 – 30 June 2014)

Amount (HKD) Starting Balance 12,057,827.32

Income Amount (HKD) A. Program fees - Southern Methodist University Study 125,345.00 Abroad Program B. Income from teaching services 220,000.00 C. RAP's start-up grant 150,000.00 D. Donation from David & Dorothy Lam Foundation 150,000.00 E. GRF Incentive Award - Dr. Perry Johansson's project 26,840.00 F. Conference Grant 10,467.00 G. Income from book sale 162.00 Total Income 682,814.00

Expenditure Amount (HKD) A. General Expenses 1. Compensation to directors (for reduced teaching load) 300,000.00 2. Purchase of computers / computer equipment 32,212.00 3. Purchase of photocopier 25,038.00 4. Miscellenous 20,465.53 5. Stationery 7,648.30 6. Postage 3,049.87 7. Newspaper subscription 2,760.00 8. IT service fees 2,400.00 9. Photocopying 2,249.55 10. Fax & telecom 1,668.00 Subtotal 397,491.25

B. Event Expenses 1. Conference - Socio-Spatial Transformation in Chinese 26,167.00 Cities 2. Seminar series 11,263.50 Subtotal 37,430.50

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Expenditure Amount (HKD) C. Expensense in relation to Working Groups 1. Staffing for research personnel 3,197,787.87 2. Compensation to working group convenor (for reduced 90,000.00 teaching load) 3. Research Project "A Study on New Migrants in Hong 50,000.00 Kong" 4. Conference grant for research personnel 7,944.71 Subtotal 3,345,732.58

D. Programme Expenses 1. Resident Graduate Scholarship Programme 109,828.39 2. Southern Methodist University Study Abroad Program 90,903.90 3. Visitorship Programme 20,070.00 Subtotal 220,802.29

E. Publication Expenses 10,750.00

Total Expenditure 4,012,206.62

Total Income - Total Expenditure -3,329,392.62 Balance brought forward to Year 2014/2015 8,728,434.70

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