Research Publications
Urban Governance and Urban Development
Leung, Maggi
Publications
Leung, Maggi W.H. and Dietrich Soyez (2009) “Industrial Heritage: Valorising the Spatial-temporal Dynamics of another Hong Kong Story”, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 15(1): pp.57-75.
Leung, Maggi W.H. and Xianwei Peng (2008) “Guizhou”, Yeung, Yue-man and Jianfa Shen (eds) The Pan-Pearl River Delta, Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, pp. 362-83.
Leung, Maggi W.H. (2008) “On Sale in Express Package: Chinese Female Bodies as Commodities in Cyberspace”, Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng (ed) Log On: Chinese Women and the Cyber Networks, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, pp. 223-47.
Leung, Maggi W.H. (2008) “Migration, Diaspora and Development: The Case of the People’s Republic of China”, Adepoju, Aderanti et al. (eds) International Migration and National Development in sub-Saharan Africa: Viewpoints and Policy Initiatives in the Countries of Origin, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 242-64.
Leung, Maggi W.H. (2008) “Memories, Belonging and Home-making: Chinese Migrants in Germany”, Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng and Andrew Davidson (eds) At Home in the Chinese Diaspora: Memories, Identities and Belongings, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 164-86.
Leung, Maggi W.H. (2008) “Homeward-bound Investors: The Role of Overseas Chinese in China’s Economic Development”, Naerssen, Ton van et al. (eds) Global Migration and Development, London: Routledge, pp. 288-308.
Conference Presentations
Leung, Maggi W.H., (2009) “Transculturality and transnationalism as business strategies: A study of Chinese-operated businesses in Europe” Conference on Interaction and Innovation: Multidimensional Perspectives in Chinese Overseas Studies, The Fourth International Conference of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies, Jinan University, Guangzhou. 9-11 May 2009.
Research Grants
Leung, Maggi W.H., Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research, The University of Hong Kong (2009-2011) “Collecting intellectual mileage: A study of transnational academic mobility of Hong Kong scholars”. Principal Investigator
Leung, Maggi W.H., Joint Research Grant, Economic and Social Research Council and Hong Kong Research Grants Council (2009-2010) “Joint initiatives between UK and Hong Kong higher education institutions: An examination of student and employer perspectives”. Principal Investigator (with Johanna Waters and George Lin)
Leung, Maggi W.H., Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund, The University of Hong Kong (2008-2009) “Refabricating the Hong Kong story: A study of industrial heritage and its valorization”. Principal Investigator (with Dietrich Soyez)
Leung, Maggi W.H., Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research, The University of Hong Kong (2008-2009) “Charting transnationalism from the shop floor: A pilot study of small-to-medium-size migrant/ethnic entrepreneurship in Hong Kong”. Principal Investigator
Seminar/ Workshop/Exhibition
Leung, Maggi W.H., “Re-charting the ‘Sinosphere’ and ‘Eurosphere’: A study of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs as agencies in shaping ‘Chineseness’ and ‘Europeanness’” Workshop on “Economic Dynamism in the Sinospheres and Anglospheres: Identities, Integration, Competition”. Centre of Asian Studies, The University of Hong Kong. 18-19 September 2008.
Lin, George C.S.
Publications
Lin, George
C.S. (2009) Developing China: Land, Politics, and Social Conditions,
London and New York: Routledge (11 chapters; 120,477 words; 34 tables; 33
maps/graphs; 18 photos; 3 appendices; 612 footnotes; bibliography;
<http://geog.hku.hk/staff/lin/Developing_China.pdf>;<http://www.routledge.com/9780415413220>)
Lin, George C.S. (2009) “Scaling Up Regional Development in Globalizing China: Local Capital Accumulation, Land-centered Politics, and Reproduction of Space”, Regional Studies, 42 (9), pp. 429-47.
Wang, Cassandra, C. and George C.S. Lin (2009) “State-Firm Strategic
Resonance and Uneven Technological Innovation in Globalizing China: Insights
From the IC Design Industry in Shanghai”, Eurasian Geography and Economic,
50 (4).
Wang, Cassandra, C. and George C.S. Lin (2008) “The Growth and Spatial
Distribution of China’s ICT Industry: New Geography of Clustering and
Innovation”, Issues & Studies, 44(2), pp.145-92.
Chan, Roger C.K. and George C.S. Lin (2008) “From a Colonial Outpost To a
Special Administrative Region: Hong Kong’s First Decade of Reunion with China”,
China Review, 8(1), pp.1-6.
Loo, Becky P.Y.
Publications
Loo, Becky P.Y. and Alice S.Y. Chow. (In Press) “The Relevance of Transport-development Strategies to Understanding Travel Behaviour and Transport Sustainability in Hong Kong.” Asian Geographer, accepted, forthcoming.
Loo, Becky P.Y. (In Press) “An Overview of Transport Geography in China.” Journal of Transport Geography, accepted, forthcoming.
Loo, Becky P.Y. and K.L. Tsui (2009) “Pedestrian Injuries in an Ageing Society: Insights from Hospital Trauma Registry.” Journal of Trauma 66: 1196-1201.
Loo, Becky P.Y. (2009) “The Identification of Hazardous Road Locations: A Comparison of the Black Site and Hot Zone Methodologies in Hong Kong.” International Journal of Sustainable Transportation 3: 187-202.
Loo, Becky P.Y. (2009) “How would People Respond to a New Railway Extension? The Value of Questionnaire Surveys.” Habitat International 33: 1-9.
Loo, Becky P.Y. (2008) “Passengers’ Airport Choice within Multi-Airport Regions (MARs): Some Insights from a Stated Preference Survey at the Hong Kong International Airport.” Journal of Transport Geography 16: 117-125.
Loo, Becky P.Y. and Alice S.Y. Chow. (2008) “Changing Urban Form in Hong Kong: What are the Challenges on Sustainable Transportation?” International Journal of Sustainable Transportation 2, no. 3: 177-193.
Loo, Becky P.Y. (In Press) “Transport Infrastructure: Postal and Telecommunication Services.” In: Encyclopedia of Modern China, ed. David Pong (Farmington Hills: Gale).
Loo, Becky P.Y. and Eric T.H. Chan (2008) “Rail-based Transit-oriented Development in Hong Kong: Factors affecting Its Success at the Station Level.” In: Transportation and Management Science, ed. H.P. Lo, Stephen C.H. Leung and Susanna M.L. Tam (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies), pp. 595-602.
Conference Presentations
Motor Vehicle Crash Symposium 2008, Central Committee on Trauma Service, The Hospital Authority, Lecture Theatre, G/F, Centre for Health Protection, The Hospital Authority, Hong Kong, November 22, 2008. Presentation Title: “Crashes and Traffic Casualties: A Spatial Perspective.” (by Becky P.Y. Loo)
Loo, Becky P.Y. and Winnie W.Y. Lam (2009) “Health Care Access for Older People in Hong Kong: A Time-space Perspective.” A paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, Nevada, The United States of America, March 22-27, 2009.
Loo, Becky P.Y., Cynthia Chan and Eric T.H. Chan (2009) “Rail-based Transit-oriented Development: Lessons from Hong Kong and New York.” A paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, Nevada, The United States of America, March 22-27, 2009.
Hau, Timothy D., L.M. Jennifer, Becky P.Y. Loo and S.C. Wong (2008) “Schedule Delay of Work Trips in Hong Kong: Some Nested Logit Modeling Results.” A paper presented at the 83rd Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International (Session 119 on Urban Economics), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, June 29-July 3, 2008.
Seminar/ Workshop/Exhibition
Facilitator. Further Developing Hong Kong as a World City, Brainstorming Sessions, Hong Kong SAR Government, February-April 2009.
Invited speaker. “Setting Data-based and Short-essay Questions for HKDSE.” Seminar on the New Senior Secondary Geography Public Assessment, Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority, Hong Kong SAR Government, June 23 and September 25, 2008.
Leader and Speaker. GIS Workshop on “Conducting Spatial Enquiry in the New Senior Secondary Geography Curriculum: Building a Sustainable City”, November 1 and November 8, 2008.
Leader and Speaker. GIS Workshop on “Conducting Spatial Enquiry in the New Senior Secondary Geography Curriculum: Urban Transportation”, April 26, 2008.
Invited Speaker. “Do You Want to be a Part of The University of Hong Kong?” A Sharing Session with Forms 6 and 7 Students of Pui Tak Canossian College, April 30, 2008
Research Grant
Co-investigator. Development of an Integrated Traffic Injury Database in Kwai Tsing. Funded by Health Care and Promotion Fund Committee, Food and Health Bureau, Hong Kong SAR Government.
Principal Investigator. Research on Hot Zones: Facing the Theoretical and Methodological Challenges. Funded by RGC Competitive Earmarked ResearchGrants (CERG).
Principal Investigator. An Experimental Study of Age Differences on Road Crossing Behaviour. Funded by Committee on Research and Conference Grants (CRCG) Research Grant: Seed Funding.
Principal Investigator. An Analysis of Bicycle Crashes in Hong Kong: Where? How? And What? Funded by CRCG Research Grant: Small Project Funding.
Principal Investigator. Conducting Spatial Enquiry in the New Senior Secondary Geography Curriculum. Funded by Education Bureau, Hong Kong SAR Government.
Students Trained
Chan, Tak Hin Eric. The Relationship between Urban Form and Rail Patronage in Two Metropolitan Cities: Hong Kong and New York. Master of Philosophy Thesis, The University of Hong Kong, August 2009 (expected).
Chim, Ming Yan. An Analysis of Traffic Crashes Involving Franchised Buses in Hong Kong. Master of Arts in Transport Policy and Planning Dissertation, The University of Hong Kong, June 2009 (expected).
Chiu, Josephine. Transportation and Export Intensity in the Pearl River Delta after China’s Open Policy. Master of Arts in China Studies Dissertation, The University of Hong Kong, June 2009 (expected).
Lui, Kwok Wai William. Intermodal Sustainable Urban Transport. Master of Arts in Transport Policy and Planning Dissertation, The University of Hong Kong, June 2009 (expected).
Yau, Hiu Tung. Air Freight and Airport Competition in the Pearl River Delta. Master of Arts in Transport Policy and Planning Dissertation, The University of Hong Kong, June 2009 (expected).
Cheung, Wai Sin. Road Safety Problems in China: The Rural-Urban Divide. Master of Arts in China Studies Dissertation, The University of Hong Kong, June 2008.
Ko, Kit Ying Matilda. Paratransit: A Gap to be Closed? Master of Arts in Transport Policy and Planning Dissertation, The University of Hong Kong, June 2008.
Others
Holliday, Ian, Becky P.Y. Loo, K.H. Mok, C.N. Ng and R.M. Walker. (2009) Further Developing Hong Kong as a World City: Report on Brainstorming Sessions, February-April 2009 (Internal report submitted to the Information Services Department of the Hong Kong SAR Government).
Invited Book Review on Harwit, Eric (2008) China’s Telecommunications Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press) by Pacific Affairs (Peer-reviewed Journal by the University of British Columbia, Institute of Asian Research)
Loo, Becky P.Y. (2008) Conducting Spatial Enquiry in the New Senior Secondary Geography Curriculum. Education Bureau, Hong Kong SAR Government.
Postiglione, Gerard A.
Publications
Postiglione, Gerard A. and Ben Jiao (Forthcoming) “Tibet’s Dislocated Schools: Popularization Reconsidered”, Asian Survey.
Postiglione, Gerard A. (Forthcoming) “Dislocated Education: The Case of Tibet”, Comparative Education Review, Nov. 2009.
Postiglione, Gerard A. and Yangbin Chen (Forthcoming) “Muslim Uyghur Students in A Dislocated Chinese Boarding School: Bonding Social Capital as a Response to Ethnic Integration”, Race and Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts.
Postiglione, Gerard A. and Xie Ailei (2009) “Catering for the Market: China’s Graduate Employment Problem”, Chinese Cross Currents, Vol. 6, No. 2, April 2009, pp. 80-87.
Postiglione, Gerard A. and Z. Zhao (2008) 推进中国高等教育全球化进程：国际化与多元文化的连接，北京大学教育评论，第六卷，第二期2008年4月：42-57, Bridging Internationalization and Multiculturalism in Chinese Higher Education, Peking University Education Review.
Postiglione, Gerard A. and J. Wang (2008) “China’s Minorities Without Written Scripts: The Case of Education Access among the Dongxiang”, Journal of Asian Pacific communications, Vol 18, No.2, pp.166-189.
Postiglione, Gerard A. (2008) “Making Tibetans in China: Educational Challenges for Harmonious Multiculturalism”, Educational Review on the Education of Tibetans, Volume 60:1, pp. 1-20.
Postiglione, Gerard A. (2008) 亚洲跨径高等教育转型Transformations in Transnational Higher Education, Journal of Higher Education, (Number one journal in China on Higher Education Research), Vol 29, October 2008.
Postiglione, Gerard A. (Forthcoming) “East Asian Knowledge Systems: Driving Ahead Amid Borderless Higher Education”, Cummings, William et al. (eds) Border Crossing in East Asian Higher Education, Springer Press, in press.
Postiglione, Gerard A. et al. (Forthcoming) “Tibetan Student Perspectives about Neidi Schools”, Zhou, Minglang and Ann Hill (eds) China’s Positive Policies in Minority Education: Plural Perspectives, Routledge Press.
Postiglione, Gerard A. et al. (Forthcoming) “Transformations in Higher Education: Crossing Borders and Bridging Minds”, Cummings, William et al. (eds) Border Crossing in East Asian Higher Education, Springer Press.
Postiglione, Gerard A. and David Chapman (Forthcoming) “East Asia’s Experience of Border Crossing: Assessing Future Prospects”, Cummings, William et al. (eds) Border Crossing in East Asian Higher Education, Springer Press.
Postiglione, Gerard A. (Forthcoming) “Ethnic Identity and Educational Outcomes in China”, Allen, Walter (ed) International Encyclopedia of Education, Oxford: Elsevier.
Postiglione, Gerard A. (Forthcoming) “Education of Ethnic Groups in China”, Banks, James (ed) The Routledge International Companion to Multicultural Education.
Postiglione, Gerard A. (Forthcoming) “Ethnic Minorities in China”, Cheng, Linsun (ed) Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, USA: Berkshire Publishing Company.
Postiglione, Gerard A. (Forthcoming) “Higher Education Since 1949”, Pong, David (ed) Encyclopedia of Modern China, New York: MacMillan.
Postiglione, Gerard A. (Forthcoming) “Community Colleges in China’s Two Systems”, Raby, Rosalind Latiner and Edward Valeau (eds) Community College Models: Globalization and Higher Education Reform, Amsterdam, Springer Press.
Postiglione, Gerard A. and Stephen Kwok (Forthcoming) “Institutionalizing the Community College Associate Degree in Hong Kong”, Elsner, Paul A. (ed) A Global Survey of Community Colleges, Technical Colleges, and Further Education In Different Regions of the World, Washington D.C.: American Association of Community Colleges Press.
Postiglione, Gerard A. et al. (Forthcoming) “China’s Community Colleges: Remolding a Model to Meet Transitional Challenges”, Elsner, Paul A. (ed) A Global Survey of Community Colleges, Technical Colleges, and Further Education In Different Regions of the World, Washington D.C.: American Association of Community Colleges Press.
Postiglione, Gerard A. (2008) “Ethnicity and the Role of Education as a Mechanism for National Unity in China”, Saha, Santosh (ed) Ethnicity and Socio-political Change in Africa and Other Developing Countries: A Constructive Discourse in State Building, New York: Lexington, pp. 145-68.
Postiglione, Gerard A. (2008) “A Preliminary Review of the Changing Academic Profession Data for Hong Kong”, Huang, Futao (ed) The International Academic Profession in Comparative and Quantitative Perspective, Hiroshima: Research Institute for Higher Education, COE Publication Series.
Conference Presentations
Postiglione, Gerard A. Remaking China's Tibetans for Civic Roles in a Harmonious Society, Association of Asian Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, April 3-6, 2008
Postiglione, Gerard A. Making Chinese Tibetans in the neidiban: Civic Responsibility and the State Campaign to Build a Harmonious Society, with Li-fang Zhang, American Educational Research Association, New York City, March 22-25, 2008
Postiglione, Gerard A. Girls in Dislocated Schools for Indigenous Peoples, with Manlaji, presented at the Comparative and International Education Society, Columbia University, March 18-22, 2008
Postiglione, Gerard A. The Role of Changing Academic Profession in Hong Kong’s Development, presented at the Comparative and International Education Society, Columbia University, March 18-22, 2008
Seminar/ Workshop/Exhibition
Postiglione, Gerard A. University of Pennsylvania, The Case of China’s Tibetans: Education for Nomads, presented at the Forum on Globalization, Democratic Change and Educational Challenges in East Asia, May 2, 2008
Newspaper/Magazine Articles
Postiglione, Gerard A. 林金辉，在家修读海外课程：中国高等教育新混合体的现况，新报财经月，2008，5月，第374期，页70-71.
Postiglione, Gerard A. “High Stakes in Hong Kong's Dream to be Asia's Education Hub”, South China Morning Post, 29 March 2008.