1Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 2Public Policy Research Institute, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 3Department of Social Work, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China 4Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau, Macau 5Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Kentucky Children’s Hospital, University of...

1Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 2Public Policy Research Institute, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 3Department of Social Work, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China 4Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau, Macau 5Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Kentucky Children’s Hospital, University of...

This article discusses the recent technology transfer to Chinese software firms from Japanese offshore software development. Since the end of the 1990s, Chinese software firms have obtained a significant amount of technology contract work from Japan, including coding, testing, and design. Chinese firms have been increasing their design skills through this joint software development with Japan. ...

China has enjoyed high economic growth for three decades since the initiative of economic reform in 1978. This growth has however been driven mainly by labour-intensive, export-oriented manufacturing activities. Has innovation played a role in China’s economic growth? What are the determinants of innovation in the Chinese economy? These are some of the questions which are to be explored in this...

Our focus on Classical China has thus far been primarily on the areas of political and intellectual history, and we have relied very heavily on narrative sources. However, the Shiji, which was written a century after the close of the Classical age, and subsequent early Imperial histories give us a considerable amount of information concerning issues of economics: tax and landholding patterns, i...

South China Sea Takes Center Stage At the Fourth Annual Symposium of the International Pacific Research Center, several researchers presented their recent findings on South China Sea climate. A group has now formed under the leadership of IPRC’s Tangdong Qu to coordinate the research in this important climate region. The following pages feature the discovery of how the play among winds, ocean, ...

Modernizing China’s Growth Paradigm China has achieved tremendous economic progress in the last three decades, but there is much work to be done to make the economy resilient to large shocks, ensure the sustainability of its growth, and translate this growth into corresponding improvements in the economic welfare of its citizens. We discuss the complex challenges that Chinese policymakers face ...

The East China Sea (ECS) is a region with shallow continental shelves and a mixed oceanic circulation system allowing sediments to deposit on its inner shelf, particularly near the estuary of the Yangtze River. The seasonal northward-flowing Taiwan Warm Current and southward-flowing China Coastal Current trap sediments from the Yangtze River, which are accumulated over time at rates of up to a ...

China has achieved tremendous economic progress in the last three decades, but there is much work to be done to make the economy resilient to large shocks, ensure the sustainability of its growth, and translate this growth into corresponding improvements in the economic welfare of its citizens. We discuss the complex challenges that Chinese policymakers face in striking the right balance in ter...

1Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 2Public Policy Research Institute, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 3Department of Social Work, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China 4Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau, Macau, China 5Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Kentucky Children’s Hospital, Univer...