Yellow-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua sulphrea) provides an interesting case for investigating such a conservation paradox that a critically endangered species introduced to a non-native area is likely to establish in the exotic location. The native population of Yellow-crested Cocka…
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As Cultural Revolution ended in late 1970s, Chinese intellectuals were again in their quest for modernity by referencing western cultures. However, as soon as the “Reform and Opening” policy was promulgated, the Chinese cultural modernity failed to resurrect the zeitgeist of May…
Hong Kong has long been ensnared in the problems of limited housing and soaring land prices, which renders its physical space one of the most visible criteria embodying its social inequalities. Regarding space as an overarching concern and framework, this thesis mainly focuses o…
This thesis scrutinizes the rediscovery of the Chinese artist Sanyu (or Chang Yu, 常玉, 1895-1966) by examining major factors that have prompted the radical increase in value of Sanyu's market from the late 1980s to the present. In 2019 and 2020, six paintings by Sanyu fetched ove…
From North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia, the social movements of the past decade have, without being in explicit dialogue with one another, resembled the same march into the public street. Despite the breadth of the cultural, political, and t…
Hong Kong was watched by the world when it was reverted to the People Republic of China (PRC) on 1st July 1997. Hong Kong was a British colony that was an important world trading, financial, and transportation center. Under British rule, Hong Kong was capitalist in contrast to t…
The thesis traces the successive urban responses made by the Hong Kong government from 1997 to 2014, in an attempt to achieve “imagined immunity” for the city. The urban responses being analysed are efforts to regulate the ways in which “live poultry” (especially live chickens) …
In 2014, Chinese citizens living in mainland China and Hong Kong received different narratives and interpretations of the Umbrella Movement's events based on the administrative regions they lived in and the news sources they had access to. State-controlled and market-based media…
This dissertation concerns the experiences of Indonesian migrant domestic workers who are or have been in a same-sex relationship in Hong Kong. The timeframe of my research spans two years, from 2010 to 2012. By studying the construction of gender and sexuality in the context of…
In this dissertation, I assess large business cycle fluctuation episodes and investigate what kind of shocks caused these large fluctuations and through what kind of mechanisms did these shocks operate. In the first chapter I focus on the late 1997 Korean crisis. Three main feat…
Accounting valuation has been an important topic in accounting research since the 1960s. However, few prior studies have investigated valuation models in Asian stock markets. This dissertation examines the value relevance of accounting information in seven Asian countries: Hong …
The reinforcement detailing of reinforced concrete frame and wall-frame structures, in regions where the probability of a seismic event is not significant, is characterized by lack of special consideration for meeting ductile response requirements. The buildings are normally des…
This thesis is a collection of three essays on industrial productivity growth in Asia. The first two essays analyze an unbalanced panel data set on 606 Chinese machinery factories in Guangdong province, from 1980 to 1991. We find rapid although volatile TFP growth in these facto…
This research project is an in-depth examination of Emergency Medical Services development in three Asia/Pacific countries. The purpose was to determine if Emergency Medical Services development needs to follow similar processes, conditions, or circumstances as countries with de…
This dissertation relaxes the traditional assumption used in consumer theory, which takes preferences as fixed. I propose a model of immigrants' consumption behavior based on habit formation, incorporating past experiences, other consumers' consumption patterns, availability of …
Chapter 1 addresses the following question: Is China diverting foreign direct investment from other Asian economies? Theoretically, a growing China can add to other countries' direct investment by creating more opportunities for production networking and by raising demand for ra…
This paper investigates audit fee determinants in four countries: India, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom. The OLI theory of the multinational enterprise (MNE) suggests that a Big 6 audit fee premium will more likely exist in developed countries, such as Hong Kong and…
This dissertation consisted of three studies investigating the nature of maternal mediation of writing among kindergarten and first grade children and their mothers across the two prominent Chinese societies of Hong Kong and Beijing and further examined the associations of mater…
In the paper, we propose a new methodology to test and date the financial contagion. The newly proposed multivariate model not only incorporates endogenous structural breaks but also encompasses a "mixed" version of state-space model. It provides a "direct" test for the presence…