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published_or_final_version / abstract / Architecture / Master / Master of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Chinese Historical Studies / Master / Master of Arts

published_or_final_version / abstract / Social Work and Social Administration / Master / Master of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Urban Planning and Environmental Management / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

by Gladys Yue Wing-fan, Eric Liu Tai-loi. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-133). / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.v / LIST OF TABLES --- p.viii / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --- p.ix / CHAPTERS / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter II. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.5 / Researching Publications --- p.5 / Attending Seminar --- p.6 / Conducting Interviews --- p.6 / Chapter III. --- SHANGHAI --- p.8 / Background Information --- p.8 / The New Development Areas of Shanghai --- p.10 / Hongqiao New Area --- p.11 / Caohejing --- p.11 / Minhang --- p.12 / Pudong 一 Manhattan of the East --- p.12 / Waigaoqiao-Gaoqiao Sub-Area --- p.14 / Qingningsi-Jinqiao Sub-Area --- p.15 / Liujiazui-Huamu Sub-Area --- p.16 / Zhoujidu-Liuli Sub-Area --- p.16 / Beicai ´ؤ Zhangjiang Sub-Area --- p.17 / Preferential Treatment for Investors in Pudong New Area --- p.17 / Statistics of Pudong --- p.20 / Chapter IV. --- INDUSTRIAL MIX OF SHANGHAI --- p.22 / Seven Pillar Industries --- p.22 / Foreign Investment --- p.24 / Favorable Investment Environment --- p.24 / Area for Improvement --- p.27 / Chapter V. --- TERTIARY INDUSTRY OF SHANGHAI --- p.29 / Retail Market --- p.29 / China Market --- p.29 / Shanghai Retail Market --- p.30 / Big Spenders --- p.31 / Hong Kong Seizes the Opportunities --- p.33 / Prospects of Retail Market --- p.33 / Financial Business --- p.34 / A Financial Centre in the Making --- p.34 / Merrill Lynch --- p.36 / Commodities Exchanges --- p.37 / Real Estate --- p.38 / Two Prongs Policy --- p.38 / Residential Space --- p.39 / Office Space --- p.40 / Retail Space --- p.41 / Chapter VI. --- GROWTH OF SHANGHAI --- p.42 / Grand Development Strategy --- p.42 / Tertiary Industry --- p.45 / Development Strategy --- p.47 / Threats / Chapter VII. --- FINANCIAL CENTRE IN SHANGHAI - INDISPENSABLE FOR CHINA IN THE PROCESS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT --- p.53 / Fund for Development for China --- p.53 / Shanghai Assuming an Important Role --- p.54 / Chapter VIII. --- SHANGHAI FINANCIAL INDUSTRY - A CLOSER LOOK --- p.56 / The Shanghai Securities Market --- p.56 / Shanghai Securities Exchange --- p.56 / The Investors have Come of Age --- p.58 / A Tale of Two Cities --- p.59 / STAQ --- p.61 / Banking --- p.62 / Earlier Banking Reforms --- p.62 / Banking in Shanghai --- p.66 / Major Banks --- p.66 / City of Choice --- p.66 / New National Banking Laws and Opportunities for Shanghai --- p.67 / Major Players in Shanghai Financial Market --- p.69 / New Development --- p.70 / Expansion of the Shanghai Securities Exchange --- p.71 / Secondary Overseas Listing --- p.71 / National Foreign Exchange Centre --- p.71 / ADR Representative Office --- p.73 / CDR (Chinese Depository Receipt) --- p.73 / Year 2000 --- p.74 / Chapter IX. --- "A, B, H SHARES RED CHIPS AND THE ROLE OF HONG KONG" --- p.75 / B shares --- p.75 / Distinction Beween H Shares and Red Chips --- p.78 / Red Chips --- p.78 / H Shares --- p.79 / Strategic Importance of Listing/Acquisition of Companies in Hong Kong to China --- p.79 / ADR --- p.80 / "Comparison of A, B and H Shares" --- p.81 / B Shares are Losing Ground --- p.81 / Importance of H Shares to Hong Kong --- p.82 / Chapter X. --- FIELD WORK AND RESEARCH --- p.85 / Position of Hong Kong --- p.86 / Comparison between Shanghai & Hong Kong --- p.88 / Financial Knowledge/Skilled Personnel --- p.88 / Staff Turnover --- p.89 / Recruitment --- p.90 / Standard International Practice --- p.90 / Guanxi/Bureaucracy --- p.90 / Telecommunication IInfrastructure --- p.91 / Shanghai Surpassing Hong Kong as the Major Financial Centre --- p.91 / Problems Facing Shanghai in the Course of Developing its Financial Market --- p.98 / Lack of Free Competition --- p.98 / Inherited Banking Problems of a Centrally Planned Economy --- p.100 / Lack of Well Written Regulations and Legal Structure --- p.102 / Unclear Directions --- p.103 / Inconvertibility of RMB --- p.105 / Government Intervention --- p.106 / Lack of a Powerful Central Bank --- p.107 / Developing/Immature Market --- p.107 / Cumbersome Administrative System --- p.109 / Accounting Practice --- p.110 / Inexperienced Workforce --- p.111 / Space Shortage --- p.113 / Infrastructure --- p.114 / Escalating Labor Cost --- p.115 / No Freedom of Information Dissemination --- p.115 / Potential Competition from other cities --- p.116 / Chapter XI. --- CONCLUSION --- p.118 / APPENDIX / Chapter 1. --- MAP OF SHANGHAI --- p.120 / Chapter 2. --- MAP OF NEW DEVELOPMENT AREAS OF SHANGHAI --- p.121 / Chapter 3. --- VARIOUS FORMS OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT --- p.122 / Chapter 4. --- OUTLINE OF THE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS --- p.124 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.128

Ma, Chao. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-169). / Abstracts in English and Chinese; appendix 1 & 2 in Chinese. / Chapter Chapter One: --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Research Background --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Initial Research Objectives and Questions --- p.4 / Chapter 1.3 --- Significance of the Study --- p.8 / Chapter Chapter Two: --- Literature Review --- p.10 / Chapter 2.1 --- Definition of Key Terms in the Study --- p.10 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Social capital --- p.10 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- "Trustworthiness, social networks and social norms" --- p.12 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Mutual help --- p.12 / Chapter 2.1.4 --- Seeking help --- p.14 / Chapter 2.1.5 --- Giving help --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2 --- Theoretical Base of Mutual Help: Social Capital......: --- p.15 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Networks or relationships --- p.15 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Trustworthiness and social norms --- p.19 / Chapter 2.3 --- Mutual Help --- p.23 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Mutual help groups or self-help groups --- p.24 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Mutual help in the context of Shanghai --- p.26 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Seeking help --- p.29 / Chapter 2.3.4 --- Giving help --- p.31 / Chapter 2.4 --- Refining Research Objectives --- p.33 / Chapter Chapter Three: --- Methodology --- p.34 / Chapter 3.1 --- Research Framework --- p.34 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Propositions of the survey study --- p.34 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Operationalization framework --- p.35 / Chapter 3.2 --- Research Design --- p.38 / Chapter 3.3 --- Implementation of Survey Study --- p.39 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Overview of the survey design --- p.39 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Measurement: questionnaire --- p.41 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Sampling --- p.45 / Chapter 3.3.3.1 --- The population of the survey --- p.45 / Chapter 3.3.3.2 --- Sample size --- p.47 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- Data collection --- p.49 / Chapter 3.3.5 --- Data analysis --- p.49 / Chapter 3.3.5.1 --- Items and four indices --- p.50 / Chapter 3.3.5.2 --- Statistics methods for data analysis --- p.50 / Chapter 3.3.6 --- Quality of survey --- p.52 / Chapter 3.3.6.1 --- Pilot study --- p.52 / Chapter 3.3.6.2 --- Reliability --- p.53 / Chapter 3.4 --- Implementation of Individual Interview Study --- p.54 / Chapter 3.5 --- Encountered Problems and Solutions --- p.56 / Chapter Chapter Four: --- Data Analysis of Survey Study --- p.59 / Chapter 4.1 --- Helping and Help-seeking Indices of Shanghai People --- p.59 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Helping index --- p.59 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Help-seeking index --- p.61 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- Mutual aid tendency --- p.64 / Chapter 4.2 --- Trustworthiness --- p.65 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Index of trust when helping --- p.65 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Index of trust when seeking helping --- p.67 / Chapter 4.3 --- Correlations between Helping and Help Seeking Indices and Trust Indices --- p.69 / Chapter 4.4 --- Social Norms and Helping and Help-seeking Behaviors --- p.69 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- "Importance of social expectations, self-accomplishment and reciprocity when helping" --- p.70 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- Importance of face losing and reciprocity when seeking help --- p.70 / Chapter 4.5 --- Demographic-social-economic Statuses --- p.71 / Chapter 4.5.1 --- "Non-significance: Gender, Income and Religion (not/Catholic and Christian, Western/Eastern)" --- p.72 / Chapter 4.5.2 --- "Significance on help seeking behavior and trustworthiness during help seeking: Education, marital status, job (student/no/yes), age, work unit, religion (no/yes), occupation (employed and unemployed)" --- p.76 / Chapter 4.5.2.1 --- Education --- p.76 / Chapter 4.5.2.2 --- Marital status --- p.79 / Chapter 4.5.2.3 --- Job (student/no/yes) --- p.80 / Chapter 4.5.2.4 --- Age --- p.82 / Chapter 4.5.2.5 --- Work unit --- p.85 / Chapter 4.5.2.6 --- Religion (no/yes) --- p.87 / Chapter 4.5.2.7 --- Occupation (employed and unemployed) --- p.89 / Chapter 4.6 --- Agreement of Idioms and Mutual Help Society of Shanghai Citizens --- p.90 / Chapter 4.6.1 --- Agreement of idioms of helping of Shanghai citizens --- p.90 / Chapter 4.6.2 --- Agreement of Shanghai citizens on mutual help society --- p.91 / Chapter 4.7 --- Opinions of Citizens --- p.92 / Chapter 4.7.1 --- Opinions of Shanghai citizens on government and individual responsibility --- p.92 / Chapter 4.7.2 --- Opinions of Shanghai citizens on who bears responsibility to enhance mutual help --- p.92 / Chapter 4.8 --- Summary --- p.93 / Chapter Chapter Five: --- Individual Interviews Data Analysis Synthesized with Survey Analysis --- p.97 / Chapter 5.1 --- Brief Introduction of 6 Cases: Purposive Sampling --- p.97 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- "Individual interviews through phone: Case A, B" --- p.97 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- "Individual Interviews face-to-face: Case C, D, E, F" --- p.98 / Chapter 5.2 --- "Helping Experiences, Trust and Influencing Social Factors" --- p.99 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Helping experiences --- p.100 / Chapter 5.2.1.1 --- Helping vulnerable people --- p.100 / Chapter 5.2.1.2 --- Helping good friends --- p.104 / Chapter 5.2.1.3 --- Helping family members --- p.106 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Trust --- p.106 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Social factors influencing helping behaviors --- p.108 / Chapter 5.2.4 --- Summary --- p.110 / Chapter 5.3 --- "Help Seeking Experiences, Trustworthiness and Influencing Factors" --- p.111 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Help seeking experiences --- p.111 / Chapter 5.3.1.1 --- Family members --- p.112 / Chapter 5.3.1.2 --- Good friends --- p.114 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- Trust --- p.115 / Chapter 5.3.3 --- Influencing social factors --- p.117 / Chapter 5.3.4 --- Summary --- p.118 / Chapter 5.4 --- Mutuality --- p.119 / Chapter 5.4.1 --- Mutuality in helping and help- seeking behaviors --- p.119 / Chapter 5.4.2 --- Reciprocity --- p.120 / Chapter 5.4.3 --- Summary --- p.122 / Chapter 5.5 --- Improving Mutual Help Culture and determining Responsibility for Building Mutual Help and Mutual Trust Society --- p.123 / Chapter 5.5.1 --- Government --- p.123 / Chapter 5.5.2 --- Communities --- p.125 / Chapter 5.5.3 --- Schools --- p.126 / Chapter 5.5.4 --- Social Workers --- p.127 / Chapter 5.5.5 --- Mass media --- p.128 / Chapter 5.5.6 --- Individuals --- p.128 / Chapter 5.5.7 --- Summary --- p.129 / Chapter 5.6 --- Summary --- p.130 / Chapter Chapter Six: --- "Conclusions, Discussions, Implications" --- p.133 / Chapter 6.1 --- Conclusions --- p.133 / Chapter 6.1.1 --- Helping and seeking help behaviors --- p.133 / Chapter 6.1.2 --- Trustworthiness and social norms --- p.133 / Chapter 6.1.3 --- Strategies: whose responsibility to build mutual help society --- p.134 / Chapter 6.1.4 --- Respondents' background --- p.134 / Chapter 6.2 --- Discussions --- p.135 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Helping Behaviors --- p.135 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Helping Seeking Behaviors --- p.136 / Chapter 6.2.3 --- Whose responsibility and How to improve --- p.138 / Chapter 6.3 --- Implications --- p.149 / Chapter 6.3. 1 --- Implementation for social policy --- p.150 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- Implementation for social work development and practice --- p.153 / Chapter 6.3.3 --- "Implementations for social work education by school, family and mass media" --- p.154 / Reference --- p.156 / Appendix --- p.170

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

As spotlighted urban occurrences of significant global influence, mega-events such as the Olympics and the Expos usually create a great demand for mega-event flagships (MEFs). These purpose-built cultural, civic or sports landmarks not only serve as prominent event venues but often play a catalytic role in long-conceived renewal initiatives on a much broader scale. Lacking no successful event stories, it is not unusual to hear prominent post-event failures in MEFs. Despite its lasting appeal, such a highly controversial and challenging development has received surprisingly little in-depth analysis in existing literature. Academic interests have long concentrated on assessing impacts rather than profiling risks. Moreover, to realize such a dually oriented initiative clearly needs a competitive organization. Yet, this driving force behind becomes another understatement. Apart from tangential studies on western-based practices, pinpoint research is rare in emerging economies towards which MEFs are shifting their grounds. Such a triple imbalance may likely keep ambitious yet inexperienced hosts ignorant of tremendous risks behind overstated rewards. To argue that MEFs should be pre-post oriented than treated simply as a legacy issue, this study presents four landmark cases of Expo 2010 Shanghai China – a mega-event as not only a crowning touch to China’s thirty-year economic rise but a catalyst for Shanghai’s renaissance towards a global center. As the centerpieces of this mega-undertaking, the Big Four (the Big4) represent the largest MEF cluster in history and the latest epitome of major projects of national significance. To explore how the Organizer has forged the sixty-year vision beyond the six-month extravaganza, participant observation is adopted due to the author’s special role as a key project coordinator of Expo 2010 during the early stages of the Big4. In gaining more useful insights for future practices, this multiple-case study takes the following three steps. First, rationales and practices of MEF development are analyzed through a historical review of eight selected cases of mega-event built legacies in five countries over 150 years. Next, programming practices of MEFs and non-MEFs in China are investigated through a pilot questionnaire survey in 2009. Finally, the 600,000-sq.m Big4 are explored respectively and collectively against the ongoing Trilogy of the Huangpu Riverfronts Renewal. Multifold findings from previous and present cases confirm the hypothesis that MEF development is rather an issue of dualism than dichotomy. To meet existing and emerging challenges, a framework plan is developed containing four approaches and ten steps key to the vitality of MEFs. Conclusions are made from both local and global dimensions. Four major breakthroughs, two pressing problems and two emerging trends are identified for major project developments in China; whereas six essential conditions to sustain MEF development are generalized for significantly comparable cases worldwide. A timely reminder of rethinking the commitment to MEFs and a much-needed complement to related western literature, this pioneering research would be of cross-boundary value and spark interdisciplinary interest. / published_or_final_version / Real Estate and Construction / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

Although school-based teacher developmental activities have been launched for years in general education system, such comparatively systematic and effective work have yet been thoroughly adopted by most of the out-of-school educational institutions. Studies on Children’s Palaces education and school-based teacher development are extremely limited, not only because the overall management of out-of-school education system is not as complete as that of general education system, but also the features of Children’s Palace education made the study hard but more and more necessary. Guided by the theoretical framework of Lifelong Education and Professionalism Theory, the purpose of this dissertation aims at finding out the problems of the children's palace school-based staff development, and exploring reasons behind through analyzing quantitative and qualitative research data from the case study of No.2 Children’s Palace of Jinshan District, give recommendations so that teachers may gain more concrete benefit through the system of school-based teacher development. The questionnaire for quantitative research contains two parts. Part I contains questions about the need of teacher development in No.2 CP, and Part II contains question about perspectives and current situation concerning school-based teacher development in No.2 CP. After the quantitative approach and research data analysis, qualitative approach of follow-up interviews will be carried out. Synthesized data analysis aims at answering research questions such as current status of school-based teacher development in No.2 CP and mode and examples that might be drawn to inspire the school-based teacher development in Children’s Palaces in Shanghai. / published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education