Based on three-month ethnographic fieldwork among investigative journalists in Beijing News, this dissertation is about the transformation of printing journalism in a time of crisis. This study explores what specifically constitutes the crisis of Chinese printing journalism in general and investigative journalism in particular, and how they respond to the crisis. Existing western debate of newspaper crisis predominantly revolves around the rapid technological and economic change. Rooted in the ‘liberal-pluralist’ political economy of communication, however, my dissertation suggests that we also need to take the political factors into consideration when discussing the crisis of traditional media in China-an authoritarian country without media freedom. I argue that the crisis of Chinese printing journalism is not only the shrink in circulation and advertisement revenue and the technological impinging on traditional way of producing and distributing news, as their western counterparts; but also the increasingly narrowing space for critical coverage that Chinese political and investigative journalists appreciate and expect. The three facts-political control, economic recession, and technological innovation-are interwoven together and profoundly shape the Chinese printing journalism. Under such situation, Chinese newsroom is under transformation. Taking an approach of sociology of news, my paper also examines how Beijing News and its investigative reporting team reshuffle the organizational structure to overcome the crisis. On the one hand, the reorganization is aimed at adapting to and adopting new technologies to gain a toehold in the new editorial and business model; on the other hand, it is a rearrangement of its strategy in overcoming the political constraints and carrying out critical reporting. Different from the opinion from Tech-Utopian or Tech-Determinism who suggests that technology will completely reshape the structure of newsroom and journalistic practice, I argue that organizational tradition and culture make the complete redefinition impossible. Based on the reform strategy what I called a combination of ‘convergence’ and ‘de-convergence’, I suggest that Beijing News successfully keeps a balance between ‘embracing the online world’ and ‘keeping its tradition of pursing for original and investigative journalism’. The well-established organizational routine should not be deemphasized in discussing the reconstruction of traditional newsroom at least for two reasons. Firstly, the professional routine overcomes the potential negative impact of new technology on quality journalism. Secondly, what strategies are adopted in the newspaper transformation is closely relevant to its structural and cultural feature. As a canary in the coal mine, Beijing News sets an example for many other printing newspaper around the country with difficulty in addressing the crisis, coming from whatever political, economic or technological aspects.

China's economic success has helped it become one of the largest markets in the world. As a result, the demand for agricultural commodities in China has experienced a significant increase. Increasingly affluent Chinese people are paying increasing attention to food safety and quality instead of just quantity. Understanding how meat demands and prices are related to food safety and quality in Beijing will provide guidance for industry and policymakers interested in the Chinese meat market. The purpose of this study is to develop two models to analyze meat demand and prices associated with food safety and quality respectively. First, An Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) is used to investigate the effects of food safety on meat consumption. To address the potential bias of zero consumption in the estimation procedures, a simulated maximum likelihood (SML) estimation is applied in the regression. Second, we analyze the implicit price of meat with the intrinsic and extrinsic attributes using a hedonic price model. Five meat categories are regressed on several intrinsic and extrinsic attributes in the model using household survey data collected in Beijing in 2007. The key results of this research have two major outcomes. First, food safety has a significant and positive influence on meat consumption for Beijing residents. Second, the quality-related attributes or characteristics such as meat appearance, supermarket, meat brand, and processed meat as well as demographic variables such as household head's income have a significantly positive influence on the price of meat, which suggest that the consumers in Beijing are willing to pay a price premium to guarantee the quality and safety of meat.

This paper assesses the major cities in mainland China that are competing to become international financial centers (IFC). Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen are compared in terms of their strengths and weaknesses as IFCs. We find that in China, the state plays a particularly important role in the growth of a financial center by providing favorable policies, creating localization economies, consolidating banks, and strengthening the city's power through state-owned enterprises. Our analyses generate a contour map of China's emerging IFCs in a global context and thus provide an important first step toward theorizing IFC development in a transitional economy.

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by Lee Mei-seong, Michelle, Ng Yuen-lai, Lorraine. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-70). / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii / LIST OF TABLES --- p.vi / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.vii / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Purpose --- p.2 / Scope --- p.3 / Methodology --- p.4 / Research Design --- p.4 / Data Collection Method --- p.4 / Sampling Frame --- p.4 / Chapter II. --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.5 / Macro environment --- p.5 / Geography --- p.5 / Population and Demographics --- p.5 / Economic Size and Growth --- p.6 / Inflation --- p.8 / Income and Income Distribution --- p.8 / Purchasing Power --- p.8 / Retail Sales --- p.9 / Fashion Retail Market Situation in China --- p.9 / Market Size/Profile --- p.10 / Demand --- p.11 / Consumer Attitudes --- p.11 / Various Market Segments --- p.12 / Marketing Strategies --- p.13 / Product Strategies --- p.15 / Pricing Strategies --- p.18 / Distribution Strategies --- p.19 / Promotion Strategies --- p.20 / Chapter III. --- SUMMARY OF FINDINGS FROM OBSERVATION AND PERSONAL INTERVIEWS --- p.26 / Shopping Area --- p.26 / Top Fashion Brands --- p.27 / Customer Profile --- p.27 / Marketing Mix --- p.28 / Product Strategies --- p.28 / Pricing Strategies --- p.29 / Distribution Strategies --- p.30 / Promotion Strategies --- p.32 / Chapter IV. --- CASE STUDIES --- p.34 / Case One: Gianni Versace --- p.34 / Background --- p.34 / Marketing Strategies --- p.36 / Management --- p.40 / Critical Success Factors --- p.40 / Problems and Opportunities --- p.41 / Case Two: Celine --- p.42 / Background --- p.42 / Financial Issues --- p.43 / Marketing Strategies --- p.44 / Case Three: Cerruti --- p.48 / Background --- p.48 / Marketing Strategies --- p.48 / Chapter V. --- PROBLEMS IN RUNNING HIGH FASHION BUSINESS IN BEIJING --- p.51 / Over-Estimation of Purchasing Power --- p.52 / Increasing Inflation --- p.52 / Shortage of Supply of Management Staff --- p.53 / Increasing Competition --- p.53 / Chapter VI. --- ACTION PLAN --- p.54 / Employ Experienced Personnel to Head the China Business --- p.54 / Consult Consultants/China Expert --- p.55 / Observe Performance of Competitors --- p.55 / Check Town Planning --- p.56 / Check the Prospective JV Partners --- p.56 / Evaluate the Feasibility --- p.58 / Define the Target Customers --- p.58 / Plan the Marketing Strategies --- p.59 / Product Strategies --- p.59 / Pricing Strategies --- p.60 / Location --- p.60 / Promotion Strategies --- p.61 / Plan the Management Strategies --- p.61 / Awareness of the Environment and Getting Feedback --- p.62 / Long Term Vision --- p.62 / Guanxi --- p.63 / Image and Identity --- p.64 / Chapter VII. --- CONCLUSION ´ب --- p.65 / APPENDIX --- p.66 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.68

Yu Kai Cheong, Andrew. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2008-2009, design report." / Includes bibliogrpahical references. / Research / Chapter 1.0 --- Thesis Statement / Chapter 1.1 --- Thesis Questions / Chapter 1.2 --- Abstract (Issue / Chapter 1.3 --- Proposition / Chapter 2.0 --- Meaning and Formation of Landscape / Chapter 2.1 --- Landscape Scale Comparison / Chapter 2.2 --- Theory . Classical / Chapter 2.3 --- Critiques on Theory of Landscape / Chapter 3.0 --- Notion of Sustainable City / Chapter 3.1 --- Green Thinking ´Ø Nature Imitation vs Green Ideology / Chapter 3.2 --- Theory on Sustainability / Chapter 3.3 --- Sustainability Issues in Beijing Context / Chapter 3.4 --- "Reference Cases . Beijing, China / Chapter 4.0 --- Beijing Evolution Conditions / Chapter 4.1 --- Social Issues: Urban Planning and Society / Chapter 4.2 --- Landscape Issues: Natural Resources and Green System Planning / Chapter 4.3 --- Architecture Issues: Built-Form and Life Pattern / Chapter 4.4 --- Human Issues: Human and Nature / Chapter 5.0 --- Beijing Landscapes Study / Chapter 5.1 --- City. Network / Chapter 5.2 --- District. Park / Chapter 5.3 --- Unit .Traditional Courtyard House / Chapter 6.0 --- Beijing Analysis / Chapter 6.1 --- Contextual Study. Beijing Green Code / Chapter 6.2 --- Study on Asian Games Site / Chapter 7.0 --- Artificial Landscape Discipline .Vocabulary and Methodology / Chapter 7.1 --- Vocabulary & Design Technique - Modeling Explorations / Chapter 8.0 --- Density and Program Implications / Chapter 8.1 --- Plot Ratio Comparison / Chapter 8.2 --- Proposed Scenario / Chapter 9.0 --- Site Experimentation / Chapter 9.1 --- Site Existing Conditon Study / Chapter 9.2 --- Strategic Responses / Design / Chapter 1.0 --- Proposition / Chapter 1.1 --- Proposition / Chapter 1.2 --- Olympic / Post-Olympic Condition / Chapter 1.3 --- Asian Games Site in Different Periods / Chapter 2.0 --- Density / Infrastructure / Cultural Campus / Chapter 2.1 --- Characteristics of Beijing City / Chapter 2.2 --- Density Issues . Comparison & Implication / Chapter 2.3 --- Infrastructure & City / Chapter 2.4 --- Idea of Campus . Idea of Culture / Chapter 3.0 --- Idea of Beijing City / Chapter 3.1 --- Strategic Positioning / Reasoning / Chapter 3.2 --- Multi-Scalar / Nested Set of Reading onYin-Yang / Chapter 3.3 --- Overlaying Ideas of Beijing City / Chapter 3.4 --- Site Conditon / Intentional Condition / Chapter 4.0 --- Site Development / Chapter 4.1 --- Photographic Inspiration / Chapter 4.2 --- Site Development Strategy / Growth Scenario / Chapter 4.3 --- Comparison & Simulation on Relative Density and Scale of Fabric / Chapter 4.4 --- Internal Organization of Asian Games Site / Chapter 4.5 --- Design Process Composite / Chapter 4.6 --- Artificial Landscape Modeling Explorations as Design Technique / Chapter 5.0 --- Design Implementation / Chapter 5.1 --- Master Plan of Cultural Campus on Asian Games Site / Chapter 5.2 --- Architectural Organization / Chapter 5.3 --- Design Development / Chapter 5.4 --- Idea of a Place / Chapter 6.0 --- Bibliography / Appendix

The advent of digital media has affected the nature of global communications, amplifying the interaction between populations and massively expanding the information load that an audience may be forced to consider. The Beijing Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) has proposed a digital strategy for the 2008 Olympics, which will open up a wide range of challenges for information gathering and dissemination. My research project has two related components: The first is an exegesis which sets the context for the project, identifies its main issues and presents a background research plan that, on the one hand, focuses on journalists and their likely orientations to a Digital Media Centre such as the one I propose, and, on the other, seeks to discover in other digital media centres the elements of best practice and innovation that might be adopted for Beijing. The second is a development project to explore and present innovation in Internet-based digital media operations, as exemplified by the challenges presented by the 2008 Olympic Games.

The advent of digital media has affected the nature of global communications, amplifying the interaction between populations and massively expanding the information load that an audience may be forced to consider. The Beijing Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) has proposed a digital strategy for the 2008 Olympics, which will open up a wide range of challenges for information gathering and dissemination. My research project has two related components: The first is an exegesis which sets the context for the project, identifies its main issues and presents a background research plan that, on the one hand, focuses on journalists and their likely orientations to a Digital Media Centre such as the one I propose, and, on the other, seeks to discover in other digital media centres the elements of best practice and innovation that might be adopted for Beijing. The second is a development project to explore and present innovation in Internet-based digital media operations, as exemplified by the challenges presented by the 2008 Olympic Games.