published_or_final_version / Comparative Asian Studies / Master / Master of Arts

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Architecture

published_or_final_version / abstract / Sociology / Master / Master of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Social Work and Social Administration / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Housing Management / Master / Master of Housing Management

published_or_final_version / Business / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

by Ng Tat-ming Simon. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-109). / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.iii / Chapter / Chapter 1. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Economic Reform and Social Change / Law and Economic Reform / The Case of Urban Land Management in Shenzhen / The Research Problem and Its Significance / The Scope of Research / Limitations and Difficulties / Arrangement of Chapters / Chapter 2. --- THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF LAND LAWS AND PRACTICES： A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE PRE-REFORM AND REFORM ERA --- p.22 / The State Ownership System / "Laws and Policies in Pre-reform China, 1949-1978" / The Post-1978 Reform and Urban Land Use / Concluding Remarks / Chapter 3. --- THE DEVELOPMENT OF LAND MANAGEMENT LAWS IN THE REFORM ERA: THE CASE OF SHENZHEN SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE --- p.45 / "Land Laws and the Development of Shenzhen SEZ, 1982 -1987" / Infra-structural Development of Land and Disguised Land Market / Adjusting to the New Socio-economic Situation: Development in Shenzhen SEZ since1987of Land Management Laws / The SEZ Land Management Regulations1988 and Beyond / Chapter 4. --- CONCLUSION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS --- p.81 / Reversal of Socialism: Implications of the Shenzhen' Exper ience / Withering Idea of Land Management and Proliferation of Networks of Legal Relationships upon Urban Land / The Influence of Hong Kong / Jurisprudential Implications of Shenzhen's Experience / Conclusion / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.94 / APPENDIX I --- p.104 / APPENDIX II --- p.110

With rapid urbanization and population growth in urban areas, urban development is necessary and urgent. However, with tight land supply from expropriating new farmland, redeveloping urban villages at central urban area would be full of potential. Basically, an urban village is the byproduct of rapid urbanization, with collective-owned non-agricultural use land surrounded by a state-owned urban area. Because of the particular land ownership structure in urban villages, conventional urban redevelopment methods are not suitable for the redevelopment of urban villages, public-private partnerships had been introduced into urban redevelopment to integrate the power and resources of private sector into the process of urban redevelopment with a legal contract, to form a collaboration between public and private sections, and to share the profits and benefits. A study on such partnerships in the redevelopment of urban villages could be instructive and enlightening for the future redevelopment of rural non-agricultural land in China. The major aim of the research is to discover the conditions under which partnerships for the redevelopment of urban villages could be established in China. The redevelopment of three urban villages in Shenzhen, namely the villages of Yunong, Gangxia and Huanggang, were thoroughly studied. A research framework has been established by examining the power relations of such partnerships and has been tailored to the scenario of redevelopment of urban village in China. The partnership synergy between local government, urban village communities and private developers, and role conflicts of each participants have been analyzed by considering the impact factors inherent in the institutional context of municipal government and the cultural context of urban villages in Shenzhen. These factors affect the composition, the process and the outcome of partnership in redevelopment of urban villages. The study found that because institutional support and land resource are exclusively and irreplaceably provided by the local government and the urban village, local government with systematic power is the primary partner who influences the partnership in redevelopment of urban villages the most. The local government arranges and executes the redevelopment timetable, decides the objective of redevelopment and devises rules of redistributing redevelopment profits. Under some conditions like better location, larger size and well-organization and efficient leadership, the secondary dominator namely village community becomes more important on the power balance of partnership. Private developer has no unique advantage in the partnership and could only be the follower of other two partners. Case studies from different cities with diversified institutional and cultural context are expected to be included into the future research areas. / published_or_final_version / Real Estate and Construction / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

This study aims at obtaining a deeper and clearer understanding of various factors that motivate teacher to work in profit-making schools. Herzberg’s motivator-hygiene theory on motivation is adopted as the main theoretical basis. A questionnaire survey was used to gather data from English teachers in a profit-making school. Of the 95 returned questionnaires, 87 were found valid for statistic analysis which was processed by SPSS 17.0. The major findings were summarized as follows. First, the most important factor is Job Security while the least important one is Responsibility. Second, it is found that hygiene factors are more important than motivators to motivate teachers in this case school, which is not so consistent with Herzberg’s theory. Third, the results of the study also challenged the Maslow’s theory. Maslow’s statement that lower level needs must be satisfied before the desire of the next high level is not confirmed by this study. Fourth, when concerned with the relationship between teachers’ background and the motivation factors, this study showed that teachers with different gender, age, working experience, academic background and marital status have different perceptions of the importance of the factors. Further study could be follow-up to extend this study to other employees, such as middle management in schools. Since this study only answer the question “what” motivate teachers, “how” those factors affect teachers to work is another area. / published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education

published_or_final_version / Urban Design / Master / Master of Urban Design