Conference Programme Booklet - Faculty of Social Sciences

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The 3 Global Social
Sciences Graduate
Students Conference
15 - 16 Nov 2014
AAB205, 206, Academic & Administration
Building, Baptist University Road Campus,
Hong Kong Baptist University
Hosted by: Faculty Research Staff and Research Postgraduate Forum (FRSRPS)
Sponsored by: Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University
Table of Contents
Global Social Science: Hong Kong Initiative.................................................................. 1
Organizing and Technical Committees ........................................................................... 2
Welcome Address .............................................................................................................. 3
Message from the Organizing Committee ...................................................................... 4
Conference Programme.................................................................................................... 5
Conference Venue ............................................................................................................. 6
Abstract of Oral Presentation .......................................................................................... 7
GLOBAL SOCIAL SCIENCE: HONG KONG INITIATIVE
It seems clear that in the "global" era social issues within any one country can only be
understood and fully addressed in a regional or international context. However, much
knowledge remains "national". Thus, in recent decades the field of Global Social Sciences is
hotly debated, with proponents seeking consensus on how to build worldwide understandings
which source Western, Northern, Eastern and Southern philosophies.
Hong Kong, which holds a strategic position through a long history as a meeting point
between Christianity and Confucianism and where openness and syncretism is prized in the
broader context of global society, is an ideal place for research and globalism. HKBUs’
Global Social Science: Hong Kong Initiative inspires international networks that value
innovative trans-disciplinary approaches to social science knowledge. Between 2011 and
2014, we have hosted international conferences on these transdisciplinary themes:
Education, ethnicity, and inequality
Youth, technology and health
Difference, social capital, and community
Conflict and governance
Christianity and modernity
Super-cities, migration, and social transformation
Poverty, inequality and social policy
As the next generation of scholars and academic leaders, graduate students are well positioned
to create these networks. The Third Global Social Sciences Graduate Student Conference
aims to be a productive space for academic exchange, a venue for brainstorming new
networks, and an opportunity to make new friends. Organized by and for graduate students,
the Conference helps graduate students studying in Hong Kong, neighboring China, and
beyond, to present their research, exchange ideas, network, and interact with fellow students
of other universities.
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The 3rd Global Social Sciences Graduate Student Conference
Organizing Committee
Chairs
Dr. Delang Claudio (Assistant Professor, Department of Geography)
Sam Ka Lam, Sam (PhD Student, Department of Physical Education)
Members
Prof. Lau Wing Chung, Patrick (Professor, Department of Physical Education)
Pitkethly Amanda Jane (PhD Student, Department of Physical Education)
Huang Junyi, Richard (PhD Student, Department of Geography)
Cheung Wai To (Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography)
Technical Committee of Global Social Science: Hong Kong Initiative
Prof. Bailey, Adrian J.
Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences
Prof. Li, S.C. Sandy
Head, Department of Education Studies
Prof. Owen, R. Bernhart
Head, Department of Geography
Prof. Cabestan, Jean-Pierre
Head, Department of Government and International Studies
Prof. Ho, Wing-chung Clara
Head, Department of History
Prof. Cheung, Siu Yin
Head, Department of Physical Education
Prof. Ng, Yat-nam Petrus
Head, Department of Social Work
Prof. Barbalet, Jack
Head, Department of Sociology
Sponsor
Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Welcome Address
Prof. ZHOU Qiming
Associate Dean (Research) Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University
Professor, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University
Dr. Sam Ka Lam
Co-Chair, Faculty Research Staff and Research Postgraduate Forum (FRSRPS)
Research Postgraduate student, Department of Physical Education, Hong Kong Baptist
University
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Message from the organizing committee
Dr. Sam Ka Lam
Research Postgraduate student,
Department of Physical Education,
Dr. Delang Claudio
Assistant Professor,
Department of Geography,
It is a pleasure to welcome you all to the 3rd Global Social Sciences Graduate Student
Conference. We are delighted to welcome delegates from across the breadth of the social
sciences, representing Hong Kong (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Institute of
Education, Lingnan University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Mainland China
(Peking University, Shanghai Normal University, Nanjing Normal University, Hainan High
Level Sports School, Wuhan University, Wuhan Institute of Physical Education, Wuhan
Sports University, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry) and Taiwan (Soochow University)
A yearly event, the Global Social Sciences Graduate Student Conferences are becoming a
well-known event for postgraduate students in the region. The programme of this year’s
conference showcases the breadth, depth, and most of all vitality of the social sciences. The
selected themes of “social and behavioural study”, “politics and international relations”,
“sports, health and recreation”, “public and socio-economic policy”, “historical study and
biography”, and “contemporary China” all show how profoundly global processes and
systems are affecting everyday lives and the wellbeing of society, central themes in global
social sciences. The Conference also showcases the need for conceptual innovation and
many of the papers offer productive pathways for change. In short, the Conference is a
transdisciplinary celebration of knowledge!
I would like to express my deep appreciation for all members of the Organising Committee
for their commitment and leadership in planning the event, Prof. Patrick Lau, Ms. Pitkethly
Amanda Jane, Mr. Richard Huang, Mr. Cheung To Wai (HKBU), and Ms. Tina Tsang (HKU)
for her graphic expertise.
I am confident you will find something valuable and enjoyable in the conference; and I am
pleased to welcome you in Hong Kong.
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Conference Programme
Date & Time:
Day 1: 15th November, 2014 (Saturday)
Day 2: 16th November, 2014 (Sunday)
9:15a.m.- 5.00p.m,
9:15a.m.- 1.00p.m,
Venue:
Room AAB205 & AAB206, Academic & Administration Building, Baptist University
Road Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
15th November 2014
Time
AAB 205
AAB 206
09:15-09:30
Registration
09:30-09:50
Welcome Address
09:50-11:10
Session 1a
Application of Information Technology
in Geographical Study
Coffee Break
11:10-11:30
11:30-12:50
Session 2a
Politics and International Relations (I)
Session 2b
Sports, Health and Recreation
Lunch Time
12:50-14:00
14:00-15:20
Session 1b
Social and Behavioral Study (I)
Session 3a
Public and Socio-economic Policy,
and Governance
Session 3b
Contemporary China
Coffee Break
15:20-15:40
15:40-17:00
Session 4a
Social and Behavioral Study (II)
18:00-21:00
Evening Activities
Location: AAB 1217
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Session 4b
Historical Study and Biography
16th November 2014 (Sunday)
Time
AAB 205
09:15-09:30
Registration
09:30-10:30
Session 5
Environmental Resources Management
10:30-10:50
Coffee Break
10:50-12:10
Session 6
Politics and International Relations (II)
12:10-12:40
Award/ Certificate Presentation and
Concluding Remarks
12:40-13:10
Lunch Time
13:10-17:00
Excursion:
Hong Kong Wetland Park
17:00-18:00
Back to Hong Kong Baptist University
Conference Venue
Conference
Venue:
AAB 205 206
Academic and
Administration
Building
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Abstract of Oral Presentation
Session 1a
Application of Information Technology in Geographical Study .............................................. 9
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Exploring the Use of Web Mapping Platforms for Mapping Real Estate Data: A Case
Study of Rabat city
A POI Data Update Approach Based on Weibo Check-in Data
Extracting Urban Buildings from High-resolution Images Based on Random Forest Model
Remote Sensing Retrieval of Surface Water Suspended Matter Concentration in Tianjin
Binhai New Area
Session 1b
Social and Behavioural Study (I) ........................................................................................... 13
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Gender in Ethnic Business: An Ethnographic Study of Nepali Enterprising Women in
Hong Kong
Young People Housing in Hong Kong from a Pathway Perspective
Women’s Body and Subjectivity: Foot-binding and Anti-Foot-binding in the Republic of
China (1911-1949)
A Test of Multiple Identities and Well-being in Cross-cultural Context: The Case of Crossborder Marriage Migrant between Hong Kong and Mainland China
Session 2a
Politics and International Relations (I) ................................................................................... 17
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Structural Transformation, Status Inconsistency, and Revisionist Projects for Regional
Change: A Study of the “New Type of Great Power Relations” and the Trans-Pacific
Partnership
Government Scholarship Program as the Mean to Enhance the Country’s Soft Power
Profit-Seeking and Ethnic Conflict in Cross-Strait Relations: a Case Study of the Media
Sector in Taiwan
“Asia’s Cauldron”: Evaluating Vietnam’s Stance on the South China Sea Issue
Session 2b
Sports, Health and Recreation ····································································· 21
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A Preliminary Development of Exercise Social Support Scale
An Examination of Parental Influences on Weight-Related Health Behavior Development
in Young Adult
Effects of Static Stretching, Dynamic Stretching, and Foam Rolling on Flexibility, Power,
Strength and Speed of Female Athletes
The Physical Activities of the Elderly in City Parks and the Impacts of Social
Psychological and Environmental Factors
Session 3a
Public and Socio-economic Policy, and Governance ·········································· 25
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Explore the institutional impact on the social work practice
Commuting Patterns under the Constraints of Hukou System: A Case Study in Guangzhou
When Goliath lets David Win: China's Concessions to Local Environmental Protests
Hong Kong and China’s Financialization: I jump, you jump
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Session 3b
Contemporary China ··············································································· 29
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Emerging Innovation Network in Industrial Cluster in China: The Case of Furniture
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Industrial Cluster in Houjie Town, Dongguan
The Effect of High Speed Railway on Market Potential of Chinese Cities
Exploring Residential Mobility: Empirical Analysis of Guangzhou
Human Resource Management as a Profession in China
Session 4a
Social and Behavioural Study (II) ································································ 33
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TEACCH Programme for Children with ASD: a Systematic Review
Effectiveness of TEACCH Programme for Children with ASD: a Meta-Analysis
The Changing Life of the Talented Women in Boudoir(闺阁才女) during the Modern
Transition Period---Putting Lü Bicheng (吕碧城) as a Case Study
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Gendered Guanxi in Urban China: Unmarried Women in Market-driven Enterprise
Session 4b
Historical Study and Biography ··································································· 37
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Study of Demes of Attica in Classical Times
Lee Kuan Yew’s Strategies for Survival: Dominant-party Politics in Postwar Singapore
The Concept, the Definition and the Indeterminacy
Brief Probe into Toynbee’s Morphology of Civilization
Session 5
Environmental Resources Management ·························································· 41
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An Algorithm of Water Level Auto-recognition by Using Surveillance Camera
Impacts of Urban Biophysical Composition on Land Surface Temperature in Urban
Heat Environment
Assessing the Impact of Urban Expansion on Regional Net Primary Productivity in the
Pearl River Delta, China
Session 6
Politics and International Relations (II) ·························································· 44
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Can China’s High Speed Rail Diplomacy Expand Her Invisible Domains?
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Reviewing the History of Sino-Australia Relations in the Post-Cold War Era
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Conceptualizing and Measuring State Capacity
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Development and Regime Transitions: Comparing Asia and Eastern Europe
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Session 1a: Application of Information Technology in Geographical Study
Date: 15 Nov 2014 Time: 9:50-11:10 AAB 205
Exploring the Use of Web Mapping Platforms for Mapping Real Estate Data:
A Case Study of Rabat city
OUMOUSSI Abdellah
Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University
Email: [email protected]
For every actor on the real estate market, information about the property value is
important for making the right decisions. It is the case for property owners, buyers,
sellers, investors, real estate agents, banks, insurers, as well as national institutions
and court. Land values are among the most complete economic indicators, which
combine the current urban structure effects and the changing factors like social
conditions, technical characteristics. The mastery of land valuation is very crucial for
a successful urban development in all its different strategies and phases. The stage of
real estate appraisal is stationary in Morocco, and the determination of market value
does not follow professional standards, which is made more difficult by the public
data starvation related to real estate. In order to tackle these issues, a study was
conducted in the city of Rabat, starting with on-site surveys and using professional
methods of real estate appraisal to assess the market values. A web map application
have been developed then; using Web Mapping techniques; to display the results of
the valuation, and chiefly to serve as an assisting tool in spatial decision making for
real estate actors.
Keywords: Real estate appraisal, market value, web mapping, Google Maps API
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A POI Data Update Approach Based on Weibo Check-in Data
ZHOU Meng
POI updates have a direct influence on the data up-to-date state, thereby affecting the
data value of POI in LBS applications. Aimed at solving the problem facing POI rapid
and accurate update, an update approach for POI data based on check-in data from
online social networking sites is brought forward in this paper. Firstly, regarding to
the quality issue of check-in data, a pre-processing approach with spatial registration
to improve spatial alignment is proposed. Then, a POI data update approach based on
the adjusted check-in data is discussed. At last, with experimental data from Sina
Weibo, a major online social networking service provider in China, a POI update
experiment is carried out, the result of which is a feasibility validation for the
proposed check-in data based POI update approach. The proposed method has the
potential for improvement in order to serve as a feasible approach for the update of
POI data.
Keywords: POI, Weibo check-in data, data update, matching modeling, spatial
registration
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Extracting Urban Buildings from High-resolution Images
Based on Random Forest Model
ZHANG Fangli
Urban building is not only an important part of the city, but also a key reference factor
in urban planning or management. The semantic information of urban buildings can
be widely applied in urban ecology and resource management. In recent years, with
the rapid development of high resolution remote sensing techniques, remotely sensed
images can provide much more detailed feature information for urban building objects
than before. The two kinds of existing extraction methods: edge detection and object
classification, can hardly meet the demand of urban research or applications. The
edge-based methods focus only on identifying morphological structures of building
objects, and the object-based methods are not powerful enough due to the complex
and high dimensional feature space. In addition, the current system of classification is
data-oriented, not application-oriented, which seriously limits its application in urban
research. Therefore, based on the object-based image analysis (OBIA) method, this
study proposes a new approach for classifying image objects to obtain semantic
information of urban buildings by involving the random forest model. Taking the
northwest part of Beijing as a case, this study intends to verify and evaluate the
effectiveness of this new classification model.
Keywords: High-resolution, semantic classification, urban building, random forest
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Remote Sensing Retrieval of Surface Water Suspended Matter Concentration
in Tianjin Binhai New Area
WANG Daikun
Department of Geography and Resource Management,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tianjin Binhai New Area（TBNA）is in the northeast part of North China Plain and
the downstream of the Haihe River. It also faces the Bohai Sea. The excellent
geographical location of TBNA makes it become the comprehensive reform of
National Innovation Zone. After nearly ten years’ rapid development, the surface
water of TBNA is also facing a severe test.
Field measurements are performed and water samples are collected for further
accurate laboratory analyses of suspended matter concentration. Two kinds of
empirical retrieval algorithm model are built for the suspended matter concentration
of surface water in TBNA. The two retrieval models are based on statistical regression
model and neural network respectively.
For the statistical regression model, combined with the previous research experience,
the correlation analysis is mainly between the DN value (the third band, the fourth
band and their sum value) and the measured suspended matter concentration. For the
neural network model, through the experiment, the correlation coefficient of neural
network model is R2=0.9069. After the validation, the results show that: the average
relative error is 4.64%, the maximum relative error is 8.95% and the minimum
relative error is 1.58%. Finally, the suspended matter concentration distribution map
of the study area is also completed by applying the model.
Keywords: suspended matter concentration, remote sensing, OLI, Tianjin Binhai New
Area(TBNA)
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Session 1b: Social and Behavioural Study (I)
Date: 15 Nov 2014 Time: 9:50-11:10 AAB 206
Gender in Ethnic Business: An Ethnographic Study of
Nepali Enterprising Women in Hong Kong
LIN Zhenru
Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ethnic business is not only about economic survival for minority groups, but also
essential sites of organizing their lives in cultural and social perspectives. It provides a
lens to observe the gender relationships within the ethnic community. In Hong Kong,
we could see most of the ethnic small business owners are male. And Nepali female is
always linked to the image of housewives who stay at home which is not always the
case. This ethnographic study aims to examine the behavior, strategies, and barriers
faced by enterprising women of Nepali ethnic businesses in Hong Kong. Attention
will be focused on the how the gender identity of female is functioning in the
economic activities and social interactions. Data for the study is obtained from
participant observation and interviews in Yuen Long and Jordon where the ethnic
business clustering. In this respect, the holistic and vivid pictures of these Nepali
enterprising women could be draw which could provide some insight into the
ethnicity issues intertwined with gender, economy and globalization in Hong Kong.
Keywords: gender, ethnicity, ethnic economy, globalization, Nepali women
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Young People Housing in Hong Kong from a Pathway Perspective
Lau Siu Mei
Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University
Research on young people has focused on structure-agency debate either structural
forces or individual actions, or even both, the debate has fail to evaluate the
complexity of the interplay of the two sets of factors. This paper will adopt a
‘pathways’ framework suggested by David Clapham (2002) to reviews existing
young people housing research, the research focuses on young people housing
discourses and their restructuring and shaping through interaction in order that the aim
of a holistic analysis can be achieved. I argue that existing studies does not have
sufficient analysis of structural and action elements in shaping young people’s
housing in Hong Kong. Young people, especially those low to middle income, are
subject to more structural contain and their agency are yet to develop in response to
housing problem in late modernity.
Keywords: young people, Hong Kong, housing, pathway
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Women’s Body and Subjectivity: Foot-binding and Anti-Foot-binding
in the Republic of China (1911-1949)
Lee Kai Chun Katon
Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Republic of China inherited the deep-rooted foot-binding culture. However, the
Nanjing Nationalist Government founded in 1927 launched a series of Anti-Footbinding policies. Having shaken the foot-binding culture, it held great sway over the
historical development of women’s body. This research used many historical texts
including archives, reports, minutes and publications as main historical sources,
supplemented with rich and colourful oral history from 190 women living in different
regions of China, memoirs, biographies and autobiographies. It aims to reconstruct the
historical development of foot-binding culture and Anti-foot-binding movements in
the era of the Republic of China.
This paper firstly analyzed the restrictions from which foot-bound women were
suffering in private and public spheres by investigating the news of foot-binding
culture and the foot-bound women’s oral history in the Republic of China. It
discovered that the tension between the foot-bound women’s wills and the social
norms was of great influence on the manifestation of women’s subjectivity. The latter
part of the paper investigated how the series of Anti-foot-binding polices actually put
great pressure on the foot-bound women. It revealed the fact that the government’s
forcible actions though successfully ceased the foot-binding culture, yet deprived the
foot-bound women of the autonomy over their body.
Keywords: Foot-binding, anti-foot-binding, women’s body, subjectivity, oral history,
the Republic of China
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A Test of Multiple Identities and Well-being in Cross-cultural Context: The Case
of Cross-border Marriage Migrant between Hong Kong and Mainland China
GAO Fan
The study of the interplay among family immigration, acculturation, and parenting
still remains to explore many unanswered questions. Family plays a significant role in
determining a marriage migrant’s health and life satisfaction. Marriage migrant is the
increasing trend and general phenomenon happens in East Asia and sources could be
found in rich researches on different country concerning different levels and social
problems. Marriage migrants are investigated as an available channel to adopt social,
cultural and economic lives in new societies and opportunities offered. A
transnational perspective on migrant study is increasing relevant to globalization era
as well as their impacts on mobility. New arrivals or migrants from mainland will be a
mainstay for HK future development and social transformation. I provide a literaturebased conceptual model that builds on previous theories, measures, and findings used
by researchers and scholars. Hong Kong is an ideal place to investigate the target
groups.
Keywords: marriage, family, culture, migration, acculturation
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Session 2a: Politics and International Relations (I)
Date: 15 Nov 2014 Time: 11:30-12:50 AAB 205
Structural Transformation, Status Inconsistency, and Revisionist Projects for
Regional Change: A Study of the “New Type of Great Power Relations” and the
Trans-Pacific Partnership
John H.S. Åberg
Political Science Department, Lingnan University
E-mail: [email protected]
Many liberal accounts disregard the issue of transformation of the current status quo.
Accordingly, great powers do not present a challenge to existing regional orders
because they benefit from the existing system. This article rejects such accounts and
emphasizes that revisionism is still pertinent. Structural transformation indeed
empowers rising states and enhances their capacity, but it is not sufficient to explain
revisionism. Politics is a contentious normative struggle. Interactions between actors
can produce discordance between different interest claims and conceptions of order.
As states compete for status and prestige, exclusionary ordering configurations give
rise to discordance and status inconsistency, which lead to the emergence of
alternative revisionist projects with the purpose of rectifying the regional order. As
gradual reconfiguration of ties and processes that changes the normative framework
within international orders is ongoing, this framework applies to both rising and
declining states. It is exemplified by China’s proposal for a “new type of great power
relations” and the Trans-Pacific Partnership propelled by the United States as two
types of revisionist projects that respectively are designed to revise the regional
security order and the regional economic order in Asia Pacific.
Keywords: China, the United States, regional order, revisionism, “new type of great
power relations”, Trans-Pacific partnership
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Government Scholarship Program as the Mean to
Enhance the Country’s Soft Power
Huynh Phan Thang
Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong
E-mail: [email protected]
International aid has become an indispensable part of international relations, the
rationales for these programs are for a country to gain soft power as well as for
economic competitiveness. ‘‘Soft power’’ is the ability to get ‘‘others to want the
outcomes that you want’’ through co-optation instead of coercion. Countries provide
scholarship for international students as a mechanism for training future leaders from
other countries who might serve as opinion leaders once they come back their home
countries. In this respect, these educational exchange activities are the continuation
and supplement of national foreign policy. This study intends to provide a review and
assessment of government scholarship program for international students in China and
lay foundation for deeper understanding of the co-relation between government
scholarship program and one country’s soft power and economic competitiveness
gains. It hypothesizes that government scholarship program is a means for scholarship
providing countries to achieve economic competitiveness and to assert regional and to
a certain extent global hegemony. I will give a background of the program and current
practice of the program and assess the advantage and disadvantage of this policy in
the overall diplomacy scheme.
Keywords: public diplomacy, soft power
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Profit-Seeking and Ethnic Conflict in Cross-Strait Relations:
a Case Study of the Media Sector in Taiwan
Ye Xiao Di
Department of Political Science, Soochow University
Following the conclusion and execution the Economic Cooperation Framework
Agreement that a more institutionalized economic integration of Chinese and
Taiwanese can be enjoyed, the Taiwan’s media sectors take advantage of this
circumstance to help expand their boss’s staple industry and maximize the profit in
mainland market at the expense of Taiwanese interests, which contributes to the
outburst of anti-mainland Chinese sentiment. This case study challenges the
conventional explanation of ethnic conflicts, which either focuses on the historical
contradiction of inter-group between insiders and outsiders; or attributes to the state’s
manipulation for diverting the responsibilities from local problems to outsiders
through conflict making. This article intends to provide a different account for the
ethnic conflict between Taiwan and China, arguing that the profit-seeking behaviour
brought by local market actors should be taken into a serious consideration.
Keywords: ethnic conflict, profit-seeking, media sector
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“Asia’s Cauldron”: Evaluating Vietnam’s Stance on the South China Sea Issue
NGUYEN Thanh Trun
Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University
Vietnam’s approach toward the territorial disputes in the South China Sea exhibits a
complicated pattern of internal, domestic political, and external political
considerations. Analysing both Vietnam’s and China’s claims from the historical and
legal perspectives, the study attempts to illustrate Vietnam’s foreign policy towards
new developments in the South China Sea. I also address the extent to which Vietnam
can be expected to utilize other great powers and multilateral framework to manage
the disputes, and how far Vietnam’s capabilities can go in keeping the lid on
imminent flare-ups.
Given the recent maritime disputes between Vietnam and China have reached new
levels of tension and standoff, the paper assumes that Vietnamese policy makers try to
seek an optimal compromise between protecting their territorial integrity and
maintaining good relationship with China on the South China Sea disputes.
The paper concludes that despite Vietnamese much-improved relationships with other
great powers anathema to Chinese assertive maritime ambitions, Vietnam is unlikely
to participate in any military alliance or pursue any legal procedures to counter China
in the South China Sea. Nonetheless, the cards are largely in Chinese hands, and
Vietnam would keep their options open.
Keywords: alliance, compromise, disputes, great powers, South China Sea
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Session 2b: Sports, Health and Recreation
Date: 15 Nov 2014 Time: 11:30-12:50 AAB 206
A Preliminary Development of Exercise Social Support Scale
ZHONG Tao
Institute of Sports Science Research, Hainan High Level Sports School
Purpose: Social support is one of the important variables determining exercise
participation. In terms of the measurement of it, no exercise specific questionnaire is
available in China now. Therefore, the purpose of the thesis is to develop such a scale.
Method: Qualitative and quantitative research methods were integrated. On the basis
of literature review, a survey with open-ended questionnaire is conducted to form an
item pool for further analysis, during which the content validity process was
completed.
After the first round of questionnaire administration, exploratory factor analysis and
reliability analysis (internal consistency and test-retest reliability) were conducted.
During the second round, except the preliminary developed scale, Russell’s Social
Provision Scale (SPS), Sallis’s exercise social support scale, and physical activity
questionnaire (for a segment of the subjects) were also administered as criteria
validity to further assess the newly developed scale.
Results: A scale was developed, comprising 4 dimensions with 6 items each, that is,
emotional factor, companion factor, instrumental factor and informational factor.
Discussion: the Chinese Exercise Social Support Scale (CESSS) has been proved
preliminary as a reliable and valid fundamental measurement for relevant research
studies.
Keywords: physical exercise, social support, scale, reliability, validity
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An Examination of Parental Influences on Weight-Related
Health Behavior Development in Young Adult.
Shang Borui
Department of Psychology, Wuhan Institute of Physical Education
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Background:
The rapid development of China's economy not only improved our living conditions,
but also created a growing number of obese and overweight people. In regard to
young adult of university student, the problems of overweight and obesity are still on
the rise. Parents’ behaviors and parenting styles could contribute to the development
of their children’s weight-related health behaviors.
Purpose:
This study was designed to test whether parents early parenting styles could have an
impact on children’s healthy behaviors during their early adulthood. Relationships of
young adults’ (N = 176) and their parents’ weight-related behaviors(BMI, dietary
behaviors , physical activity behaviors) were examined along with parental authority
styles.
Methods:
Questionnaires were completed by young adults and their parents. Comparisons of
BMI, energy consumption(KCal), and energy expenditure(METs) were conducted
with correlation analyses and paired-samples t-tests. Multiple regression analyses
were used to further explore the influence of parental authority.
Results:
Parents’ weight statuses ,dietary behaviors and physical activities were positively
associated with those of their young adult children . Authoritarian parenting score
moderate the relationship between parents’ BMI and young adults’ BMI. This study
provides evidence that parental behaviors influence children’s lasting weight-related
health behaviors.
Keywords: parenting styles, young adult, body mass index, dietary behaviours,
physical activity behaviors, moderating effect.
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Effects of Static Stretching, Dynamic Stretching, and Foam Rolling on
Flexibility, Power, Strength and Speed of Female Athletes
Kong Tsz Yeung
Department of Physical Education, Hong Kong Baptist University
The purpose of this investigation was to compare the effects of static stretching,
dynamic stretching, and foam rolling on flexibility, power, strength, and speed of
female athletes. Division III female soccer players (N = 15) completed the three
testing sessions. Each participant performed a static stretching, dynamic stretching, or
foam rolling in each session. Each warm-up condition was assessed by the modified
sit and reach test, countermovement vertical jump test, standing long jump test, 3-RM
front squat test, and 20-m sprint test. Five separate one-way repeated measures
ANOVAs were calculated to analyze the differences among the warm-up conditions
in flexibility, power, strength, and speed performance. The results indicated that
dynamic stretching resulted in a significantly (p < .05) greater performance in the
countermovement vertical jump, standing long jump, and 20-m sprint than static
stretching. In terms of the countermovement vertical jump test, dynamic stretching
also resulted in a significantly (p < .05) greater performance than foam rolling. No
significant (p > .05) differences among the three warm-up conditions were observed
for flexibility and strength performance. These findings indicate that dynamic
stretching is the most effective single warm-up condition for enhancing power and
speed performance in female athletes.
Keywords: stretching, foam rolling, warm-up technique, physical performance,
athletes
23
The Physical Activities of the Elderly in City Parks and
the Impacts of Social Psychological and Environmental Factors
Hu Chun, Connie
Graduate School, Wuhan Sports University
According to the importance of physical activity in the park, Bedimo-Rung puts
forward a theoretical construct which includes all kinds of advantages and the factors
influencing the use of parks. It reflects on the intrinsic factors of park-users and the
environment of the parks. Some social psychological factors will have influence on
their physical activities to some extent, which include self-efficacy, enjoyment,
benefits,barriers and social support. The environmental factors consist of perceived
safety, perceived pleasance, sport facilities, amenities and accessibility from your
home to this park. This paper aims to find out the relations between those social
psychological and environmental factors and the physical activities of the elderly.
For the study, 156 older people were recruited from German and China, which are 58
German and 98 Chinese. Males institute 54%，females institute 46%. The data are
dealt with Independent samples T test, Pearson correlation and linear regression. The
results are as follows: The physical activities of the elderly in German was
significantly higher than that of China. There are no significant difference in physical
activities of the elderly between two countries in the park. The physical activities of
the elderly can be explained and predicted to some extent by social psychological and
demographic variables, but not the environmental ones.
Key words: physical activities, the elderly, social psychology, environment,
demographic factors
24
Session 3a: Public and Socio-economic Policy, and Governance
Date: 15 Nov 2014 Time: 14:00-15:20 AAB 205
Explore the Institutional Impact on the Social Work Practice
Wong King Lai
Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University
Social work is a profession which emphasizes on social justice and human rights. The
rationale of improving social conditions through policy advocacy has been stressed by
international and local social work organizations.
However, new institutionalism argued that institutions in society constrain people’s
moves. It is suggested that since the 80’s, the trend of neoliberalism led to
retrenchment of social services. Reformation of the welfare institutions led to the
emergence of welfare bidding and performance-led accountability systems.
Since the 70’s, community development teams had been established to serve people
who lived in squatter areas, rooftops, and public housing estates. Social workers
adopted the conflicted approach to organize residents who were affected by the
demolishment of their residential units to advocate for their welfare. Since the 2000’s,
marketization reduce the number of community development teams. In addition,
changes in policies of social welfare services affected social worker’s professional
identity. It influences intervention targets, method and the implicated meaning of
social justice in their intervention. Analysis will be focused on the services in old
urban area which target on the people who are affected by the urban regeneration.
Keywords: social work, professional, institutions, community development,
marketization
25
Commuting Patterns under the Constraints of Hukou System:
A Case Study in Guangzhou
LIU Yi
The present study attempts to reveal the characteristics of commuting patterns under
the constraints of hukou system in Guangzhou. Census data and survey data will be
used to construct several analytical models. The findings indicate that decades of
institutional changes and spatial structure transformation keep pushing the evolution
of commuting patterns in Guangzhou. However, the hukou system exerts considerable
influence on the evolving commuting patterns. People with different hukou status
demonstrate significant differences in residential and employment distributions,
commuting distance, commuting time, commuting modes and commuting flows. It
implies that in the context of China, thought marketization has been introduced for
decades, the typical socialist institutional constraints of hukou system still play
essential role in affecting commuting patterns.
Keywords: land use structure, commuting patterns, Hukou system, suburbanization
26
When Goliath lets David Win:
China's Concessions to Local Environmental Protests
Yew Wei Lit
How can we account for the variation in the outcomes of environmental protests in
China? Is this due to a benevolent local government or are there other factors at work?
Though it is clear that the strategic agency of protesters plays a major role, this paper
examines the often under-explored role of the state. I will qualitatively analyse the
capacity and propensity for concession by the state, while arguing how the outcomes
are affected by perceived financial costs – a cost shaped by the fiscal capacity of the
state and the sunk cost of the challenged project. It will be shown that the relevance to
the local economies attribute to the cost-benefit analysis, with both “successful” and
“failed” NIMBY (not-in-my-backyard) protest cases used to illustrate this argument.
These cases will be based on data obtained from secondary sources and media reports
of anti-PX (Paraxylene) protests from within China.
Keywords: environmental protest, protest outcomes, local states, concessions, China
27
Hong Kong and China’s Financialization: I jump, you jump
Doris Lee
The Hong Kong government indicates its intention of liberalizing the financial
markets of Hong Kong and leading the way for the development of the financial
markets of China as well. Given the “tweaking” nature of the reforms proposed after
the recent financial crises, the existing trend implies continuing volatility risk which
may have global as well as local repercussions.
The government at the same time faces the challenge of meeting social welfare needs,
such as elderly care, without increasing its tax base. The need for low taxes to attract
foreign investment capital conflicts with the increasing demands of social welfare
advocates to overcome the social welfare inadequacies.
How do the decision-makers in government balance between these deeply opposing
pressures when formulating pro-capital mobility policies and “market infrastructure”?
And in the special case of Hong Kong and “socialist” and “fragmented authoritarian”
China, what determines which has the greater “pull” on the other? How much do
centralized authoritarian principles coincide with or conflict with the tendency of
global financial centres to rely on a set of practices determined outside of the state, by
the market?
Keywords: Financialization, Hong Kong, global financial centre, China, liberalization
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Session 3b: Contemporary China
Date: 15 Nov 2014 Time: 14:00-15:20 AAB 206
Emerging Innovation Network in Industrial Cluster in China: The Case of
Furniture Industrial Cluster in Houjie Town, Dongguan
FU Tianlan
Industrial innovation has deep historical roots in economic geography academic area, from
the learning region, regional innovation systems to the contemporary popular notion,
innovation network. Yet the emergence or evolution of innovation network in the industrial
cluster in China is not a simply a convergence with Western industrial cluster forms which
have been studied much previously. Innovation network is drawn upon the network
perspective to illustrate the development of innovation in the industrial cluster. Exploring
China’s emerging innovation network would add much richness and diversity to the
international debates on innovation network or industrial innovation, this study discusses the
evolving processes and dynamics of innovation network in industrial cluster, with special
reference to furniture industrial cluster in Houjie Town, Dongguan, China. The emerging
dynamics of China’s innovation network of industrial cluster are evolving around both
endogenous and exogenous factors, within which institutional arrangements, in which local
government has played a fundamental role, and as well as brand-name firms. To present a
fuller picture of plural forces of innovation network in industrial cluster, the paper will
unpack the emergence of innovation network in the local industrial cluster and examine how
different actors improve the innovative capability in the face of external changing
circumstances, especially the recent global financial crisis. Based on the in-depth interviews
in Houjie Town, it is found that featuring heterogeneity within different types of firms,
innovation network in the industrial cluster is selective. Brand-name firms severed as
gatekeepers of innovation network and help to bring in the new knowledge into the cluster,
while most of OEMs without brand names are excluded outside the network. The empirical
experience in Dongguan challenges the role of geographical proximity in the innovation
network. More importantly, the innovative research institutes established by the local
government turned to be a strong driver that develops endogenous innovation in the local
industrial cluster. The study sheds light on the critical role of local government in the
development of local innovation network in China’s industrial clusters.
Keywords: innovation network, brand-name firms, OEMs, geographical proximity,
institution, furniture industrial cluster
29
The Effect of High Speed Railway on Market Potential of Chinese Cities
ZHANG Mengmeng
College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University
In the past ten years, high speed rail way has rapidly developed in China and its effect
on the city development is gradually revealed. Based on statistic data from China
railway train schedules, we get the average travel time and departure frequency
between cities, in order to analyze the market potential characteristics of cities at
prefecture level or above before (ordinary railway) and after the construction of high
speed railway , and to isolate the time compression effect and frequency effect within
the high speed railway effect, which largely promoting the market potential of
Chinese cities. Results show: ① market potential without high speed railway of
Chinese cities presents a “multi-centre--corridor” structure, ②market potential with
high speed railway also presents a “multi-centre--corridor” structure, but much
stronger centers;③the effect of high speed railway of Chinese Cities along Line
Beijing-Shanghai, Line Shanghai-Hangzhou, and Ningbo-Xia’men Special Line is the
biggest, which significantly facilitate the growth of market potential in these cities;④
the average value of the time compression effect of 109 cities connected by high
speed railway is about 31.3% and the average value of frequency effect is 68.7%
which is dominant within the high speed railway effect.
Keywords: high speed railway, market potential, cities at prefecture level or above,
effect of high speed railway, time compression effect, frequency effect
30
Exploring Residential Mobility: Empirical Analysis of Guangzhou
MAO Sanqin
It is acknowledged that the life course approach explains the residential mobility more
understandable. Life course events, such as presence of children and job change, influence
and trigger the mobility. And life course approach applied in the residential mobility in
market economies has been researched for long time. However, because of China’s housing
market present different scenes, study on residential mobility in such country’s economies has
been increased. In this paper, using data from surveys carried out in the end of 2012 and early
2013 in Guangzhou, we try to combine event history analysis and life course approach to
explore how the residential mobility is affected and how main driving factors change extent
during 2000- 2012. The results indicate that residential mobility is particularly likely to
happen in the event of job change, child birth and housing tenure condition. And those factors
show different influence extent during different life stages.
Keywords: residential mobility, the life course, event history analysis, factor,
Guangzhou
31
Human Resource Management as a Profession in China
ZHAO Lingling
Department of Public Policy, The City University of Hong Kong
Many countries are reviewing and reexamining the professionalization of HR
management. The professional standing of human resource management is in the
spotlight worldwide. An example of this is the very recent formalization of
professional human resource management standards and ethical codes of conduct in
countries like Canada and Germany. Numerous researchers in the HR field and
various institutions use the term ‘HR professionals’ in their writings. Therefore, it is
necessary to establish the professional standing of HR management in China.
The objective of this study was to establish whether one could regard HR
management, as practiced in China, as a profession. The researcher believes that
establishing a recognized and uniform standard of competence and professionalism
will improve good governance.
The key contribution of this study will be that it identifies a number of aspects that
determine professionalism and highlights the most important elements one should
consider when regulating the HR profession.
Keywords: HRM Professionalization, profession association
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Session 4a: Social and Behavioural Study (II)
Date: 15 Nov 2014 Time: 15:40-17:00 AAB 205
TEACCH Programme for Children with ASD: a Systematic Review
Wong Wik Ki
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Institute of Education
Background. Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) as pervasive neurological disorder
occurred in childhood stages, sufferers are characterized by impaired in social and
communication development difficulties, repetitive behavior and restricted activities.
TEACCH programme has been widely adopted to improve social behavior and
learning of children with ASD.
Objective. A systematic review of the empirical research literature is presented, to
evaluate the eﬃcacy of TEACCH for children with ASD.
Methods. 15 electronic databases were search for studies from inception to 2014.
Inclusion criteria were: a) a randomized controlled trial or controlled trial treatment
design; b) published in peer-reviewed journals; c) children with ASD aged under 16; d)
studies that contained information allowed to calculate the effect size statistic. Two
reviewers independently evaluated the titles and abstracts of the located studies to
determine eligibility for inclusion in this systematic review.
Results. Two independently reviewers screened and retrieved 7 studies and involving
158 participants that met the inclusion criteria to conduct a qualitative analysis.
Conclusion. TEACCH program was found to be have a statistically benefits in 6 out
of 7 trials, higher impact was posed in the intervening duration last for 2 to 3 years.
Further study is suggested to evaluate the statistical effectiveness of TEACCH
program for children with ASD.
Keywords: Autism Spectrum Disorders, TEACCH, Systematic review
33
Effectiveness of TEACCH Programme for Children with ASD: a Meta-Analysis
Sam Ka Lam
Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University
Background: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a prevalent neurological syndrome
observed even in childhood stages. Children with autism have certain problems on
social interaction, communication, coordination, and etc. TEACCH programme has
been widely adopted as a kind of interventions for children with ASD on developing
their communication, coordination, imitation, perception, as well as social skills.
Objective: A meta-analysis was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of TEACCH
programme for children with ASD.
Method: Seven studies were employed by a systematic review, then followed by the
meta-analysis.
Results: Nine outcome measure domains were identified among the seven included
studies. A high effect was shown in the domain of development (.84), small to
moderate effect were shown in the domains of behaviour (.60), communication (.57),
fine motor (.61), gross motor (.45), imitation (.52), perception (.48), and socialisation
(.73).
Conclusion: Eight of the nine outcome domains were perceived a positive effect on
the TEACCH programme for children with ASD. Large scale and long-term control
trials are sorely needed for further evaluation of TEACCH.
Keyword: Autism Spectrum Disorders, TEACCH programme, Meta-analysis
34
The Changing Life of the Talented Women in Boudoir(闺阁才女) during the
Modern Transition Period---Putting Lü Bicheng (吕碧城) as a Case Study
GENG Chunxiao, Florence
Faculty of Social Development, Nanjing Normal University
Lȕ Bicheng(吕碧城) is a legendary woman in the modern history of China. I intend
to put her as a talented woman in boudoir to explain her consistent changes in a life .I
will do a research from three different aspects :feminism ,education and travel .How
did she treat three things? These three aspects stand for three important
things :gender ,culture and space. These three things had featured the talented women.
The talented Women has constituted a special group which is in a high degree of
unity. The group was expanding after the late Ming dynasty. Scholars always neglect
the talented women in boudoir during the modern transition .I can also say that they
always forget some new women once being talented women in boudoir and this group
were seen old and out of date .New women always come from that group, such as Qiu
Jin(秋瑾) ,Shi Shuyi(施淑仪).I can study this group who have the passionate state of
life and changeable choices through Lȕ Bicheng.
Keywords: Lu Bicheng, the talented woman in boudoir, gender, culture, education
35
Gendered Guanxi in Urban China:
Unmarried Women in Market-driven Enterprise
Tang Ling
Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University
Targeting the young unmarried women, the paper examines the gender difference of
guanxi in the workplace. On one hand, women are excluded from the male dominant
social activity of prostitution, which strengthens men’s guanxi and working
performance. On the other hand, women’s own sexual attractiveness can be utilized as
a way to establish guanxi with the favor providers, who usually are men, for different
purpose, which I name as sexual capital. The paper also examines different practices
of gossip toward sexual scandals and the sanctions brought by the gossip in the highly
hierarchal workplace.
Keyword: gendered guanxi, gendered social activity, sexual capital, gossip, Guanxi
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Session 4b: Historical Study and Biography
Date: 15 Nov 2014 Time: 15:40-17:00 AAB 206
Study of Demes of Attica in Classical Times
XIA Peiling, Susan
Faculty of Social Development, Shanghai Normal University
Demes are the local territorial districts in Greece. In classical times, demes served as
the offical, constitutional subdivisions besides sustaining internally organized
communal functions of their own. Actually, they benefit from the reforms of
Cleisthenes.
The previous studies always focus on the city, just neglect the rural places. What I
want to do is to explain the general situation, the organization, the daily activities of
Attica demes, and also the interaction between demes and polis in classical times.
After the reforms of Cleisthenes, there were 139 demes encompasing the city itself
and the Attica countryside. They varied in size, but they were equal in the
proportional representation on the Boule. Deme membership was hereditary in the
male line, irrespective of any changes of residence, and served as guarantee of
memebership of polis itself. From this new perspective, we can get new ideas of the
reforms of Cleisthenes, the operation of political organization of Athens polis, then
know more about the Athens politics.
Keywords: Attica, demes, classical world, Athens
37
Lee Kuan Yew’s Strategies for Survival:
Dominant-party Politics in Postwar Singapore
Choi Ka-hin, Franky
Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Singapore’s astonishing independence in 1965 was a sobering historical fact at the tip
of this island. In regard to its postwar development under the leadership of People’s
Action Party (PAP), yet, Singapore did become one of the four Asian little dragons
for its economic miracle occurred in the second half of twentieth century. Given the
PAP’s pivotal role in Singapore’s independence movement and its art of governance,
the dominant party – the PAP – should never be segregated from the Singaporean
government. Acclaimed political leader of this city-state, Lee Kuan Yew, contrived a
system in which he was in an enviable position by other national leaders, such as
Deng Xiaoping, in Asia, simply because there was virtually profound control over the
domains of politics, economy and society. Hence, since then, political parties and the
electoral system in this polity have merely been means to manipulate people’s
political participation, so as to legitimate all governing elites. Despite positioning this
independent state under the Westminster system, Lee Kuan Yew, throughout the era
of his administration, had been ardent in ruling out other political parties from the
Singaporean government, insuring the PAP’s ascendance in the nation.
Keywords: Singapore, People’s Action Party (PAP), Lee Kuan Yew, Political
Legitimacy, Dominant-party Politics, Soft Authoritarianism
38
The Concept, the Definition and the Indeterminacy
WANG Shuo
Faculty of World History, Shanghai Normal University
We build up concepts and definitions in order to understand this world and
communicate with each other. But many things in the world have no decided
meanings. And If there exists the decided one, it will be also a tough job for us to find
out. So we have many disputes. Everybody has his own life and thought experiences,
and there are many approaches to understand the identical matter. What we really
know depends on what we have learned, but we can’t know all aspects of the object,
although it is very small. There are also many concepts about the universal,
abstractions with full of imaginations. For example, we make the God by our
imagination. Because the imagination is different for everyone, the one has his own
god. If we want to have one god, not gods, maybe Xenophanes’ words is useful, the
one is just outside our imagination. We can be suspicious of the definitions and
concepts, but we can’t stop our foot to understand this world.
Keywords: concept, definition, indeterminacy, understandable, skepticism
39
Brief Probe into Toynbee’s Morphology of Civilization
Li Yifu
Faculty of History, Shanghai Normal University
Arnold Toynbee is one of the contemporary outstanding historians in the world. "A
Study of History" is his most prestigious works. It can be said to be highly
controversial academic achievement. It reflects Toynbee’s Morphology of Civilization.
In this book, he takes civilization as the basic unit of history research and tries to
analyze and annotate its origin, growth, comedown and breakup by comparing
different periods of civilization. He wants to reveal the general rules of the
development of human history and provide the new angle for people to learn about the
society of human beings. He wants to make history became science. He uses his
famous theory of challenge and response to explain the rise and fall of civilizations,
such as Chinese civilization. But there are many mistakes in his explanations because
of the lack of information.
Overall, his morphology of civilization in “A Study of History” is a great experiment
in history.
Keywords: Arnold Toynbee, a study of history, morphology of civilization,
philosophy of history, challenge and response
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Session 5: Environmental Resources Management
Date: 16 Nov 2014 Time: 9:30-10:30 AAB 205
An Algorithm of Water Level Auto-recognition by Using Surveillance Camera
MA Hongxu, Matt
State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science,
Wuhan University
Water level information is one of the most important hydrological information for city
flood control and water resource management. Traditional water level meter is
expensive to build and maintain. With the development of surveillance technology,
cities and reservoirs are mostly equipped with surveillance cameras, which offer
24hours -7days images and video data. Thus, photogrammetry and remote sensing
technology are used to recognize the water level line by studying the images and
videos of surveillance camera. Then the water level information could be calculated
by using the algorithm of water level auto-recognition. By using the algorithm, all the
surveillance cameras are enhanced with the extended function to auto-recognize the
water level, which could save a huge amount of government investment. Especially,
for the cities and the reservoirs. The error of the algorithm is less than 1 cm in normal
daylight condition and less than 1.7 cm in cloudy and dust condition.
Keywords: photogrammetry, remote sensing, water level, city flood control, water
resource management
41
Impacts of Urban Biophysical Composition on Land Surface Temperature
in Urban Heat Environment
GUO Guanhua
Environmental Sciences,
Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
The spatial-temporal pattern of biophysical composition significantly affects land
surface temperature (LST) in urban heat environment. In this study, We used a
regression tree model to examine the nonlinear relationships between LST and each of
the following three satellite-based indices within the UHI clusters: Normalized
Differential Vegetation Index (NDVI), Normalized Differential Build-up Index
(NDBI), and Normalized Difference Bareness Index (NDBaI). We found that both
NDVI and NDBI are strongly correlated with the variations of LST whereas NDBaI
has a weaker correlation with LST. We also found that the regression tree model built
in our study enabled us effectively to detect the nonlinear relationships between the
LST and biophysical compositions. Furthermore, based on various rules derived from
a regression tree analysis, we can reveal the significance of different urban landscapes
in affect LST and their spatial heterogeneity within UHIs. These rules were used to
detect the nonlinear impacts of complex urban biophysical composition on LSTs.
Keywords: Urban heat environment, object-oriented segmentation, nonlinear
relationship, urban biophysical composition, land surface temperature
42
Assessing the Impact of Urban Expansion on Regional Net Primary Productivity
in the Pearl River Delta, China
JIANG Chun
Research Centre of Landscape Ecology and Human Settlement,
Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences;
Guangdong Institute of Eco-environment and Soil Sciences
Great changes have taken place on lands with the high rates of net primary
productivity (NPP) in the Pearl River Delta due to rapid urbanization, understanding
the impacts of urbanization on regional NPP has great importance for global carbon
cycle studies. The main purpose of this study was to reveal how urban expansion
impact on regional NPP. Land covers from Landsat TM images and three classes of
urban land use (urban, peri-urban and non-urban) from DMSP/OLS night-time images
were obtained to quantify urban expansion of the Pearl River Delta between 2000 and
2010. We used land covers data, MODIS NDVI data and meteorological data to drive
the Carnegie-Ames-Stanford-Approach (CASA) model, calculated the NPP for the
study area and analysed its tempo-spatial variations, as well as the impacts on NPP
through urban expansion. The results showed: (1) Cropland was the main source of
urban expansion; (2) The mean NPP of all land use types decreased with various
changing rates during 2000—2005 and increased at different degrees during 2005—
2010; (3) The accumulation period of NPP mainly occurs between May and October,
and was lower in urban areas than peri-urban areas and non-urban areas during the
whole year; (4) The conversion of land to urban use has resulted in an annual
reduction of 0.103478 Tg of carbon per year during 2000—2005 and 0.033892 Tg of
carbon per year during 2005—2010, the NPP losses occurring in urban and peri-urban
areas accounted for 89.63% and 75.04% respectively, which mainly resulted from
vegetation with high productivity being replaced with impervious surfaces in the
urban and peri-urban areas.
Keywords: Net primary productivity(NPP), urban expansion, CASA, Pearl River
Delta
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Session 6: Politics and International Relations (II)
Date: 16 Nov 2014 Time: 10:50-12:10 AAB 205
Can China’s High Speed Rail Diplomacy Expand Her Invisible Domains?
So Wing Kuen ,Wallace
Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University
China has the world’s longest High-speed rail (HSR) network with about 9300km
(5,800ml) of routes in services up to December 2012. For the past decade, China has
developed the HSR as the most heavily used in the world. The Chinese officials said
that their HSR technology was the most advanced and the cheapest one in the world
so if they exported their techniques to the other countries which would be the “winwin” situation for both economics. Obviously, except the economical reason, China
launched the HSR diplomacy for enhancing the geopolitics power and influence in the
related countries and regions. But will the corruption allegation and the safety of her
HSR network obstruct China to play this diplomatic card? This research is going to
elaborate these.
Keywords: High-speed rail, diplomacy, Japan , Southeast Asia, Vietnam
44
Reviewing the History of Sino-Australia Relations in the Post-Cold War Era
YEUNG Man-kwong
Department of Political Sciences, Lingnan University
Over four decades, Sino-Australian relations have greatly improved, with substantial
improvements in the past twenty five years corresponding to the changing
international power polarity. However, many obstacles still remain which hinders
further deepening of relations. These include both domestic and international factors.
This paper explores how Sino-Australian relations have developed in past decades
from an Australian perspective. Specifically, the paper provides an historical account
of Sino-Australian relations from the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949 to the
present, focusing on the past twenty five years. It highlights the changing aspects of
relations, key historical junctures, the principal challenges Australia has faced in
dealing with China and efforts Australian taken managing those challenges.
Furthermore, with the US “pivot to Asia”, this paper examines the importance of
Australia-US security alliance. Finally, this paper sheds light on the importance of
further developing mutual trust in order to strengthen Sino-Australian relations in the
future.
Keywords: China, Australia, United States, middle powers diplomacy, alliance
politics
45
Conceptualizing and Measuring State Capacity
Ottervik, Mattias Gottfrid
Government and Public Administration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
This paper proposes and quantitatively tests a measurement of state capacity using
Robert Adcock and David Collier’s four-step framework. Drawing from the work of
state-centered structuralists, rational choice-inspired theorists, as well as studies of the
relationship between state and extractive capacity, state capacity is defined as the
ability of the state to dominate, i.e. coax compliant behavior from, the individuals of a
given territory and operationalized as tax compliance (as measured by the size of the
shadow economy relative all legal economic activity). Large-n correlations as well as
regression tests show that this operationalization has convergent and discriminant
validity, as well as explanatory power. A paired comparison between China and India
suggests that this operationalization is able to account for the differences in apparent
governance capacity and development performance that other governance
measurements cannot.
Keywords: governance, state capacity, human development, China, India
46
Development and Regime Transitions: Comparing Asia and Eastern Europe
Ewelina Karas
Department of Asian and International Studies,
City University of Hong Kong
The objective of this paper is to outline successful or failed economic development in
relation to state structures. The paper is structured around three main arguments; first,
state form as endogenous determinant of development; second, colonialism and
dominance patterns as exogenous factor influencing both state structures and
development; and third, the correlation between industrialization and regime
transition patterns in regard to development. I will also show why the comparison
between Asia and Eastern European can be crucial for further research on
development and social change. It will be demonstrated that there are striking
similarities between regime structures, state-society relations and international
dependence patterns in the countries of Third World and in the former Soviet Bloc.
The successful economic growth in Pacific Asia was a result of effective state
institutions and a favorable international environment. However, the consolidation of
democracy in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan was more an exception than the rule.
Similarly, only countries of Central and Eastern Europe which were embedded in
Western European structures prior to Soviet occupation went through successful
democratic and economic transition. Different transition patterns in Eastern Europe
are a result of an inherited institutional template, differences in subtypes of posttotalitarianism, and Soviet interventions. The current crisis in Ukraine and its conflict
with Russia also supports this argument. As the western part of Ukraine was
historically embedded in western structures, different attitude towards Russia and
European Union in western and eastern Ukraine reflects this historical division.
Keywords: development, regime transitions, comparative politics, colonialism, Asia,
Eastern Europe
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