Dr. DAVID ZWEIG
January 2015
OFFICE
RESIDENCE
Division of Social Science
The Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
TEL: (852) 2358-7832
FAX: (852) 2335-0014
e-mail: [email protected]
Grosvenor House, Flat D
114-120 MacDonnell Road
Mid-Levels, Hong Kong
CITIZENSHIP:
TEL: (852) 2705-9785
FAX: (852) 2719-2510
mobile phone: 852-9665-1345
Canadian (married with two children)
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2011- 2013 Associate Dean, School of Humanities and Social Science, HKUST
2006-08
Associate Dean, School of Humanities and Social Science, HKUST
2005Chair Professor, Division of Social Science, HKUST
2002-05
Professor, Division of Social Science, HKUST
1999-2001 Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Studies, Queen’s University, Ontario
1996-2002 Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, HKUST
1991-1996 Associate Professor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
1986-1990 Assistant Professor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University,
1985-1986 Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
1982-1984 Assistant Professor, Political Science, Florida International Univ., Miami, FL
ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
Senior Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Vancouver, BC, Sept. 2013 Vice President, Center on China and Globalization (中国与全球化智库), Beijing
Vice Dean, South China International Talent Institute, 南方国际人才研究院， Guangzhou,
2012 Adjunct Professor, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, 2009 Non-Resident Fellow for China, Pacific Council on International Policy, Los Angeles, CA,
2006-2009
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Monographs:
1. Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages (Ithaca, NY: Cornell
Series in Political Economy, Cornell University Press, 2002).
2. Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era (Armonk, NY:
M.E. Sharpe, 1997).
3. China's Brain Drain to the United States: Views of Overseas Chinese Students and
Scholars in the 1990s, with Chen Changgui (Berkeley: Institute for East Asian
Studies, China Research Monograph Series, 1995; republished by Routledge in
2013).
4. Agrarian Radicalism in China, 1968-1981 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989).
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Edited Books and Special Issues of Journals:
1. Sino-U.S. Energy Triangles: Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony, David Zweig and
Hao Yufan, eds. (Routledge: London, 2015 forthcoming).
2. “Special issue—Migration and Mobility,” co-editor with Don Devoretz, Pacific Affairs,
Vol. 81, No. 2 (September 2008): 171-258.
3. Globalization and China’s Reforms, edited with Chen Zhimin (Routledge 2007),
republished in paper in 2008.
4. “Special Issue—Transnationalism and Migration: Chinese People on the Move,” Journal
of International Migration and Integration, co-editor with Don Devoretz, Vol. 7, No. 4
(Fall 2006): 407-516.
5. 国际政治经济学与中国的全球化 (International Political Economy and China’s
Globalization; in Chinese), edited with Chen Zhimin (Shanghai: Shanghai Sanlian
Publishing House, 2006).
6. New Perspectives on China's Cultural Revolution, co-edited with William A. Joseph and
Christine Wong (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Contemporary China Series, Harvard
University Press, 1991).
Articles in Refereed Journals, Refereed Volumes or High-Impact Magazines:
1. “Resource Diplomacy” Under Hegemony: The Triangular Nature of Sino-U.S Energy
Relations,” in David Zweig and Hao Yufan, eds., Sino-U.S. Energy Triangles: Resource
Diplomacy under Hegemony (London: Routledge, forthcoming).
2. “Conclusion: China’s Energy Anxiety,” in David Zweig and Hao Yufan, eds., Sino-U.S.
Energy Triangles: Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony (London: Routledge,
forthcoming).
3. Cynthia Watson and David Zweig, “Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony: The
peculiar case of Venezuela under the Bolivarian Revolution,” with Cynthia Watson, in
David Zweig and Hao Yufan, eds., Sino-U.S. Energy Triangles: Resource Diplomacy
under Hegemony (London: Routledge, forthcoming).
4. “The True North Strong and Full of Energy,” with Jiang Wenran and Kang Siqin, in
David Zweig and Hao Yufan, eds., Sino-U.S. Energy Triangles: Resource Diplomacy
under Hegemony (London: Routledge, forthcoming).
5. “Overseas Students, Returnees and the Diffusion of International Norms into Post-Mao
China,” with Feng Yang, International Studies Review (Fall 2014).
6. “Can China Bring Back the Best? The Communist Party Organizes China’s Search for
Talent,” with Huiyao Wang, The China Quarterly, no. 215 (September 2103): 590-615.
7. “Educating a New Generation of Students: Transferring Knowledge and Norms from Hong
Kong to the Mainland,” with Liu Mei-hua, China Perspectives, 1 (2013): 73-86.
8. “Hong Kong's Contribution to Mainland China's Property Sector: Helping to Turn Shanghai
into a World City,” with Liu Mei-hua, Asian Survey, vol. 51, no. 4 (July 2011): 739-768.
9. “Returnee Entrepreneurs: impact on China's globalization process,” with Wang Huiyao and
Lin Xiaohua, Journal of Contemporary China, 20: 70, (2011): 413-431.
10. “Images of the World: Studying Abroad and Chinese Attitudes towards International
Affairs,” with Han Donglin, The China Quarterly, No. 202 (June 2010): 290-306.
11. “Does Anti-Americanism Correlate to Pro-China Sentiments?” with Yang Zixiao, The
Chinese Journal of International Politics, vol. 2, no. 4 (2009): 457-486
12. “A Crisis is Looming: China’s Energy Challenge in the Eyes of University Students,”
with Ye Shulan, Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 17, no. 55 (2008): 273-296.
13. “Redefining the ‘Brain Drain’: China’s Diaspora Option,” with Chung Siu-Fung and
Han Donglin, Science, Technology and Society, Vol.13, No.1 (2008): 1-33.
14. “Democracy, Good Governance and Economic Development in Rural China,” with
Chung Siu Fung, Journal of Contemporary China (Fall 2007): 25-45.
15. “A descriptive study of the marketing practices of Chinese private entrepreneurs,” (with
Wilfried Vanhonacker and Chung Siu Fung), Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and
Logistics, vol. 19, No. 2 (2007): 182-98.
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16. “Rewards of Technology: Explaining China’s Reverse Migration,” (with Chung Siu
Fung, and Wilfried Vanhonacker), Journal of International Migration and Integration,
Volume 7, No. 4 (Fall 2006): 449-71.
17. “Learning to Compete: China’s Efforts to Encourage a Reverse Brain Drain,”
International Labour Review, vol. 145, nos. 1-2 (2006): 65-90.
18. “China’s Global Hunt for Energy,” Foreign Affairs (with Bi Jianhai), Vol. 84, No. 5
(September-October 2005): 25-38.
19. “Globalization and transnational human capital: overseas and returnee scholars to
China,” with Stan Rosen and Chen Changgui, The China Quarterly, 179 (Sept 2004):
735-757.
20. “The Human Dimensions of Pollution Policy Implementation: air quality in rural
China,” with William P. Alford, Robert P. Weller, Leslyn Hall, Karen R. Polenske, and
Yuanyuan Shen, Journal of Contemporary China, 11, 32 (2002): 495-513.
21. “Democratic Values, Political Structures, and Informal Politics in Greater China,” in
Peaceworks, United States Institute of Peace Working Papers (July 2002).
22. “The Stalled ‘Fifth Wave:’ Zhu Rongji’s Reform Package of 1998-2000,” Asian Survey,
Vol. XLI, No. 2 (March-April 2001): 231-247.
23. “Foreign Aid, Domestic Institutions, and Entrepreneurship: Fashioning Management
Training Centres in China,” Pacific Affairs, vol. 73, no. 2 (July 2000): 209-232.
24. "Distortions in the Opening: `Segmented Deregulation' and Weak Property as
Explanations for China's `Zone Fever' of 1992-1993," USC Seminar Series No. 14, Hong
Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999.
25. "Rural People, the Politicians, and Power," The China Journal, 38 (July 1997): 153-168.
26. "To Return or Not to Return? Politics vs. Economics in China's Brain Drain to the U.S.,"
Studies in Comparative International Development, vol. 33, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 92-125.
27. "'Developmental Communities' on China's Coast: The Impact of Trade, Investment, and
Transnational Alliances," Comparative Politics, vol. 27, no. 3 (April 1995): 253-274.
28. "Internationalizing China's Countryside: The Political Economy of Rural Exports," The
China Quarterly, No. 128 (December 1991): 716-741.
29. "Urbanizing Rural China: Bureaucratic Authority and Local Autonomy," in M. David
Lampton & Kenneth Lieberthal, eds, Bureaucracy, Politics and Decision Making in
Post-Mao China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), pp. 334-363.
30. "Patrons, Clients, and the Exploitation of the Chinese Peasantry: A Review Essay,"
Peasant Studies, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Fall 1990): 39-51.
31. "A Sinologist's Observations on North Korea," Journal of Northeast Asian Studies (Fall
1989): 62-82.
32. "Context and Content in Policy Implementation: Household Contracts and
Decollectivization, 1977-1983," M. David Lampton, ed., Policy Implementation in
Post-Mao China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), pp. 255-283.
33. "From Village to City: Reforming Urban-Rural Relations in China," International
Regional Science Review, Vol. 11, No. l (1987): 43-58.
34. David Zweig, Kathleen Hartford, James Feinerman, and Jianxu Deng, "Law, Contracts
and Economic Modernization: Lessons from the Recent Chinese Rural Reforms,"
Stanford Journal of International Law, Vol. 23 (Summer 1987): 319-364.
35. "Prosperity and Conflict in Rural China," The China Quarterly, 105 (March 1986): 118.
36. "Strategies of Policy Implementation: Policy 'Winds' and Brigade Accounting in Rural
China, 1968-1978," World Politics, Vol. XXXVII, No. 2 (January 1985): 267-293.
37. "Opposition to Change in Rural China: The System of Responsibility and Peoples’
Communes," Asian Survey, Vol. XXIII, No. 7 (July 1983): 879-900.
38. "The Peita Debate on Education and the Fall of Teng Hsiao-p'ing," The China Quarterly,
73 (March 1978): 140-158.
Journal Articles, Edited Chapters or Online Magazines:
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1. “Breaking the Bureaucratic Blocks to Development: Reflections on China’s 3rd
Plenum of the 18th Central Committee,” Research Reports, Asia-Pacific Foundation
of Canada (web site), 19 December 2013.
2. "回到中国科学院：稀缺，环境 与 激励" (Returning to the Chinese Academy of
Sciences: Shortage, Environment and Incentives), 中国海归发展报告 (Report on the
Development of China’s Returnees; 社会科学文献出版社 (Social Sciences Press),
No. 2 (2013), pp. 133-165.
3. “Luring Back the Chinese Who Study Abroad,” Room for Debate, The Opinion
Pages, New York Times, January 21, 2013.
4. “A Crisis is Looming: China’s Energy Challenge in the Eyes of University Students,”
with Ye Shulan, in Suisheng Zhao (ed.), China’s Search for Energy Security:
Domestic Sources and International Implications (New York: Routledge, 2012.
[previously in Journal of Contemporary China, 2007]
5. “解读中美能源竞争的三角性：霸权之下的 ‘资源外交’,” 第一财经日, 16/7/2012.
6. “China’s diaspora and returnees: The impact on China’s Globalization process,” with
Huiyao Wang, in Shujie Yao, Bin Wu, Stephen L. Morgan and Dylan Sutherland,
eds., Sustainable Reform and Development in Post-Olympic China (Abingdon and
New York: Routledge, 2011), pp. 124 –
7. 韩冬， 崔大伟 (Han Donglin and David Zweig),”国际移民的跨国联系：基于留日
海归的实证研究,” (“International migrants transnational relationship: Based on
empirical research about returnees from Japan),” 国际观察 (International Observer),
5 期 (issue) 113 (2011): 67-74.
8. “From Brain Drain to Brain Gain,” China Economic Quarterly, Volume 15, Issue 2
(June 2011): 24-8.
9. “Democracy, Good Governance and Economic Development in Rural China,” with
Chung Siu Fung, in Kevin O’Brien and Suisheng Zhao (eds), Grass Roots Elections
in China (New York: Routledge, 2010).
10. “’Sea turtles’ or ‘Seaweed’? The employment of overseas returnees in China,” with
HAN Donglin, in Christiane Kuptsch, ed., The Internationalization of Labour
Markets: The social dimension of globalization (Geneva: ILO Publications, 2010), pp.
89-104.
11. “China’s Political Economy,” in William A. Joseph, ed., Politics in China: An
Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 192-221. Second
edition in 2014.
12. “The Rise of a New ‘Trading Nation’,” in Lowell Dittmer and George Yu, eds.,
China, the Developing World and the New Global Dynamic (Boulder: Lynne Rienner,
2010), pp. 37-60.
13. “To the Courts or to the barricades: can new political institutions manage rural
conflict?” in Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden, eds., Chinese Society: Change,
conflict and resistance, 3nd Edition (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2010), pp. 123-147.
(The paper was significantly revised and updated).
14. “ ‘Resource Diplomacy’ Under Hegemony: Foreign Policy ‘Triangularism’ and SinoAmerican Energy Competition in the 21st Century,” in Mikkal E. Herberg and David
Zweig, China’s ‘Energy Rise’, The U.S., and the Geopolitics of Energy (Pacific
Council on International Policy, April 2010), pp. 35-74.
15. “港归派:学子回国调查—香港办教育产业获得好评” 与廖美香, 信报财经月刊,
第 393 期, 2009 年报 12 月号, 6-15 页.
16. “海归还是海待? 海外回国留学生的就业问题研究” (’Sea Turtle’ or ‘Kelp’?
Research on the problems of Employment for Returned Overseas Chinese Students),
with Han Donglin, in 王辉耀, 苗丹国, 程希, 编, 中国留学人才发展报告团 2009
(Report on the Development of Chinese Overseas Educated Talents; 北京:机械工业
出版社, 2009), pp. 279-294.
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“香港地產商把中國地產便黃金”(Hong Kong property developers turn Chinese
land into gold”), 与廖美香写, (with Amy Liu) 信报财经月刊，(Hong Kong
Economic Journal Monthly, February 2009): 6-16.
“A Limited Engagement: Mainland Returnees from Canada,” Research Report,
Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada, December 19, 2008.
“香港作为内地教育的窗口，”(Hong Kong as an educational window for
domestic China), 与廖美香写, (with Amy Liu) 信报财经月刊，(Hong Kong
Economic Journal Monthly）(Dec 2008): 10-16.
“Transnational Human Capital: Returnees to China,” with Chen Changgui and
Stanley Rosen, in David Zweig and Chen Zhimin, eds., Globalization and China’s
Reforms (London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 204-22.
“Is China a Magnet for Talent?” Horizon (Ottawa: Dept. of External Affairs, 2006).
“Democracy, Good Governance and Economic Development in Rural China,” with
Chung Siu Fung, in Manoranjan Mohanty, Ma Rong and Richard Baum (eds.),
Grass Roots Democracy in India and China: The Right to Participate (New Delhi:
Sage, 2006), pp. 339-362.
“海归的含金量，”东方周刊（Oriental Outlook）, 第 44 期（2006）：68-6.
重新定义人才流失：‘为国服务’和‘侨居方案’，”欧美同学 2006 北京论坛文
集，留学研究, (Conference Proceedings of the China Western Returned Scholars
Annual Conference, October 28, 2006, Beijing): 31-37.
“Transnational or Social Capital? Returned Scholars as Private Entrepreneurs”
(with Wilfried Vanhanocker and Chung Siu Fung), in Anne S. Tsui, Yanjie Bian
and Leonard Cheng, eds., China’s Domestic Private Firms: Multidisciplinary
Perspectives on Management and Performance (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe,
2006), pp. 65-81.
“Learning to Compete: China’s Efforts to Encourage a Reverse Brain Drain,” in
Christiane Kuptsch and PANG Eng Fong, ed., Competing for Global Talent
(Geneva: International Institute for Labour Studies, 2006), pp. 187-213.
“Transnational Capital: Valuing Academics in a Globalizing China,“ with Stan
Rosen, in Cheng Li, ed., Bridging Minds Across the Pacific: U.S.-China
Educational Exchanges, 1978-2003 (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2005), pp.
111-132.
“Political Culture, Alternative Politics and Democracy in Greater China,” in
Fahimul Quadir and Jayant Lele, eds., Democracy and Civil Society in Asia,
Volume 1: Globalization, Democracy and Civil Society in Asia (Houndsmills,
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp. 111-139.
“China Joins the World – Part One: How bureaucratic barriers were breached with
a policy of ‘No flow, no dough’,” YaleGlobal, Yale Center for the Study of
Globalization, 15 September 2003, posted at http://yaleglobal.yale.edu.
“To the Courts or to the barricades: can new political institutions manage rural
conflict?” in Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden, eds., Chinese Society, 2nd Edition:
Change, conflict and resistance (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), pp. 113-135.
“Brain Drain and Brain Gain: Developing a New Generation of Chinese Scholars
Abroad,” with Stanley Rosen, SciDevNet Website (sponsored by Nature and
Science magazines), posted at www.scidev.net, January 2003.
“Chine 1998-2000: la derniere vague de reformes en panne,” Politique Etrangere,
no. 1 (2001): 23-40.
“The Internationalization of Higher Education in China,” The Washington Journal
of Modern China, volume 6, no. 2 (Fall 2000): 39-60.
"The `Externalities of Development’: Can New Political Institutions Manage Rural
Conflict?,” in Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden, eds., Contemporary Chinese
Society: Social Conflict and Popular Protest (Routledge, 2000), pp. 120-142.
"Undemocratic Capitalism: China and the Limits of Economism," The National
Interest, no. 56 (Summer 1999): 63-72.
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36. "Institutional Constraints, Path Dependence, and Entrepreneurship: Comparing
Nantong and Zhangjiagang, 1984-1996," in Jae Ho Chung, ed., Agents of
Development: Sub-Provincial Cities in Post-Mao China (London: Routledge, 1999),
pp. 215-55.
37. "对外开放与中国大学,” (China's Open Policy and Chinese Universities), with Chen
Changgui, 高等教育研究 (Journal of Higher Education), vol. 77, no. 1 (1998): 50-56,
reprinted in 新华文摘, no. 4 (1998): 158-162, and People's University Journal
Reproduction Materials (复印报刊资料), 高等教育(Higher Education) G4, May
1998: 36-42.
38. "Eye on the Ball: The Politics of Welfare in Hong Kong," Hong Kong Update (Centre
for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C., November 1997).
39. "America Should Mix Cooperation with Confrontation toward China," Charles P.
Cozic, ed., U.S. Policy Towards China (San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, Inc.,
1996), pp. 10-22 (A reprint of my article in Current History, 1993).
40. "A Headless Dragon: Creating Scenarios for Post-Deng China," in Globalization and
Regionalization of China's Economy: A Look to the Future, edited by Hong-pyo Lee
and Denis Fred Simon (Seoul: Sejong Institute, 1996).
41. "Clinton and China: Creating a Policy Agenda that Works," Current History (Sept.
1993): 245-252.
42. "Export-Led Growth, Local Autonomy, and U.S.-China Relations," In Depth (Fall
1993): 19-36.
43. "The Downward Spiral: Sino-American Relations Since Tiananmen," in William
Joseph, ed., China Briefing 1991 (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992), pp. 119-142.
44. "The Hunger Strike: From Protest to Uprising," in Suzanne Ogden et. al. eds.,
China's Search for Democracy: The Student and Mass Movement of 1989 (Armonk,
NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1992), pp. 185-201.
45. "U.S.-China Relations and Human Rights: The Changing Nature of a Bilateral
Relationship," William Tow, ed., Building Sino-American Relations: An Agenda for
the 1990s (New York: Paragon Press, 1991), pp. 57-94.
Book Reviews:
1. Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible
Citizenship in the Developed World, by Vanessa L. Fong (Stanford University Press,
2010), reviewed in The China Quarterly, Vol. 209, No. 1 (1 March 2012): 241-243.
2. State’s Gains, Labor’s Losses: China, France, and Mexico Choose Global Liaisons,
1980-2000, by Dorothy J. Solinger, (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press,
2009, reviewed in Pacific Affairs, Volume 84. (March 2011), pp. 138-139.
3. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in its First Decade, ed., Joseph Y. S.
Cheng, in The China Journal, No. 61 (January 2009): 251-53.
4. Globalization and State Transformation in China, by Yongnian Zheng, in Acta
Politica, Vol. 41, Issue 4 (Dec 2006): 434.
5. Guangdong: Preparing for the WTO Challenge, ed., Joseph Y.S. Cheng, in Pacific
Affairs, Vol. 78, No. 4 (Winter 2006).
6. The Reluctant Dragon: Crisis Cycles in Chinese Foreign Economic Policy, by
Lawrence C. Reardon, The China Quarterly, no. 177 (March 2004): 217-219.
7. The Transformation of Rural China, by Jonathan Unger, Pacific Affairs, Volume 76,
No. 3 (October 2003).
8. Seeking Modernity in China’s Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 19001927, by Wei-li Ye, The China Quarterly, vol. 173 (March 2003).
9. Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing US-China Relations, 1989-2000, by David
M. Lampton, in The International History Review, Vol. XXIV, 3 (September 2002).
10. The Urban-Rural Divide, by John Knight and Lina Song, in the Journal of Asian
Studies, February 2001.
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11. The Entrepreneurial State in China: Real estate and commerce departments in reform
era Tianjin, by Jane Duckett, in American Political Science Review, vol. 94, 1
(March 2000): 210-211.
12. Zouping in Transition: The Process or Reform in Rural North China, ed. by Andrew
G. Walder in Pacific Affairs, January 2000, Volume 72, No. 4, Winter.
13. Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change Since
the Great Leap Famine, by Dali L. Yang, in The China Quarterly, no. 155 (Sept.
1998).
14. Rural China in Transition: Non-Agricultural Development in Rural Jiangsu, 19781990, by Samuel P.S. Ho, in Pacific Affairs, vol. 70, no. 4 (March 1998).
15. Peasant Power in China: The Era of Rural Reform, 1979-1989, by Daniel Kelliher,
in The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs (Summer 1994).
16. Rural Development in China: Prospect and Retrospect, by Fei Hsiao-tung, in Studies
in Comparative International Development (Winter 1991-92).
17. China and the Door Open Policy, by Kevin Bucknall, in The China Quarterly (Sept.
1991).
18. The Geography of Contemporary China: The Impact of Deng Xiaoping's Decade,
Terry Cannon and Alan Jenkins, eds., in The China Quarterly (June 1991).
19. Agents and Victims in South China: Accomplices in Rural Revolution, by Helen F.
Siu, in American Journal of Sociology (Spring 1991).
20. Politics and Social Change in China Since 1978, by Charles Burton, in American
Political Science Review (December 1990).
21. Chinese Politics: Documents and Analysis, James T. Myers, Jurgen Domes, and
Milton D. Yeh, eds., in The China Quarterly (December 1989).
22. Breaking the Iron Rice Bowl: Prospects for Socialism in China's Countryside, by Pat
Howard, in Pacific Affairs (Winter 1989).
23. China's Second Revolution: Reform After Mao, by Harry Harding, in The Fletcher
Forum of World Affairs (Summer 1988).
24. Chinese Business Under Socialism: The Politics of Domestic Commerce, 1949-1980,
by Dorothy J. Solinger, in The Journal of Asian Studies (November 1987).
25. The Social Sciences and Fieldwork in China: Views from the Field, by Anne P.
Thurston and Burton Pasternak, eds., in Pacific Affairs (Winter 1985-86).
26. The Critique of Ultra-Leftism in China, 1958-1981, by William A. Joseph, Pacific
Affairs (Fall 1985).
27. Local Organizations: Intermediaries in Rural Development, ed. by Milton J. Esman
and Norman T. Uphoff, in Caribbean Review (Winter 1984).
28. Socialism in the Chinese Countryside, by Jurgen Domes, in Pacific Affairs (Summer
1982).
29. Inside Peking, by Beverly Hooper, in Pacific Affairs (Fall 1980).
Work in Progress
“Returnees to China in Comparative Perspective: India and Turkey,” Institute for Emerging
Market Studies, HKUST.
Can China Bring Back the Best?” School Based Initiative, SHSS, HKUST.
"Hong Kongers on the Mainland: A Force for Integration?" A report for the Hong Kong
Central Policy Unit, Government of Hong Hong.
Between the Dragon and the Eagle, under review.
Making Global Citizens: China’s Reverse Migration, a book project
Working Papers and Unpublished Reports:
1. “Victors and Vanquished in Occupy Central and its implications for ‘One Country,
Two systems’,” March 2015.
2. “Between the Eagle and the Dragon: Economics and Security in Australia in the new
millennium”
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“Hai Dai and the Problem of Unemployed Returnees,” collaborative project with the
Overseas Study Service Center, Bureau of Personnel, Guangzhou Municipal
Government. Report completed with Han Donglin on 1 November 2007.
“Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” CCTR Working Paper, no. 18, 2007.
“Parking On the Doorstep: Mainland Professionals in Hong Kong.”
“China Rising: Regional Integration or Confrontation,” paper prepared for the
Northeast Asia Cooperation Project, University of British Columbia, 10 Nov. 2001.
“Will China Liberalize?” CCR Discussion Paper 98-3, Centre for Chinese Research,
University of British Columbia, March 1998.
Report for the Ford Foundation, “Chinese Students and Scholars in the United States
who received financial support from non-governmental organizations,” (Dec. 1994).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE
Director, Center on China’s Transnational Relations, HKUST, 2004 – 2010, 2015Director, Center on Environment, Energy and Resource Policy, 2010 - 2014
Member, Social Sciences Sub-Panel under the Humanities and Social Sciences Panel of the
Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC), 2013-2015.
Editorial Board, “Compendium on Foreign Talent Development,” China Research Institute on
Personnel and Materials on Party Construction Press, 2011-13
Vice Chairman, Center on China’s Globalization, Hong Kong
Member, Advisory Committee on The International Center for China Development Studies
(ICCDS), Hong Kong University, 2012.
Chairman, Advisory Board, Centre for Asian Pacific Studies, Lingnan University, 2011-.
President, Emeritus, Hong Kong Political Science Association, 2010-2012
President, Hong Kong Political Science Association, 2008-2010
Member, Social Sciences Advisory Board, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 2008-2014
Member, Executive Committee, Hong Kong Forum, 2007Member, Advisory Committee, U.S.- China Institute, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, CA, 2007 Member, International Advisory Committee, Universities Service Centre for China Studies,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002Member, Advisory Board, Sino-Judaic Institute, 2008Member, Research Grant Proposal Review Committee, Committee on Advanced Study in
China, Committee on Scholarly Communication with China, National Academy of
Science (US), 1992-1995
Member, Executive Committee, Fairbank Center, Harvard University, 1989-1992
Member, Executive Committee, Joint Centre on Asia-Pacific Studies (JCAPS), York
University-University of Toronto, 1986-87.
RECENT TEACHING EXPERIENCE
SOSC 1350, Contemporary China: Continuity and Change
SOSC 152, Comparative Politics
SOSC 228, International Relations of East Asia
SOSC 4600 (originally SOSC 360), Understanding Chinese Politics
SOSC 552, International Aspects of China’s Reforms
Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA, Contemporary Issues in Chinese Politics, 2006MBA-SBMT 540: Politics and Socio-Economic Environment of China, HKUST, twice a year
since 2002 (renamed SBMT5680 in 2013).
Mini-Courses on Politics in China to Executive MBA programs, SBM, HKUST
Danube University Krems, 2007-2015.
International Residency Program for Korean Business School, EMBA, 2009-2015.
NYU Stern School of Business, HKUST, 2009-2013.
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McIntire M.S. in Commerce, Global Immersion Experience Program 2010, University of
Virginia, June 2010.
University of Washington, Foster School of Business Executive MBA, March 2011.
Riga University, Swedish School of Business, 2011-2015.
Catholic University of Portugal, March 2012.
Sogang University of Business (Korea), EMBA, 2013-2015
Stockholm School of Economics, (MBA), 2013, 2015.
His current research interests include: International Political Economy and transnational
relations, China’s Resource Diplomacy, Returnees to China and China’s New Diaspora and
Hong Kong-Mainland Relations. He still keeps track of East Asian International Relations;
Chinese domestic and elite politics, popular protests and political participation; Rural political
reform, rural democracy and rural development; China's foreign policy, foreign trade, foreign
investment and foreign aid; Chinese urbanization and development zones; and Higher
education in China.
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION
Ph.D. Students at HKUST
Han Donglin, PhD., graduated 2009, Associate Professor, Renmin University, Beijing.
Tjia Yin-nor, PhD., graduated, 2007, Lecturer, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong.
M.Phil Students Supervised at HKUST
YANG Zixiao, SHI Weiwei, Ricky Leung, Gavin Kwok, Sam Kwong, Ye Shulan, Sun Meng.
M.Phil Committee Member, HKUST
Sun Yuanjia, Yang Feng
PhD Students Supervised at The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Chair, Lin Wencheng, current Dean of Arts and Science, Sun Yatsen University, Taiwan
Chair, Zachary Abuza, current Professor, Political Science, Simmons College, Boston
PhD Committee Member, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Deborah Brautigam, Professor, Political Science, School of Advanced International Studies,
The Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC.
Warren Smith, currently a broadcaster with the Tibetan Service of Radio Free Asia
PG Supervision at University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
MA supervision of Lo Shui-hing, Sonny, currently Professor, Institute of Education, HK
EDUCATION
1984-85
1976-83
1975-76
1974-75
1973-74
1968-72
Harvard University
The University of Michigan, Ph.D.
Beijing University, Degree
Beijing Languages Institute, Degree
York University, Toronto, M.A.
York University, Toronto, B.A. (hons.)
Post-doctoral Fellow
Political Science
Philosophy
Mandarin Chinese
Political Science
Political Science
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HONOURS AND AWARDS
1. Key Note Speaker, “China’s Reverse Migration: Towards a Theory of Shortage,” Chinese
Students Abroad: Reflections, Strategies and Impacts of a Global Generation, Aarhus
University, Aarhus, Denmark, 27-28 March 2014.
2. Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship, Research Grants Council of
Hong Kong, 2013-2014.
3. Keynote Speaker, “Diaspora brings diversity,” Metropolis Meeting, Melbourne, 2009
4. In 2004, the journal, Issues and Studies, published a “Book Review Roundtable” on my
book, Internationalizing China, with reviews by 5 scholars and a response by me. See
Issues and Studies, 40, no. 1 (March 2004): 225-255.
5. “Outstanding Teaching Award,” Winner, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, School of Humanities and Social Science, 1999.
6. “Teaching Award,” Honourable Mention, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, School of Humanities and Social Science, 1998.
7. Freeing China’s Farmers was nominated by M.E. Sharpe for the Levenson Prize,
Association for Asian Studies, as the best book on contemporary China for 1998.
CONSULTANCIES and ADVISORY WORK
“Politics and Security in Northeast Asia,” Goldman Sachs, Tokyo, Japan, December 2014.
“Modes of Political Activism in Hong Kong, Center on Social Development, Guangdong
Provincial Government, Guangzhou, June 2014.
“Negotiating Hong Kong’s Democratization,” Center on Social Development, Guangdong
Provincial Government, Guangzhou (Dec-May 2014), presented on 8 May 2014.
Handelsbank Capital Markets, “Political Risk in China,” 2013, 2015, Hong Kong
Noble Group, “New Leaders Make a Difference, but When: Reflections on China’s Current
Succession,” Macau, 25 January 2013.
J. P. Morgan, “New Leaders Make a Difference, but When? Reflections on China’s Current
Succession,” part of the Hands-On China Series, November 2012.
Goldman Sachs, discussion leader on politics in China and the region, 2012“Political Risk in China,” Deutsche Bank, lecture presented to fund managers from Australia
and New Zealand, 2008, 2011, 2012, March 15 and Sept. 2013, 2014.
Consultant, Gerson Lehrman Group, Policy & Economics Council, 2006- 2008.
“Political Risk in China,” Orboteck, Hong Kong, 14 October 2008.
“Returnees and Technology Transfer: Who is Bringing What to China, and Why?” funded by
JETRO, Dec. 2006-March 2007.
“Serving the Nation from Inside and Outside: The role of returned and unreturned
mainlanders in Sino-Canadian exchanges,” Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
(CDN$24,000), June 2006-May 2007.
“The China Urban Index: A Report on Western Expatriate Liveability, research study and
report for SIRVA, with Mitch Tseng (2006)
“Political Risk in China,” Swedish Trade Council, Mandarin Hotel, HK, 20 November 2007.
“Comparing China and Russia’s Role in Kazakhstan Energy Development,” Shell Oil,
London England, 22 April 2006.
Consulting to South China Morning Post on the quality of their China coverage (2002).
RESEARCH GRANTS
“Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” Research Grants Council (HK), 2010-2013
(HK$685,000). Grant number HKUST 646010.
“Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” conference funding from the Lee Hysan
Foundation, The China Institute (University of Alberta). Co-sponsored by the School
of Social Science and Humanities, The University of Macao, January 2011 (funds
raised for conference, HK$209,400).
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“Hong Kong People on the Mainland: A Force for Integration?” 1 September 2007- 31
August 2009, funded by the Central Policy Unit, Public Policy Research Grant, in
collaboration with the Department of Political Science, Zhongshan University,
Guangzhou (HK$799, 017).
“Hong Kong’s Contribution to China’s Modernization,” Shui-On Group, 2006-2007,
HK$600,000.
“Overseas Study and Its Impact on Sino-Japanese Trade Relations,” funded by the Japan
External Trade Organization (JETRO—Hong Kong), April 2006, HK$170,000. In
cooperation with the China Service Center on Scholarly Exchange (CSCSE) under
the Ministry of Education.
“People on the Move: The Transnational Flow of Chinese Human Capital,” conference
organized through the Center on China’s Transnational Relations, held at HKUST on
20-22 October 2005. Funding from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for
International Scholarly Exchange (US25,000) and the Research & Conference Fund,
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Government of Canada
(CAD$29,640).
Principal Investigator, with Wilfred Vanhonacker, Hang Lung Centre, Hong Kong University
of Science and Technology, “China’s transnational entrepreneurs: Returnee scholars
as private businessmen,” HK$150,000, 2002-2004.
Principal Investigator, Social Science and Humanities Research Council, ““China Prepares
for the Onslaught: Local Strategies in Response to WTO,” 2001-2004, CDN$72,000.
(The money from this grant was returned after I resigned from Queen’s University on
June 30, 2002).
Principal Investigator, in collaboration with Dr. Fan Yongming, Shanghai WTO Centre,
Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, “China Prepares for the Onslaught: Local
Strategies in Response to WTO Accession,” 2001-2003, HK$565,000.
Principal Organizer, “Globalization and China’s Reforms,” a conference organized through
the Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University, in cooperation with the
School of International Affairs and Public Policy, Fudan University, Shanghai.
Funding was supplied by Manulife (Shanghai, 100,000 RMB) and the Research &
Conference Fund, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade,
Government of Canada (CDN$50,000).
Principal Investigator, Direct Allocation Grant, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, “TVEs Under Crisis: External Pressures vs. Domestic
Institutions,”1999-2000, HK$ 52,000.
Principal Investigator, Direct Allocation Grant, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, "Democracy, Conflict and Economic Development in Rural China,"
1998-1999, HK$78,000.
Principal Investigator, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, "China's Reverse `Brain Drain':
Returned Scholars in a Transnational Era," in collaboration with Chen Changgui and
Stanley Rosen, 1997-2000, HK$535,000.
Principal Investigator, Direct Allocation Grant, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, "A Tale of Two Cities: Nantong and Zhangjiagang Under China's Open
Policy," 1996-1997, HK$73,000.
Principal Investigator, United States Institute of Peace, "Democracy, Conflict and Economic
Development in Rural China," 1996-1997, US$49,000.
Principal Investigator (with Professor Chen Changgui), The Ford Foundation, "China's Brain
Drain to the United States," 1992-1993, US$50,000.
PI, Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, "The Political
Economy of Canadian Development Assistance to China: The Case of CIDA," 19921995, CDN$24,000.
Principal Investigator (with Roderick MacFarquhar), Henry Luce Foundation "United
States-China Cooperative Research Program," in cooperation with Research Centre
for Rural Development, Beijing, to study "State, Society, and the Changing Chinese
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Rural Community," 1989-1991, US$240,000. (never completed because of
Tiananmen).
Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, "China's New Rural
Development Strategy," 1985-86, CDN$27,300.
DEVELOPMENT GRANTS
1. Ronnie Chan, HK$300,000
2. Paul Theil, HK$100,000
3. East-West Strategic Development Commission, (2006-2007) HK$75,000, for the CCTR.
4. Darton Limited, 2006, HK$75,000 for the Center on China’s Transnational Relations.
5. Chang Tseng-Hsi Foundation, (HK$2,000,000), 2004-2006, for establishment of the
CCTR.
6. Dinner Seminar Series, funding by Paul Theil, 2004-05, HK$75,000
7. Program on Southeast Asian Studies, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, funded by
the Henry Luce Foundation, (US$300,000), 1993-1996.
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
1. Advanced Scholars Program for Study in The People's Republic of China, Committee on
Scholarly Communication with China, Washington, D.C., 1991-92.
2. Post-Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University,
1984-85.
3. Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada,
1982-1983 (declined).
4. Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 19771978, 1978-1979, 1981-1982.
5. Rackham Pre-doctoral Fellowship, The University of Michigan, 1980-1981.
SELECTED RECENT PUBLIC LECTURES, SEMINARS, AND CONFERENCES
Papers at Professional Academic Conferences:
1. “Hong Kong People Living on the Mainland: A force for Integration a decade and a half
after the handover?” The 16th Annual Conference of the Hong Kong Sociological
Association, 6 December 2014, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong.
2. “Diasporas, Reform Diffusion and the Changing Nature of Capitalism in China,” (with
Yang Feng), International Studies Association Annual Convention, 4 April 2013, San
Francisco, CA.
3. “Hong Kong People Working on the Mainland: Modes of Adaptation and Political
Attitudes,” Hong Kong Political Science Association, August 2010, Baptist Univ., HK
4. “Psychological Adaptation of Hong Kong People Working on the Mainland,” with Prof
He Gaochao, Hong Kong Political Science Association August 2010, Baptist Univ., HK.
5. “Redefining the Brain Drain: China’s ‘Diaspora Option’,” International Studies
Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 16-22 February 2010.
6. “China and the World Economy: The Rise of a New Trading Nation,“ World
International Studies Association, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 24 July 2008.
7. “Diaspora Delivers Diversity,” Keynote speech at the 10th National Metropolis
Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 9 October 2007.
8. “Parking on the Doorstep: A Case of Multiple Migration,” 10th National Metropolis
Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 10 October 2007.
9. “Chinese Students in Japan: The Business Connection,” Association of International
Business National Convention, Indianapolis, IN, 27 June 2007.
10. “The Foreign Policy of a Resource Hungry State,” Annual Meeting of the Hong Kong
Political Science Association, Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 2005.
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11. “Parking on the Doorstep: Mainland Professionals in Hong Kong,” Annual Meeting of
the Hong Kong Political Science Association, Hong Kong University, 2 May 2003.
12. “Democracy and (In) Equality in Rural China: A Dialectical Relationship,” American
Political Science Association National Convention, San Francisco, CA, August 2001.
13. “The Open Door and Foreign Donors: Can China Keep Control?” Annual Meeting of the
Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, CA, March 2000.
14. "Controlling the Opening: Enmeshment, Organizational Capacity, and the Limits on
Overseas Development Assistance in China," Annual Meeting of the American Political
Science Association, Washington, D.C., Sept. 2-5, 1993.
15. "The Impact of the Open Policy on Higher Education in China," co-written with Chen
Changgui, Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Los Angeles, CA, March
1993.
16. "The Domestic Politics of Export-led Development," presented at the Annual Meeting of
the Association for Asian Studies, Los Angeles, March 1993.
17. "The Politics of Developing Towns," 1988 National Convention of the Association for
Asian Studies, San Francisco, CA, 25 March 1988.
18. "Up From the Village, Into the City: Reforming Urban-Rural Relations in China,"
Regional Science Association National Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 15 November
1985.
19. "The Changing Distributions of China's Key Social Values under the Household Contract
System," presented at the 1984 Annual Meeting of the American Political
Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 30-September 2, 1984.
20. "Economic Development and Social Conflict: The Politics of Prosperity in Rural
China," 1984 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Washington,
D.C., 23-25 March 1984.
21. "Limitations on Agrarian Radicalism: Local Interests and Opposition to Changing the
Level of Ownership and Account," Canadian Political Science Association National
Convention, Ottawa, Canada, June 1982.
Papers and Presentations at Invited Academic Conferences:
1. Chair and Discussant, conference on “Ideology, Power and Transition in China,”
University Services Centre, 50th Anniversary International Conference, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, 7 January 2015.
2. “Presidential ‘Pull’ and Brain Circulation in China,” presented at conference on China in
the Global Academic Landscapes, Herrenhausen Symposium, Herrenhausen Palace,
Hanover, Germany, 12 December 2014.
3. “China’s Reverse Migration: Towards a Theory of Shortage,” conference on Chinese
Students Abroad: Reflections, Strategies and Impacts of a Global Generation, Aarhus
University, Aarhus, Denmark, 27-28 March 2014.
4. “Diasporas, Returnees and Resistance to Reform in Post-Mao China,” (with Yang Feng)
ISA Author’s Conference, Workshop on International Diffusion, Free University, Berlin,
4- 8 July 2013.
5. “New Leaders make a difference, but when? Reflections on China’s Current Succession,”
presented at the conference on the “China Dream: An International Conference in honour
of Professor. Richard Baum,” 14 May 2013, School of International Studies, Peking
University, Beijing.
6. Discussant for all papers at a Workshop for a Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary
China on “How East Asians and Americans View the Rise of China” co-hosted by the
Journal of Contemporary China and the Institute of Arts and Humanities, Shanghai
Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 16-17 March 2013.
7. “China’s Energy Anxiety and China’s Foreign Policy Intensions,” Lingnan University
8. “Reverse Migration and Technology Transfer in Emerging Market Societies,” IEMS
Annual Emerging Markets Research Forum, Moscow School of Management,
SKOLKOVO and Ernst & Young, Moscow, December 12-13, 2012.
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9. “Problems in the 1000 Talents Program,” presented at the Second Conference on Human
Talent, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Services, Shenzhen, June 2012.
10. Commentator on paper on Non-governmental organizations in China, conference on
“China’s Social Development and its Influence on Foreign Affairs,” Institute for
International Strategic Studies, Central Party School, China, May 26, 2011
11. “Drinking at the Well or Controlling It? China's ‘Energy Anxiety’ and its Foreign Policy
Intentions,” presented at the Conference on “China's Evolving Strategic Intentions and
East Asian Security,” Center for Asia and Pacific Studies, Lingnan University, Hong
Kong, 24 February 2012.
12. “Returning to the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Shortage, Environment and Rewards,”
presented at the "2011 China Global Talents Conference,” Guangzhou, China, 19
December 2011.
13. Commentator on paper and participant, Conference on “Sinicization: Civilizational
Processes beyond East and West,” Workshop hosted by the Institute of Advanced
Humanistic Studies, Peking University and Cornell University, 25-26 March, 2011.
14. “Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony: A conceptual framework,” Conference on
“Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” co-sponsored by the Center on Environment,
Energy and Resource Policy, HKUST and the School of Social Science and Humanities,
The University of Macao, 21-23 January 2011.
15. “Reflections on China’s Border Policies and Their Transnational Flows,” Conference on
“China’s Policies on Its Borderlands and Their International Implications,” University of
Macau, 11-12 March 2010.
16. “China’s Diaspora Delivers Diversity,” Conference on “A Century of Change: China and
Modernization 1900–Present,” University of Maryland and Library of Congress,
Washington DC, Sept. 17 and 18, 2009.
17. “Returnees, Technology Transfer and China’s Economic Development,” 第四届“海外人
才与中国发展”国际学术研讨会, 华中师范大学武汉侨务理论研究中心, 华中师范大
学武汉, 28-29 June, 2009
18. “Returnees to China: Methodological Issues,” Conference on “Internationalization of
Chinese Universities,” Institute for Higher Education, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou,
October 2009.
19. “Recreating Itself:” Hong Kong’s Contribution to the Mainland’s Property Sector,” with
Amy Liu, Workshop on “Hong Kong’s Role in the Mainland’s Modernization” Center on
China’s Transnational Relations, HKUST, 15-16 Jan. 2009.
20. “Training a New Generation of Mainland Students: The Role of Hong Kong,” Workshop
on “Hong Kong’s Role in the Mainland’s Modernization,” with Amy Liu, Center on
China’s Transnational Relations, HKUST, 15-16 January 2009, Hong Kong.
21. “China’s Diaspora and Returnees: Impact on China’s Globalization Process,” with Wang
Huiyao, paper presented at the Conference on “The Globalization of Chinese Enterprises:
Transformational Politics, Business Strategies, and Future Paths,” Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA, October 9-10, 2008.
22. “Chinese Students in Japan: A Win-Win Situation,” paper presented at the “SinoJapanese Relations Research Symposium 2008,” The University of Hong Kong, 10 June
2008.
23. “Resource Diplomacy Under Hegemony,” presentation to the Stockholm China Forum,
German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
Stockholm, Sweden, 1-3 June 2008.
24. “Resource Diplomacy Under Hegemony: Triangularizing Sino-American Global
Competition,” Maastericht Debates, Maastericht University, Maastericht, The
Netherlands, 19 May 2008.
25. “Resource Diplomacy Under Hegemony: Triangularizing Sino-American Global
Competition,” Clingendael International Energy Programme, The Hague, The
Netherlands, 20 May 2008.
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26. “Images of the Outside World: The Impact of Overseas Studies,” with Han Donglin, for
the conference on “Foreign-Domestic Linkages in China's International Behaviours,”
Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria, BC, April 24 - 25, 2008.
27. “Returnees, Diasporas and Failure: Can governments undo the brain drain?” presented at
the Workshop on Migration and Development: Future Directions for Research and Policy,
Social Science Research Council, New York, February 27-March 1, 2008.
28. “Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” Shanghai Forum 2007, Fudan University, 25
May 2007.
29. “A Crisis is Looming: China’s Energy Challenge in the Eyes of University Students,”
paper for the Conference on Sino-American Relations, U.S.-China Institute, University of
Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 21 April 2007.
30. “The Mobility of Chinese Human Capital: The View from the United States,” paper for
the “Conference on ‘The Movement of Global Talent’,” Policy Research Institute for the
Region, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton
University, 7-8 December 2006.
31. “Social Context and Migrant Mobilization: The Case of China,” paper presented to the
International Committee on Migration and Development Research, Social Science
Research Council, New York, 14-15 November 2006.
32. “Is China a Magnet for Talent?” Eighth National Canadian Metropolis Conference
“Immigration and Canada’s Place in a Changing World,” Vancouver, 24 March 2006.
33. “Serving the Nation from Abroad: Comparing Mainland Professors in the United States
and Hong Kong, “ with Han Donglin, paper prepared for the Conference on “People on
the Move: The Transnational Flow of Chinese Human Capital,” Center on China’s
Transnational Relations, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong,
October 21-22, 2005.
34. “Reverse Migration and Technology: The Case of China,” with Wilfried Vanhonacker
and Chung Siu Fung, presented at the Conference on “People on the Move: The
Transnational Flow of Chinese Human Capital,” Center on China’s Transnational
Relations, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, October 21-22, 2005.
35. “China’s Resource Based Foreign Policy,” presented at the conference on “China’s
Search for Energy Security and Implications for the U.S.,” sponsored by the National
Bureau of Asian Research and the Pacific Northwest Center for Global Security, National
Defence University, Washington, DC, September 27-28, 2005.
36. “Reverse Migration and Regional Integration: Entrepreneurs and Scientists in the PRC,”
paper prepared for the conference, “Remaking Economic Strengths in East Asia: Dealing
with the Repercussions of Increased Interdependence,” Institute of East Asian Studies,
University of California, Berkeley, 8-9 April 2005.
37. “Learning to Compete: China’s Efforts to Encourage a Reverse Brain Drain,” paper
presented at the Conference on Competing for Global Talent, Singapore Management
University, Singapore, 12-13 January 2005.
38. “Foreign Policy of a Resource Hungry State: Comments on a Paper by David
Shambaugh,” POSCO Conference on Chinese Economy, Soeul, ROK, 11 Nov 2004.
39. “Democracy, Good Governance and Economic Development in Rural China,” POSCO
Conference on the Chinese Economy, Soeul, ROK, 11 November 2004.
40. “Redefining China’s Brain Drain: ‘Wei Guo Fuwu’ and the ‘Diaspora Option’,” with Dr.
Chung Siu Fung, 40th Anniversary Reunion Conference: The State of Contemporary
China, The Universities Service Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, January 5-7, 2004.
41. “Transnational or Social Capital? Returnee Scholars as Private Entrepreneurs,” with
Wilfred Vanhonacker, presented at the the Research Workshop, “The Management and
Performance of China’s Domestic Private Firms: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives,” Hong
Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 15 December 2003.
42. “Transnational Capital: Valuing Academic Returnees in a Globalizing China,” with Stan
Rosen, presented at the conference on “Bridging Minds Across the Pacific—The 25 Year
Sino-U.S. Educational Exchange,” Fudan University, Shanghai, November 10-11, 2003.
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43. “Democracy, Good Governance and Economic Development in Rural China,” with
Chung Siu Fung, presented at the conference on “Local Governance in India and China:
Rural Development and Social Change,” sponsored by the Institute of Social Science
(New Delhi), Institute of Sociology and Anthropology (Peking University), and UCLA
Center for Chinese Studies, Calcutta, India, 6-8 January 2003.
44. “Zan po jia men: Zai Xianggang de dalu zhuanye ren,” (Parking on the Doorstep:
Mainland Professionals in Hong Kong), presented at the First Conference on Comparative
Research on Chinese Society, Donghai University, Taiwan, December 9-10, 2002 (in
Chinese).
45. “`Parking on the Doorstep?’: Mainland Professionals in Hong Kong,” presented at the
conference on “New Directions in Chinese Foreign Policy,” Conference in Honour of
Allen S. Whiting, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, 7-8
November 2002.
46. “Can China Internationalize?” National Convention of the Asian Political and Economic
Studies Association of Japan, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, 26 October 2002.
47. “Strengthening Democracy: Direct Nominations and Electoral Legitimacy in Rural
China,” with Chung Siu Fung, Conference on Legal and Political Reform in the PRC,
Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of
Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund University, Sweden, 3-4 June 2002.
48. “Globalization and the Movement of Human Capital: The Case of Returnees to China,”
Conference on Globalization and China’s Reforms: An IPE Approach, organized by
Fudan University and Queen’s University (Canada), May 22-24, 2002, Shanghai, China.
49. “Do New Institutions Matter: The Impact of Direct Nominations on Grass Roots
Democracy in China,” International Symposium on Village Self-Government, The Carter
Center and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Beijing, 3-5 September 2001.
50. “The Stalled Fifth Wave: Zhu Rongji’s Reform Package of 1998-2000,” presented at the
Workshop on Chinese Policy Debates, Institut francais des relations internationales, 6
September 2000, Paris, France.
51. “Democratic Values, Political Structures, and Informal Politics in Greater China,”
Conference on "Democracy and Civil Society in Asia: Emerging Opportunities and
Challenges," Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 19-21 August 2000.
52. "Hungry for Linkages: Domestic Interests and China's Internationalization," paper
prepared for the Conference on "International Relations Theory and the Study of Chinese
Foreign Policy," Harvard University, 19-20 June 1998.
53. "Foreign Aid, Domestic Institutions, and Entrepreneurship: Fashioning Management
Training Centres in China," paper presented at the International Conference on China's
Ownership Reform and its Influence on Economic Development, China Economic
Research Centre, University of Macau, 16-17 March 1998.
54. "Distortions in the Opening: Weak Property and `Zone Fever' in China, 1992-93," paper
for the International Conference on "Chinese Economic Reform: Comparative
Perspectives," 12-13 March 1998, Centre for Asian Studies, Hong Kong University.
55. "Will China Liberalize?," paper presented at the Conference on "Hou Jiuqi Liang an san
di guanxi" (Conference on the relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits and
the three territories--Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China), Sun Yat Sen University,
Kaohsiung, 31 May-1 June 1997.
56. "Who's State is it Anyway? The Control of Overseas Development Assistance in China,"
paper prepared for the Workshop on "Southern East Asia Economy: State and Economic
Development," Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 25-26 April 1997.
57. "Explaining China's Internationalization: Domestic/External Linkages in the Evolution of
China's Open Policy," presented to the Workshop on “International Relations Theory and
Chinese Foreign Policy," American Council of Learned Societies China Committee,
Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 21-22 April 1995.
58. "The Impact of Foreign Trade on Rural China," presented at the "Conference on Rural
Reforms in China," East Asia Institute, Columbia University, New York, 31 March-2
April 1995.
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59. "'Developmental Communities,' Local Autonomy, and the Challenges for Sino-American
Relations," presented at the Conference on U.S.-China Relations, University of
Bridgeport, April 1993.
60. "Internationalizing China's Countryside: Exports from Rural Industry," presented at the
19th Annual Sino-American Conference on Mainland China, Taiwan, June 1990.
61. "Urbanizing Rural China: Bureaucratic Authority and Local Autonomy," presented at the
Conference on "The Structure of Authority and Bureaucratic Behavior in China," SSRCACLS Joint Committee, Phoenix, AZ, June 1988.
62. "Reforms in Socialist Systems: Imperatives for a Peaceful Foreign Policy?" presented at
the Fletcher-Hokkaido Summer Seminar, Hokkaido, Japan, July 1988.
63. "Competing with the Rural Private Sector: Dilemmas of a Limited Reform," Professors
for World Peace Academy International Conference, "China in a New Era," Manila,
Philippines, August 1987.
64. "Form and Content in Policy Implementation," Conference on "New Perspectives on the
Cultural Revolution," Fairbank Center, Harvard University, May 1987.
65. "The Changing Nature of Urban-Rural Relations in China," Conference on the "Social
Implications of China's Reforms, Fairbank Center, Harvard University, May 1985.
66. "Content and Context in Policy Implementation: Household Contracts in China, 19771983," the Conference on "Policy Implementation in the Post-Mao Era," SSRC-ACLS
Joint Committee on Contemporary China, The Ohio State University, June 1983.
67. "The System of Responsibility: Elite Policy and Local Implementation," the Conference
on "Bureaucracy and Rural Development in China," SSRC-ACLS Joint Committee on
Contemporary China, Chicago, IL, August 1981.
Participation in Government Seminars:
1. “What social science can tell us about recruiting international talent,”东莞国际人才发展
论坛， (Dongguan Workshop on the Development of International Talent), Dongguan
City Organizational Department and South China Talent Institute, Dongguan, Guangdong,
3 December 2014.
2. “Studying China’s Current Domestic and International Affairs,” Norwegian Institute for
Defence Studies (IFS), Norwegian Defence University College, Oslo, Norway, 25 March
2014.
3. “China Future: Sources of Democracy, Continued “Market Leninism” and the Third
Plenum,” In
nterdepartmental Group, Norwegian Foreign Ministry, Olso, Norway, 24
March 2014.
4. “Why China can’t bring back the best,” presentation to Minister Li Yuanchao, Director,
Organizational Department and member of the Politburo, Chinese Communist Party,
Shenzhen, 15 June 2012.
5. “Hong Kong People Living on the Mainland: A force for integration?” presented to the
Central Policy Unit, Hong Kong Government, 22 May 2012.
6. “Improving the Climate to Attract the Best,” presented at “The 10th Conference on
International Exchange of Professionals (CIEP),” State Administration of Foreign Experts
Affairs (SAFEA), Shenzhen, 4-5 November 2011.
7. “Elite Politics and Stability in China,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem, Dec. 2010.
8. “Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” U.S. State Department, Washington, April
2010.
9. “Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” Asia Regional Conference, Finnish Foreign
Service, 23/4/09, Island-Shangrila Hotel, HK.
10. “China, the Olympics and the World,” Stockholm China Forum, German Marshall Fund
of the U.S. and Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, 1-3 June 2008.
11. “’Sea Turtles’ or “Seaweed?’ The Employment of Overseas Returnees in China,” with
Donglin Han, paper prepared for the France/ILO Symposium 2008, Fourth dialogue
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between France and the ILO on the social dimension of globalization, “The
Internationalization of Labour Markets,” 15 May 2008, Paris, France.
“Energy Challenges for China,” Capstone Delegation, United States Consul General in
Hong Kong, Helena May Club, Hong Kong, 13 Aug. 2007.
“Redefining the Brain Drain: China’s ‘Diaspora Option’,”11th Conference on Overseas
Education, China Service Center for Scholarly Exchange, Ministry of Education, Beijing,
17 February 2006 (in Chinese).
“Learning to Compete: What Role Does China’s Government Play in Triggering a
‘Reverse Brain Drain’?” 8th Guangzhou Conference on Returnees, Ministry of Education,
Guangzhou, 27 December 2005 (in Chinese).
“Transnational or Social Capital? Returned Scholars as Private Entrepreneurs,” Workshop
on Unemployed Returnees, Department of Personnel, Overseas Study Service Center,
Guangzhou, 2005 (in Chinese).
“What Drives China’s Internationalization,” Official Languages Division, Civil Service
Bureau, Hong Kong Government, 8 October 2003.
“Hong Kong and SARS,” lecture at the US-China Business Council Roundtable, “The
Impact of SARS: China and Beyond,” U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, DC, May 22,
2003.
“Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages,” Canadian
International Development Agency, Hull, Quebec, 1 August 2002.
“Globalization and the Movement of Human Capital: The Case of Returnees to China,”
presented to the China and Mongolia Bureau, Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade, Ottawa, Ontario, 2 August 2002.
“Unrest in Rural China,” Lecture to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade,” Ottawa, Canada, 12 August, 1999.
"Regional Hot Spots: Overview of Challenges to Regional Security," China-Canada
Seminar on Security Studies, sponsored by the Shanghai Institute for International
Strategic Studies and the Canadian Maritime Forces-Pacific, Shanghai, 5 June 1998.
"Models of Economic Liberalization," presented to the "Greater China in 2010: Scenario
Planning Project," Department of Citizenship and Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, 6 June
1996.
"Industrialization, Globalization, and Regional Tensions in Rural China," presented to the
Conference on "India and China: Different Paths Toward Economic Competitiveness,"
Office of Research, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State, 27
September 1994.
Core participant, "China in the Near Term," Summer Study of the Under Secretary of
Defense for Policy, Office of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense, The
Naval War College, Newport, RI, 31 July-8 August 1994.
"China's Open Policy," half-day seminar to the Directorate Officers of the Hong
Kong Government, China Seminar, 13 July 1993.
"Export-Led Growth in Rural China," Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, March
1993; Research Centre on the Rural Economy, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing,
December 1991.
"Human Rights and Sino-American Relations," lecture to North Asia Relations Division,
Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, Canada, 29 May 1991.
Invited participant, "China Policy Meeting," U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C.,17
April 1991.
"Rural Industries and China's Foreign Trade," lecture to an Intelligence and Research
Bureau Symposium on China, U.S. Department of State, 27 September 1990.
"Rural Reform in Nanjing: A Foreign Perspective," Nanjing Municipal Rural Work
Department, Nanjing, China, 7 July 1986.
Participant, "The Validity of Long-Term Assessments Concerning China's Political and
Economic Prospects," Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, March 1985.
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Community Lectures
1. “Victors and Vanquished,” Vision 2047 Foundation, Hong Kong Club, 14 April 2015.
2. “Views on the Rule of Law and the 4th Plenum in China,” The China Series, 2015,
Canadian Chamber of Commerce, 26 March 2015.
3. “Will the Hai Gui Pai Change China,” Young China Watchers, 18 March, 2015, Hong
Kong
4. “China Town Hall: Comments on a Webcast by President Jimmy Carter,” National
Committee on United States-China Relations, The Carter Center, Hong Kong-America
Center and Asia Society, Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong, 16 October 2014.
5. “How the Mainland Sees Occupy Central,” dinner seminar on “Troubling Times? Hong
Kong Veterans Probe "One Country, Two Systems" Future, Vision 2047, Hong Kong
Club, 2 September 2014.
6. “Fireside Chat: My Life Studying Chinese Politics,” Jewish Community Centre, June
2014.
7. “Remembering Tiananmen 25 Years On,” Hong Kong Forum and Vision 2047, Hong
Kong Club, 5 June 2014.
8. “China’s Third Plenum: Developments to Watch,” The China Series, 2014, The Canadian
Chamber of Commerce, 17 February 2014.
9. Lecture on Research Methodology, HKU Research Postgraduate Conference, School of
Humanities and Social Science, 1 June 2013
10. “Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” Asia Society, Houston, TX, 17 January 2013.
11. “Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” Asia Society, New York, NY, 18 January 2013.
12. “China’s Energy Anxiety,” presentation at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Conference
on Foreign and Security Policy Issues in Asia, Hyatt Hotel, Hong Kong, 18 March 2013.
13. “New Leaders Make a Difference, but When? Reflections on the 18th Party Congress,”
Merrill Lynch, 27 February 2013
14. “New Leaders Make a Difference, but When? Reflections on the 18th Party Congress,”
Noble Group, Venetian Hotel, Macau, 25 January 2013
15. “New Leaders Make a Difference, but When? Reflections on the 18th Party Congress,”
Vision 2047 and The Hong Kong Forum, Hong Kong, 5 December 2012.
16. “China’s Global Search for Talent,” HKUST-Peking University-Tsinghua Student
Association, HKUST, August 21, 2012.
17. “China’s 12th Five Year Plan: Problems and Prospects,” Asia Society, HK, 14 April 2011.
18. "Studying Hong Kongers Living on the Mainland: Changing Identities and Political
Attitudes," Vision 2047 Foundation, 20 September 2010, Hong Kong Club;
19. “Studying Hong Kongers Living on the Mainland," Foreign Correspondents Club,
Macau, June 2010.
20. “Overseas Returned Students and China's Drive for Modernization,” Pacific Council on
International Policy, Los Angeles, CA, one-hour telephone seminar with logged-in
members, 22 October 2010.
21. “China’s Leaders, its Search for Resources, and its Future,” Hong Kong Police
Department, Senior Officers Seminar, 9 November 2009.
22. “Diaspora Delivers Diversity,” Shane-Walsh-Till Memorial Lecture, Chinese
International School, 28 April 2009.
23. Community Development Initiative, Hong Kong, lectures on Chinese politics, 2008-2010.
24. Several lectures to the Jewish Community Centre about politics in China, 2007-10.
25. A series of lectures on China’s political economy, China’s administrative structure,
China’s energy based foreign policy, and “Political Risk in China,” to the Young
Presidents’ Organization in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Panama; the Young
Entrepreneurs Association, Guatemala; and, the Business School, University of Costa
Rica, December 5-16, 2005.
26. “Dollars and Dissent: The Political Implications of the East Asian Economic Crisis,”
Jewish Women’s Association, Hong Kong, October 1998.
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Public Lectures on Research:
2000-2015:
1. “Victors and Vanquished in Occupy Central and its implications for ‘One Country, Two
systems’,” U.S.-China Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 22 January
2015.
2. "The Role of Resource Politics in China-US Relations," Chatham House, London, 16
January 2015.
3. “Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement: The Roots and Resolution of the Conflict, "Fairbank
Center for East Asian Research/Asia Institute, Harvard University, 30 October 2014.
4. “China’s Energy Anxiety,” Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Conference for Chinese
Alumni of KAF, Macau, 13 September 2014.
5. “China’s Energy Anxiety,” Energy Group, World Institute of International Economics
and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 24 June 2014.
6. “High Noon in Hong Kong:” Negotiating over the Nomination Committee
for the 2017 Chief Executive Election,” School of International Relations and Area
Development, East China Normal University, 22 June May 2014
7. “High Noon in Hong Kong:” Negotiating over the Nomination Committee
for the 2017 Chief Executive Election,” Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library,
The University of Toronto, Toronto, 27 May 2014.
8. “Technology and the Opportunities of Reverse Migration in Emerging Market Societies,”
presented to the Business Roundtable, Institute for Emerging Market Studies, The Hong
Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Club, 24 April 2014.
9. “Why the Communist Party Will Stay in Power,” University of Copenhagen,
Copenhagen, Center for China Studies, 26 March 2014.
10. “China’s Energy Anxiety,” Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Olso,
Norway, 25 March 2014
11. "Can China Bring Back the Best? The Chinese Communist Party's Role in the Search for
Talent," Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India, March 12, 2014
12. “Technology and the Opportunities of Reverse Migration in Emerging Market Societies,
“Institute for Emerging Market Studies, HKUST, 2 December 2013
13. “Pacific Energy Trade Triangles,” presented at The Energy Council, 2013 Annual
Meeting, Jackson Lake Lodge, Moran, Wyoming, 20 September 2013.
14. “Bringing the Party Back In: The CCP in China's Search for Talent,” US-China Institute,
University of Southern California, 15 January 2013.
15. “Can a country have too many returnees? Turning 'Sea Turtles' into 'Sea Weed’,” Asia
Institute, University of Toronto, 21 January 2013
16. New Leaders Make a Difference, but When? - Reflections from Hong Kong on China's
Current Succession, UCLA, Center for Chinese Studies, 16 January 2013.
17. Hong Kong Forum, “Between the Dragon and the Eagle: Australia and the
‘Triangularization’ of Sino-US Resource Relations,” Hong Kong
18. “Between the Dragon and the Eagle: Australia and the ‘Triangularization’ of Sino-US
Resource Relations,” Kim Koo Forum, School of International Studies, Peking
University, Beijing, 13 May 2013.
19. “Conceptualizing the Triangular Nature of Sino-U.S Energy Competition" presented at
"The Triangle of Sino-American Energy Diplomacy: A Symposium,” Asia Society
(Houston and New York), 25-26 January 2013.
20. "New Leaders Make a Difference, but When? - Reflections from Hong Kong on China's
Current Succession," UCLA, Center for Chinese Studies, 16 January 2013.
21. "Bringing the Party Back in: The Role of the CCP’s Organization Department in China's
Reverse Migration," University of Southern California, US-China Institute, 15 January
2013.
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22. "What Can a Country Do when the Best Brains Go Abroad," Weizmann Institute,
Rechovot, Israel, 27 December 2012.
23. "Bringing the Party back in: The CCP in China's Search for Talent," presented at
conference on "The Rise of Contemporary China: Domestic and Foreign Challenges in
Historical Perspectives International Symposium in honor of Prof. Yitzhak Shichor,"
University of Jerusalem and Haifa University, Israel, 25-26 Dec. 2012.
24. "Educated Abroad: Assessing the Values of Returnees to China," Centre of Research on
Education in China, University of Hong Kong, 11 May 2012.
25. “China’s Energy Anxiety,” at the Workshop on China’s Energy Anxiety, Center on
Environment, Energy and Resource Policy, HKUST, May 2012.
26. “Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” Policy Research Institute, Chinese National
Petroleum Company, Beijing, May 2012.
27. “Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” Energy Group, Institute for World Economics
and Politics (IWEP), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, May 2012.
28. "Bringing the State Back In: The CCP's Organization Department and the Search for
Talent," Asia Institute, Harvard University, 19 July 2011; Mainland Affairs Council,
Taipei, 2 November 2011; Workshop on China's Search for Talent, Center on
Environment, Energy and Resource Policy, HKUST, 7 November 2011.
29. Political Risk In China: Elites, Society and the International System, presentation to a
delegation from the University of Washington Business School, Center on China's
Transnational Relations, OOCL Penthouse, 20 September 2011.
30. “Hong Kongers Living on the Mainland: A Force for Integration?” Canada-Hong Kong
Project, Robarts Library, University of Toronto. August 2011.
31. “Resource Diplomacy Under Hegemony: The triangular nature of Sino-American global
competition,” School of International Studies, Peking University, 2 November 2010.
32. "Studying Hong Kongers Living on the Mainland: Changing Identities and Political
Attitudes," Center on China’s Transnational Relations, HKUST.
33. “Entrepreneurs, Shortage and Changing Values,” China Center on Globalization, Beijing,
2 June 2010.
34. “Resource Diplomacy Under Hegemony: The triangular nature of Sino-American global
competition,” National Committee on US-China Relations, New York, April 2010.
35. “The Conflict between Environmental Protection and Economic Development: China's
Policies on Global Warming,” Institute for the Environment, HKUST, 4 Jan. 2010.
36. “Leadership, Quality and Values: Reflections on China’s Returnees in the 21st Century,”
Workshop, “Life after 60: What's Next for the PRC?” Sponsored by the Economist
Intelligence Unit and University of Southern California, Hyatt on the Bund, Shanghai, 28
October 2009.
37. “Political Risk in China: Elites, Society and the International System,”” Norwegian
Chamber of Commerce, Foreign Correspondents’ Club, 19 May 2009.
38. “Resource Diplomacy Under Hegemony,” Keynote Address to The International Seminar
on the Strategy of National Security and Development of Science and Technology,
National University of Defence Technology, May 11-13, 2009, Changsha, China.
39. “Resource Diplomacy Under Hegemony: The triangular nature of Sino-American global
competition,” Sino-American Relations Workshop, The Fulbright Program, HopkinsNanjing Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing, May 15-17, 2009.
40. “Diaspora Delivers Diversity,” Department of Political Science and Centre for Asian
Pacific Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 20 April 2009.
41. “China, the Olympics and the World,” Stockholm China Forum, German Marshall Fund
of the United States and Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, 1-3 June 2008.
42. “Resource Diplomacy Under Hegemony,” Stockholm China Forum, German Marshall
Fund of the United States and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm,
Sweden, 1-3 June 2008.
43. “China, the Olympics and the World,” lecture at the workshop on “China, the Olympics
and the World,” Center on China’s Transnational Relations, Hong Kong, 27 May 2008.
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44. “The Quality of Democracy in East Asia,” Discussant for the Conference on “The
Experiments with Democracy in East and Southeast Asia: Two Decades After,” 2 May
2008, Centre for Asian Studies, Hong Kong University.
45. “Hu Jintao’s Second Term,” Conference on The Washington-Taipei-Beijing Relations:
Variables and Prospects, Brookings Institution and Foundation and International and
Cross-Straits Studies, Taipei, Taiwan, 3 December 2007.
46. “Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” “The U.S. Congress and Sino-American
Relations, co-hosted by the China Education Foundation and Central Party School of the
CCP, Central Party School, Beijing, 27 October 2007.
47. “Returnees to China: A Foreigner’s Perspective,” Western Returnees Beijing Forum
2007, 28 October 2007
48. “Chinese Overseas Students and Sino-Japanese Relations,” Bafukai Seminar (organized
by JETRO), Island-Shangrila Hotel, Hong Kong, 26 October 2007.
49. Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 11 October 2007.
50. “Overseas Study and Its Impact on Sino-Japanese Relations,” “China on the Eve of the
17th Party Congress,” Sun Yatsen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 29 September 2007.
51. “A Crisis is Looming: China’s Energy Challenge in the Eyes of University Students,”
Workshop on Issues of Global Energy, Center on China’s Transnational Relations,
HKUST, Wanchai, HK, 25 September 2007.
52. “Chinese Overseas Students and Sino-Japanese Relations,” Workshop on Sino-Japanese
Relations, Center on China’s Transnational Relations, Wanchai, HK, 5 September 2007.
53. “Chinese Overseas Students and Sino-Japanese Relations,” Fairbank Center, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, 23 July 2007.
54. “Transnational Business, Cultural and Innovation Linkages,” presented at the Policy
Roundtable on Canadians Abroad, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, University of
Ottawa, 23 June 2007.
55. “Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” China Business Center, University of Indiana,
Bloomington, Indiana, 28 June 2007.
56. “Returned Students and Sino-Japanese Relations,” NGO Center, Zhongshan University,
Guangzhou, 15 August 2007.
57. “The ‘Diaspora’ Model in China’s Development,” National Defense University of
Science and Technology, School of Humanities and Social Science, Changsha, 23 Jan.
2007.
58. “Rewards of Technology: Explaining China’s Reverse Migration,” Workshop on
Returnees and Technology Transfer, Center on China’s Transnational Relations, Wan
Chai, HK.
59. “Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” National Defense University of Science and
Technology, School of Humanities and Social Science, Changsha, 22 January 2007.
60. “Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton
University, 8 December 2006.
61. “Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” Council on Foreign Relations, New York, 6
December 2006.
62. “Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” Economist Intelligence Unit Workshop on the
“The Geopolitics of a Rising China,” 10 October 2006;
63. “Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” Conference on “The Rise of China and Its
Implications for Asia-Pacific,” Academia Sinica, Taipei, 25-26 August 2006.
64. “Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” 2nd China-Canada Energy Cooperation
Conference, Beijing, 19 May 2006
65. “Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” Israeli Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong,
April 2006.
66. “The Strategic Implications of China’s Economic Growth,” Center for Contemporary
China, Ching-hua University, Taipei, Taiwan. 14 March 2006.
67. “Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce.
68. “Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” Center for Contemporary China, Ching-hua
University, Hsin-chu, Taiwan. March 15, 2006.
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69. “Studying China’s Reverse Migration,” Universities Services Centre for China Studies
Annual Conference for Ph.D. Students, 7 January 2006.
70. “Political Risk in China,” Deutsche Bank, Hong Kong, September 2005.
71. “The Foreign Policy of a Resource Hungry State,” United Services Institute for Defense
and Security Studies, London, England, 2 Dec. 2005.
72. “The Foreign Policy of a Resource Hungry State," International Conference of Asian
Scholars-4, Shanghai, August 22, 2005;
73. “The Foreign Policy of a Resource Hungry State, National Defence University,
Washington, DC, 3 August 2005;
74. “The Foreign Policy of a Resource Hungry State, Fairbank Center on East Asian
Research, Harvard University, 16 July 2005;
75. “The Foreign Policy of a Resource Hungry State, China-Canada Energy Cooperation
Conference, Peking University, 25 March 2005;
76. “The Foreign Policy of a Resource Hungry State," Workshop on China’s Resource
Hunger, Center on China’s Transnational Relations, HKUST, HK, 14 March 2005.
77. “Sino-Japanese Relations in a Global Context,” Hong Kong Forum, April 23, 2005.
78. “Democracy in Rural China,” Seminar on Democracy and Human Rights in China, The
British Council and Civic Exchange, Hong Kong, 8 December 2004.
79. “The ‘Diaspora’ Model in China’s Development,” International Conference of Asian
Scholars-4, Shanghai, 22 August 2005;
80. “The ‘Diaspora’ Model in China’s Development,” Fairbank Center for East Asian
Research, Harvard University, 15 July 2004.
81. “Globalization and the Movement of Human Capital: Returnees to China,” Research
Institute on International Migration, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., 27 June
2003.
82. “What is Driving China’s Global Integration?” a series of lectures to the Pacific Council
on International Policy, Los Angeles (23 June 2003), San Francisco (25 June 2003),
Seattle (26 June 2003), and Vancouver (27 June 2003, co-sponsored by the Asia-Pacific
Foundation).
83. “The Year of Living Dangerously: Politics in China in 1975-76,” Presented at the French
Centre for Research on Contemporary China, Hong Kong, 2 June 2003.
84. “Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages,” Woodrow Wilson
Center for International Scholars, Washington, D.C, 20 June 2003.
85. ---------------, Center for Asian Studies, Princeton University, 14 April 2003;
86. ---------------, Centre for Asian Studies, Hong Kong University, 17 March 2003;
87. ---------------, Aarhus University, Center for Asian Studies, Aarhus, Denmark, June 2002;
88. ---------------, The Foreign Correspondents Club, Beijing, 15 October 2002;
89. ---------------, The Asia Society: Hong Kong Center, 23 October 2002;
90. ---------------,The Foreign Correspondents Club, Hong Kong, 4 November 2002;
91. ---------------,The National Committee on US-China Relations, 11 November 2002;
92. ---------------, East Asian Institute, Columbia University, 12 November 2002;
93. ---------------, Institute for International Relations, Chengchi University, Taipei, 11
November 2002;
94. ---------------, Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 12
November 2002;
95. “Globalization and the Movement of Human Capital: Returnees to China,” Eurasian
Institute, Taipei, 9 December 2002.
96. “Democratic Values, Political Structures, and Alternative Politics in Greater China,” New
England China Seminar, Harvard University, 7 November 2002.
97. “Globalization and the Movement of Human Capital: Returnees to China,” Faculty
Seminar Series, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 29 May 2002.
98. “China’s Rural Crisis,” Credit Lyonnais Securities (Asia) China Forum, Beijing, 16 May
2002.
99. “Can China’s Political Institutions Manage Rural Conflict?” The Hong Kong Centre, The
Asia Society, Hong Kong, 15 January 2002.
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100. “China’s Rural Reform and Rural Unrest,” The Hong Kong Forum, HK, 7 March
2002.
101. “China and her Neighbours: Regional Integration of Confrontation,” Dinner Seminar
Series on “China Rising,” Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology, September 2001.
102. "Hungry for Linkages: Domestic Interests and China's Internationalization." Presented
at the Seminar Series on “China at 50: Globalization in the New Millenium,” Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology, September 1999;
103. --------------------------, East Asian Institute, University of Singapore, February 2000;
104. --------------------------, Center for Asian Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles, March 2000;
105. --------------------------, The Hong Kong Forum, Hong Kong, March 2000;
106. --------------------------, New England China Seminar, Harvard University, Jan. 2001;
107. --------------------------, Joint Centre on Asia-Pacific Studies and Department of
Political Science, York University, February 2001.
1986-2000: (no titles provided)
Foreign Correspondents Club, Hong Kong, July 1999.
Foreign Correspondents Club, Beijing, 28 April 1999.
Young Presidents’ Organization, 22 March 1999, Hong Kong.
Department of Political Science, Beijing University, November 1998.
Economics Department, Nanjing University, October 1998.
University Services Centre, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 27 May 1998.
Young President's Organization, Hong Kong, February 1998.
Fairbank Center on East Asian Research, Harvard University, January 1998;
East Asia Institute, The University of British Columbia, January 1998.
Nanjing-Hopkins Center, Nanjing University, June 1997;
East Asia Colloquia Series, Fairbank Center, Harvard University, 5 August 1997.
Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club, 18 April 1997.
The Asia Society: Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong, April 1997.
Perak Chamber of Commerce, Ipoh, Perak State, Malaysia, 26 April 1997.
American Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong, 21 February 1997.
Centre for Asian Studies, Hong Kong University, December 1996.
The Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC, May 1996.
Joint Center on Asia Pacific Affairs, York University-University of Toronto, Jan. 1996
East Asian Studies Program, Cornell University, November 1995.
Workshop on Institutional Aspects of Chinese Reforms, Harvard University, April 1995.
The Nanjing-Hopkins Centre, Nanjing, May 1994;
East Asia Colloquium, Harvard University, May 1994;
The World Bank, Washington, D.C., January, 1993;
Brown University Seminar on Political Economy, October 1992;
Chinese Electronics University of Science and Technology, Chengdu, Mar. 1992;
Universities Services Centre, Chinese University, Hong Kong, Feb. 1992;
Central China University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Dec. 1991;
Center for Chinese Studies, University of California-Berkeley, September 1990;
Sociology Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, July 1990.
Fairbank Center Seminar, Harvard University, February 1990;
East Asian Legal Studies, Law School, Harvard University, April 1990;
The University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies, November 1989;
Joint Centre on Asia-Pacific Studies, York University-University of Toronto, May 1989;
Fletcher-Hokkaido Seminar, Hokkaido, Japan, July 1988.
Joint Seminar on Political Development, Harvard University-MIT, April and Oct. 1988;
New England China Seminar, Harvard University, February 1987;
Hoover Institution, Stanford University, January 1986;
Institute for Developing Economies, Tokyo, August 1986;
Department of Economics, Nanjing University, July 1986.
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Membership of Journal Editorial or Advisory Boards:
The China Quarterly (2000-2011), Pacific Affairs, China Perspectives, Journal of
Contemporary China, Contemporary Politics, OMNES: Journal of Migration & Society,
Asian Politics & Policies, Studies in China and International Organization book series,
Shanghai International Studies University, Asian American Review (1998-2003).
Executive Committee Memberships:
Member, Executive Committee, Institute for Emerging Market Studies, HKUST, 2012 Member, Executive Committee, China-California Heart Watch, Dali, Yunnan, 2012 President Emeritus, Hong Kong Political Science Association, May 2010 - May 2012
President, Hong Kong Political Science Association, May 2008 – May 2010
Member, Executive Committee, Hong Kong Forum, 2008Chair, Fundraising Committee, Children’s Heart Foundation, Hong Kong, 2006- 2010
Treasurer, Hong Kong Political Science Association, 2006-2008
Vice President, United Jewish Congregation, Hong Kong, 2004-2008
Member, Executive Committee, United Jewish Congregation, 1997-2008
Member, Executive Committee, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard
University, 1990-1992.
Member, Executive Committee, Joint Centre on Modern East Asia, University of Toronto and
York University, Toronto, Ontario, 1985-1986.
Peer Review: Outside Reviewer for:
Journals: Comparative Politics, International Organization, American Journal of Political
Science, Journal of Comparative Economics, Pacific Affairs, Modern China, Comparative
Education Review, Journal of Asian Studies, China Journal, Studies in Comparative
International Development, International Regional Science Review, Urban Geography, The
Journal of Developing Areas, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Sociological
Perspectives, Review of International Political Economy, Environment and Planning (A),
Pacific Review, New Political Economy, Issues and Studies, Journal of Contemporary China,
Management and Organization Review, Asia Pacific Education Review, Chinese Journal of
International Politics.
Book Publishers: Stanford University Press, Oxford University Press, Harvard University
Press, Harvard East Asian Council, The Chinese University Press, Cambridge University
Press, Palgrave, Routledge.
Evaluated proposals for: U.S. National Science Foundation, 1994, 1997, 1998; Research
Grants Council (Hong Kong), 1998, 2000, 2002-05; Committee on Scholarly Communication
with China, 1983-1992; Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 19891993, 2010; U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities, 1994; The Israel Science
Foundation, 2000, Wittgenstein Award (Austria), 2010; Academia Sinica (Taiwan), 2010;
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Council for the Humanities,
2012.
Professional Memberships:
American Political Science Association, Asia Society, Association for Asian Studies, Hong
Kong Forum, International Studies Association, National Committee on U.S.-China
Relations, Pacific Council on International Policy (currently on leave)
Conference and Panel Organizer:
1.
Organized an evening seminar under the topic of “Constitutional Reform in Hong Kong,”
Jewish Community Center, 9 June 2014.
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2. “PRC Foreign Policy and Governance,” in cooperation with Lingnan University and the
British Consulate, 27 September 2013, Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce,
Hong Kong
3. "The Triangle of Sino-American Energy Diplomacy: A Symposium,” Asia Society
(Houston and New York), 25-26 January 2013. I organized this symposium with the Asia
Society in New York.
4. Hong Kong Political Science Association First Annual Conference, HKUST, August 2122, 2009.
5. Organizer and Moderator, “Debate on Hong Kong’s Political Future,” Audrey Eu and
Regina Ip, Hong Kong Political Science Association, Baptist University, 27 April 2009.
6. “Hong Kong’s Contribution to China’s Modernization,” funded by the Shui-On Group,
held at CCTR, HKUST, January 15-16, 2009.
7. “People on the Move: The Transnational Flow of Chinese Human Capital,” conference
sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation and the Department of External Affairs,
Ottawa, held at the Center on China’s Transnational Relations, Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 20-22 October 2005.
8. Panel Organizer, Hong Kong Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 7 May 2005,
Chinese University of Hong Kong.
9. Panel Organizer, Hong Kong Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 2 May 2003,
Hong Kong University, Hong Kong.
10. Conference Co-Organizer, “Globalization and China’s Reforms: An IPE Approach,”
organized by Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University and the School of
International Relations and Public Affairs, Shanghai, 22-24 May 2002.
11. Panel Organizer, Association for Asian Studies National Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2000.
12. Panel Chair, Association for Asian Studies National Meeting, Honolulu, April, 1995.
13. Panel Organizer, American Political Science Association National Meeting, Washington,
D.C., September 1993.
14. Conference Coordinator, "China: One Year After Tiananmen," a one-day conference at
the Fletcher School, April, 1990.
15. Program Chair, New England Conference for Asian Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts
University, 24 October 1987.
16. Co-coordinator, Conference on "New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution," Harvard
University, Fairbank Center, 14-16 May 1987.
17. Co-coordinator, Conference on the "Social Implications of China's Economic Reforms,"
Fairbank Center, Harvard University, 11 May 1985.
Workshop and Seminar Series Organizer:
Workshops on China’s Transnational Relations, HKUST, held at the Orient Overseas
Container Lines, Wanchai, Hong Kong, 2005Social Science Dinner Seminar Series, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
1997-2005.
Initial Organizer and Co-Director, "Current Events Workshop," a monthly workshop at the
Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, 1989-1991.
Media Consultant:
Ambrica Corporation, two Educational TV specials on China, 1991-1996.
The Koppel Report, "Tragedy at Tiananmen: The Untold Story," ABC Special, aired on 27
June 1989.
General Service:
Member, Advisory Committee on The International Center for China Development Studies
(ICCDS), Hong Kong University, 2012.
"The Continuing Relevance of Hong Kong," Special Issue, Asian Survey, Vol. 51, No. 4
(July/August 2011). I was the initiator of this Special Issue, organized and edited five
of the papers published in it, but was not a co-editor.
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Member, Social Science Panel, Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), University Grants
Committee (UGC), Hong Kong, September 2006.
Member, Working Group on Migration and Development, International Committee on
Migration and Development Research, Social Science Research Council, 2006Member, Study Group, "Constructive Engagement: Does it Work?" Council on
Foreign Relations, New York, 1995-97.
External Reviewer for the Presidential Review Committee for the Joint Centre for Asia
Pacific Studies, University of Toronto-York University, November 1990.
Service at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
A. Division of Social Science
 Member, Division Executive Committee, 2014 Chair, Division Appointments Committee, 2014  Chair, Merit Review Committee, 2005-09, 2011-2013
 Chair, Academic Review Committee, 2004-06, 2007- 08, 2009-2010
 Chair, Search Committee in Political Economy, 2005, 2006
 Member, Division Search Committee, 2011-2012
 Chair, Post-Graduate Committee, 1997-98
B. School of Humanities and Social Science
 Chair, School Substantiation and Promotion Committee, 2014 Associate Dean, SHSS, HKUST, 2006-08, 2010-2013
 Chair, School Research Committee, 2004-06, 2011-2013
 Chair, Appointment and Substantiation Committee, 2005-07
 Member, Appointments and Substantiation Committee, 2011 Member, Executive Committee, 2005-2013
C. University-level Committees
 Member, Advisory Committee, Institute for Public Policy and
Administration, 2015 Member, Advisory Committee, Leadership and Public Policy Program, 2014 Member, University Appointment and Substantiation Committee, 2006-08
 Member, Senate Research Committee, 2005-09, 2011- 2013
 Member, Chair Professor Committee, 2006-07, 2009-10
 Honorary Degrees Committee, 1998-2000, 2009-10, 2014 University Orator, 2005 - 2011
 Member, Steering Committee, Division of the Environment, 2009 Member, JSSD Task Force, Joint School on Sustainable Development,
HKUST-Xian Jiaotong University, 2012  Member, Search Committee, JSSD, 2012  Member, University RAE Task Force, 2012- 2014
Membership on Hong Kong Academic Committees
 Member, Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), 2006.
 Member, Social Sciences Sub-Panel under the Humanities and Social
Sciences Panel, Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC), 2013-2015.
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Citations
Citation indices
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2708
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Citations in 2014 were 255
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