Ngai Ming Yip
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5437455 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ngai Ming Yip |
| NOMBRES | Ngai Ming |
| APELLIDO | Yip |
| FIRMA | YIP N M |
| AFILIACIONES | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2411-2133 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 373 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Self-governance of condominiums in urban China
This paper investigates the impact of homeowners’ condominium self-governance on neighbourhood governance in urban China. The self-governance campaign, which advocates for the direct employment of property management personnel, signifies condominium owners’ endeavours to reassert control over their private living space against the intervention of the state and the exploitation of property management agents. Whilst self-governance is practised wit…
Beyond home neighborhood
The role of housing in China’s social transformation
The rapid development of China over the last few decades has triggered, not just a large scale urban transformation but also induced fundamental changes in many aspects of social and economic lives
Special Issue
Studies on urban activism, protest, and movements are in an early but promising stage. Recent theoretical developments heeded to resistance strategies, prefigurative grassroots institutions, modula
Rhythm of endurance and contestation
Urban activism in confined civil spaces
In the social movement literature, networked organizations are presented as being pivotal to the development of a movement. Yet in authoritarian states, such organizations are perceived as challenging the redline of the state. Hence, the establishment of networked organizations of homeowner activists in urban China and their proliferation to inland cities signifies a changing state-society interaction. This paper attempts to trace the development…
Housing activism in urban China
The creation of a neoliberal housing regime triggered extensive housing activism during the last decade by middle class homeowners who were protecting their rights to their neighbourhood. Yet such actions also signify the quest for autonomy from the ubiquitous control of the local state as the vanguard of political power hegemony at the grassroots level. Yet there is evidence of an escalation in “non-peaceful” actions in the richest cities in Chi…
Dynamic Political Opportunities and Environmental Forces Linking up
While the literature on Chinese environmental politics tends to examine NGO actions and popular protests as two separate facets of environmental activism, such a tendency runs the risk of missing the linkages that have begun to emerge among environmental forces. This new phenomenon is highlighted with a case study of local opposition against the siting of an oil refining plant in Kunming through the lens of political opportunity theory. Two forms…
Exploring segregation and mobilities
Is ‘gentrification’ an analytically useful concept for Vietnam? A case study of Hanoi
Despite the rapid transformation in the urban landscape of Vietnam, a simple and uncritical application of the ‘gentrification’ concept out of the specific spatial and temporal context of the country is problematic. Not only does the phenomenon progress in a highly compressed temporal scale compared with similar processes in cities in the Global North, it is also embedded within a paradigmatic shift of the entire socio-economic system. This paper…
Homeowners' activism and the rule of law in urban China
Despite the anticipation that the legal system would be able to offer a civilized and institutionalized means in settling the infringement of homeowners' property and consumer rights, empirical evidence has instead indicated a decline in the employment of litigation in dispute resolution. This paper attempts to examine the complex interaction between the rule of law and homeowner activism in upholding their rights. Information on property related…
The Future for Reluctant Intervention
The growth and resilience of Hong Kong's public rental sector has occurred in the context of an apparent guiding political ethos of minimal and reluctant intervention. This paper offers an account of why this has occurred. A brief account of economic change and housing policy development over the last three decades is followed by an analysis of changes in the social role and social composition of the tenure. This discussion is complemented by som…
Impact of Community on Personal Well-Being in Urban China
As the work-unit system fell after economic reform in China, neighborhoods replaced work units as the primary provider of vital social services for the urban population and became a new social space for enhancing the quality of people's well-being. This study examined the neighborhood characteristics that influenced personal well-being of residents. Drawn by multistage sampling and administered by face-to-face interviews, the survey included a sa…
Internet and Activism in Urban China
Studies on the Internet in China mainly focus on issues at the macro level, like state control, democracy or human rights. Few studies have examined the role of the Internet in collective contention from the meso- and micro-level. Guided by the theories of contentious politics and based on documentary data such as news reports, online diaries of participants and postings from homeowners' online forums, this paper examines the role of the Internet…
Walled Without Gates
Housing reforms in China have popularized a new type of settlement that is often constructed in the form of gated communities. This study reports on a survey in Shanghai revealing that most neighborhoods are only semi-enclosed and not technically gated. It was also discovered that gatedness enhances residents' perception of security, but does not contribute significantly to their sense of community. This latter finding may be a result of two comp…
Governmentality and the Politicisation of Social Work in China
This paper examines, from the governmentality perspective, how social work contributes to the recent political mission of the Chinese party state in constructing a harmonious society. A political rationality was constructed in response to new social and political challenges, and a new problematic of government was created, which portrayed personal failings as obstacles to social harmony. A humanistic idiom of ‘person-centredness’ was unprecedente…
Homeowners United
Under the slogan of 'weiquan' (defending our rights), homeowners in urban China are increasingly prepared to stand up for their rights of ownership, often through non-confrontational actions organized by homeowners' associations (yeweihui). There is also a growing concern for the need to create collective platforms on which homeowners' associations can support one another, muster their collective resources against powerful developers and lobby fo…
Making Space
Hong Kong is a city with very high densities and low per capita space standards, given its wealth. Most people live in very small apartments in high-rise buildings. Drawing on a survey of more than 2,000 interviewees, this study explores household mobility and changes in consumption of residential space in Hong Kong. Space standards have increased for most households, although increases are small in absolute terms. Distinct from much of the inter…
Urban housing reform and state capacity in Vietnam
Vietnam has emerged recently as one of the fastest growing economies \nand widely be perceived as the next transition tiger. State capacity, which is believed to \nbe pivotal to the success of the NIC, is under scrutiny inVietnam. This paper attempts \nto examine state capacity ofVietnam in the institutional, political, administrative and \ntechnical aspects employing examples in urban and housing development. This paper \nargues that despite the…
Neighbourhood and Neighbouring in Contemporary Guangzhou
There is now a substantial literature on various aspects of contemporary Chinese urbanization. There are, however, few recent studies of Chinese cities which examine social change and social interaction at the level of the urban neighbourhood. This paper seeks to fill some of this gap in current knowledge. It draws on a social survey of three contrasting neighbourhoods undertaken in Guangzhou in the Pearl River Delta, one of the most economically…
Cohort Trajectories in Hong Kong's Housing System
A household's progression through a housing system depends not just on the current social, economic and policy context but also on past housing experiences and circumstances. Different birth cohorts, because of their location in a specific socio-economic and policy environment, may have distinct residential trajectories. Five waves of Hong Kong Census data are used to trace tenure change of different birth cohort groups from 1981 to 2001. The pap…
Commodification and Urban Development
This paper aims to identify the processes of commodification of land and housing in Taiwan during the era of rapid economic development since the Second World War. On paper, Taiwan has a quite extraordinarily socialistic philosophy of landownership, based on the teachings of Sun Yat-sen and his doctrine of equalization of land rights. However, there is a very large discrepancy between policy and practice and as a consequence urban development and…
Globalization, de-industrialization and Hong Kong's private rental sector
Public Housing and Family Life in East Asia
This article attempts to contribute to an emerging literature on the link between housing history and society. For Hong Kong, it has always been argued that much of its socioeconomic successes in the past five decades have been heavily attributed to orchestrated public housing policy since 1953. Although this argument is popular, micro evidence to support this thesis is scant. Most studies focus mainly on describing the macro effects of housing p…
Hong Kong as a Global City? Social Distance and Spatial Differentiation
This paper draws on on-going work on Hong Kong's socio-spatial structure to explore the extent to which it fits the dominant image of the global city. While there is a considerable literature on Hong Kong's changing social structure, there is relatively little on the spatial dimensions of social difference and division. The paper situates the available commentaries and analyses of Hong Kong's income, class and employment structure within the glob…
Neighbourhood and Neighbouring in Contemporary Guangzhou
There is now a substantial literature on various aspects of contemporary Chinese urbanization. There are, however, few recent studies of Chinese cities which examine social change and social interaction at the level of the urban neighbourhood. This paper seeks to fill some of this gap in current knowledge. It draws on a social survey of three contrasting neighbourhoods undertaken in Guangzhou in the Pearl River Delta, one of the most economically…
Walled Without Gates
Housing reforms in China have popularized a new type of settlement that is often constructed in the form of gated communities. This study reports on a survey in Shanghai revealing that most neighborhoods are only semi-enclosed and not technically gated. It was also discovered that gatedness enhances residents' perception of security, but does not contribute significantly to their sense of community. This latter finding may be a result of two comp…
Hong Kong as a Global City? Social Distance and Spatial Differentiation
This paper draws on on-going work on Hong Kong's socio-spatial structure to explore the extent to which it fits the dominant image of the global city. While there is a considerable literature on Hong Kong's changing social structure, there is relatively little on the spatial dimensions of social difference and division. The paper situates the available commentaries and analyses of Hong Kong's income, class and employment structure within the glob…
Neighbourhood in a High Rise, High Density City
Most of the contemporary literature on the neighbourhood comes from US or European sources where there are sharp contrasts with East Asian cities in terms of the physical form, residential densities and in relation to ideas of community and kinship. This paper reports on a study carried out in Hong Kong which was designed to explore the extent to which western preoccupations with neighbourhood resonate in a high rise, high density Chinese city. A…
Internet and Activism in Urban China
Studies on the Internet in China mainly focus on issues at the macro level, like state control, democracy or human rights. Few studies have examined the role of the Internet in collective contention from the meso- and micro-level. Guided by the theories of contentious politics and based on documentary data such as news reports, online diaries of participants and postings from homeowners' online forums, this paper examines the role of the Internet…
Governmentality and the Politicisation of Social Work in China
This paper examines, from the governmentality perspective, how social work contributes to the recent political mission of the Chinese party state in constructing a harmonious society. A political rationality was constructed in response to new social and political challenges, and a new problematic of government was created, which portrayed personal failings as obstacles to social harmony. A humanistic idiom of ‘person-centredness’ was unprecedente…
Homeowners United
Under the slogan of 'weiquan' (defending our rights), homeowners in urban China are increasingly prepared to stand up for their rights of ownership, often through non-confrontational actions organized by homeowners' associations (yeweihui). There is also a growing concern for the need to create collective platforms on which homeowners' associations can support one another, muster their collective resources against powerful developers and lobby fo…
Property Owning Democracies? Home Owner Corporations in Hong Kong
Home ownership comes in a variety of forms.Owners of single-family dwellings generally enjoy a high degree of control and autonomy.Many home owners, however, are in circumstances which involve greater collective interest, medium and high-rise environments and signi cant state involvement and regulation.In such situations, tensions and con icts can arise among residents and others stakeholders in relation to a range of management and maintenance i…
Housing activism in urban China
The creation of a neoliberal housing regime triggered extensive housing activism during the last decade by middle class homeowners who were protecting their rights to their neighbourhood. Yet such actions also signify the quest for autonomy from the ubiquitous control of the local state as the vanguard of political power hegemony at the grassroots level. Yet there is evidence of an escalation in “non-peaceful” actions in the richest cities in Chi…
Is ‘gentrification’ an analytically useful concept for Vietnam? A case study of Hanoi
Despite the rapid transformation in the urban landscape of Vietnam, a simple and uncritical application of the ‘gentrification’ concept out of the specific spatial and temporal context of the country is problematic. Not only does the phenomenon progress in a highly compressed temporal scale compared with similar processes in cities in the Global North, it is also embedded within a paradigmatic shift of the entire socio-economic system. This paper…
Rhythm of endurance and contestation
The Future for Reluctant Intervention
The growth and resilience of Hong Kong's public rental sector has occurred in the context of an apparent guiding political ethos of minimal and reluctant intervention. This paper offers an account of why this has occurred. A brief account of economic change and housing policy development over the last three decades is followed by an analysis of changes in the social role and social composition of the tenure. This discussion is complemented by som…
Exploring segregation and mobilities
Social Belonging, Social Capital and the Promotion of Home Ownership
The Hong Kong Government is vigorously promoting home ownership, a major rationale being to increase the community's sense of belonging and reduce the rate of emigration. This paper evaluates whether home owners in Hong Kong have a higher sense of social belonging than renters and finds that tenure status is a spurious independent variable in assessing respondents' sense of belonging to Hong Kong. Logistic regression analysis suggests that the si…
Making Space
Hong Kong is a city with very high densities and low per capita space standards, given its wealth. Most people live in very small apartments in high-rise buildings. Drawing on a survey of more than 2,000 interviewees, this study explores household mobility and changes in consumption of residential space in Hong Kong. Space standards have increased for most households, although increases are small in absolute terms. Distinct from much of the inter…
Homeowners' activism and the rule of law in urban China
Despite the anticipation that the legal system would be able to offer a civilized and institutionalized means in settling the infringement of homeowners' property and consumer rights, empirical evidence has instead indicated a decline in the employment of litigation in dispute resolution. This paper attempts to examine the complex interaction between the rule of law and homeowner activism in upholding their rights. Information on property related…
Urban housing reform and state capacity in Vietnam
Vietnam has emerged recently as one of the fastest growing economies \nand widely be perceived as the next transition tiger. State capacity, which is believed to \nbe pivotal to the success of the NIC, is under scrutiny inVietnam. This paper attempts \nto examine state capacity ofVietnam in the institutional, political, administrative and \ntechnical aspects employing examples in urban and housing development. This paper \nargues that despite the…
Globalization, de-industrialization and Hong Kong's private rental sector
Cohort Trajectories in Hong Kong's Housing System
A household's progression through a housing system depends not just on the current social, economic and policy context but also on past housing experiences and circumstances. Different birth cohorts, because of their location in a specific socio-economic and policy environment, may have distinct residential trajectories. Five waves of Hong Kong Census data are used to trace tenure change of different birth cohort groups from 1981 to 2001. The pap…
Setting rent with reference to tenants' affordability
The Preference for Owner-Occupation
There have been a number of surveys of people's housing-tenure preferences in the last few years, all of which show large majorities preferring to own rather than rent their dwelling. Debate rages, however, about how the survey findings should be interpreted. The theoretical debate has not been helped by the limited information supplied in many of the surveys. Using data in the 1978 General Household Survey (GHS), Littlewood made a more detailed …
Dynamic Political Opportunities and Environmental Forces Linking up
While the literature on Chinese environmental politics tends to examine NGO actions and popular protests as two separate facets of environmental activism, such a tendency runs the risk of missing the linkages that have begun to emerge among environmental forces. This new phenomenon is highlighted with a case study of local opposition against the siting of an oil refining plant in Kunming through the lens of political opportunity theory. Two forms…
Impact of Community on Personal Well-Being in Urban China
As the work-unit system fell after economic reform in China, neighborhoods replaced work units as the primary provider of vital social services for the urban population and became a new social space for enhancing the quality of people's well-being. This study examined the neighborhood characteristics that influenced personal well-being of residents. Drawn by multistage sampling and administered by face-to-face interviews, the survey included a sa…
Public Housing and Family Life in East Asia
This article attempts to contribute to an emerging literature on the link between housing history and society. For Hong Kong, it has always been argued that much of its socioeconomic successes in the past five decades have been heavily attributed to orchestrated public housing policy since 1953. Although this argument is popular, micro evidence to support this thesis is scant. Most studies focus mainly on describing the macro effects of housing p…
Beyond home neighborhood
The Preference for Owner-Occupation
There have been a number of surveys of people's housing-tenure preferences in the last few years, all of which show large majorities preferring to own rather than rent their dwelling. Debate rages, however, about how the survey findings should be interpreted. The theoretical debate has not been helped by the limited information supplied in many of the surveys. Using data in the 1978 General Household Survey (GHS), Littlewood made a more detailed …
Income Multiples and Mortgage Potential
In this paper we examine the potential of council tenants and private-sector renters in England to become owner-occupiers, using data from the 1988 General Household Survey (GHS). Methods pioneered by Littlewood in her analysis of data from the 1978 GHS are applied in this paper. A sensitivity analysis is also presented which shows the impact of different loan to income ratios on the ability of council and private-sector tenants to buy a dwelling…
Social Belonging, Social Capital and the Promotion of Home Ownership
The Hong Kong Government is vigorously promoting home ownership, a major rationale being to increase the community's sense of belonging and reduce the rate of emigration. This paper evaluates whether home owners in Hong Kong have a higher sense of social belonging than renters and finds that tenure status is a spurious independent variable in assessing respondents' sense of belonging to Hong Kong. Logistic regression analysis suggests that the si…
Setting rent with reference to tenants' affordability
Property Owning Democracies? Home Owner Corporations in Hong Kong
Home ownership comes in a variety of forms.Owners of single-family dwellings generally enjoy a high degree of control and autonomy.Many home owners, however, are in circumstances which involve greater collective interest, medium and high-rise environments and signi cant state involvement and regulation.In such situations, tensions and con icts can arise among residents and others stakeholders in relation to a range of management and maintenance i…
Neighbourhood in a High Rise, High Density City
Most of the contemporary literature on the neighbourhood comes from US or European sources where there are sharp contrasts with East Asian cities in terms of the physical form, residential densities and in relation to ideas of community and kinship. This paper reports on a study carried out in Hong Kong which was designed to explore the extent to which western preoccupations with neighbourhood resonate in a high rise, high density Chinese city. A…
Housing in Taiwan
This paper traces the development and problems of state intervention and market provision of housing in Taiwan in the context of her socio-economic and demographic changes in the last few decades. Although housing in Taiwan is mainly market driven, the market does not appear to be functioning in a mature manner as one may expect. On the other hand, state intervention, which is being depicted as marginal in housing, has been more proactive and inf…
Customerizing the Tenants, Empowering the Managers
The evolution of recent public housing governance reforms in Hong Kong, in particular a customerization strategy implemented at both the policy and management levels is reviewed in this article. A new tenant participation scheme, known as the "estate management advisory committee" is evaluated as a case study to illustrate the reconfiguration of public housing governance at the estate level. We explore whether customerization has increased custom…
Hong Kong as a Global City? Social Distance and Spatial Differentiation
This paper draws on on-going work on Hong Kong's socio-spatial structure to explore the extent to which it fits the dominant image of the global city. While there is a considerable literature on Hong Kong's changing social structure, there is relatively little on the spatial dimensions of social difference and division. The paper situates the available commentaries and analyses of Hong Kong's income, class and employment structure within the glob…
Commodification and Urban Development
This paper aims to identify the processes of commodification of land and housing in Taiwan during the era of rapid economic development since the Second World War. On paper, Taiwan has a quite extraordinarily socialistic philosophy of landownership, based on the teachings of Sun Yat-sen and his doctrine of equalization of land rights. However, there is a very large discrepancy between policy and practice and as a consequence urban development and…
Globalization, de-industrialization and Hong Kong's private rental sector
Public Housing and Family Life in East Asia
This article attempts to contribute to an emerging literature on the link between housing history and society. For Hong Kong, it has always been argued that much of its socioeconomic successes in the past five decades have been heavily attributed to orchestrated public housing policy since 1953. Although this argument is popular, micro evidence to support this thesis is scant. Most studies focus mainly on describing the macro effects of housing p…
Neighbourhood and Neighbouring in Contemporary Guangzhou
There is now a substantial literature on various aspects of contemporary Chinese urbanization. There are, however, few recent studies of Chinese cities which examine social change and social interaction at the level of the urban neighbourhood. This paper seeks to fill some of this gap in current knowledge. It draws on a social survey of three contrasting neighbourhoods undertaken in Guangzhou in the Pearl River Delta, one of the most economically…
Cohort Trajectories in Hong Kong's Housing System
A household's progression through a housing system depends not just on the current social, economic and policy context but also on past housing experiences and circumstances. Different birth cohorts, because of their location in a specific socio-economic and policy environment, may have distinct residential trajectories. Five waves of Hong Kong Census data are used to trace tenure change of different birth cohort groups from 1981 to 2001. The pap…
Urban housing reform and state capacity in Vietnam
Vietnam has emerged recently as one of the fastest growing economies \nand widely be perceived as the next transition tiger. State capacity, which is believed to \nbe pivotal to the success of the NIC, is under scrutiny inVietnam. This paper attempts \nto examine state capacity ofVietnam in the institutional, political, administrative and \ntechnical aspects employing examples in urban and housing development. This paper \nargues that despite the…
Making Space
Hong Kong is a city with very high densities and low per capita space standards, given its wealth. Most people live in very small apartments in high-rise buildings. Drawing on a survey of more than 2,000 interviewees, this study explores household mobility and changes in consumption of residential space in Hong Kong. Space standards have increased for most households, although increases are small in absolute terms. Distinct from much of the inter…
Homeowners United
Under the slogan of 'weiquan' (defending our rights), homeowners in urban China are increasingly prepared to stand up for their rights of ownership, often through non-confrontational actions organized by homeowners' associations (yeweihui). There is also a growing concern for the need to create collective platforms on which homeowners' associations can support one another, muster their collective resources against powerful developers and lobby fo…
Internet and Activism in Urban China
Studies on the Internet in China mainly focus on issues at the macro level, like state control, democracy or human rights. Few studies have examined the role of the Internet in collective contention from the meso- and micro-level. Guided by the theories of contentious politics and based on documentary data such as news reports, online diaries of participants and postings from homeowners' online forums, this paper examines the role of the Internet…
Walled Without Gates
Housing reforms in China have popularized a new type of settlement that is often constructed in the form of gated communities. This study reports on a survey in Shanghai revealing that most neighborhoods are only semi-enclosed and not technically gated. It was also discovered that gatedness enhances residents' perception of security, but does not contribute significantly to their sense of community. This latter finding may be a result of two comp…
Governmentality and the Politicisation of Social Work in China
This paper examines, from the governmentality perspective, how social work contributes to the recent political mission of the Chinese party state in constructing a harmonious society. A political rationality was constructed in response to new social and political challenges, and a new problematic of government was created, which portrayed personal failings as obstacles to social harmony. A humanistic idiom of ‘person-centredness’ was unprecedente…
Impact of Community on Personal Well-Being in Urban China
As the work-unit system fell after economic reform in China, neighborhoods replaced work units as the primary provider of vital social services for the urban population and became a new social space for enhancing the quality of people's well-being. This study examined the neighborhood characteristics that influenced personal well-being of residents. Drawn by multistage sampling and administered by face-to-face interviews, the survey included a sa…
Homeowners' activism and the rule of law in urban China
Despite the anticipation that the legal system would be able to offer a civilized and institutionalized means in settling the infringement of homeowners' property and consumer rights, empirical evidence has instead indicated a decline in the employment of litigation in dispute resolution. This paper attempts to examine the complex interaction between the rule of law and homeowner activism in upholding their rights. Information on property related…
The Future for Reluctant Intervention
The growth and resilience of Hong Kong's public rental sector has occurred in the context of an apparent guiding political ethos of minimal and reluctant intervention. This paper offers an account of why this has occurred. A brief account of economic change and housing policy development over the last three decades is followed by an analysis of changes in the social role and social composition of the tenure. This discussion is complemented by som…
Exploring segregation and mobilities
Is ‘gentrification’ an analytically useful concept for Vietnam? A case study of Hanoi
Despite the rapid transformation in the urban landscape of Vietnam, a simple and uncritical application of the ‘gentrification’ concept out of the specific spatial and temporal context of the country is problematic. Not only does the phenomenon progress in a highly compressed temporal scale compared with similar processes in cities in the Global North, it is also embedded within a paradigmatic shift of the entire socio-economic system. This paper…
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