Leong H Liew
Biographic Data
| ID | 1372327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leong H Liew |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leong H |
| FAMILY NAME | Liew |
| SIGNATURE | LIEW L H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Distributing flood shelters for disaster risk reduction
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to inspect disaster risk reduction (DRR) challenges from a political economy (PE) perspective and to explore how PE determinants facilitate or hinder effective DRR in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative case study, using semi-structured in-depth interviews, official documents and literature review has been conducted to explore the current process and practices of DRR in Bangladesh. The specif…
Rethinking economics in the Asian Century
A key focus of this book is the importance of intellectual engagement with Asia. Particular emphasis is placed on the new theoretical and practical insights that can be gained by doing so that are relevant to a range of social scientists, regardless of their regional specialisation. In that context, the performance of the Chinese economy in the past 30 years provides a smorgasbord of food for thought (and rethought) about the role of the state in…
Operating in an inharmonious world
This paper investigates the establishment and subsequent investment strategy of China's official sovereign wealth fund, the China Investment Corporation (CIC). CIC, as its stands today, is derivative of the contest between the People's Bank of China and Ministry of Finance for control over the nation's financial assets. The contest takes place amidst China's desire to avoid significant appreciation of its currency to protect its export markets an…
As Asia's quarry
The re-emergence of China in the new millennium has increased global demand for mineral resources, causing a return to the Australian vision of national prosperity tied to primary exports-this time minerals. Many analysts have questioned the wisdom of anchoring Australia's prosperity to being a quarry for Asia. The current mining boom has enabled Australia to postpone, but has not removed, the need to develop new industries to sustain a high stan…
The nexus between nationalism, democracy and national integration
Nationalism, Democracy and National Integration in China
Part One: Introduction: 1. The Nexus between Nationalism, Democracy and National Integration - Leong H. Liew and Doug Smith Part Two: Democracy and Chinese Nationalism: 2. Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Liberal-Nationalist Debate on Democracy and Identity - Yingjie Guo 3. The Rise of Neo-nationalism and the New Left: A Postcolonial and Postmodern Perspective - Mobo C.F. Gao Part Three: Chinese Nationalism and Sino-US Relations: 4. Chinese Nationa…
US Trade Deficits and Sino-US Relations
American politicians and policy makers have blamed China's exchange rate for the large US trade deficits. This paper explains why the USA treats its trade deficits with China as a security issue that have become a source of friction in Sino-US relations. The essay argues that this friction is a useful deflection from the politically difficult policy action needed to remedy the US economy and cannot easily be removed by the Chinese side alone. The…
China's Engagement with Neo-liberalism
China's post-Mao market reform, even after the Asian crisis, does not conform to the standard IMF/World Bank model and the state continues to mediate market reform. Three principal factors have influenced how the state mediates China's market reform: path dependency, a result of China's communist and nationalist revolution; China's geography, which favours developmental-state-type industrialisation; and most important of all, the Chinese Communis…
Policy elites in the political economy of China's exchange rate policymaking
This paper examines the political economy of making China's exchange rate policy, with a focus on the post-Deng reform period. First it analyses the structure of elite economic policymaking, especially on exchange rate policy, pinpointing core policymakers in that structure. Second, the paper analyses the roles and responsibilities of key economic ministries, and explains how the ministries' changing roles and responsibilities in the transforming…
Financial Markets and Foreign Direct Investment in Greater China . Hung-Gay Fung , Kevin H. Zhang
The Role of China's Bureaucracy in its No-Devaluation Policy during the Asian Financial Crisis
Analysts have generally offered two explanations for China's no-devaluation policy during the Asian financial crisis. The first is China's good economic fundamentals and the renminbi is not fully convertible. The second is China's foreign relations' imperative. China was endeavouring to seek favourable entry conditions into the WTO and improve relations with its Asian neighbours. At the same time it sought to exploit the undercurrent of resentmen…
Publications briefly noted
PETER DRYSDALE, ZHANG YUNLING and LIGANG SONG (eds). APEC and Liberalisation of the Chinese Economy. PAUL BAILEY. China in the Twentieth Century , 2nd edition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. Maps, glossary, bibliography, index. £50.00/US$59.95 hardcover, £13.99/US$26.95, paper. JAMES L. WATSON (ed). Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997. 256 pp. US$21.95, paper. ALISON MURRAY. Pink Fits: s…
What is to be Done? WTO, Globalisation and State‐Labour Relations in China
China as a nation benefits from entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) but the effects are neither immediate nor uniform. Significant long‐term benefits from WTO entry can be realised only if WTO entry acts as a catalyst for further and deeper systemic reform of the economy. Some workers benefit from the opening of foreign markets to Chinese goods but others are affected adversely by the increase in foreign competition in Chinese markets. …
China's Economic Reform Experience
A political‐economy analysis of the Asian financial crisis
This paper provides a political‐economy analysis of the Asian financial crisis, with a focus on the economies of Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia and Thailand. It explains why the crisis affected each of these countries differently and why the responses to the crisis differ between governments. The paper argues that banking crises need not necessarily lead to currency crises. In particular, it provides an argument that, despite its banking crisis, Kore…
Introduction
This year will mark two decades of economic reform in China. Much has been written about China's transition from a plan to a market economy. According to the World Bank 1989-95 data, China scores best among the transitional economies in all the categories of GDP growth, inflation, life expectancy and infant mortality. China is the only country, besides Vietnam, that has never experienced a fall in labour productivity. Its average growth rate of 9…
Chinese Reform Strategy
Leong H. Liew, 'Chinese Reform Strategy', Forum for Development Studies, 1998:1, pp. 39–65. This article discusses the Chinese reform strategy. This strategy is not a finely tuned blueprint but follows a set of general principles. The overriding principle guiding Chinese reform is gradualism or 'groping the stones as one crosses the river' (mo mo shitou guo he). The second principle is the emphasis on economic and political stability as the econo…
The Economics of Regional Property Rights in China
Rent-seeking and the two-track price system in China
Nationalism, Democracy and National Integration in China
Part One: Introduction: 1. The Nexus between Nationalism, Democracy and National Integration - Leong H. Liew and Doug Smith Part Two: Democracy and Chinese Nationalism: 2. Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Liberal-Nationalist Debate on Democracy and Identity - Yingjie Guo 3. The Rise of Neo-nationalism and the New Left: A Postcolonial and Postmodern Perspective - Mobo C.F. Gao Part Three: Chinese Nationalism and Sino-US Relations: 4. Chinese Nationa…
Policy elites in the political economy of China's exchange rate policymaking
This paper examines the political economy of making China's exchange rate policy, with a focus on the post-Deng reform period. First it analyses the structure of elite economic policymaking, especially on exchange rate policy, pinpointing core policymakers in that structure. Second, the paper analyses the roles and responsibilities of key economic ministries, and explains how the ministries' changing roles and responsibilities in the transforming…
China's Economic Reform Experience
US Trade Deficits and Sino-US Relations
American politicians and policy makers have blamed China's exchange rate for the large US trade deficits. This paper explains why the USA treats its trade deficits with China as a security issue that have become a source of friction in Sino-US relations. The essay argues that this friction is a useful deflection from the politically difficult policy action needed to remedy the US economy and cannot easily be removed by the Chinese side alone. The…
A political‐economy analysis of the Asian financial crisis
This paper provides a political‐economy analysis of the Asian financial crisis, with a focus on the economies of Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia and Thailand. It explains why the crisis affected each of these countries differently and why the responses to the crisis differ between governments. The paper argues that banking crises need not necessarily lead to currency crises. In particular, it provides an argument that, despite its banking crisis, Kore…
Rent-seeking and the two-track price system in China
The Role of China's Bureaucracy in its No-Devaluation Policy during the Asian Financial Crisis
Analysts have generally offered two explanations for China's no-devaluation policy during the Asian financial crisis. The first is China's good economic fundamentals and the renminbi is not fully convertible. The second is China's foreign relations' imperative. China was endeavouring to seek favourable entry conditions into the WTO and improve relations with its Asian neighbours. At the same time it sought to exploit the undercurrent of resentmen…
Rent-seeking and the two-track price system in China
The Economics of Regional Property Rights in China
A political‐economy analysis of the Asian financial crisis
This paper provides a political‐economy analysis of the Asian financial crisis, with a focus on the economies of Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia and Thailand. It explains why the crisis affected each of these countries differently and why the responses to the crisis differ between governments. The paper argues that banking crises need not necessarily lead to currency crises. In particular, it provides an argument that, despite its banking crisis, Kore…
Introduction
This year will mark two decades of economic reform in China. Much has been written about China's transition from a plan to a market economy. According to the World Bank 1989-95 data, China scores best among the transitional economies in all the categories of GDP growth, inflation, life expectancy and infant mortality. China is the only country, besides Vietnam, that has never experienced a fall in labour productivity. Its average growth rate of 9…
Chinese Reform Strategy
Leong H. Liew, 'Chinese Reform Strategy', Forum for Development Studies, 1998:1, pp. 39–65. This article discusses the Chinese reform strategy. This strategy is not a finely tuned blueprint but follows a set of general principles. The overriding principle guiding Chinese reform is gradualism or 'groping the stones as one crosses the river' (mo mo shitou guo he). The second principle is the emphasis on economic and political stability as the econo…
China's Economic Reform Experience
What is to be Done? WTO, Globalisation and State‐Labour Relations in China
China as a nation benefits from entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) but the effects are neither immediate nor uniform. Significant long‐term benefits from WTO entry can be realised only if WTO entry acts as a catalyst for further and deeper systemic reform of the economy. Some workers benefit from the opening of foreign markets to Chinese goods but others are affected adversely by the increase in foreign competition in Chinese markets. …
Publications briefly noted
PETER DRYSDALE, ZHANG YUNLING and LIGANG SONG (eds). APEC and Liberalisation of the Chinese Economy. PAUL BAILEY. China in the Twentieth Century , 2nd edition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. Maps, glossary, bibliography, index. £50.00/US$59.95 hardcover, £13.99/US$26.95, paper. JAMES L. WATSON (ed). Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997. 256 pp. US$21.95, paper. ALISON MURRAY. Pink Fits: s…
Financial Markets and Foreign Direct Investment in Greater China . Hung-Gay Fung , Kevin H. Zhang
The Role of China's Bureaucracy in its No-Devaluation Policy during the Asian Financial Crisis
Analysts have generally offered two explanations for China's no-devaluation policy during the Asian financial crisis. The first is China's good economic fundamentals and the renminbi is not fully convertible. The second is China's foreign relations' imperative. China was endeavouring to seek favourable entry conditions into the WTO and improve relations with its Asian neighbours. At the same time it sought to exploit the undercurrent of resentmen…
Policy elites in the political economy of China's exchange rate policymaking
This paper examines the political economy of making China's exchange rate policy, with a focus on the post-Deng reform period. First it analyses the structure of elite economic policymaking, especially on exchange rate policy, pinpointing core policymakers in that structure. Second, the paper analyses the roles and responsibilities of key economic ministries, and explains how the ministries' changing roles and responsibilities in the transforming…
China's Engagement with Neo-liberalism
China's post-Mao market reform, even after the Asian crisis, does not conform to the standard IMF/World Bank model and the state continues to mediate market reform. Three principal factors have influenced how the state mediates China's market reform: path dependency, a result of China's communist and nationalist revolution; China's geography, which favours developmental-state-type industrialisation; and most important of all, the Chinese Communis…
The nexus between nationalism, democracy and national integration
Nationalism, Democracy and National Integration in China
Part One: Introduction: 1. The Nexus between Nationalism, Democracy and National Integration - Leong H. Liew and Doug Smith Part Two: Democracy and Chinese Nationalism: 2. Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Liberal-Nationalist Debate on Democracy and Identity - Yingjie Guo 3. The Rise of Neo-nationalism and the New Left: A Postcolonial and Postmodern Perspective - Mobo C.F. Gao Part Three: Chinese Nationalism and Sino-US Relations: 4. Chinese Nationa…
US Trade Deficits and Sino-US Relations
American politicians and policy makers have blamed China's exchange rate for the large US trade deficits. This paper explains why the USA treats its trade deficits with China as a security issue that have become a source of friction in Sino-US relations. The essay argues that this friction is a useful deflection from the politically difficult policy action needed to remedy the US economy and cannot easily be removed by the Chinese side alone. The…
As Asia's quarry
The re-emergence of China in the new millennium has increased global demand for mineral resources, causing a return to the Australian vision of national prosperity tied to primary exports-this time minerals. Many analysts have questioned the wisdom of anchoring Australia's prosperity to being a quarry for Asia. The current mining boom has enabled Australia to postpone, but has not removed, the need to develop new industries to sustain a high stan…
Operating in an inharmonious world
This paper investigates the establishment and subsequent investment strategy of China's official sovereign wealth fund, the China Investment Corporation (CIC). CIC, as its stands today, is derivative of the contest between the People's Bank of China and Ministry of Finance for control over the nation's financial assets. The contest takes place amidst China's desire to avoid significant appreciation of its currency to protect its export markets an…
Rethinking economics in the Asian Century
A key focus of this book is the importance of intellectual engagement with Asia. Particular emphasis is placed on the new theoretical and practical insights that can be gained by doing so that are relevant to a range of social scientists, regardless of their regional specialisation. In that context, the performance of the Chinese economy in the past 30 years provides a smorgasbord of food for thought (and rethought) about the role of the state in…
Distributing flood shelters for disaster risk reduction
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to inspect disaster risk reduction (DRR) challenges from a political economy (PE) perspective and to explore how PE determinants facilitate or hinder effective DRR in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative case study, using semi-structured in-depth interviews, official documents and literature review has been conducted to explore the current process and practices of DRR in Bangladesh. The specif…
Economics (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · China (15 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Economic system (6 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (5 works) · Global trade and economics (5 works) · Market economy (5 works) · Political economy (5 works)