Stephen W K Chiu
Biographic Data
| ID | 139035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen W K Chiu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen W K |
| FAMILY NAME | Chiu |
| SIGNATURE | CHIU S W K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A Socioecological Perspective on the Future Quality of Life of Hong Kong’s Young People
Hong Kong as a Crown Jewel of the British Empire
Hong Kong Society
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Hong Kong
Global Distribution Networks, Local Exhibition Alliances
Shin V. K. W. and Chiu S. W. K. Global distribution networks, local exhibition alliances: Hollywood's new map in Hong Kong, Regional Studies. Hollywood firms dominate the international film industry through their distribution networks, but how did they develop these networks and how have the networks helped their movies penetrate overseas markets? This paper demonstrates how Hollywood expanded its global distribution networks and capitalized on i…
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a small city with a big reputation. As mainland China has become an 'economic powerhouse' Hong Kong has taken a route of development of its own, flourishing as an entrepot and a centre of commerce and finance for Chinese business, then as an industrial city and subsequently a regional and international financial centre. This volume examines the developmental history of Hong Kong, focusing on its rise to the status of a Chinese global…
Flexible Employment in Hong Kong
Through analyzing primary and secondary data, this paper argues that flexible employment practices in Hong Kong are largely employer-driven. This feature is explicable by the low level of government intervention in industrial relations, the development of the labor movement, and the Asian financial crisis that accentuated employers' prerogatives in employment relations
Getting Ahead in the Capitalist Paradise
This article examines the initial labor market outcome and the subsequent mobility process of Chinese immigrants in Colonial Hong Kong using complete work history data and event history modeling. Contrary to the rhetoric that Hong Kong is a capitalist paradise for adventurers, the data showed that immigrants were penalized in their initial class placement, subsequent mobility, and current income attainment. Differences in educational attainment a…
Decolonization and the movement for institutionalization of Chinese medicine in Hong Kong
Good governance or muddling through? Layoffs and employment reform in socialist China☆
China’s socialist employment system has undergone radical changes since the 1990s along with enterprise restructuring. Surplus workers have been laid off from state-owned enterprises in large numbers. China’s policy program for the management of layoffs in this process of enterprise restructuring has been evaluated as an example of ‘good practices in labor administration’. In this paper, we use original field data collected in Beijing, supplement…
Testing the Global City-Social Polarisation Thesis
The literature on the development of global cities suggests that Hong Kong had qualified as a global city by the early 1990s. Using data from the Population Censuses, this paper documents the extent to which the process of social polarisation accompanied Hong Kong's globalisation. As predicted by the global city literature, Hong Kong experienced during the 1990s a process of occupational polarisation and widening income inequality as a result of …
The Hollowing-out of Hong Kong Electronics
This paper aims to enrich the literature on East Asian development by focusing on one critical difference between Hong Kong and the other NIEs - Hong Kong's rapid deindustrialization since the mid-1980s. We shall argue that while global restructuring gives rise to upgrading opportunities for various localities, it is the process of capability formation associated with the local business model that determines whether or not a locality is likely to…
The Lost Generation
In this article, we describe and analyze the experiences of the xiagang workers from the perspective of life course analysis. Our primary data come from open-ended interviews we conducted between June and August 1999 with 80 redundant workers in Beijing
Leaving the Parental Home
Leaving the parental home is increasingly treated as an essential stepping-stone toward adulthood in the modern world. The authors argue that this is a cultural process regulated by social norms and institutional settings that vary from place to place. Hong Kong provides an excellent scenario in which Chinese traditions coexist with rapid economic development. Rather than looking at leaving the parental home as a developmental process, Chinese tr…
Trade Union Growth Waves in Hong Kong
The development of a trade union movement in Hong Kong, as in other industrial societies, has been an uneven process. We focus in this paper on three major growth waves -1920-26, 1946-51 and from the early 1970s to the 1990s when union formation and membership have risen substantially. We describe the strategies of organisational development pursued by Hong Kong trade unions during these three growth waves, the economic, political and social circ…
East Asia and the World Economy
After the Hong Kong Miracle
Research Article| August 01 1997 After the Hong Kong Miracle: Women Workers under Industrial Restructuring Stephen W. K. Chiu; Stephen W. K. Chiu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Ching Kwan Lee Ching Kwan Lee Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1997) 37 (8): 752–770. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645448 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video …
The Structuring of Social Movements in Contemporary Hong Kong
The Paradox of Stability Revisited
City-States in the Global Economy
Hong Kong and Singapore in the World Economy * Historical Trajectories: Common Legacies, Different Outcomes * Hong Kong: Locked into Labor-intensive Manufacturing * Singapore: Manufacturing Fortunes in Sunrise and High Noon Industries * Hong Kong versus Singapore: Divergent Paths of Economic Change * Comparing Institutional Legacies and Trajectories * Conclusion
Modern East Asia in World-Systems Analysis
Applying the large-scale, holistic, and long-time-span heuristic devices of world-systems analysis, this article highlights the crucial role played by regional geopolitics in East Asian development, In regard to large-scale analysis, this article studies interstate dynamics in East Asia and shows how the strategic locations of China, Japan, and Korea greatly influenced one another's development. This article shows, through holistic analysis, that…
A Tale of Two Industries
In different ways, newly industrialised economies (NIEs) in East Asia are restructuring their industries in response to changes in their comparative advantages and to the changing environment of the global economy. In this paper, an attempt is made to examine the case of Hong Kong through intensive case studies of its garment-making and electronics industries. It is argued that the way the manufacturing industries respond to rising production cos…
Industrial Restructuring and Labour-Market Adjustment under Positive Noninterventionism
This paper is an attempt to probe the interactions of economic restructuring and labour-market development in the process of industrial development in contemporary Hong Kong. The discussion is mainly divided into two parts. First is an examination of the development of the Hong Kong economy in the context of the changing world economy and, in particular, the effects of the structuring of the global division of labour on changes in the economic st…
Testing the Global City-Social Polarisation Thesis
The literature on the development of global cities suggests that Hong Kong had qualified as a global city by the early 1990s. Using data from the Population Censuses, this paper documents the extent to which the process of social polarisation accompanied Hong Kong's globalisation. As predicted by the global city literature, Hong Kong experienced during the 1990s a process of occupational polarisation and widening income inequality as a result of …
The Lost Generation
In this article, we describe and analyze the experiences of the xiagang workers from the perspective of life course analysis. Our primary data come from open-ended interviews we conducted between June and August 1999 with 80 redundant workers in Beijing
Getting Ahead in the Capitalist Paradise
This article examines the initial labor market outcome and the subsequent mobility process of Chinese immigrants in Colonial Hong Kong using complete work history data and event history modeling. Contrary to the rhetoric that Hong Kong is a capitalist paradise for adventurers, the data showed that immigrants were penalized in their initial class placement, subsequent mobility, and current income attainment. Differences in educational attainment a…
Leaving the Parental Home
Leaving the parental home is increasingly treated as an essential stepping-stone toward adulthood in the modern world. The authors argue that this is a cultural process regulated by social norms and institutional settings that vary from place to place. Hong Kong provides an excellent scenario in which Chinese traditions coexist with rapid economic development. Rather than looking at leaving the parental home as a developmental process, Chinese tr…
A Tale of Two Industries
In different ways, newly industrialised economies (NIEs) in East Asia are restructuring their industries in response to changes in their comparative advantages and to the changing environment of the global economy. In this paper, an attempt is made to examine the case of Hong Kong through intensive case studies of its garment-making and electronics industries. It is argued that the way the manufacturing industries respond to rising production cos…
Industrial Restructuring and Labour-Market Adjustment under Positive Noninterventionism
This paper is an attempt to probe the interactions of economic restructuring and labour-market development in the process of industrial development in contemporary Hong Kong. The discussion is mainly divided into two parts. First is an examination of the development of the Hong Kong economy in the context of the changing world economy and, in particular, the effects of the structuring of the global division of labour on changes in the economic st…
The Hollowing-out of Hong Kong Electronics
This paper aims to enrich the literature on East Asian development by focusing on one critical difference between Hong Kong and the other NIEs - Hong Kong's rapid deindustrialization since the mid-1980s. We shall argue that while global restructuring gives rise to upgrading opportunities for various localities, it is the process of capability formation associated with the local business model that determines whether or not a locality is likely to…
Flexible Employment in Hong Kong
Through analyzing primary and secondary data, this paper argues that flexible employment practices in Hong Kong are largely employer-driven. This feature is explicable by the low level of government intervention in industrial relations, the development of the labor movement, and the Asian financial crisis that accentuated employers' prerogatives in employment relations
The Structuring of Social Movements in Contemporary Hong Kong
Decolonization and the movement for institutionalization of Chinese medicine in Hong Kong
Global Distribution Networks, Local Exhibition Alliances
Shin V. K. W. and Chiu S. W. K. Global distribution networks, local exhibition alliances: Hollywood's new map in Hong Kong, Regional Studies. Hollywood firms dominate the international film industry through their distribution networks, but how did they develop these networks and how have the networks helped their movies penetrate overseas markets? This paper demonstrates how Hollywood expanded its global distribution networks and capitalized on i…
Good governance or muddling through? Layoffs and employment reform in socialist China☆
China’s socialist employment system has undergone radical changes since the 1990s along with enterprise restructuring. Surplus workers have been laid off from state-owned enterprises in large numbers. China’s policy program for the management of layoffs in this process of enterprise restructuring has been evaluated as an example of ‘good practices in labor administration’. In this paper, we use original field data collected in Beijing, supplement…
Trade Union Growth Waves in Hong Kong
The development of a trade union movement in Hong Kong, as in other industrial societies, has been an uneven process. We focus in this paper on three major growth waves -1920-26, 1946-51 and from the early 1970s to the 1990s when union formation and membership have risen substantially. We describe the strategies of organisational development pursued by Hong Kong trade unions during these three growth waves, the economic, political and social circ…
The Paradox of Stability Revisited
After the Hong Kong Miracle
Research Article| August 01 1997 After the Hong Kong Miracle: Women Workers under Industrial Restructuring Stephen W. K. Chiu; Stephen W. K. Chiu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Ching Kwan Lee Ching Kwan Lee Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1997) 37 (8): 752–770. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645448 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video …
Modern East Asia in World-Systems Analysis
Applying the large-scale, holistic, and long-time-span heuristic devices of world-systems analysis, this article highlights the crucial role played by regional geopolitics in East Asian development, In regard to large-scale analysis, this article studies interstate dynamics in East Asia and shows how the strategic locations of China, Japan, and Korea greatly influenced one another's development. This article shows, through holistic analysis, that…
Industrial Restructuring and Labour-Market Adjustment under Positive Noninterventionism
This paper is an attempt to probe the interactions of economic restructuring and labour-market development in the process of industrial development in contemporary Hong Kong. The discussion is mainly divided into two parts. First is an examination of the development of the Hong Kong economy in the context of the changing world economy and, in particular, the effects of the structuring of the global division of labour on changes in the economic st…
A Tale of Two Industries
In different ways, newly industrialised economies (NIEs) in East Asia are restructuring their industries in response to changes in their comparative advantages and to the changing environment of the global economy. In this paper, an attempt is made to examine the case of Hong Kong through intensive case studies of its garment-making and electronics industries. It is argued that the way the manufacturing industries respond to rising production cos…
Modern East Asia in World-Systems Analysis
Applying the large-scale, holistic, and long-time-span heuristic devices of world-systems analysis, this article highlights the crucial role played by regional geopolitics in East Asian development, In regard to large-scale analysis, this article studies interstate dynamics in East Asia and shows how the strategic locations of China, Japan, and Korea greatly influenced one another's development. This article shows, through holistic analysis, that…
East Asia and the World Economy
After the Hong Kong Miracle
Research Article| August 01 1997 After the Hong Kong Miracle: Women Workers under Industrial Restructuring Stephen W. K. Chiu; Stephen W. K. Chiu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Ching Kwan Lee Ching Kwan Lee Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1997) 37 (8): 752–770. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645448 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video …
The Structuring of Social Movements in Contemporary Hong Kong
The Paradox of Stability Revisited
City-States in the Global Economy
Hong Kong and Singapore in the World Economy * Historical Trajectories: Common Legacies, Different Outcomes * Hong Kong: Locked into Labor-intensive Manufacturing * Singapore: Manufacturing Fortunes in Sunrise and High Noon Industries * Hong Kong versus Singapore: Divergent Paths of Economic Change * Comparing Institutional Legacies and Trajectories * Conclusion
Trade Union Growth Waves in Hong Kong
The development of a trade union movement in Hong Kong, as in other industrial societies, has been an uneven process. We focus in this paper on three major growth waves -1920-26, 1946-51 and from the early 1970s to the 1990s when union formation and membership have risen substantially. We describe the strategies of organisational development pursued by Hong Kong trade unions during these three growth waves, the economic, political and social circ…
Leaving the Parental Home
Leaving the parental home is increasingly treated as an essential stepping-stone toward adulthood in the modern world. The authors argue that this is a cultural process regulated by social norms and institutional settings that vary from place to place. Hong Kong provides an excellent scenario in which Chinese traditions coexist with rapid economic development. Rather than looking at leaving the parental home as a developmental process, Chinese tr…
The Lost Generation
In this article, we describe and analyze the experiences of the xiagang workers from the perspective of life course analysis. Our primary data come from open-ended interviews we conducted between June and August 1999 with 80 redundant workers in Beijing
Good governance or muddling through? Layoffs and employment reform in socialist China☆
China’s socialist employment system has undergone radical changes since the 1990s along with enterprise restructuring. Surplus workers have been laid off from state-owned enterprises in large numbers. China’s policy program for the management of layoffs in this process of enterprise restructuring has been evaluated as an example of ‘good practices in labor administration’. In this paper, we use original field data collected in Beijing, supplement…
Testing the Global City-Social Polarisation Thesis
The literature on the development of global cities suggests that Hong Kong had qualified as a global city by the early 1990s. Using data from the Population Censuses, this paper documents the extent to which the process of social polarisation accompanied Hong Kong's globalisation. As predicted by the global city literature, Hong Kong experienced during the 1990s a process of occupational polarisation and widening income inequality as a result of …
The Hollowing-out of Hong Kong Electronics
This paper aims to enrich the literature on East Asian development by focusing on one critical difference between Hong Kong and the other NIEs - Hong Kong's rapid deindustrialization since the mid-1980s. We shall argue that while global restructuring gives rise to upgrading opportunities for various localities, it is the process of capability formation associated with the local business model that determines whether or not a locality is likely to…
Getting Ahead in the Capitalist Paradise
This article examines the initial labor market outcome and the subsequent mobility process of Chinese immigrants in Colonial Hong Kong using complete work history data and event history modeling. Contrary to the rhetoric that Hong Kong is a capitalist paradise for adventurers, the data showed that immigrants were penalized in their initial class placement, subsequent mobility, and current income attainment. Differences in educational attainment a…
Decolonization and the movement for institutionalization of Chinese medicine in Hong Kong
Flexible Employment in Hong Kong
Through analyzing primary and secondary data, this paper argues that flexible employment practices in Hong Kong are largely employer-driven. This feature is explicable by the low level of government intervention in industrial relations, the development of the labor movement, and the Asian financial crisis that accentuated employers' prerogatives in employment relations
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a small city with a big reputation. As mainland China has become an 'economic powerhouse' Hong Kong has taken a route of development of its own, flourishing as an entrepot and a centre of commerce and finance for Chinese business, then as an industrial city and subsequently a regional and international financial centre. This volume examines the developmental history of Hong Kong, focusing on its rise to the status of a Chinese global…
Global Distribution Networks, Local Exhibition Alliances
Shin V. K. W. and Chiu S. W. K. Global distribution networks, local exhibition alliances: Hollywood's new map in Hong Kong, Regional Studies. Hollywood firms dominate the international film industry through their distribution networks, but how did they develop these networks and how have the networks helped their movies penetrate overseas markets? This paper demonstrates how Hollywood expanded its global distribution networks and capitalized on i…
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Hong Kong
Hong Kong as a Crown Jewel of the British Empire
Hong Kong Society
A Socioecological Perspective on the Future Quality of Life of Hong Kong’s Young People
Economics (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Economy (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · History (6 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (6 works)