Shu‐yun Ma
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3782953 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Shu‐yun Ma |
| PRENOMES | Shu‐yun |
| SOBRENOME | Ma |
| ASSINATURA | MA S Y |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-8120-9296 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Taking Evolution Seriously, or Metaphorically? A Review of Interactions between Historical Institutionalism and Darwinian Evolutionary Theory
Since the mid-1980s, political scientists, in particular historical institutionalists, have employed evolutionary theory to study institutional stasis and change. More recently, there have been calls for ‘taking evolution seriously’. This article will frame the earlier uses of evolutionary theory by historical institutionalists, and the recent calls for ‘taking evolution seriously’ into a hierarchy of levels of interaction between natural and soc…
Resistance, Engagement, and Heritage Conservation by Voluntary Sector
An enduring question with regard to the voluntary sector is how it can nurture civic engagement and provide public goods. A World Heritage listing for Penang highlights this question by revealing a vibrant civil society network that has made heritage conservation an issue for public discourse and policy agenda. This paper discusses how the marginalized trajectory of Penang is related to the development of its civic realm, social cohesion and loca…
Power, accidents, and institutional changes
In response to the call for more investigation on ‘institutional dynamism’, this article examines the role of power and accidents in causing institutional changes, employing the theoretical perspective of historical institutionalism. The impact of two ‘accidents’ (epidemics) on the institutional setting of a hospital in Hong Kong under different power contexts (changes of political sovereignty) is analysed as a case study. The finding is that pow…
The Making and Remaking of a Chinese Hospital in Hong Kong
Hong Kong's hospital system has long been the territory of Western medicine. However, during the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003, an integrative approach, combining Chinese and Western medicines, was used in some hospitals in Hong Kong, suggesting a revival of Chinese medicine in the hospital system of this former British colony. This paper will explain how this could happen, by situating the event in the over 160 years'…
Built Heritage Conservation and the Voluntary Sector
Built heritage conservation is not easily achievable through the market, as it involves use of urban space and thus opportunity cost. The problem is more serious if there is no government support. This is the case in Hong Kong, where both the market and the state are not favorable to built heritage conservation. However, in 2005, through a local voluntary organization, a built heritage of Hong Kong-the Tung Wah Coffin Home-was conserved, and the …
Heritage Conservation through Private Donation
Conserving built heritage involves competition for land and ongoing costs. The incentive to preserve is thus particularly low in areas where economic considerations prevail and conservation mechanisms are centralised. This used to be the case in Hong Kong. However, a series of civil conservation efforts since 2003, featuring judicial review, civil disobedience and private donation, have contested the official definition of monument and highlighte…
Political Science at the Edge of Chaos? The Paradigmatic Implications of Historical Institutionalism
Over the past decade, historical institutionalism has emerged as one of the major research pillars of contemporary political science. However, most historical institutionalists seem to be unaware of the paradigmatic implications of this approach for political studies. The theoretical underpinnings of historical institutionalism, namely, the ideas of path dependence and the economics of increasing returns, are based on a new science called complex…
The provision of public goods by a local entrepreneurial state
In 1995, relics of the royal palace of the ancient Nanyue kingdom were, for the first time, excavated in Guangzhou, the provincial capital of Guangdong in south China. As the site is situated at the very business centre of the city, preservation of the relics at the original location would be highly costly. Conflict thus emerged between archaeological consideration and economic calculation. In the end, the Guangzhou municipal government decided t…
Listing Chinese Enterprises in Hong Kong and China’s Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations
Despite structural differences, Chinese companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange have similar management and performance problems
Heritage preservation and sustainability of China's development
Under the influence of economic growth theories, the idea of sustainable development has been revised to sustainable economic development. As a result, cultural concern has often given way to economic calculation in the course of development. This has been evident in the case of China, where economic construction has destroyed a number of invaluable heritage sites. Development in China, therefore, may not be sustainable, since the major concern o…
Role of the state in Chinese enterprises listed in Hong Kong
Given the need to acquire portfolio equity flows on the one hand, but the absence of a developed domestic securities market on the other, China has resorted to listing state enterprises in Hong Kong. This has led to the emergence of two types of companies: H-share companies and red chips. The former are Chinese state-owned enterprises restructured for listing in Hong Kong, whereas the latter are Hong Kong-listed companies with major Chinese inter…
Comparing the Russian State and the Chinese State
Comparing the Russian and Chinese state systems may seem to explain why economic change has taken a different course in each country, but doing so has its pitfalls, for China’s transition has been under way much longer than Russia’s
Understanding China's Reform Looking beyond Neoclassical Explanations
The relative success of post-Mao reform in China has raised a number of questions regarding the neoclassical perspective: How could China have achieved rapid economic growth without privatization? Why have Chinese officials not been resistant to market reform? What makes the Chinese state developmental rather than predatory? The four recent works reviewed in this article attempt to answer these questions by moving away from the neoclassical appro…
The state, foreign capital and privatization in China
From a dependent development perspective, the role of the state and foreign capital in China's privatization has been crucial. Four approaches to conceptualizing the Chinese state can be identified: developmental state, corporatist state, entrepreneurial state, and market‐facilitating state. While the Chinese state does exhibit some features of developmental state in inviting foreign participation in the country's privatization, there have also b…
The role of spontaneity and state initiative in China’s shareholding system reform
This article examines the relative importance of spontaneity and state initiative in economic transformation, using China’s shareholding system reform as case study. Two contrasting images of the Chinese state are identified: the strong state perspective sees the state as providing the basic impetus for change, whereas the weak state perspective emphasizes the role of spontaneous attempt. Based on fieldwork conducted in Foshan, where China’s firs…
Reciprocal relation between political development and ethnic nationalism
There have been hot discussions on the relation between modernization and ethnic nationalism. While there are different views on the issue, they share the common approach that modernization is taken as the explanatory variable and ethnic nationalism the dependent variable. Focusing on the political aspect of modernization, political development, this article argues that the relation between political development, manifested mainly in the rise of …
The rise and fall of Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism in Chile
Third World studies, development studies and post-communist studies
The collapse of state socialism in the USSR and Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s has had contrary impacts on Third World studies and development studies. On the one hand, the disintegration of the former Soviet bloc has made the spirit of 'non-alignment' of the Third World no longer relevant. On the other hand, the nature of post-communist transformation has led many scholars to study transition in terms of development. This artic…
Clientelism, Foreign Attention, and Chinese Intellectual Autonomy
Private capital flows to China
The Role of Power Struggle and Economic Changes in the 'Heshang phenomnon' in China
One of the most talked-about topics among Chinese intellectuals and Western China observers in the past few years has been the six-part television seriesHeshang(River Elegy). After its first broadcast in June 1988 through the national television network Zhongyang dianshitai (China Central Television, or CCTV in short), the film caused immediate shockwaves throughout China, marking the climax of the so-called 'wenhua re' (cultural fever). It was r…
The Chinese Discourse on Civil Society
In recent years the concept of civil society has gained scholarly attention world-wide. It has found numerous advocates in the West, such as John Keane who suggested democratizing European socialism by defending the distinction between civil society and the state; Michael Walzer who proposed synthesizing socialist, capitalist and nationalist ideals under the rubric of civil society; and Daniel Bell, who called for a revival of civil society in th…
Continued clientelism in Chinese intellectual politics
The Exit, Voice, and Struggle to Return of Chinese Political Exiles
T NTIL RECENTLY, the Communist government of China imposed Li severe emigration restrictions upon its citizens as part of the partystate's control over the physical mobility of its population. Between the late 1940s when the regime was established and the late 1970s when the government adopted an open door policy, very little legal emigration occurred.' Because of difficult living conditions in China, the desire to emigrate has far exceeded the a…
Nationalism
This article examines the question whether nationalism is state-building or state-destroying. To correct a common over-generalization, the article identifies three kinds of states: ideal nation-states, multinational states, and state-nations. The relation between nationalism, defined as loyalty to the nation, and strength of state is then discussed under each of the three contexts. In ideal nation-state nationalism is unambiguously state-building…
Heritage preservation and sustainability of China's development
Under the influence of economic growth theories, the idea of sustainable development has been revised to sustainable economic development. As a result, cultural concern has often given way to economic calculation in the course of development. This has been evident in the case of China, where economic construction has destroyed a number of invaluable heritage sites. Development in China, therefore, may not be sustainable, since the major concern o…
Political Science at the Edge of Chaos? The Paradigmatic Implications of Historical Institutionalism
Over the past decade, historical institutionalism has emerged as one of the major research pillars of contemporary political science. However, most historical institutionalists seem to be unaware of the paradigmatic implications of this approach for political studies. The theoretical underpinnings of historical institutionalism, namely, the ideas of path dependence and the economics of increasing returns, are based on a new science called complex…
The Exit, Voice, and Struggle to Return of Chinese Political Exiles
T NTIL RECENTLY, the Communist government of China imposed Li severe emigration restrictions upon its citizens as part of the partystate's control over the physical mobility of its population. Between the late 1940s when the regime was established and the late 1970s when the government adopted an open door policy, very little legal emigration occurred.' Because of difficult living conditions in China, the desire to emigrate has far exceeded the a…
Heritage Conservation through Private Donation
Conserving built heritage involves competition for land and ongoing costs. The incentive to preserve is thus particularly low in areas where economic considerations prevail and conservation mechanisms are centralised. This used to be the case in Hong Kong. However, a series of civil conservation efforts since 2003, featuring judicial review, civil disobedience and private donation, have contested the official definition of monument and highlighte…
Understanding China's Reform Looking beyond Neoclassical Explanations
The relative success of post-Mao reform in China has raised a number of questions regarding the neoclassical perspective: How could China have achieved rapid economic growth without privatization? Why have Chinese officials not been resistant to market reform? What makes the Chinese state developmental rather than predatory? The four recent works reviewed in this article attempt to answer these questions by moving away from the neoclassical appro…
The Role of Power Struggle and Economic Changes in the 'Heshang phenomnon' in China
One of the most talked-about topics among Chinese intellectuals and Western China observers in the past few years has been the six-part television seriesHeshang(River Elegy). After its first broadcast in June 1988 through the national television network Zhongyang dianshitai (China Central Television, or CCTV in short), the film caused immediate shockwaves throughout China, marking the climax of the so-called 'wenhua re' (cultural fever). It was r…
Nationalism
This article examines the question whether nationalism is state-building or state-destroying. To correct a common over-generalization, the article identifies three kinds of states: ideal nation-states, multinational states, and state-nations. The relation between nationalism, defined as loyalty to the nation, and strength of state is then discussed under each of the three contexts. In ideal nation-state nationalism is unambiguously state-building…
The state, foreign capital and privatization in China
From a dependent development perspective, the role of the state and foreign capital in China's privatization has been crucial. Four approaches to conceptualizing the Chinese state can be identified: developmental state, corporatist state, entrepreneurial state, and market‐facilitating state. While the Chinese state does exhibit some features of developmental state in inviting foreign participation in the country's privatization, there have also b…
The Making and Remaking of a Chinese Hospital in Hong Kong
Hong Kong's hospital system has long been the territory of Western medicine. However, during the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003, an integrative approach, combining Chinese and Western medicines, was used in some hospitals in Hong Kong, suggesting a revival of Chinese medicine in the hospital system of this former British colony. This paper will explain how this could happen, by situating the event in the over 160 years'…
Continued clientelism in Chinese intellectual politics
Built Heritage Conservation and the Voluntary Sector
Built heritage conservation is not easily achievable through the market, as it involves use of urban space and thus opportunity cost. The problem is more serious if there is no government support. This is the case in Hong Kong, where both the market and the state are not favorable to built heritage conservation. However, in 2005, through a local voluntary organization, a built heritage of Hong Kong-the Tung Wah Coffin Home-was conserved, and the …
Role of the state in Chinese enterprises listed in Hong Kong
Given the need to acquire portfolio equity flows on the one hand, but the absence of a developed domestic securities market on the other, China has resorted to listing state enterprises in Hong Kong. This has led to the emergence of two types of companies: H-share companies and red chips. The former are Chinese state-owned enterprises restructured for listing in Hong Kong, whereas the latter are Hong Kong-listed companies with major Chinese inter…
Reciprocal relation between political development and ethnic nationalism
There have been hot discussions on the relation between modernization and ethnic nationalism. While there are different views on the issue, they share the common approach that modernization is taken as the explanatory variable and ethnic nationalism the dependent variable. Focusing on the political aspect of modernization, political development, this article argues that the relation between political development, manifested mainly in the rise of …
Third World studies, development studies and post-communist studies
The collapse of state socialism in the USSR and Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s has had contrary impacts on Third World studies and development studies. On the one hand, the disintegration of the former Soviet bloc has made the spirit of 'non-alignment' of the Third World no longer relevant. On the other hand, the nature of post-communist transformation has led many scholars to study transition in terms of development. This artic…
Clientelism, Foreign Attention, and Chinese Intellectual Autonomy
China's Higher Education Reform and the Emergence of Dissidence
Nationalism
This article examines the question whether nationalism is state-building or state-destroying. To correct a common over-generalization, the article identifies three kinds of states: ideal nation-states, multinational states, and state-nations. The relation between nationalism, defined as loyalty to the nation, and strength of state is then discussed under each of the three contexts. In ideal nation-state nationalism is unambiguously state-building…
China's Higher Education Reform and the Emergence of Dissidence
Continued clientelism in Chinese intellectual politics
The Exit, Voice, and Struggle to Return of Chinese Political Exiles
T NTIL RECENTLY, the Communist government of China imposed Li severe emigration restrictions upon its citizens as part of the partystate's control over the physical mobility of its population. Between the late 1940s when the regime was established and the late 1970s when the government adopted an open door policy, very little legal emigration occurred.' Because of difficult living conditions in China, the desire to emigrate has far exceeded the a…
The Chinese Discourse on Civil Society
In recent years the concept of civil society has gained scholarly attention world-wide. It has found numerous advocates in the West, such as John Keane who suggested democratizing European socialism by defending the distinction between civil society and the state; Michael Walzer who proposed synthesizing socialist, capitalist and nationalist ideals under the rubric of civil society; and Daniel Bell, who called for a revival of civil society in th…
The Role of Power Struggle and Economic Changes in the 'Heshang phenomnon' in China
One of the most talked-about topics among Chinese intellectuals and Western China observers in the past few years has been the six-part television seriesHeshang(River Elegy). After its first broadcast in June 1988 through the national television network Zhongyang dianshitai (China Central Television, or CCTV in short), the film caused immediate shockwaves throughout China, marking the climax of the so-called 'wenhua re' (cultural fever). It was r…
Private capital flows to China
Third World studies, development studies and post-communist studies
The collapse of state socialism in the USSR and Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s has had contrary impacts on Third World studies and development studies. On the one hand, the disintegration of the former Soviet bloc has made the spirit of 'non-alignment' of the Third World no longer relevant. On the other hand, the nature of post-communist transformation has led many scholars to study transition in terms of development. This artic…
Clientelism, Foreign Attention, and Chinese Intellectual Autonomy
The state, foreign capital and privatization in China
From a dependent development perspective, the role of the state and foreign capital in China's privatization has been crucial. Four approaches to conceptualizing the Chinese state can be identified: developmental state, corporatist state, entrepreneurial state, and market‐facilitating state. While the Chinese state does exhibit some features of developmental state in inviting foreign participation in the country's privatization, there have also b…
The role of spontaneity and state initiative in China’s shareholding system reform
This article examines the relative importance of spontaneity and state initiative in economic transformation, using China’s shareholding system reform as case study. Two contrasting images of the Chinese state are identified: the strong state perspective sees the state as providing the basic impetus for change, whereas the weak state perspective emphasizes the role of spontaneous attempt. Based on fieldwork conducted in Foshan, where China’s firs…
Reciprocal relation between political development and ethnic nationalism
There have been hot discussions on the relation between modernization and ethnic nationalism. While there are different views on the issue, they share the common approach that modernization is taken as the explanatory variable and ethnic nationalism the dependent variable. Focusing on the political aspect of modernization, political development, this article argues that the relation between political development, manifested mainly in the rise of …
The rise and fall of Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism in Chile
Comparing the Russian State and the Chinese State
Comparing the Russian and Chinese state systems may seem to explain why economic change has taken a different course in each country, but doing so has its pitfalls, for China’s transition has been under way much longer than Russia’s
Understanding China's Reform Looking beyond Neoclassical Explanations
The relative success of post-Mao reform in China has raised a number of questions regarding the neoclassical perspective: How could China have achieved rapid economic growth without privatization? Why have Chinese officials not been resistant to market reform? What makes the Chinese state developmental rather than predatory? The four recent works reviewed in this article attempt to answer these questions by moving away from the neoclassical appro…
Role of the state in Chinese enterprises listed in Hong Kong
Given the need to acquire portfolio equity flows on the one hand, but the absence of a developed domestic securities market on the other, China has resorted to listing state enterprises in Hong Kong. This has led to the emergence of two types of companies: H-share companies and red chips. The former are Chinese state-owned enterprises restructured for listing in Hong Kong, whereas the latter are Hong Kong-listed companies with major Chinese inter…
The provision of public goods by a local entrepreneurial state
In 1995, relics of the royal palace of the ancient Nanyue kingdom were, for the first time, excavated in Guangzhou, the provincial capital of Guangdong in south China. As the site is situated at the very business centre of the city, preservation of the relics at the original location would be highly costly. Conflict thus emerged between archaeological consideration and economic calculation. In the end, the Guangzhou municipal government decided t…
Listing Chinese Enterprises in Hong Kong and China’s Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations
Despite structural differences, Chinese companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange have similar management and performance problems
Heritage preservation and sustainability of China's development
Under the influence of economic growth theories, the idea of sustainable development has been revised to sustainable economic development. As a result, cultural concern has often given way to economic calculation in the course of development. This has been evident in the case of China, where economic construction has destroyed a number of invaluable heritage sites. Development in China, therefore, may not be sustainable, since the major concern o…
Political Science at the Edge of Chaos? The Paradigmatic Implications of Historical Institutionalism
Over the past decade, historical institutionalism has emerged as one of the major research pillars of contemporary political science. However, most historical institutionalists seem to be unaware of the paradigmatic implications of this approach for political studies. The theoretical underpinnings of historical institutionalism, namely, the ideas of path dependence and the economics of increasing returns, are based on a new science called complex…
Heritage Conservation through Private Donation
Conserving built heritage involves competition for land and ongoing costs. The incentive to preserve is thus particularly low in areas where economic considerations prevail and conservation mechanisms are centralised. This used to be the case in Hong Kong. However, a series of civil conservation efforts since 2003, featuring judicial review, civil disobedience and private donation, have contested the official definition of monument and highlighte…
Built Heritage Conservation and the Voluntary Sector
Built heritage conservation is not easily achievable through the market, as it involves use of urban space and thus opportunity cost. The problem is more serious if there is no government support. This is the case in Hong Kong, where both the market and the state are not favorable to built heritage conservation. However, in 2005, through a local voluntary organization, a built heritage of Hong Kong-the Tung Wah Coffin Home-was conserved, and the …
The Making and Remaking of a Chinese Hospital in Hong Kong
Hong Kong's hospital system has long been the territory of Western medicine. However, during the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003, an integrative approach, combining Chinese and Western medicines, was used in some hospitals in Hong Kong, suggesting a revival of Chinese medicine in the hospital system of this former British colony. This paper will explain how this could happen, by situating the event in the over 160 years'…
Power, accidents, and institutional changes
In response to the call for more investigation on ‘institutional dynamism’, this article examines the role of power and accidents in causing institutional changes, employing the theoretical perspective of historical institutionalism. The impact of two ‘accidents’ (epidemics) on the institutional setting of a hospital in Hong Kong under different power contexts (changes of political sovereignty) is analysed as a case study. The finding is that pow…
Resistance, Engagement, and Heritage Conservation by Voluntary Sector
An enduring question with regard to the voluntary sector is how it can nurture civic engagement and provide public goods. A World Heritage listing for Penang highlights this question by revealing a vibrant civil society network that has made heritage conservation an issue for public discourse and policy agenda. This paper discusses how the marginalized trajectory of Penang is related to the development of its civic realm, social cohesion and loca…
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