The Erosion of Press Freedom: An Examination of Hong Kong’s Book Publishing and Journalism Industries Post-handover

Hong Kong was once touted for the openness of its press and its vibrant independent publishing scene. Now, seemingly reputable news organizations, such as the South China Morning Post, are undergoing editorial shifts and engaging in self-censorship while independent book publishers are being replaced by Chinese state-owned companies. These changes are a result of years of direct and indirect pressure on these industries by the Chinese government, which began even before the 1997 handover. In the past decade, these tactics have become more overt and their effects on the city’s news organizations and book publishers are increasingly visible. Through interviews with journalists and book publishers, textual analyses and a look into the operations of Hong Kong’s journalism and book publishing industries since the handover, this thesis presents the various methods utilized by the Chinese government to exert control and outlines the toll they have taken on Hong Kong’s press freedom

China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Mission Opportunities and Challenges

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an infrastructure project proposed by China to improve transportation in Eurasia. This will bring both mission opportunities and challenges in the regions affected. God is perhaps giving Christians a unique opportunity for evangelism through this project which facilitates the movement of not just humans and products, but also the gospel

China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Mission Opportunities and Challenges

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an infrastructure project proposed by China to improve transportation in Eurasia. This will bring both mission opportunities and challenges in the regions affected. God is perhaps giving Christians a unique opportunity for evangelism through this project which facilitates the movement of not just humans and products, but also the gospel

Issues and Trends in Collection Development for East Asia Legal Materials

The authors delineate the general policy and guidelines for developing foreign and transnational law collections in U.S. law libraries, and they analyze factors that shape East Asian collections, such as law libraries’ preservation and digitization efforts and their related cost-efficiency, and the availability and quality of English translations. The authors then discuss the main sources for Korean, Japanese, and Chinese law

Science4you, S.A. : from educational toys to software and hardware devices

The thesis that is hereby presented in the form of a case study aims to address the challenges faced by the Portuguese company Science4you, S.A., upon creating a new product line focusing technology products, particularly tablets and smartphones. The thesis is divided into three parts: case study, literature review and teaching notes which can be used as an educational tool in undergraduate or graduate programs. Formed in 2008, Science4you, S.A. is a company dedicated to the development, production and marketing of toys, as well as birthday parties, holiday camps, training courses and scientific animation. Despite not having carried out any market research in concrete, by the end of 2013, Science4you decided to develop a new line of technology products for children (tech4you). Such decision resulted from the company perception that the market lacked this kind of products, which target the needs of children and address parental concerns. The business strategy followed by Sience4you, and the analysis of the strategic option mentioned, constitute interesting topics for discussion which can be reviewed in a strategy course and supported by theoretical concepts proposed in the literature review. The proposed reflection focuses primarily on the analysis and evaluation of the business strategy, including the strategic option of developing a new line of technology products, thus providing recommendations for alternative strategic paths for the future

The Control of the Media in the People's Republic of China

This dissertation examines the motivations, logic, and functions of media control in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Rather than telling the history of media control in modern China, or giving a comprehensive account of the techniques employed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to control the media, it investigates the origins of the CCP’s theoretical approach to the media, as well as the consequences of the resulting concepts for practical media work in the PRC. The first half of the thesis tracks the genesis of the Party’s media concept and reconstructs the conditions that contributed to its rise in the first half of the twentieth century; the chapters in the latter half follow this concept in its implementation through a number of case studies from the early 1950s through the late 1990s. Since the day of its founding, the CCP has placed great emphasis on questions of media and propaganda; after 1949 the party-state has claimed full control of the Chinese print, broadcast, and electronic media. Asking for the reasons behind this claim, I argue that it must be traced back to the Party’s desire to bring about the transformation of human consciousness and to create an environment conducive to this process, a utopian project informed as much by the Leninist version of Marxism as by Neo-Confucian ideas of education and state-society relations prevalent in the late imperial era. This project and its underlying fundamental assumptions have survived – in greatly transmuted form – to the present day and continue to inform the strict control of the Chinese media, even when such controls clash with other political and socio-economic interests of the Party-state. I propose to take the media as a variable to measure changes in the CCP’s approach to governance. The Party’s handling of the media serves as a mirror of state-society relations; consequently, the investigation into the media provides us with information on the CCP’s conceptions of governance under changing circumstances. I argue that over the past twenty years, the CCP has successfully altered and reinterpreted its vision of the state and its position therein; it has adopted a more flexible set of methods to achieve its fundamental political objectives. At the same time, however, the ultimate goals of the Party – originally formulated in Yan’an – have changed remarkably little

Perceptions of "the other": overseas experiences of Japanese and Chinese university students.

Wong, Yat Yu.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009.Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-176).Abstract also in Chinese.Abstract --- p.iAcknowledgements --- p.iiiChapter Chapter One: --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 1.1 --- Statement of Purpose --- p.1Chapter 1.2 --- Literature Review --- p.6Chapter 1.2.1 --- Identity and perceptions of “the other´حChapter 1.2.2 --- National identityChapter 1.2.3 --- How do Japanese and Chinese people view each other?Chapter 1.2.4 --- Chinese and Japanese national identityChapter 1.2.5 --- Identity and foreign experiences among overseas Chinese and JapaneseChapter 1.3 --- Methodology --- p.26Chapter 1.3.1 --- "Beijing, China and Kyoto, Japan as field sites"Chapter 1.3.2 --- Semi-structured interviewsChapter 1.3.3 --- Written sourcesChapter 1.3.4 --- Reflexivity of the researcherChapter 1.3.5 --- Limitations of the Research MethodsChapter 1.4 --- Structure of the Thesis --- p.35Chapter Chapter Two: --- Perceptions of “the Other´ح in the Japanese and Chinese Media --- p.38Chapter 2.1 --- Images of “the Other´ح in Japanese and Chinese Popular Books --- p.41Chapter 2.1.1 --- Heavy focus on negative images of China and Chinese people in Japanese popular booksChapter 2.1.2 --- Diverse views of Japan and Japanese people in Chinese popular booksChapter 2.2 --- Reporting “the Other´ح in Japanese and Chinese Newspapers --- p.55Chapter 2.2.1 --- Background of Japanese and Chinese newspapersChapter 2.2.2 --- The poisoned dumpling incident in Japanese and Chinese newspapersChapter 2.2.3 --- Jun'ichiro Koizumi's visits to the Yasukuni Shrine in Japanese and Chinese newspapersChapter Chapter Three: --- Stereotypes and Disappointments: Chinese Students´ة Perceptions of Japan and Japanese People --- p.69Chapter 3.1 --- Initial Views of Japan --- p.72Chapter 3.2 --- "Stereotypes of Japanese Characteristics: Strict, Ambiguous and Distant" --- p.75Chapter 3.3 --- Stereotypes of Japanese Views of China and Chinese People --- p.81Chapter 3.4 --- Unpleasant Part-time Jobs --- p.84Chapter 3.5 --- Stressful Scholarship System --- p.86Chapter Chapter Four: --- Improved Impressions and Reinforced Stereotypes: Japanese Students' Perceptions of China and Chinese People --- p.92Chapter 4.1 --- Initial Views of China and Chinese PeopleChapter 4.2 --- Reasons to Go to China --- p.100Chapter 4.3 --- Improved Impressions: Friendships with Chinese People --- p.101Chapter 4.4 --- Different Communication Styles --- p.105Chapter 4.5 --- Reinforced Stereotypes --- p.110Chapter 4.5.1 --- The Chinese government and peopleChapter 4.5.2 --- Uncivilized Chinese general publicChapter 4.5.3 --- A good Chinese personChapter Chapter Five: --- Perceptions of Media and “the Other´ح among Chinese and Japanese Students --- p.119Chapter 5.1 --- Exaggerations and Unreliability: The Japanese Media in the Eyes of Chinese Students --- p.120Chapter 5.1.1 --- Exaggerations by the Japanese media: “They only report negative things!´حChapter 5.1.2 --- Unreliability of the Japanese mediaChapter 5.1.3 --- Comparing the Japanese and Chinese media: Different styles of reporting newsChapter 5.1.4 --- Comparing the Japanese and Chinese media: Different attitudes in reporting “the other´حChapter 5.1.5 --- Relations between the Japanese media and the general publicChapter 5.2 --- Lack of Freedom and Lack of Reality: Chinese Media in the Eyes of Japanese --- p.132Chapter 5.2.1 --- Limited information and choices from the Chinese mediaChapter 5.2.2 --- Misleading of audiences by the Chinese mediaChapter 5.2.3 --- Comparing the Chinese and Japanese mediaChapter 5.2.4 --- Relations between the Chinese media and the general publicChapter 5.3 --- Discussion --- p.142Chapter Chapter Six: --- Conclusion --- p.146Chapter 6.1 --- Chapter Summaries --- p..146Chapter 6.2 --- National Identity among the Japanese and Chinese Students --- p..149Chapter 6.3 --- "Perceptions of “the Other,´ح Media Discourses and Cultural Power Relations between Japan and China" --- p..153Chapter 6.4 --- Value of the Study --- p.156Appendices --- p.160Bibliography --- p.16

A Model for Achieving Sustainable Commercial Complexes in Shanghai, China

In recent years, political and social concerns have risen in China related to green energy utilization and sustainable architecture. Architectural development in China has increased dramatically since the 2000s, and there is an increasing demand for and focus on energy-saving and sustainable architecture. However, there are few commercial complexes in China that apply sustainability standards. This research explores the future development of sustainable commercial complexes as the next step of architectural development in China, green technology evolution, and appropriate solutions for local conditions to provide a suitable sustainable commercial complex in Shanghai, China. The documentary analysis will be performed based on current local conditions and the needs and social concerns related to sustainable commercial complexes. To achieve the goal, it is necessary to ascertain the benefits for society and the environment when building sustainable commercial complexes. This thesis seeks to demonstrate with an appropriate model that acceptable sustainability standards can be met while satisfying local cultural, environment, and social needs. This analysis is developed based in Shanghai, a well known international city in Eastern China, which will further influence sustainable commercial projects in other cities in China and worldwide