Doctoral Theses
- Doctoral Theses List (2000-2024)
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| 2024 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| CHEN Ziyang 陳子揚 |
Three Essays on Urban Economics |
| NG Ka Lun 吳嘉倫 |
Three Essays on Hong Kong Society |
| LU Wenzhi 陸文質 |
Divergent Paths: Managing Information Constraints in China and Vietnam |
| 2023 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| LAM, Pak Hung 林柏熊 |
Three Essays on Development Economics in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| MA, Shaocong 马少聪 |
From Whom Should I Learn? Examining the Development of Selective Learning Impacted by Informants’ Perceived Competence and Warmth |
| PENG, Wenwei 彭文威 |
Three Essays on Judicial System in China |
| YIN, Jun 殷俊 |
Three Essays on Housing Issues in Chinese Cities |
| 2022 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| HUANG, Jingyang 黃靖洋 |
The Political Economy of China’s Security Industrial Complex, 1990-2020 |
| SHA, Wenbiao 沙文彪 |
Essays on Development and Political Economics |
| TIAN, Bing 田冰 |
Three Essays on Higher Education and Earnings Inequality in China |
| 2021 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| BUTAEVA, Kristina | Three Essays on Income Inequality in China |
| LI, Xiangning 李湘寧 |
Three Essays on Family, Classification, and Inequality in China |
| LIU, Mengyu 劉孟宇 |
Three Essays on Poverty in Hong Kong SAR, China: Measurements, Minimum Wage, and Social Assistance |
|
LUO, Wei |
Three Essays in Labor Economics |
| 2020 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| CHEN, Bijia 陳必佳 |
Origins and Career Patterns of the Qing Government Officials (1850-1912): Evidence from the China Government Employee Dataset-Qing (CGED-Q) |
| CHEN, Jiaying 陳佳瑩 |
Three Essays in Development Economics |
| WANG, Yige 王一鴿 |
Printing A Road to Revolution: Newspaper and 1911 Revolutionary Movements in Late Qing China |
| 2019 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| XU, Ruozhi 徐若之 |
Essays on Urban and Labor Issues in China |
| ZENG, Donglin 曾東林 |
Three Essays on Neighborhood Effects and Social Consequences of Individuals in Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Hong Kong |
| 2018 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| CHAN, Hoi Wing 陳凱榮 |
Enriching the Understanding of the Gap between Climate Change Belief and Intention to Perform Mitigation Behavior Using a Goal Perspective |
| WU, Lingwei 武玲蔚 |
Essays on Historical Development Issues of China |
| 2017 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| DONG, Hao 董浩 |
Patriarchy, Family System and Kin Effects on Individual Demographic Behavior throughout the Life Course: East Asia, 1678-1945 |
| MIAO, Jia 繆佳 |
Social Participation, Neighborhood, and Subjective Well-being of Chinese Elderly |
| XIE, Jiaxin 謝佳欣 |
Essays on College Major Choice: Evidence from China’s College Entrance Exam |
| XU, Duoduo 許多多 |
Three Essays on Educational Inequality in China: The Causal Impacts of Migration, Segregation, and College Education |
| ZHANG, Shengyuan 張聲遠 |
Three Papers on the Role of Human Behaviors in China’s Low-Carbon Development |
| 2016 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| HE, Guangye 賀光燁 |
Three Essays on Gender Stratification in Contemporary Urban China |
| LI, Zhonglu 李忠路 |
Three Essays on the Transmission of Values in Contemporary China – Impacts of Educational Attainment, Social Policy, and Overseas Study |
| WANG, Jia 王佳 |
Three Essays on Subjective Inequality in Contemporary China |
| WANG, Yanrong 王彦蓉 |
Changing Family Behavior in Contemporary China: Intermarriage, Fertility and Elderly Health Care |
| ZHANG, Jing 張晶 |
Government and Responsibility Shifting in Dispute Resolution: Setting Medical Disputes in China |
| 2015 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| BAI, Ying 白营 |
Essays on the Historical Development of China: Human Capital, Institutions, and Economic Prosperity |
| CHEN, Ting 陳婷 |
Essays on Political Connections: Evidence from China’s Land Market |
| ZENG, Jing 曾靖 |
Dimensionalizing the World of Emotions |
| 2014 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| GU, Yanfeng 顧燕峰 |
Essays on Market Integration: The Dynamics and Its Determinants in Late Imperial China, 1736-1911 |
| YU, Jia 於嘉 |
Social Change and the Family: Three Papers on Family Formation and Parenthood in China |
| ZHOU, Titi 周媞媞 |
The Geography of Power Elites in China: Facts, Causes and Consequences |
| 2013 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| LEUNG, Pak Nang 梁柏能 |
Leading Strikes in the Workshop of the World: Labor Activists and Struggles of the New Working Class in the Pearl River Delta |
| LEUNG, Yee Man Yvonne 梁以文 |
Education Reform in Hong Kong: Power-Status, School Strategy and Social Inequality |
| MA, Kwok Wai 馬國偉 |
Innovation Process in Knowledge-intensive Business Service Firms |
| SHENG, Zhiming 盛智明 |
Pursuing Empowerment: Homeowners’ Activism in China |
| WONG, Tze Wai 黃子為 |
Government Change and Democratic Breakdown in Parliamentary and Presidential Democracies: A Study of 75 Countries from 1951 to 2006 |
| ZHENG, Bingdao 鄭冰島 |
Three Essays on Migration in China |
| 2012 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| JIANG, Qin 蔣勤 |
Essays on Social Mobility in Later Imperial China: Attainments in Civil Exams and Officials’ Career Mobility |
| LI, Jun 李駿 |
Three Essays on the Dynamics of China’s Urban Labor Market: Hukou-based Stratification, Size-earnings Relation, and Sector-segmented Mobility |
| YE, Hua 葉華 |
College Expansion and School-to-Work Transitions in China |
| ZHU, Lin 朱琳 |
The Disciplining of Government Officials in China |
| 2011 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| CHEN, Shuo 陳碩 |
Essays on Malthus: New World Crops, Population Growth, and Civil Conflicts in Late Imperial China |
| LI, Bing 李兵 |
Global Business, Local Politics: Essays on Foreign Direct Investment in China |
| LI, Nan 李楠 |
Essays on Cultural Diffusion, Migration, and Human Capital: Investigation from China’s Historical Experience |
| MA, Chicheng 馬馳騁 |
Essays on Economics of Conflicts: Piracy and Peasant Rebellions in Historical China |
| ZHANG, Zhuoni 張卓妮 |
The Household Registration System, Population Migration, and Social Stratification in Contemporary China |
| 2010 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| GUAN, Bing 管兵 |
Rights Protection Actions and Political Participation in China: The Case of Homeowners in Beijing |
| MAN, Chi Wai Charles 文志威 |
Impacts of Digital Inequality on Civic and Political Participation |
| 2009 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| HAN, Donglin 韓冬臨 |
International Migration and Domestic Politics: Perspectives from Overseas Return Migration in China, 1920-2007 |
| LEUNG, Chi Yuen 梁志遠 |
Everday Life Resistance in a Post-colonial Global City – A Study of Two Illegal Hawker Agglomerations in Hong Kong |
| 2008 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| LAM, Gigi 林之 |
How Does Gender Equity Affect Fertility in Hong Kong? |
| LIN, Thung-hong 林宗弘 |
Social Classes in China: An Analysis of China’s Transition to Capitalism |
| MA, Jianxiong 馬健雄 |
The Collapse of Social Life: Marginalization and Exit Among the Lahu Minority in Southwest China |
| TJIA, Yin Nor Linda 謝燕娜 |
Explaining Railway Reform in China – A Train of Property Rights Re-arrangements |
| 2007 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| LIANG, Yucheng 梁玉成 |
The Study of Social Stratification under Gradual Market Transition in China 中國漸進市場轉型進程中的社會分層研究 |
| SUN, Xiulin 孫秀林 |
Village Governance in Contemporary China: Variations and Outcomes 當代中國的村莊治理與績效分析 |
| YU, Xiao Min 余曉敏 |
Putting Corporate Codes of Conduct Regarding Labor Standards in a Global-national-local Context: A case study of Reebok’s Atheletic Footwear Suppliers Factory in China |
| 2006 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| HUANG, Xianbi 黃先碧 |
The Role of Social Networks in Employment Processes in Urban China |
| LI, Yu 李煜 |
Towards a Meritorcratic Society? -Intergenerational Mobility in Urban China (1966-2003) 走向績效社會？中國城鎮的代際流動(1966-2003) |
| TSANG, Yuk Ching Christina 曾玉清 |
Deciding Stay Claims of Chinese Illegal Immigrant: A Study of the Immigration Official’s Exercise on Discretion in Hong Kong 1980-1996 |
| WONG, Yin Yue Sharon 黃燕如 |
Globalization and the Transformation of Higher Education in Hong Kong |
| ZHANG, Lijuan 張立娟 |
Institutional Trans-formation and the Multi-facet Logic of Differentiation of State-owned Enterprise Workers 體制轉型與國有企業工人分化的多重邏輯 |
| 2004 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| CHAN, Ching Shing 陳政成 |
Rearticulating A Politics of Recognition -Praxis, Theory and Narration of Three HK Intellectuals in Public Writing |
| HO, Wai Yip 何偉業 |
Understanding the Civilizing Process of Islamic Modernity: Conceptualizing Ethnographic Voices From Muslim Diaspora |
| SREEKUMAR, T T | State, Civil Society and Development E-topia: Information and Communication Technologies and the Making of a Rural Network Society in India |
| 2003 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| CHEUNG, Siu Lan Karen 張莜蘭 |
Scalar Expansion and Normal Longevity in Hong Kong |
| FANG, Huirong 方慧容 |
Land Pawning Practices in Republican China: Theory and Reality 典地制度與二十世紀上半期中國農村的經濟發展 |
| TAO, Yick Ku 涂憶劬 |
HK Chinese Students’ Learning Motivation: The Role of Social- versus Individual-Oriented Achievement Motivation |
| WANG, Jianping 王建平 |
Household Trends and Projections in HK: A Macro-simulation Model |
| 2002 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| ZHAO, Yang 趙陽 |
Re-understanding China Rural Land Institutions: Theory and Practice 中國農地制度的再認識:理論與實證 |
| 2001 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| LI, Qiong 李琼 |
Self-Group Relationships under Positiveness and Distinctiveness Threats: The Role of Ingroup Identification and Cultural Variations |
| ZHOU, Fei Zhou 周飛舟 |
From Handicrafts to Putting-out: The Role of Institutional Change in the Rural Industrialization Process in Repulican China 制度變遷和農村工業化: 包買制在清末民初手工業發展中的歷史角色 |
| 2000 |
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| ZHANG, Zhanxin 張展新 |
Labor Institutions, State Power, and Earnings Inequalify in Reforming Urban China |