Earlier this month we introduced seven new SciTech books authored by HKUST researchers. In this post, we feature the twelve new books in the fields of business, humanities and social sciences.
The name of the HKUST member is noted by an asterisk and linked to their scholar profile.
State and Social Protests in China
By Yongshun Cai* and Chih-Jou Jay Chen
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China has witnessed numerous incidents of social protests over the past three decades. Protests create uncertainty for authoritarian governments, and the Chinese government has created, strengthened, and coordinated multiple dispute-resolution institutions to manage social conflicts and protests. Accommodating the aggrieved prevents the accumulation of grievances in society, but concessions require resources. As the frequency and scale of collective action are closely tied to the political opportunity for action, the Chinese government has also contained protest by shaping the political opportunity available to the aggrieved. Cai and Chen show that when the Chinese central government prioritizes social control, as it has under Xi Jinping’s leadership, it signals that it will tolerate local governments’ use of coercion. The result is an environment that is not conducive to the mobilization of collective action, large-scale occurrences of which have been uncommon in China in recent years.
Heidegger and Dao: Things, Nothingness, Freedom
By Eric S Nelson*
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This work elucidates the thing, the mystery, and freedom in Heidegger and Daoism in Part I and Heidegger’s thinking of nothingness, emptiness, and the clearing in relation to Daoist and Buddhist philosophy in Part II. In each part, Nelson unfolds a fresh perspective for thinking further with Heidegger and East Asian philosophies in relation to the contemporary existential and environmental situation for the sake of nourishing life amidst damaged life.
The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics, Second Edition
Edited by Li Wei, Zhu Hua, and James Edward Barbour Simpson*
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The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics, published in 2011, has long been a standard introduction and essential reference point to the broad interdisciplinary field of applied linguistics.
Reflecting the growth and widening scope of applied linguistics, this new edition thoroughly updates and expands coverage. It includes 27 new chapters, now consists of two complementary volumes, and covers a wide range of topics from a variety of perspectives. Volume One is organized into two sections – ‘Language learning and language education’ and ‘Key areas and approaches in applied linguistics’ – and Volume Two also has two sections – ‘Applied linguistics in society’ and ‘Broadening horizons’.
China’s Greater Bay Area: Agglomeration, External Economies, Governance and Urbanization
By Jerry Patchell*
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China’s Greater Bay Area (GBA) – previously referred to as the Pearl River Delta – is one of the world’s largest mega-city regions and China’s foremost technological, economic, social and cultural node. Patchell integrates agglomeration concepts with the GBA’s distinctive features to explain the region’s rise, innovativeness, and resilience. He reveals how the GBA works as differentiated and interdependent systems, providing a window into the GBA and China, while also providing the basis for a comparative approach to mega-cities and mega-regions.
早期漢語方言語法 Grammatical Studies on Early Chinese Dialects
By 江敏華, 姚玉敏* 編輯
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本專書共收錄11 篇運用早期漢語方言的素材進行方言語法探討的論文，涵蓋官話、閩、客、粵、吳等方言，也有同時進行跨方言比較的。論文考察的早期材料，從明代的《荔鏡記》，到十九世紀至二十世紀中由外國人編寫的教科書、字辭典、對話集或宗教文獻翻譯等。通過對早期方言材料的考察，本論文集一方面把方言演變的軌跡勾勒出來，另一方面也加深我們對語言變化背後的動因和機制的認識。
Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia via Japan (1880–1930)
By Xiaolu Ma*
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The book offers the first in-depth account of the triangular relationship among Chinese, Japanese, and Russian literature and culture in the modern era. Drawing on primary sources in all three languages—among others—Xiaolu Ma reveals how Chinese writers translated and appropriated Russian cultural tropes through the intermediary of Japanese writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. To trace the global journey of these literatures and ideas, Ma maps four case studies involving leading cultural figures including Leo Tolstoy, Futabatei Shimei, and Lu Xun. Together, they demonstrate the central role of relay transculturation—cultural exchange among at least three cultures, one of which serves primarily as an intermediary—as the key to understanding East Asian modernity.
Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research: Dialogues between Researchers and Philosophers
Edited by Yafeng Shan*
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The book offers new defences of the seven main approaches to mixed methods (the pragmatist approach, the transformative approach, the indigenous approach, the dialectical approach, the dialectical pluralist approach, the performative approach, and the realist approach) written by leading mixed methods researchers. Each approach is accompanied by critical reflections chapter from philosophers’ point of view. The book shows the value of the use of mixed methods from a philosophical point of view and offers a systematic and critical examination of these positions and approaches from a philosophical point of view.
Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-making and Mechanism
Edited by Yafeng Shan*
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This volume explores and examines alternative approaches to causation. It revisits causal primitivism and causal eliminativism in the context of recent literature. It further explores the pluralistic approach, the fictionalist approach, the inferentialist approach, and the informational approach. It also examines the application of the dispositional approach, the epistemic approach, and the powerful particulars approach to the natural and social sciences. Overall, the volume is complementary to the recent discussion on difference-making and mechanistic approaches and sheds new light on the metaphysical, epistemological, conceptual and methodological issues on causation.
Supply and Demand Management in Ride-Sourcing Markets
By Jintao Ke, Hai Yang*, Hai Wang and Yafeng Yin
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The book offers a fundamental modeling framework for characterizing ride-sourcing markets by spelling out the complex relationships among key endogenous and exogenous variables in the markets. This book establishes several economic models that can approximate matching frictions between drivers and passengers, describes the equilibrium state of ride-sourcing markets, and more. Based on these models, the book develops an optimum strategy (in terms of trip fare, wage and/or matching) that maximizes platform profit. While the best social optimum solution (for maximizing the social welfare) is generally unsustainable, this book provides options governments can use to encourage second-best solutions.
Hong Kong Taxation and Tax Planning, 21st Edition
By Patrick Kin-wai Ho and Kelvin P Mak*
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The objective of this book is to provide readers with taxation knowledge from the basic to the advance level of tax planning. At the same time, this book is a very valuable tool for students learning their materials for the preparation of academic and professional examinations.
The author has been trying his best to accomplish the above objective in the past editions. This is done with the provision of the most updated tax knowledge and concept maps to assist readers in understanding the difficult tax knowledge.
Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China
By Wenkai He*
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How were state formation and early modern politics shaped by the state’s proclaimed obligation to domestic welfare? Drawing on a wide range of historical scholarship and primary sources, this book demonstrates that a public interest-based discourse of state legitimation was common to early modern England, Japan, and China. This normative platform served as a shared basis on which state and society could negotiate and collaborate over how to attain good governance through providing public goods such as famine relief and infrastructural facilities. The terms of state legitimacy opened a limited yet significant political space for the ruled. Through petitioning and protests, subordinates could demand that the state fulfil its publicly proclaimed duty and redress welfare grievances. Conflicts among diverse dimensions of public interest mobilized cross-regional and cross-sectoral collective petitions; justified by the same norms of state legitimacy, these petitions called for fundamental political reforms and transformed the nature of politics.
通向现代财政国家的路径：英国、日本与中国 Paths Toward the Modern Fiscal State: England, Japan, and China
和文凱* 著 汪精玲 譯
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本书聚焦现代公共财政制度建设的问题，细致比较中英日三个国家在制度发展关键期的具体历史过程。以宏阔的视野、新颖的框架、扎实的史料回应“大分流”的问题，对清政府未能实现财政转型的解释极富洞察力。
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published September 25, 2024