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Professor LI Chen

Prof LI Chen is Associate Professor and Associate Director at the Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is also Research Fellow (by courtesy) at CUHK’s Lau Chor Tak Institute of Global Economics and Finance (IGEF), Associate Professor (by courtesy) at CUHK’s School of Governance and Policy Science, and Non-resident Fellow at the Institute for International Affairs (IIA) at CUHK (Shenzhen). He has researched, written and taught on a wide range of issues in China’s political economy, development strategy, public policy, and business environment in the global context, such as China’s state-owned-enterprise reform, financial governance, government-business relations, and industrial & regional development policies. He received his PhD and MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge and Dual Bachelor degrees of Law (International Political Economy) and Economics from Peking University. He has been frequently interviewed by international and local media, with views quoted by Fortune, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Lianhe Zaobao (Singapore) and South China Morning Post, among others. He also regularly contributes opinion pieces to China Daily.

Research interests

  • China’s political economy
  • Global political economy
  • Development policy
  • Regulation, governance & institutional analysis
  • Business and financial history

Current Research Projects

2024

Industrial Policy, Financialization, and the Political Economy of Corporate Restructuring in China’s Central State Enterprise (Yangqi) Sector, CUHK Direct Grant

2022

Development Banking and Industrial Policies in China, CUHK Direct Grant

2020

Neoliberalism and Economic Policymaking in Contemporary China, CUHK Direct Grant

2018

Hybrid Regulatory Regime and the Role of State in China’s Stock Market Crisis 2014-2015, RGC Early Career Scheme

2015

The Political Economy of China’s Central State Corporatism: Chinese Communist Party and Large State-controlled Business Groups, Seed Funding for New Recruits

Representative Publications

Books and Edited Volumes

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

 

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Professor CHOW Po Chung

BA (CUHK), MA (Uni of York), PhD (LSE, London)

PC Chow received his PhD from the London School of Economic and Political Science (LSE) in political philosophy in 2006.
 
He obtained his first degree in philosophy at CUHK and an MA in political theory at York. He has written several books on political philosophy, including the recently published Politics of Liberal Equality and Political Morality: from a Liberal Point of View.
 
His current research focuses on left-liberalism, political legitimacy, and the moral issues of freedom and equality. He is the editorial member of Twenty-First Century Bimonthly and Reflexion.

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Moral and Political Philosophy
  • Liberalism
  • Theories of Social Justice
  • Problems of Legitimacy and Justification
  • Contemporary Chinese Political Thought

Services

Editorship

  • Editorial Committee, Twenty-First Century Bimonthly (2010-current)
  • Editorial Committee, Reflexion (2010-current)
  • Editorial Board, Fu Dan Political Philosophy Review (2009-current)
  • Editorial Board, Texts of Contemporary Western Political Philosophy (2008-current)

 

University

  • Member, Steering Committee for Promoting Personal Development through Social and Civic Engagement (2010-current)
  • Chairman, Committee on University Lecture on Civility (2010-2014)
  • Cabinet Member, Wu Yee Sun College (2011-current)
  • Elected Member, Faculty Board of Social Science (2015-2017)

Awards and Honors

  • 13th Hong Kong Book Prize for Our Golden Times, 2019
  • International Scholar Fellowship, Meiji University, Japan, 2018
  • Featured Author, Taipei International Book Exhibition 2018
  • Exemplary Teaching Award, Faculty of Social Science, CUHK, 2018
  • 10th Hong Kong Book Prize for Philosophical Notes on The Little Prince, 2017
  • Secondary School Students’ Best 10 Books Award for Philosophical Notes on The Little Prince, 2017
  • Hong Kong Publishing Biennial Award (Social Science panel) for Political Morality: From a Liberal Point of View, 2017
  • Hong Kong Book Prize for Political Morality: From a Liberal Point of View, 2015
  • The Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award, CUHK, 2008
  • Exemplary Teaching Award in General Education, CUHK, 2008-09
  • Exemplary Teaching Award, Faculty of Social Science, CUHK, 2007

Teaching Courses

Teaching Courses

  • Issues of Political Philosophy (GPAD1095)
  • Values and Public Affairs (GPAD2065)
  • Contemporary Political Philosophy (GPAD3070)
  • The Idea of Freedom (GPAD3146)
  • Reading Political Philosophy I: John Rawls (GPAD4200)
  • Seminar in Political Theory (GPAD4077)

Grants

  • “Politics of Liberal Equality in the Chinese Context”, GRF Research Grant, 2012-2014

Publications

Books:

  • Left-Liberalism: the Idea of a Fair Society (Taipei: SpringHill Publishing, 2024) (in Chinese)
  • Our Golden Times (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2019) (in Chinese)
  • Hong Kong Umbrella Movement and Civil Disobedience (with 石井知章、倉田徹，Tokyo：社會評論社，2019)（in Japanese)
  • To Care (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2017). (in Chinese)
  • Philosophical Notes on The Little Prince (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2016; revised and expanded edition, 2017) Also published in Mainland China by Shanghai: SDX Publishing, 2018; in Taiwan by Taipei: Common Master Press, 2017; in Korea by Seoul: BACDOCI, 2018). (in Chinese)
  • Political Morality：from a Liberal Point of View (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2014, expanded and revised edition, 2015; Seoul: Gilbut Publisher, 2017). (in Chinese)
  • Politics of Liberal Equality (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2015; Beijing: SDX Publishing, 2013). (in Chinese)
  • Political Morality: From a Liberal Point of View (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2015, expanded and revised edition). (in Chinese)
  • The Way to Be (Beijing: SDX Publishing, 2012). (in Chinese)
  • Encounter (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2008). (in Chinese)
  • A Dialogue of Political Philosophy (co-edited with Homan LO, 2004). (in Chinese)
 
Article:

  • “Market Order and Social Justice: a Rebuttal to Hayek’s Theory (Part 1),” China Journal of Democracy, vol. 2, no. 3 (2024), pp.100-115. (in Chinese)
  • “Do We Still Have Reasons to be a Liberal?” Twenty-First Century Bimonthly, 200, (December, 2023), pp.116-135. (in Chinese)
  • “Liberal Patriotism,” China Journal of Democracy, vol. 1, no. 4, (2023), pp.96-113. (in Chinese)
  • “The Idea of Public Philosophy,” Reflection, 48, (2023), pp.191-213. (in Chinese)
  • “John Rawls and Chinese Liberalism,” Twenty-First Bimonthly, 185, (June,2021), pp.4-20. (in Chinese)
  • “The Idea of Left-Liberalism” in Twenty-First Bimonthly, 149,　(June 2015), pp.36-54. (in Chinese)
  • “The Priority of the Sense of Justice and Congruence,” Societas: a Journal for Philosophical Study of Public Affairs 30, (2009), pp. 165-202. (in Chinese)
  • “Stability and Legitimacy,” Open Times 198, (2008), pp.53-69. (in Chinese)
  • “Is Capitalism the Best Way to Promote Freedom,” Open Times 190, ( 2007), pp.72-86. (in Chinese)
  • “Liberalism, Toleration and Nihilism,” China Scholarship 22, (2006), pp.1-39. (in Chinese)
  • “Liberalism, Equality and the Difference Principle,” Societas: a Journal for Philosophical Study of Public Affairs, vol.8, (2004), pp.121-79. (in Chinese)
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Professor ZHAN Jing, Vivian

BA (Foreign Affairs College of China), MA, PhD (UCLA)

Vivian Zhan is a Professor in the School of Governance and Policy Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her BA in English and International Studies from Foreign Affairs College of China, and her PhD in political science from University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests span comparative political economy, contemporary Chinese politics, and research methodology, with a focus on post-Mao reforms, intergovernmental relations, local governance, and development studies. She is also interested in informal institutions and their impact on political and economic behaviours.


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Social Science Research Network: http://ssrn.com/author=1320905

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jing_Zhan6

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?user=mC1hWEYAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN

Teaching Interests:

  • Comparative Politics
  • Chinese Politics
  • Research Methodology
  • Game Theory
  • International Relations

Research Interests:

  • Comparative Politics
  • Chinese Politics
  • Research Methodology
  • Formal and Informal Institutions
  • Development Studies
  • Corruption
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Professor LO Wing Hung, Carlos

BSocSc (CUHK), MPhil (CUHK), PhD (Flinders, Australia), SJD (Renmin, China)

Carlos Wing-Hung Lo is a Professor in the School of Governance and Policy Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He obtained his PhD degree from the Flinders University of South Australia in 1990 and received a doctor of law degree from the Renmin University of China in 2001. He was visiting fellow in the Centre for Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 1993, and was visiting scholar in the School of Public Administration at the University of Southern California in 1994 and 2008, as well as in the Harvard China Project at the Harvard University and the East West Centre of University of Hawaii in 2008. His main research interests are in the areas of law and government, environmental management, public sector management, and corporate social and environmental responsibility, within the contexts of China and Hong Kong. Recently, Prof. Lo has offered consultant services and organized management training programs for public and business sectors. He is the coauthor of Institutions, Regulatory Styles, Society and Environmental Governance in China and the author of China’s Legal Awakening: Legal Theory and Criminal Justice in Deng’s Era. His works have appeared in leading international academic journals including Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Regulation & Governance, Law and Policy, Environment and Planning A, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Administration and Society, American Journal of Comparative Law, Journal of Public Policy, World Development, and The China Quarterly.

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Teaching Fields

  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Chinese Government and Legal System
  • Public Sector Management in Hong Kong
  • Environmental Management for Business
  • Corporate Social Responsibility

Research interests

  • Chinese Legal System
  • Corporate Environmental Management in China and Hong Kong
  • Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in China and Hong Kong
  • Cultural Heritage Management in China
  • Environmental Management in China and Hong Kong
  • Public Sector Management in China and Hong Kong
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Professor LEUNG Ka Yee, Angela

BSocSc (HKU), MA, PhD (Illinois)

Professor Angela Leung graduated with first class honors in the Bachelor of Social Sciences from the University of Hong Kong and was one of the three recipients in Hong Kong for being awarded the HSBC scholarship for a one-year exchange at the University of Chicago. Her overseas experience motivated her to specialize in the study of culture when pursuing her doctoral degree. She received her Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2007. Her publications have appeared on top-tier journals including American Psychologist, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Journal of Environmental Psychology.  She has an H-index of 35, with total citation counts of 7,791 (Google Scholar, 2025).  Professor Leung has edited two books on the psychological science of culture: Cultural processes: A social psychological perspective published by the Cambridge University Press in 2010 and Handbook of culture and creativity: Basic processes and applied innovations published by the Oxford University Press in 2018.

Professor Leung has served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology and Associate Editor of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. She is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Management and Organization Review, and British Journal of Social Psychology. She has received numerous awards, including the Best Paper Award (International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing, 2020), the Seisoh Sukemune/Bruce Bain Encouragement of Early Career Research Award (International Council of Psychologists, 2013), Lee Kong Chian Fellowship (SMU, 2018-2020), Lee Foundation Fellowship (SMU, 2009), the Award for Research Excellence (SMU, 2009), and the first honorable mention for the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Prize (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, 2009).

 

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Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=c1dydJIAAAAJ&hl=en

Teaching Areas

  • 2024-2025
    • PSYC3610- Culture and Psychology
    • GLSD3201- Cultural Psychology and Globalization

Research interests

Her research examines how complex, contradictory, and challenging issues can be transformed into opportunities so that people and society can thrive. Her research topics include multiculturalism and creativity, cosmopolitanism and globalization, paradox management, working motherhood, environmental psychology, and sustainable living. Together, this program of research offers novel understanding of how our mindset makes sense of personal and societal challenges, and the downstream differential consequences of being impaired versus enriched by the accompanying conflicts and tensions.

Publications and Others

Publications

  • Besta, T. … Leung, A. K.-y. ….et al., (2025). Anti-immigration conspiracy beliefs are associated with endorsement of conventional and violent actions opposing immigration and attitudes towards democracy across 21 countries. Communications Psychology, 3, 66.
  • Besta, T…. Leung, A. K.-y. …et al., (2025). When (and where) do pandemics foster anti-migrant actions? Individual-, contextual- and societal-level drivers affecting social cohesion during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 108, 102269. 
  • Choi, S. Y., Zhang, R. J., Valdes, E. A., Xie, T., Lee, I-C., Leung, A. K.-y., Lee, M., Lin, M-h., Hodgetts, D., Chen, S. X., Monares, P., & You, J. (2025).  A cross-cultural investigation of the effects of individual privilege, group identification, and societal perceptions on global consciousness. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 28, e70060. 
  • Dai, X., & Leung, A. K.-y. (2025). Building Cosmopolitanism from a Secure Base: Lifetime Spent in the U.S. and Cultural Attachment Moderates the Link Between Multicultural Experience and Cosmopolitan Orientation among American Citizens. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 28, e70061. 
  • Koh, B., & Leung, A. K.-y. (2025). A time for creativity too? How past- versus future-oriented thinking facilitates creativity. Journal of Creative Behavior, 59, e70062.
  • Leung, A. K.-y., Chiu, C-y., & Hong, Y-y. (Eds.) (2010). Cultural processes: A social psychological perspective. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • Leung, A. K.-y., Kwan, L. Y-Y., & Liou, S. (Eds.) (2018). Handbook of culture and creativity: Basic processes and applied innovations.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Invited Talks

  • Leung, A. K.-y. (2024, October). Transforming Challenges and Contradictions into Opportunities: The Case of Career-Motherhood Enrichment. Paper presented at the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, China.
  • Leung, A. K.-y. (2024, October). The Role of Cosmopolitan Orientation in Motivating Global Responsibility: The Case of Climate Change Awareness and Adaptive Management of COVID-19 Pandemic. Paper presented at the 13th Conference for Chinese Psychologists, 2024, Shenzhen, China.

Conference Presentations

  • Leung, A. K.-y. (2025, June). The career-motherhood paradox: The role of a paradox mindset. Paper to be presented at the 2025 International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR), Xian, China.
  • Leung, A. K.-y.(2024, August). The role of cosmopolitan orientation in motivating global responsibility: The case of climate change awareness and adaptive management of COVID-19 pandemic. Paper presented at the 27th International Congress of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), Bali, Indonesia.
  • Leung, A. K.-y., Ng, S. T., Margorie, T., & Chong, M. (2024, August). Some new insights on the psychology underlying the consumption of cultivated meat. Paper presented at the 27th International Congress of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), Bali, Indonesia.
  • Dai, X. & Leung, A. K.-y. (2024, August). Moral and Health-Related Motives Indirectly Relate to Differential Psychological Health Indicators Among Vegetarians. Paper presented at the 27th International Congress of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), Bali, Indonesia.
Representative
  • Leung, A. K.-y., Maddux, W., Galinsky, A., & Chiu, C-y. (2008). Multicultural experience enhances creativity: The when and how. American Psychologist, 63, 169-181.
  • Leung, A. K.-y. & Cohen, D. (2011). Within and between culture variation: Individual differences and the cultural logics of honor, face, and dignity cultures.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 507-526.
  • Leung, A. K.-y., Koh, K., & K-P. Tam. (2015). Being environmentally responsible: Cosmopolitan orientation predicts environmental consciousness. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 43, 79-94.
  • Leung, A. K.-y., Liou, S., Miron-Spektor, E., Koh, B., Chan, D., Eisenberg, R., & Schneider, I.  (2018). Middle ground approach to paradox: Within- and between-culture examination of the creative benefits of paradoxical frames.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114, 443-464.
  • Koh, B. & Leung, A. K.-y. (2019). A time for creativity: How future-oriented schemas facilitate creativity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 84, 1-10.

Research Grants

National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences (國家社會科學基金項目), 2024-2026
Awarded CNY 350,000 for the project entitled “Research on intercultural learning: The case of globalization of national science research.”

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Professor LANDRY Pierre

MA (Virginia), PhD (Michigan)

Prof. Landry’s undergraduate training was in economics and law at Sciences-Po in Paris. He received his Ph.D in Political Science at the University of Michigan and am also an alumnus of the University of Virginia (MA in Foreign Affairs) and the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University program at the Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing.

Prof. Landry’s research interests focus on Asian and Chinese politics, comparative local government, quantitative comparative analysis and survey research. He have written on governance and the political management of officials in China. Besides articles and book chapters in comparative politics and political methodology, he is the author of “Decentralized Authoritarianism in China” with Cambridge University Press (2008). He is also the co-investigator of the Barometer on China’s Development (BOCD) at the Universities Service Centre for China Studies (Chinese University of Hong Kong) and also serve on the international advisory committee of the Centre.

Personal Website: https://pierreflandry.wordpress.com/

Research and Teaching Interests:

    • Asian and Chinese politics
    • Comparative local government
    • Quantitative comparative analysis
    • Survey research

Publications

Section A

Five most representative publications in recent five years:

  • Does Performance Matter? Evaluating the Institution of Political Selection along the Chinese Administrative Ladder (with Xiaobo Lu and Haiyan Duan), Comparative Political Studies, Volume (), Issue () 2017, pp. 1–32. (published online forthcoming on paper)
  • Public Goods and Regime Support in Urban China (with Bruce J. Dickson, Mingming Shen, Jie Yan) The China Quarterly, The China Quarterly, Volume 228, December 2016, pp. 859-880.
  • Urbanization and Mental Health in China: Linking the 2010 Population Census with a Cross-Sectional Survey (with Juan Chen and Shuo Chen) InternationalJournal of Environmental. Research and Public Health 2015, 12(8), 9012-9024.
  • How Dynamics of Urbanization Affect Physical and Mental Health in Urban China (with Deborah Davis, Juan Chen, and Shuo Chen) The China Quarterly. Volume 220 (December 2014), pp 988-1011.
  • Show Me the Money: Inter-Jurisdiction Political Competition and Fiscal Extraction in China (with Xiaobo Lu) , American Political Science Review,Volume 108 (3), August 2014, pp 706-722.

 

Section B

Five representative publications beyond the recent five-year period:

  • Migration, Environmental Hazards, and Health Outcomes in China (with Juan Chen, J. & Shuo Chen). Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 80, March 2013, pp. 85–95.
  • Decentralized Authoritarianism in China: The Communist Party’s Control of Local Elites in the Post-Mao Era. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • “Elections in Rural China: Competition without Parties” with Deborah Davis and Shiru Wang, Comparative Political Studies (July 2010)
  • Gendered Pathways to Rural Schooling: the Interplay of Wealth and Local Institutions (with Deborah Davis, Yusheng Peng, and Jin Xiao) The China Quarterly No. 189 (March), 2007.
  • Reaching Migrants in Survey Research: The Use of the Global Positioning System to reduce coverage bias in China. Political Analysis 2005 13: 1-22 (with Mingming Shen)

Other Publications

  • “The Political Consequences of Economic Shocks: Implications for Political Behavior in Russia” (with Robert Person), Problems of Post-Communism, Volume 63, Issue 4, 2016, pp. 221–240.
  • Undermining authoritarian institutional innovation: The power of China’s industrial giants (with Peter Lorentzen & John Yasuda). The Journal of Politics,Volume 76 (01) January 2014, pp 182-194.
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