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Open research questions in Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics

25 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 1,839 Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • This paper examines an underexplored policy initiative—the Sister School Scheme—implemented between schools in Hong Kong and Chinese mainland since 2004.

    The Development Trajectory of the Sister School Scheme Between Hong Kong and Chinese Mainland Schools: From the Intertextuality Perspective · 2025 · DOI

  • Case studies include but are not limited to The Face of Fu Manchu (1965), Fist of Fury (1972), 12 Storeys (1997), Zeraff (2011), Wolf Warrior 2 (2017) and Made in Ethiopia (2024).

    Decolonising China on screen: curating cinemas of the Sinosphere for the university classroom · 2025 · DOI

  • This article investigates the understudied mission of Bishop Carlo van Melckebeke CICM as Apostolic Visitor for the Chinese overseas from 1953 to his retirement in 1970.

    Making disciples of all nations: Bishop Carlo van Melckebeke and his apostolate to overseas Chinese 1953–77 · 2023 · DOI

  • Our individual experiences, combined with insights from the CCCC OWI Position Statement of Principles and Example Effective Practices for Online Writing Instruction, provide a starting point for faculty seeking to undergo similar transformational practices and for further research into Flashback: Translation, Transformation, and “Taking it Back” 93 the effectiveness of these particular practices in relation to WAC anywhere on the F2F-online spectrum. Additional research on the effectiveness of using multi-modal ele- ments should be conducted to understand the specific relationships between multi- modal instruction and increased writing competencies across the curriculum.

    Conversations in Process: Two Dynamic Program Builders Talk about Adapting WAC for Trilingual Hong Kong · 2022 · DOI

  • We advocate a relational, spatial perspective, conceptualising schools as webs of intersecting physical, social and digital spaces, where differences between the "locals" and "others" are played out, negotiated and (re)produced, and in turn giving rise to specific (and understudied) geographies of in/exclusion.

    Schools as spaces for in/exclusion of young Mainland Chinese students and families in Hong Kong · 2021 · DOI

  • The Chinese government and the Trump administration have engaged tit-for-tat on this matter, but few studies have compared how the media in China and US have represented the issue.

    Were They Illegal Rioters or Pro-democracy Protestors? Examining the 2019–20 Hong Kong Protests in<i>China Daily</i>and<i>The New York Times</i> · 2021 · DOI

  • He emphasizes that, in Hong Kong, the historiography of psychiatry should broaden its focus and not limited to the role of mental asylums, for modern psychiatry was almost absent in Britain's crown colony until the end of World War II, and custodial care for lunatics was only one temporary measure in a much broader network of patient repatriation.

    Between drift and confinement: What can the study of “lunatics” in Hong Kong contribute to the historiography mental health in East Asia? · 2021 · DOI

  • There was a moment of danger in 1989 but the time has passed 294 social research and China was able to continue with economic reform—although the legacy of Tiananmen remains to be addressed one day.

    Hong Kong’s Relations with China: The Future of “One Country, Two Systems” · 2006 · DOI

  • I But, apart from a few studies on individual characteristics of entrepreneurs (Eberhard, 1962; Mark, 1982) and on the internal structure of Chinese firms (Silin, 1976; Wong, 1985), little research has been done on owner-managers of large corporations in Taiwan or other Chinese societies.

    Networks of Taiwanese Big Business · 1986 · DOI

  • Although Chinese diaspora scholarship has flourished elsewhere, the Pacific Islands remain theoretically underexplored and are too often treated as a uniform regional backdrop.

    Chinese diasporas in the Pacific Islands: a bilingual comparative interpretive review · 2026 · DOI

  • Existing research richly illustrates the competition between Western and nonwestern cultural codes, but the blending of different values remains understudied.

    Toward a hybrid democratic culture: moral codes in public narratives about COVID in Taiwan · 2025 · DOI

  • Abstract Although Hong Kong has always been transnational and its overseas communities longstanding, the queer experiences of diasporic Hongkongers have rarely been explored.

    Queer processes of Hong Kong as a global formation post‐2019: LGBTIQ+ Hong Kong migrants and their experiences in Taiwan · 2024 · DOI

  • This cultural perspective, which has been underexplored, shows that late colonialism in Hong Kong not only made the colony's decolonization differ from other cases but also created diversified Chinese culture that was independent of the mainland China's and Taiwan's political discourses.

    Entertainment, Chinese Culture, and Late Colonialism in Hong Kong · 2023 · DOI

  • Whilst the impact of the ‘publish or perish’ adage has received considerable attention from academics in the West, it remains under-researched in non-Western contexts, such as China.

    Pursuing and playing the academic game: a duoethnographic perspective on two early career academics’ publishing experiences in China · 2022 · DOI

  • Unlike the other three areas that are easily recognized by geo-political borders, Chinese diasporic cinema is of a more conceptual and de-territorialized nature and has been inadequately examined.

    Between Hong Kong and San Francisco: A Transnational Approach to Early Chinese Diasporic Cinema · 2019 · DOI

  • However, how the individual cases Wicks explores in the chapters work together to represent the state of Taiwan film is still insufficiently addressed.

    Transnational Representations: The State of Taiwan Film in the 1960s and 1970s by James Wicks · 2018 · DOI

  • As exceptions to this, a few studies have focused on the channels of non-Chinese immigrants to Hong Kong, but less research has examined their labor market outcomes.

    Labor market integration of non-Chinese immigrants in Hong Kong from 1991 to 2011: Structure of global market or White privilege? · 2018 · DOI

  • Despite their geographical proximity, and similarities in ethnic composition and political contexts, Hong Kong's and Macao's social policies have not been compared in the literature.

    A Tale of Two Cities: A Comparative Study on the Welfare Regimes of Hong Kong and Macao · 2014 · DOI

  • Whether and how such a partnership will evolve in the aftermath of the 2012 chief executive election remains to be seen.

    The Partnership between the Chinese Government and Hong Kong's Capitalist Class: Implications for HKSAR Governance, 1997–2012 · 2014 · DOI

  • 4 The new policy, whose implementation has been extremely slow and whose effects remain unclear, allows Hong Kong films to qualify as local products in Guangdong, therefore bypassing many of the political and cultural restrictions that accompany cross-border coproductions.

    Hong Kong Cinema as a Dialect Cinema? · 2010 · DOI

  • It is concluded that the overlapping nationalities (Chinese and Taiwanese) and the lack of consensus in Taiwan inhibit the principle of the self-determination being put into political practice.

    Taiwan: from Self-Determination to Negotiating Identities? · 2001 · DOI

  • These representations reflect postcolonial concerns with non‐Eurocentric interpretations of indigenous forms of urban development, though they are limited by a dependence on Western concepts of globalisation and restricted recognition of indigenous portrayals of urban life.

    METROPOLIS AND MEGA URBAN REGION IN PACIFIC ASIA · 1997 · DOI

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