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Open research questions in Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics

83 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 1,975 Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • One limitation of the data is that the TSCS does not survey respondents' military status. The study faces challenges in interpreting the empirical findings as intent-to-treat effects of the reform. The study needs to address concerns about experimenter demand bias in survey data.

    Compulsory military service and opinions toward cross-strait relations: evidence from Taiwan’s 2013 military reform · 2026 · DOI

  • Further research could investigate the long-term effects of the military reform on people's attitudes and political behaviors - Research could also explore the impact of the reform on other aspects of Taiwanese society

    Compulsory military service and opinions toward cross-strait relations: evidence from Taiwan’s 2013 military reform · 2026 · DOI

  • While modernization theory suggests that an expanding middle class fosters democratic engagement, empirical findings remain mixed.

    Hong Kong’s middle class and the Anti-ELAB movement: generational and identity-based mobilization · 2026 · DOI

  • Abstract What explains undercover operations in the repression of protests? The use of undercover agents to infiltrate and repress protests is highly controversial, yet their operations remain poorly understood.

    Covert Assignments: Undercover Infiltration and the Repression of Protests · 2025 · DOI

  • The challenge of protecting migrant workers' rights in Taiwan. The need to address the structural barriers that exclude migrant workers from Taiwan's human rights landscape. The challenge of creating a more inclusive human rights futurity.

    The Utopia Not Yet Found: Seeing Taiwan’s Human Rights Futurity through Migrant Labour · 2026 · DOI

  • The gap between Taiwan's celebrated human rights framework and the experiences of migrant workers. The need for a more inclusive human rights futurity that includes those excluded from the current framework.

    The Utopia Not Yet Found: Seeing Taiwan’s Human Rights Futurity through Migrant Labour · 2026 · DOI

  • Further research on the implications of contested citizenship for Taiwanese citizens. Exploration of the complex challenges faced by Taiwanese individuals residing in European countries. Analysis of the spillover effect of how issues of citizenship and sovereignty become crucial in international legal disputes.

    Exploring Atypical Citizenship Deprivation and Spillover Effects in the Contested Taiwanese Citizenship · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of recognition of Taiwanese citizenship by foreign authorities. The contested nature of Taiwanese citizenship and its implications for Taiwanese citizens. The need to explore the perspectives of Taiwanese people on their precarious citizenship.

    Exploring Atypical Citizenship Deprivation and Spillover Effects in the Contested Taiwanese Citizenship · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a need to explain rather than assume Hongkongers' agency in the context of colonial history. The paper identifies a gap in understanding the emotional impact of colonial mythologies on Hongkongers' political resistance.

    Forever Hong Kong: A Conversation with Ching Kwan Lee · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the study of migration, focusing on intra-provincial migration. The study highlights the lack of attention to ethnic performance as a site where work and everyday life are tightly entangled.

    Intimacy as a Lens on Work and Migration: A Conversation with Jingyu Mao · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper suggests that future research should explore the connections between local and global politics, international capital, and modern state institutions. It emphasizes the need for further investigation into the root causes of the fire.

    The Distance Between Us · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in understanding the role of local and global capitalism in the city's development. It highlights the need for independent investigations into the fire.

    The Distance Between Us · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research could explore how other films and cultural products can be used to address the anger and frustration accumulated during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill protests. Future research could use the concept of interbeing to reimagine how other communities could move beyond their oppressive conditions.

    Interbeing: Affective Release and Kinship in The Last Dance · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a lack of understanding of how The Last Dance addresses the anger and frustration accumulated during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill protests. There is a need to reimagine how Hong Kongers could move beyond the city's oppressive postcolonial conditions.

    Interbeing: Affective Release and Kinship in The Last Dance · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in understanding the role of the Hong Kong Young Women's Christian Association in shaping modern femininity and hygiene practices. It highlights the need to explore the context of city-wide sanitary reform and the significance of domestic hygiene in Chinese households.

    The Modern Woman and the household: hygiene, urban education and the YWCA in Hong Kong, 1921–41 · 2026 · DOI

  • In connection with the YMCA and the medical associations, the HKYWCA also held an annual health week for all women and girls when they could be examined by doctors and nurses and given health advice when needed.

    The Modern Woman and the household: hygiene, urban education and the YWCA in Hong Kong, 1921–41 · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research could examine the impact of affective encoding on political mobilization and social movement outcomes. It could explore the ways in which affective encoding is used in other authoritarian regimes. The paper's findings could inform strategies for sustaining dissent and creating selective publics in such contexts.

    Affective Encoding: Coping with Political Depression through Urban Wall Writing in Post-2020 Hong Kong · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in understanding how people cope with political depression in authoritarian regimes. It highlights the need to examine the role of urban wall writing in sustaining dissent under the National Security Law.

    Affective Encoding: Coping with Political Depression through Urban Wall Writing in Post-2020 Hong Kong · 2026 · DOI

  • Labor shortages have long been a problem in Macao. The city faces challenges in integrating labor importation, local human capital development, and talent recruitment into a talent policy package. The study identifies a challenge in balancing the need for labor supplementation with the need for long-term talent governance.

    How labor importation constrains talent policy for economic diversification: Evidence from Macao · 2026 · DOI

  • The current labor importation principles prioritize local employment and are temporary and supplementary in nature. The share of professional non-resident workers remains consistently low at 3%. The study identifies a gap in the integration of labor importation, local human capital development, and talent recruitment into a talent policy package.

    How labor importation constrains talent policy for economic diversification: Evidence from Macao · 2026 · 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

  • While not glorifying Japan’s military aggression or diminishing the suffering experienced under occupation, this study provides new and nuanced perspectives on cultural formation during this pivotal yet understudied period of Hong Kong’s history, offering insights into the relationship between cultural governance and imperial power.

    Sounds of Authority: The Cultural and Social History of Western Music in Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong · 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

  • There is a gap in WAC literature around TA professional development. Recent calls for more WAC scholarship on TAs seek to change that narrative.

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

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