Research Publications

The Dynamics of Governance and Sustainable Development Goals in the Global South. Special Issue (March) in Global Policy 

Hong Liu, Celia Lee & Chris Alden

University of Durham and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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978-1-394-27127-6

Funded by the MOE Tier 2 project grant (from 2017 to 2021), this special issue on ‘The Dynamics of Governance and Sustainable Development Goals in the Global South’, with a focus on the ‘Asian Models of Governance’, aims to fill the gap by contributing to expanding and advancing the transnational knowledge transfer literature by bringing new cases from the Global South. It also hopes to further advance the discussions translating some aspects of Asian experiences of governance in developing an outcome-driven knowledge and policy transfer model for SDGs. 

Title

Good Governance in A Post Covid-19 World: Global Health and Economic Recovery 

Author

Hong Liu, Celia Lee & Jeremy Goh

Publisher

Independently Published (24 July 2023)

Pages

286

ISBN

979-8393440091

Synopsis

Good governance has become an increasingly important topic not only in research, but also policy. This trend has been reinforced by the rise of new challenges and opportunities that are brought about by aging populations, economic slowdowns, climate change, deglobalisation, geopolitical tensions, new technological revolution, and the global pandemic. This edited volume by Prof Liu Hong, Dr Celia Lee and Mr Jeremy Goh from NCPA, prepared in collaboration with the International Institute of Administrative Sciences, is a collection of chapters written by leading practitioners and academics from around the world, offering insightful and multidisciplinary perspectives on good governance in the post-COVID 19 era.

Title

Talent Strategies and Leadership Development of the Public Sector: Insights from Southeast Asia

Author

Celia Lee

Publisher

Routledge (June 2021)

Pages

144

ISBN

9780367862244

Synopsis

To stay ahead of the competition, the public sector has to ensure an effective talent management strategy to attract, develop and retain talents. Effective talent management is about aligning the organisation’s approach to talent with the strategic aims and purpose of the organisation. This book adopts a comparative country analysis, which takes into account the institutional emphasis, organisational configuration and unique characteristics of the public sector. Against the backdrop of three major stages of administrative development, i.e., the colonial, postcolonial and modern periods, this book unpacks how the talent schemes have been shaped by the reforms, experiences, cross-country knowledge transfers and evolved over time responding to globalisation and digitalisation in Southeast Asia. This book will be of great interest to scholars and public managers working on public administration and civil service reforms in Asia towards developing a contextualised understanding of talent management and leadership development in the region. More information.

Title

An Emerging Asian Model of Governance and Transnational Knowledge Transfer

Author

Ting-Yan Wang and Hong Liu

Publisher

London: Routledge (2020)

Pages

137

ISBN

0367331624

Synopsis

This timely volume explores the emergence of Asian models of governance, taking into account the shifting global political economic landscape and the re​gion’s rapid growth in recent decades. As well as theoretical explorations, the book also provides rich empirical evidence on the contextualized lessons accumulated in Asia, offering a more nuanced understanding of Asian governance experience through comparative case studies ... more information.

Title

Shangmai yu Shangdao: Guoji Huashang Yanjiu Wenji [Commercial Networks and Business Behaviours: Studies in Global Chinese Entrepreneurship]

Author

Long Denggao and Liu Hong

Publisher

Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press (2018)

Pages

-

ISBN

-

Synopsis

This book examines the dynamics, characteristics, challenges and future prospects of global Chinese entrepreneurship from historical, sociological, economic, and management perspectives.

Title

Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820-1980 

Author

Gregor Benton and Hong Liu

Publisher

Berkeley: University of California Press (2018)

Pages

288

ISBN

9780520298439

Synopsis

Dear China is the first book-length study in English of qiaopi (letters-cum-remittances, which were entered into UNESCO’s “Memory of the World” Register in 2013) and of the origins, structures, and operations of the qiaopi trade across the globe. The authors explore the characteristics and transformations of qiaopi and the qiaopi trade, demonstrating how such institutionalized and cross-national mechanisms helped sustain families separated by distance and state frontiers and contributed to modern China’s socioeconomic development and its excursions into the modern world. More information.

Title

The Qiaopi Trade and Transnational Networks in the Chinese Diaspora 

Author

Gregor Benton, Hong Liu, and Huimei Zhang

Publisher

Routledge (2018)

Pages

184

ISBN

9781138081062

Synopsis

This book analyses the qiaopi from two interconnected perspectives. One views qiaopi from a political and institutional angle, the other from a financial and social angle. Bringing together the extensive research of a group of international scholars and taking an empirical, evidence-driven approach, this multi-authored volume sheds light on the larger significance of the qiaopi for modern China. Apart from an introductory essay by the three editors, they contributed a chapter entitled “Qiaopi and Politics in modern China and the Chinese Diaspora,” which examines qiaopi from the point of view of the Chinese and foreign states and local politics. More information.

Title

Forging Ahead Toward an Inclusive and Sustainable Globalisation: Selected Articles from the 2017 Lien International Conference

Author

Liu Hong, Ma Sirui, Wang Ting-Yan

Publisher

Nanyang Centre for Public Administration (2018)

Pages

203

ISBN

978-981-11-6881-9

Synopsis

To showcase the output of the Lien International Conference, we have hereby compiled a selection of papers into conference proceedings. The ten papers (including both English and Chinese papers) cover all five themes featured in the 2017 lien conference, and are produced by scholars at different stages of their careers ... more information.

Title

Chapter 8: Lee Kuan Yew’s Thoughts on Talent and Singapore’s Development Strategy

Author

Liu Hong, Zhang Huimei

Publisher

World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. (2015)

Pages

19

ISBN

978-9814704069

Synopsis

This article specifically analyzed Lee Kuan Yew’s thoughts on talent development and his development policies and strategies over the past years, and assessed their impact and effectiveness ... more information.

Title

China and the Shaping of Indonesia, 1949-1965

Author

Liu Hong

Publisher

Kyoto University Press (2011)

Pages

321

ISBN

9789971693817

Synopsis

China and the Shaping of Indonesia provides a meticulous account of versatile interplay between knowledge, power, ethnicity, and diplomacy in the context of Sino-Indonesian interactions between 1949 and 1965. Taking a transnational approach that views Asia as a flexible geographical and political construct, this book addresses three central questions. First, what images of China were prevalent in Indonesia, and how were narratives about China construed and reconstructed? Second, why did the China Metaphor - the projection of an imagined foreign land onto the local intellectual and political milieu - become central to Indonesians' conception of themselves and a cause for self criticism and rediscovery? Third, how was the China Metaphor incorporated into Indonesia's domestic politics and culture, and how did it affect the postcolonial transformation, the fate of the ethnic Chinese minority, and Sino-Indonesian diplomacy?

Title

The Cold War in Asia: The Battle for Hearts and Minds

Author

Liu Hong, Zheng Yangwen and Michael Szonyi

Publisher

Brill Academic Publishers (2011)

Pages

268

ISBN

9789004175372

Synopsis

The Cold War stayed cold in Europe but it was hot in Asia. Its legacy lives on in the region. In none of the three dominant historiographical paradigms: orthodox, revisionist and post-revisionist, does Asia, or the rest of the Third World, figure with much significance. What happens to these narratives if we put them to the test in Asia? This volume argues that attention to what has been conventionally considered the periphery is essential to a full understanding of the global Cold War. Foregrounding Asia necessarily leads to a re-assessment of the dominant narratives. This volume also argues for a shift in focus from diplomacy and high politics alone towards research into the culture of the Cold War era and its public diplomacy.

Title

Dynamics of the Singapore success story : Insights by Ngiam Tong Dow

Author

Ngiam Tong Dow

Publisher

Singapore : Cengage Learning Asia (2011)

Pages

216

ISBN

9789814336079

Synopsis

Singapore's success story has been widely read. How and why this transformation came about, however, has seldom been publicly analysed and articulated. Very few insiders with firsthand experience have chosen to illuminate the fundamental public policies guiding Singapore's social and economic growth. Yet it is this aspect of the Singapore story that most intrigues outside observers. Based on his rich, forty-year experience as a senior Singapore civil servant, Ngiam Tong Dow manages to present a clear picture in this book of Singapore's path toward success. It is a collection of his speeches, interviews, and articles delivered and written between 2004 and 2010.

Title

The Chinese Overseas (4 volumes)

Author

Liu Hong

Publisher

Routledge (2006)

Pages

1794

ISBN

9780415338585

Synopsis

With a population of more than thirty million, the Chinese living outside of the mainland, and in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan constitute an important force in the socio-economic transformation of modern China, and they have also played a significant role in the interactions between China and the nations in which they reside. Viewed from the perspective of international migration, the Chinese Overseas are one of the most dynamic immigrant groups in the world, contributing to globalization and multi-culturalism on a huge scale.

This impressive collection gathers together some of the most important, and previously disparate, publications in English on the various dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora. While it includes sections on the historical evolution of the Chinese communities overseas, the focus of the selection is on the later half of the twentieth century, with particular emphasis, against a backdrop of the accelerating pace of globalization, on the twenty-five years since the launch of the reform policy in China.

Title

A Mandarin and the Making of Public Policy :
Reflections by Ngiam Tong Dow

Author

Ngiam Tong Dow

Publisher

NUS Press (2006)

Pages

244

ISBN

9789971693503

Synopsis

China and the Shaping of Indonesia provides a meticulous account of versatile interplay between knowledge, power, ethnicity, and diplomacy in the context of Sino-Indonesian interactions between 1949 and 1965. Taking a transnational approach that views Asia as a flexible geographical and political construct, this book addresses three central questions. First, what images of China were prevalent in Indonesia, and how were narratives about China construed and reconstructed? Second, why did the China Metaphor - the projection of an imagined foreign land onto the local intellectual and political milieu - become central to Indonesians' conception of themselves and a cause for self criticism and rediscovery? Third, how was the China Metaphor incorporated into Indonesia's domestic politics and culture, and how did it affect the postcolonial transformation, the fate of the ethnic Chinese minority, and Sino-Indonesian diplomacy?

Title

Singapore Chinese Society in Transition: Business, Politics and Socio-economic Change

Author

Liu Hong, S. K. Wong

Publisher

New York: Peter Lang Publishing (2004)

Pages

299

ISBN

0820467995

Synopsis

This is the first comprehensive study of the dynamics, processes, mechanisms, and consequences of socio-economic and political changes in Singapore Chinese society from 1945 to 1965. By employing a wide range of primary materials that have been rarely used before, the authors have demonstrated the multi-dimensionality and complexity of the Chinese society in postwar Singapore, which was full of vitality and politically active. They argue that the combination of the internal dynamic and the changing socio-political framework shaped the nature and characteristics of the Chinese community and its fundamental role in the making of modern Singapore.

Title

Diasporic Chinese Ventures: The Life and Work of Wang Gungwu

Author

Liu Hong, Gregor Benton

Publisher

London and New York: Routledge (2004)

Pages

256

ISBN

978-0415331425

Synopsis

This collection of essays by and about Wang Gungwu brings together some of Wang's most recent and representative writing about the ethnic Chinese outside China giving the reader a deeper understanding of his views on migration, identity, nationalism and culture, all key issues in modern Asia's transformation. The book collects interviews, speeches and essays that illustrate the development and direction of Wang's scholarship on ethnic and diasporic Chinese.

Title

China and Southeast Asia: Changing Social and Cultural Linkages

Author

Liu Hong, Melissa Curley

Publisher

Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies (2002)

Pages

258

ISBN

978-9628269396

Synopsis

These 18 papers are from the 2000 Hong Kong 3rd China-ASEAN Roundtable on Socio-Cultural Interactions. Abstracts are given in English and in Chinese. The subjects addressed range widely over theoretical and historical perspectives of socio-cultural interactions of settled distinct populations, and human movement and migration including various aspects of tourism. 7 papers are in Chinese. Bibliography.

书名

校长讲、教师解、学生画

作者

符传丰

出版发行

南洋公共管理研究生院连赢洲纪念奖学金理事会及项目办公室

页数

100

书号

ISBN 978-981-11-8887-9

内容

教育，是一个以人为本的行业。有人的地方，就有故事。这些年，我听了不少故事，讲了不少故事，也成了一个有故事的人。故事能传道，因它自带寓意；故事能授业，因它化抽象为具体；故事能解惑，因它发人深省。为师者，好好讲故事，可以育人；好好听故事，能在专业上有所精进。从我入行以来，无论我是一名教师、一名专科督学或是一名领导，我对故事的力量一直深信不疑。 更多

书名

连瀛洲纪念奖学金中国学者研究报告丛书（六）： 《新加坡经验和新中发展对比研究》

作者

王金华、高国立、李鹏、杨绍亮、武军定、蔺雪峰、张承刚

出版发行

南洋公共管理研究生院连赢洲纪念奖学金理事会及项目办公室

页数

242

书号

ISBN 978-981-32-7197-5

内容

本书汇集了2013年七位“连瀛洲纪念奖学金”得主的研究成果。七位奖学金得主们从社会治理模式、土地管理、贸易和经济发展、电子政务、水资源管理以及外交发展等方面来剥析新加坡模式，进而提出中国可以借鉴的经验。更多

书名

完善北京基本公共服务研究

作者

杨宜勇 等

出版发行

南洋公共管理研究生院连赢洲纪念奖学金理事会及项目办公室

页数

337

书号

ISBN 978-981-32-7191-3

内容

在中国的十三五规划中提出了，推进以人为核心的新型城镇化，深化户籍制度改革，促进有能力在城镇稳定就业和生活的农业转移人口举家进城落户，并与城镇居民有同等权利和义务。实施居住证制度，努力实现基本公共服务常住人口全覆盖。“十三五”时期是中国全面建成小康社会的决胜阶段。牢牢把握首都城市战略定位，紧紧围绕增强首都核心功能，明确方向、把握重点，编制好“十三五”时期北京市基本公共服务发展规划，对于进一步完善社会基本公共服务体系，提高社会基本公共服务均等化程度，增进人民福祉，促进人的全面发展，使北京市全体居民在共建共享发展中有更多更直接的获得感，具有十分重要的意义。 更多

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连瀛洲纪念奖学金中国学者研究报告丛书（五）： 《新加坡社会治理模式对中国的启示》

作者

韩方明、韩少平、茅剑刚、王建军、王青云、武力、杨保军、杨宜勇

出版发行

南洋公共管理研究生院连赢洲纪念奖学金理事会及项目办公室

页数

293

书号

ISBN 978-981-11-2380-1

内容

本书汇集了2012年八位“连瀛洲纪念奖学金”得主的研究成果。八位奖学金得主们从政治管理模式、社会管理和资本市场管理三方面来剥析新加坡模式，进而提出中国可以借鉴的经验。更多

书名

中国社会体制改革的总体设计

作者

杨宜勇 等

出版发行

南洋公共管理研究生院连赢洲纪念奖学金理事会及项目办公室

页数

295

书号

ISBN 978-981-11-0271-4

内容

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书名

新加坡人才战略与实践

作者

刘宏 王辉耀

出版发行

党建读物出版社

页数

203

书号

978-7-5099-0626-2

内容

本书全面介绍了新加坡目前正处于社会转型期，对海外高层次人才的需求更加迫切。...更多

书名

道法无常 - 新加坡公共管理之道

作者

于文轩

出版发行

上海三联书店

页数

146

书号

978-7-5426-5369-7

内容

本书全面介绍了新加坡的公共管理之道以及对中国的启示，见微知著，纵横比较。...更多

书名

连瀛洲纪念奖学金中国学者研究报告丛书（四）： 《新加坡社会与经济发展研究》

作者

李丹、王俊寿、施红、谭晓冈、匡导球、石德新

出版发行

南洋公共管理研究生院连赢洲纪念奖学金理事会及项目办公室

页数

168

书号

978-981-09-2386-0

内容

本书汇集了六位2011年“连瀛洲纪念奖学金”得主的研究成果。李丹先生在信息化和全球化背景下，探讨了信息科技对于金融发展的意义，为中国信息金融的发展创新提供了建议；王俊寿博士则对新加坡金融监管的文化理念与优秀做法进行深入分析，为中国金融监管提供了启示；施红博士分析调研了新加坡产业结构转型升级，为中国未来的产业转型升级道路指明了方向；谭晓冈先生则通过对各国养老服务模式的研究对比，提出了中国养老服务产业未来可以选择借鉴的模式；匡导球博士详尽描述了新加坡如何成为“优雅国民”和“优雅社会”，为中国建设有中国特色的社会文化提供了启示；石德新先生则通过研究新加坡的社会管理，对中国现阶段社会管理中存在的问题，比如如何维护群众权益机制等提出了应对之策。 更多

书名

星岛崛起：新加坡立国的智慧

作者

匡导球

出版发行

人民出版社

页数

302

书号

978-7-01-012720-0

内容

本书全面介绍了新加坡的历史渊源、政治制度及人民行动党在经济转型、社会保障等。...更多

书名

新加坡职业教育培训的经验与启示

作者

莫荣

出版发行

南洋公共管理研究生院连赢洲纪念奖学金理事会及项目办公室

页数

230

书号

978-981-07-6967-3

内容

本书通希望过对新加坡职业教育培训经验的研究，能够对中国转变经济发展方式过程中，培养高素质劳动者提供好的借鉴。...更多

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连瀛洲纪念奖学金中国学者研究报告丛书（三）： 《新加坡经验及启示——针对金融与组屋制度的研究》

作者

张远军、郝爱群、胡斌、洪正华

出版发行

南洋公共管理研究生院连赢洲纪念奖学金理事会及项目办公室

页数

230

书号

BN 978-981-07-8359-4

内容

本书中介绍了新加坡星展银行集团的变革发展及其对中国开发性金融的启 示、新加坡组屋制度对于中国保障性住房政策设计借鉴研究、搜索信息化环境下的有效银行监管以及借鉴国际经验完善中国宏观审慎监管与金融稳定框架。... 更多

书名

新加坡成功的奥秘: 一位首席公务员的沉思

作者

严崇涛

出版发行

北京：人民出版社

页数

243

书号

9789814336086

内容

新加坡的成功可谓人尽皆知，她在短短40多年的时间里，从第三世界国家跻身富裕国家的行列。到底是什么成就了新加坡的辉煌？这个“奥秘”很少被人提及。本书作者为享有“新加坡首席公务员”之称的严崇涛先生，他以罕见的内部视角向我们展示了新加坡成功经验的第一手资料，使我们得以了解新加坡政治和经济快速增长的原因——这正是本书 最令人着迷之处。

书名

跨界亚洲的理念与实践: 中国模式、华人网络、国际关系

作者

刘宏

出版发行

南京: 南京大学出版社

页数

305

书号

7305107492, 9787305107498

内容

跨界亚洲的理念与实践：中国模式·华人网络·国际关系》并非研究中国模式自身的特征和演变，也无意直接参与相关的学术辩论，而是尝试将有关中国模式的讨论置于三个相互交错的时间和空间架构之下，从历史性（historicity）、族群性（ethnicity）和跨国性（transnationality）的角度来理解当代中国模式，并从网络论和区域的视野来审视中国模式的外延和演化环境。

书名

连瀛洲纪念奖学金中国学者研究报告丛书（二）： 《新加坡政府管理经验与启示》

作者

刘勇、莫荣、夏光、陶学新

出版发行

南洋公共管理研究生院连赢洲纪念奖学金理事会及项目办公室

页数

215

书号

978-981-07-3902-2

内容

本书涵盖了新加坡的职业教育和培训及对中国的启示、对于新加坡
政府投资管理的研究等。 ...更多

书名

中国-东南亚学：理论建构∙互动模式∙个案分析

作者

刘宏

出版发行

北京：中国社会科学出版社

页数

368

书号

7-5004-2765-4

内容

本书中介绍了新加坡星展银行集团的变革发展及其对中国开发性金融的启 示、新加坡组屋制度对于中国保障性住房政策设计借鉴研究、搜索信息化环境下的有效银行监管以及借鉴国际经验完善中国宏观审慎监管与金融稳定框架。... 更多

书名

连瀛洲纪念奖学金中国学者研究报告丛书（一）：
《新中社会发展对比研究》

作者

邱勇、金维刚、王业耀、邢颖

出版发行

八方文化创作室，2010

页数

230

书号

ISBN 978-981-4299-99-2 (pbk)

内容

本书收集了2008年连瀛洲纪念奖学金得主们在新加坡考察研究后的报告，内容涉及新加坡制度建设、社会保障体制、水资源管理和主权财富基金管理运作方面的经验。..更多

书名

新加坡发展的经验与教训：一位老常任秘书的回顾与反思

作者

严崇涛

出版发行

Cengage Learning Asia

页数

366

书号

9789814232708

内容

新加坡高效、廉洁的公务员队伍对其经济发展作出了巨大贡献，是新加坡成功故事的重要组成部分。然而，新加坡公务员一向低调，即使退休后也大都选择保持缄默。从公务员的角度对新加坡经济发展和公共行政管理的经验与教训进行总结与分析，可谓凤毛麟角。严崇涛先生的这本书恰好填补了这方面的空白。严先生以顶级公务员的身份亲身经历和见证了新加坡近50年的发展，并且直接参与了重要经济政策的制定和实施，其对新加坡发展经验的观点和看法具有极高的权威性。更难能可贵的是，严先生对历史教训和存在的问题也毫不讳言，充分体现了老一辈公务员强烈的使命感。

书名

错综于市场、社会和国家之间——东亚口岸城市的华商与亚洲区域网络

作者

刘宏、廖赤阳合编

出版发行

新加坡：南洋理工大学中华语言文化研究中心

页数

289

书号

978-981-4139-92-2

内容

书的十二位作者，分别出生、受教和任职于中国大陆、台湾、日本、新加坡、英国、美国等地，跨国的生活和研究经历，使得作者们对于华商网络这样的题材兼具感性与理性的双重认识。 全书没有叙述一个完整的故事，而是提供了不同的个案及其氛围。其中，序章和第一部分着重理论性的探讨。第二部分讨论了清末至1949年之间在华南、台湾以及东南亚的事例，重点在于揭示华商网络的历史特征。第三部分则讨论了1980年代以来，全球化背景下新加坡、马来西亚、香港、厦门以及长崎等地的现状。

书名

战后新加坡华人社会的嬗变: 本土情怀∙区域网络∙全球视野

作者

刘宏

出版发行

厦门: 厦门大学出版社

页数

332

书号

9787561521335

内容

本书以1945年至今新加坡华人社会的嬗变为中心，探讨其内部分野、政治参与、经济结构、文化认同，以及社会和商业网络。作者从三个视角及其交错点来考察这些论题。

书名

中国-东南亚学：理论建构∙互动模式∙个案分析

作者

刘宏

出版发行

北京：中国社会科学出版社

页数

368

书号

7-5004-2765-4

内容

本书旨在探讨20世纪中国与东南亚互动的基本模式，海外华人社会商业网络的建构与运作，以及当代东南业国家与社会关系的演变。