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PhD(Adel), MEc(ANU),BEc(BeijingNU)

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Refereed Journal Articles

2003. "Water Scarcity, Pricing Mechanism and Institutional Reform in Northern China Irrigated Agriculture", Agricultural Water Management, Vol.62, No.1, pp 1-19, co-authored with Hong Yang, and Alexander Zehnder.

2003. "Economy and Trade", Facts about China, The H.W. Wilson Company, New York, 257-298, co-authored with Yang Hong.

2000. "Motivations, objectives, locations and partner selections of foreign invested enterprises in China", Journal of Asia-Pacific Economies, 5(3):190-203.

1999a. "The increasing income inequality in China and its causes", China Report (India), 35(2):163-77.

1999b. "Leaving the shadow of the big brothers' Heibei's changing economic relations with Beijing and Tianjin in China", Asian Profile (Canada), Vol. 27, No.6. 463-76, (Second author and co-authored with Hong Yang).

1998a."Determinants of Hong Kong manufacturing investment in China", Marketing Intelligence and Planning (UK), Vol.16. Issue 4, pp.260-267 (First author, and co-authored with Po-Yuk Ho).

1998b. "Can China feed itself vs. how should China feed itself", JETRO (Japan External Trade Organisation), China Newsletter, 1998, Vol. 5, No.136, pp.2-7. (Second author and co-authored with Hong Yang).

1998c. "The Tale of two sectors: a comparison between state-owned and non-state-owned enterprises in China", Asian Thought and Society: An International Review (USA), Vol. 23. No.X, pp. 200-18.

1998d. "Growth of township and village enterprises and change in China’s export pattern", Advances in Chinese Industrial Studies, Vol. 6, pp.89-100.

1995. "Growth of China's rural enterprises: impacts on urban-rural relations". The Journal of Development Studies. Vol.31, No.4, pp.567-584. (First author, and co-authored with Christopher Findlay and Andrew Watson).

1994. "Classification and the dualism of China's industries in the 1980s", Industry and Development, United Nations Industry and Development Organisation (Austria), No. 34, pp.61-91.

1992. "Urban-rural isolation and its impact on China's production and trade Pattern", China Economic Review, (USA) Vol. 3, No.1, 1992, pp.85-105.

Book Chapters

2003. "China, economy and trade", in Zhao Xiaobin, ect. (edi.). Fact About China. New England Publishing, Associates with Chester, Connecticut. USA, co-authored with Hong Yang.

2002 "Income Inequality among Different Regions in China's Post Reform Era", Chapter 4 in Economic Growth, Inequality and Migration , edited by Amnon Levy and Joao Faria, Edward Elgar (UK), co-authored with Charles Harvie, pp.68-88.

2000. "Determinant of foreign direct investment: a comparative study between Guangdong and Beijing", Chapter 6 in Joseph Y S Cheng (edited) Guangdong in the Twenty-firstCentury: Stagnation or Second Take-off, City University of Hong Kong Press, Hong Kong, pp. 129-142.

1999. "Rural industrialization and international trade", Chapter 8 in David, C. B. Teather and Herbert S. Yee (edited), China in Transition, Macmillan Press ltd. pp.158-70.

1998a. "Changes in Guangdong's export pattern and its economic implications". The Economic Development of the Pearl River Delta, edited by Joseph Y S Cheng, City University of Hong Kong. Chapter 6, pp.143-164.

1998b. "Rural enterprises and international trade". in David C.B. Teather and Herbert S.Yee (eds.) The Issues and Policies in Contemporary China , Macmillan, pp.158-170.

1997. :The motivation and performance of FDI in China", in Joseph Chai, Y.Y. Kueh and Clement A Tisdell (eds.), China and the Asian Pacific Economy, pp. 361-73. (First author, and co-authored with Wan-Sing Hung and Jane Moy).

1996a. "Foreign investment as an engine of economic growth: the case of Guangdong", Chapter 7 in Stewart MacPherson and Joseph Y S Cheng (eds.), Economic and Social Development in South China, Edward Elgar Publishers, pp. 162-182. (First author, and co-authored with Wansing Hung).

1996b. "The 'wool war' and the 'cotton chaos': fibre marketing", Chapter 10 in Garnaut, Guo and Ma (eds.), The Third Revolution in the Chinese Countryside, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 120-43. (First author, and co-authored with Lu Weiguo, Sun Keliang, Christopher Findlay and Andrew Watson).

1994a"Rural enterprises growth in a partially reformed Chinese economy", Chapter 1 in Christopher Findlay, Andrew Watson and Harry X. Wu (eds.), Rural Enterprises in China, pp.4-24. St. Martin’s Press: Houndmills and London, 1994. (Fourth author and co-authored with Chen Chunlai, Christopher Findlay and Andrew Watson).

1994b."Rural-urban migration restriction, capital mobility and rural industrialisation in China: an analytical framework", in Yanrui Wu and Xiaohe Zhang (eds.) Chinese Economy in Transition, pp.20-6. National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 1994.

1994. One of the two editors of Chinese Economy in Transition, published by the National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 1994. (The book has been reviewed in several academic journals since its release in 1994).

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