Publication Type: Proceeding

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: In the year 1997, the United Kingdom officially ceded control of Hong Kong over to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), establishing Hong Kong as a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the PRC. Being distinguished as a SAR gives Hong Kong a fifty

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Intellectual property is becoming one of the most valuable and powerful assets in the increasingly privatized global economy. Globalization, technological advances, the Internet and e-commerce have made intellectual property (IP) infringements an escalating and pervasive issue in both developed countries such as the US and developing countries/regions such as Taiwan and mainland China. However, due to local interests, agency priorities, different levels of economic development and different enforcement structures, the US, Taiwan and mainland China enforce the similar IP laws on the books very differently in action.

First, this paper intends to portrait a general picture of IPR enforcement mechanisms in the US, Taiwan and mainland China, and to estimate the proportions of IPR infringements handled by three major enforcement systems: the criminal judicial system, the civil judicial system and the administrative system. Then it focuses the attention on criminal judicial systems specifically. It analyzes the different roles criminal courts play in handling IPR infringements in the three regions. The different roles of criminal courts include: to facilitate governmental policies, to enforce the criminal law, to protect the fairness of the system, to punish or to deter serious infringers, and to bring compensation to victims. The study implicates that apart from conventional jurisprudential wisdom, criminal courts could serve vastly different functions in handling economic crimes in countries/regions with different political regimes, legal structures and cultures.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Although sharing the same cultural heritage, Hong Kong and mainland China have distinct political governance systems and approaches resulted in very different social ideology, which impacts on communication between Hong Kong people and mainland Chinese as a difficult issue. In this study, the adaptation of mainland Chinese postgraduate students to Hong Kong is investigated based on the dynamic model of cognitive/affect/behavior components. Both institutional factors focusing on college impact and cultural elements are taken into account.

This study provides further support for this dynamic framework and most proposed relationships in the model are confirmed. Results show that, cross-cultural awareness (cognitive) and cultural empathy (affective) both have facilitated academic integration and social interaction (behavior). The positive role of additive bilingualism and the moderator role of mass media usage in cross-cultural adaptation are supported and formative.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The paper introduces briefly the emergence and development of private education in Mainland China. It focuses on relevant central policies and their local implementation. It argues that the central policies leave great loopholes for diverse practices, sometimes deliberately and sometimes unconsciously. The paper also argues that in China, “private school” is such an umbrella term that it even includes schools established and operated by public schools and local educational authorities.