Tai Wei Lim: 13 books
Studying Hong Kong
20 Years of Political, Economic and Social Developments
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This book captures the essence of Hong Kong's development in the past two decades from 1997 to 2017. It is broken into four parts — economics, society, politics and culture.
Hong Kong's role remains as a gateway for global trading houses, businessmen, investors and traders. Hong Kong continues...
by Tai Wei Lim, Henry Hing Lee Chan, Katherine Hui-Yi Tseng;Wen Xin Lim
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
This book has two major sections. The interpretive section examines contemporary media narratives related to the OBOR initiative and how contemporary commentators appropriate narratives about historical events related to the maritime Silk Road to interpret current policy agendas and legitimize diplomatic...
by Tai Wei Lim, Wen Xin Lim, Xiaojuan Ping;Hui-Yi Tseng
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
This book aims to provide comprehensive empirical and theoretical studies of expanding fandom communities in East Asia through the commodification of Japanese, Korean and Chinese popular cultures in the digital era. Using a multidisciplinary approach including political economy, East Asian studies,...
by Trin Aiyara, Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim, Ngeow Chow-Bing
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
In 2012, the Communist Party of China (CPC) inaugurated the Xi Jinping era when it elected him to be the General Secretary of the CPC. The following year Xi was elected President of the People’s Republic of China. The Xi Jinping era has seen a remarkable transformation of Chinese foreign policy,...
Energy, Trade and Finance in Asia
A Political and Economic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This study offers a vital reappraisal of the trade relationship between north-east Asia and the Gulf. Writing from a non-western standpoint, Dargin and Lim make a compelling case for how these regions became economically integrated in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis.
by Tai Wei Lim, Xiaojuan Ping
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In the past 18 years, after the handover of the former British colony Hong Kong to China, Beijing and the Special Administration Region (SAR) have been trying to work out a mutually beneficial relationship based on pragmatism and a focus on economic prosperity. The Occupy Central with Love and Peace...
Tycoons in Hong Kong
Between Occupy Central and Beijing
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
This book seeks to survey the role of tycoons in Hong Kong's socio-political and socioeconomic developments. Summoned to Beijing just before the onset of the territory's longest social movement, it highlights the tycoons' symbolic intermediary role between Beijing's elite and the people of Hong Kong....
Energy Transitions in Japan and China
Mine Closures, Rail Developments, and Energy Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This volume focuses on the topic of energy transitions in the coal mining industries of China and Japan by adopting a Sino-Japanese comparative approach in area studies to examine the experiences between the two major East Asian economies. In China, rapid industrialization led to dramatic growth in...
Politics, Culture and Identities in East Asia
Integration and Division
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This edited book reflects the "yin-yang" of East Asia — the analogy of co-existing "hot and cold" trends in that region. To concentrate only on geopolitical competition and regional "hot spots" will exaggerate, if not misrepresent East Asia as a Hobbesian world. Nevertheless,...
by Tai Wei Lim
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book documents through first-hand experience and academic research the historical, cultural and economic interactions affecting land use in Singapore. Offering a unique study of nostalgia in Singaporean heritage, it discusses the subjective nostalgic meanings and interpretations that users of...
The Merlion and Mt. Fuji
50 Years of SingaporeJapan Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Anime, Manga, Sushi, Teriyaki, J-pop, Harajuku fashion ... these are just some of the cultural exports from Japan that the rest of the world have embraced and Singapore is one of Japan's biggest fans. Singaporeans have benefited not just by being a consumer of the many technological advances from...
Fired Clay in Four Porcelain Clusters
A Comparative Study of Energy Use, Production/Environmental Ecology, and Kiln Development in Arita, Hong Kong, Jingdezhen, and Yingge
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Fired Clay in Four Porcelain Clusters examines how energy use in the ceramics-making industry has evolved as a result of technological advancements and changing social norms and ideas in environmental conservation. Three main research themes are highlighted. First, the book examines how the evolving...
by Tai Wei Lim
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Industry 4.0 explores the emergence of disruptive digital technologies such as robotics, blockchain, nanotechnology and 3D printing and their impact on human lives and jobs in globalized 21st century societies. Incorporating a cutting edge area studies perspective, it considers the challenges and...