Conflict or consensus: An investigation of stakeholder concerns during the participation process of major infrastructure and construction projects in Hong Kong

Public participation in the planning and design of major public infrastructure and construction (PIC) projects is crucial to their success, as the interests of different stakeholders can be systematically captured and built into the finalised scheme. However, public participation may not always yield a mutually acceptable solution, especially when the interests of stakeholders are diverse and conflicting. Confrontations and disputes can arise unless the concerns or needs of the community are carefully analysed and addressed. The aim of the paper is to propose a systematic method of analysing stakeholder concerns relating to PIC projects by examining the degree of consensus and/or conflict involved. The results of a questionnaire survey and a series of interviews with different entities are provided, which indicate the existence of a significant divergence of views among stakeholder groups and that conflicts arise when there is a mismatch between peoples’ perception concerning money and happiness on the one hand and development and damages on the other. Policy and decision-makers should strive to resolve at least the majority of conflicts that arise throughout the lifecycle of major PIC projects so as to maximise their chance of success.     

高校开展港澳区情教育的价值体认及策略

加强内地高校大学生对港澳区情教育消弭两地文化壁垒，舒缓心理认知偏见，促进两地高校交流与合作，理应成为我国国情教育的题中之义。截至目前，内地高校尚未系统将港澳区情教育纳入我国国情教育范畴，这不仅反映出我国国情教育的滞后性，并由此带来一系列问题。该文就此问题对高校开展港澳区情教育的价值体认和策略进行了探讨。     

台港澳地区青年组织开展民众工作比较研究

青年组织是青年群体活动、成长和发展的集体，也是培育社会资本的重要平台与形式。当代政党和非政党组织的一个共性特征和普遍做法是通过青年组织开展民众工作，广泛吸纳青年社会精英，务实政党民意基础，完成政治社会化过程。通过对台港澳地区相关青年组织的考察，梳理其开展民众工作的具体理念和路径，有益于探寻青年组织深入社会、服务社会的内在规律，对我国其他地区同类型青年组织的发展起到一定的借鉴作用。     

Assessing the Tongzhi Label: Self-Identification and Public Opinion

Tongzhi is one of several Chinese terms that refer to individuals who are attracted to the same sex. Using data from two different surveys in Hong Kong, this research note examines how the term tongzhi coexists with other terms. We investigate the prevalence of self-identification as tongzhi, and we explore the extent to which using the term tongzhi influences public attitudes toward gay people and gay rights. Activists began popularizing the term tongzhi in the late 1980s, but less than one third of the participants in our 2008 survey of sexual orientation minorities (n = 728) described themselves as tongzhi. Using a split-ballot experiment in a 2013 public opinion poll (n = 831), we found that attitudes toward gay people and gay rights were not significantly impacted by whether questions were phrased in terms of tongzhi or the main alternative term tongxinglianzhe. We discuss how our findings can enrich understandings of earlier research and illuminate avenues for future study.     

Anti-hierarchical activism in Hong Kong: the post-80s youth

In 2009, a political youth movement known as the Post-80s emerged in Hong Kong to protest against the construction of a high-speed railway. While local academics and government officials framed the motivations of these youth protesters using economic rationales, I argue here that the Post-80s are better understood as conveying their dissatisfaction towards existing political structures in the city. This profile sets out Post-80s criticisms of the entrenched hierarchical dynamics in Hong Kong political culture that has shaped interactions between the government, political parties and the wider population, and discusses how the Post-80s have responded to the representational imbalances imposed by these hierarchical practices in the local political sphere by advocating for a way of doing politics where individual voices (as opposed to the collective) are emphasized, and where horizontal structures are used. I conclude by exploring the repercussions of this critique on recent political discourses and protests observed in Hong Kong.     

Indonesian Chinese in Hong Kong: re-migration,re-establishment of livelihood and belonging

This paper describes the re-migration and adjustment of Indonesian Chinese to living in Hong Kong and their cultural belonging to Hong Kong, China, and Indonesia. Known in China as guiqiao or ‘Returned Overseas Chinese’, these were Chinese who re-migrated from Indonesia to mainland China in the 1950s and 1960s. By the early 1970s, many were allowed to migrate to Hong Kong. Although arriving with very little money, many have succeeded in establishing a fairly good life in Hong Kong, although there are also many who survive on low incomes. This paper discusses the experiences of the Indonesian Chinese in relation to local and transnational belonging, the perception of homelands, and the re-establishment of a Southeast Asian lifestyle in Hong Kong.     

扩大跨境贸易人民币结算:意义、问题与对策

扩大跨境贸易人民币结算对推进人民币区域化国际化、提升我国外贸企业国际竞争力等方面具有重要意义。跨境贸易人民币结算试点一年多来虽然实现了跨越式发展,但仍然存在规模小、结构失衡等问题,其原因在于境外企业人民币计价结算意愿弱;境外人民币离岸市场发展滞后,以及中资银行的国际化程度不高等因素。为进一步扩大跨境贸易人民币结算,以助推人民币区域化国际化的实现,我们必须借助香港国际金融中心的平台,加快发展香港人民币离岸市场,积极推进境外银行业开展人民币资产业务,壮大境外银行业人民币资产规模,同时必须加快推进中资银行业"走出去"的步伐。     

香港佛教公益事业开展状况及其启示

香港佛教公益事业主要包括佛教联合会、慈辉佛教基金会、宝莲禅寺、佛教文化协会等,实践涉指教育、扶贫、医疗、救灾、青少年服务、安老服务、殡葬服务、环保等方面内容。其特点是较好地运用了佛教文化推动公益慈善事业发展,其公益事业的经营采用现代化管理模式,并且形成与政府合作的成功模式,公益事业的动作高度透明。开展佛教公益事业有利于宗教组织自身的发展,同时我国的社会建设应当借鉴香港佛教组织开展公益事业的经验,充分吸引民间组织的参与。     

香港兴中会总会的成立及其重要性

兴中会之始创,过去有1892年澳门说、1893年广州说,以及1894年檀香山说,而以檀香山说最为可取.1895年,兴中会在香港成立总会.比较兴中会相继在檀香山与香港制定的宣言和章程,可知香港兴中会总会实为首具革命意向之团体;陈少白在香港创设《中国日报》,宣传革命,是为革命报刊始祖;该会于香港策动乙未广州之役,是为武装起义之始.香港兴中会总会遂能于近代中国革命运动中先拔头筹,香港亦因此成为近代中国革命之摇篮.     

中古汉语词义研究札记

将中古汉语词语“貌哨”、“帀帀”、“空”纳入从东汉到宋的整个语料背景中考察,可知“貌哨”不是一般理解的描写容貌的词,而是表示态度的形容词;“帀帀”的词义不是“形容水沸腾的样子”,而是“密集”的意思;“空”在中古时期具有“单一,素的”的词义。之所以误释,是因为这些词语的词义发生了虚化,所以在确定其词义时,就不能仅仅满足于考察上下文,还要结合词语本身的演变轨迹,通过词义系统去求证。