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Articles / Journals / Research
‘The Best are yet to Come:’ State Programs, Domestic Resistance and Reverse Migration of High-level Talent to China
Journal of Contemporary China Volume 29, 2020 - Issue 125 David Zweig, Kang Siqin and Wang Huiyao Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Hong Kong University, Hong Kong; [...]
Do Overseas Returnees Excel in the Chinese Labour Market?
The China Quarterly, 247, September 2021, pp. 875–897 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2021 Zaichao Du, Yuting Sun, Guochang Zhao and David Zweig Abstract Overseas study [...]
Is Sino–American Scientific Collaboration a Thing of the Past?
Boston College Center for International Higher Education No. 108, Autumn 2021 David Zweig ABSTRACT: A laudable component of Sino–US rapprochement after 1978 has been collaborative research. But China’s aggressive [...]
Are China’s “Sea Turtles” Becoming “Seaweed”? A Changing Job Market
No. 106 Spring Issue 2021 David Zweig and Zaichao Du ABSTRACT: Analysts of China’s “reverse migration” largely ignore returning, short-term MA students, who comprise close to [...]
Reverse entrepreneurial migration in China and India: The role of the state
World Development Volume 138, February 2021, 105192 David Zweig, Kellee S. Tsai, Alwyn Didar Singh ABSTRACT: China and India have significant overseas populations that constitute global talent, and both [...]
Overseas Students, Returnees, and the Diffusion of International Norms into Post-Mao China
David Zweig: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Feng Yang: University of California, Los Angeles This paper applies the model of diffusion outlined by Solingen (International Studies Quarterly, [...]
The Peita Debate on Education and the Fall of Teng Hsiao-p’ing
The China Quarterly, v. 73, 1978, p. 140-158 Zweig, David Stephen ABSTRACT: During the two years I spent as an exchange student in the People's Republic of China, from [...]
Law, Contracts and Economic Modernization: Lessons from the Recent Chinese Rural Reforms
Stanford Journal of International Law, v. 23, 1987, p. 319-364 Zweig, David Stephen; Hartford, Kathleen; Feinerman, James; Deng, Jianxu SUBJECTS: Dispute resolution (Law) -- Analysis Law reform -- Economic [...]
From Village to City: Reforming Urban-Rural Relations in China
International Regional Science Review, v. 11, 1987, p. 43-58 Zweig, David ABSTRACT: This paper documents the increased urban-rural interaction in China and argues that the new developmental strategy apparently [...]
Developmental Communities’ on China’s Coast: The Impact of Trade, Investment, and Transnational Alliances
Comparative Politics, v. 27, 1995, p. 253-274 Zweig, David Stephen ABSTRACT: How does foreign trade and investment affect developing states? Do they create transnational alliances that exploit the countryside [...]
To return or not to return? Politics vs. economics in China’s brain drain
Studies in Comparative International Development, v. 32, (1), 1997, SPR, p. 92-125 Zweig, David Stephen ABSTRACT: This study, based on 273 face-to-face interviews with students, scholars, and former residents [...]
Undemocratic Capitalism: China and the Limits of Economism
National Interest, Summer '99, Issue 56, p63 10p Zweig, David ABSTRACT: Discusses the political and economic conditions in China. Effort of China leaders to manage the economic difficulties foisted [...]
China’s Stalled “Fifth Wave” – Zhu Rongji’s Reform Package of 1998-2000
Asian Survey, v. 41, (2), 2001, Mar-Apr, p. 231-247 Zweig, David Stephen ABSTRACT: In spring 1998, Zhu Rongji became China's new prime minister, bringing with him a remarkable and [...]
Democratic Values, Political Structures, and Alternative Politics in Greater China
Peaceworks, (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace), July 2002 David Zweig ABSTRACT: This study addresses the relationship among popular attitudes toward democracy, a state's political structures--parties, elections, and [...]
The Human Dimensions of Pollution Policy Implementation: air quality in rural China
Journal of Contemporary China, 11(32), 2002, pp. 495-513 Zweig, David Stephen; Alford, William P.; Weller, Robert P.; Hall, Leslyn; Polenske, Karen R.; Shen, Yuanyuan ABSTRACT: The People's Republic of [...]
Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages
China Review, v. 3, Issue 2, 2003, p. 182-185 Lin, Ying Zweig, David Stephen ABSTRACT: David Zweig's book is a very important contribution to a full under standing of [...]
Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages
China Perspectives, v. 50, 2003, p. 80-81 Jean-Luc, Domenach Philip, Liddell Zweig, David Stephen Links: China Perspectives, v. 50, 2003, p. 80-81 Repository.ust.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-76083
Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages
Perspectives on Politics, v. 1, Issue 4, 2003, p. 825-826 Zweig, David Stephen Margaret M, Pearson ABSTRACT: China began opening to the outside world in 1978. This process was [...]
Globalization and transnational human capital: Overseas and returnee scholars to China
China quarterly, (179), 2004, SEP, p. 735-757 Zweig, D. Chen, CG Rosen, S. ABSTRACT: As societies internationalize, the demand for, and the value of, various goods and services increase. [...]
China’s global hunt for energy
Foreign Affairs, v. 84, (5), 2005, SEP-OCT, p. 25-38 Zweig, David Stephen; Jianhai, Bi ABSTRACT: An unprecedented need for resources is now driving China's foreign policy. A booming domestic [...]
Competing for talent: China’s strategies to reverse the brain drain
International labour review, v. 145, (1-2), 2006, p. 65-90 Zweig, David Stephen ABSTRACT: In order to sustain its economic growth, China has been pursuing a number of policies aimed [...]
Rewards of Technology: Explaining China’s Reverse Migration
Journal of International Migration and Integration, v. 7, (4), fall 2006, p.449-471 Zweig, David Stephen; Chung, Siu Fung; Vanhonacker, Wilfried ABSTRACT: China rewards Mainlanders with technology who return to [...]
Elections, democratic values, and economic development in rural China
Journal of Contemporary China, v.16, (50), Feb. 2007, p.25-45 Zweig, David Stephen; Fung, Chungsiu ABSTRACT: This paper assesses several assumptions underlying the promotion of democracy and good governance in [...]
A Crisis is Looming: China’s energy challenge in the eyes of university students
Journal of Contemporary China, v. 17, (55), 2008, p. 273-296 Zweig, David Stephen; Ye, Shulan ABSTRACT: This paper uses a survey at six universities in China to analyze university [...]
Redefining the ‘Brain Drain’: China’s Diaspora Option
Science, Technology and Society, v. 13, (1), 2008, p. 1-33 Zweig, David Stephen Fung, Chung Siu Han, Donglin ABSTRACT: For many years, China's government worried about the 'brain drain'. [...]
Does anti-Americanism correlate to pro-China sentiments?
Yang, Zixiao; Zweig, David Stephen Chinese Journal of International Politics, v. 2, (4), 2009, p. 457-486 ABSTRACT: In recent years, China has put enormous effort into consolidating its reputation [...]
港归派:学子回国调查—香港办教育产业获得好评
Zweig, David; 廖美香 信报财经月刊, v. 393, (12), 2009, p. 6-15 ABSTRACT: 舄何内地孽生到香港稹謇?孽生在港念詈有 何得益?舄何不到海外留孽?在港接受教育9是 否意味可以回内地工作?舍否建羲其他人仿效他 亻卩:到港念善?逭些罔题的笞案,有助抨估香港作 舄新一代内地孽生培割|中心的角色° Links: 信报财经月刊, v. 393, (12), 2009, p. 6-15 Repository.ust.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-49847
Images of the World: Studying Abroad and Chinese Attitudes towards International Affairs
Donglin Han, David Zweig China Quarterly, v. 202, June 2010, p. 290-306 ABSTRACT: Since the late 19th century many Chinese leaders have studied abroad, mostly in Japan, the US or [...]
Returnee Entrepreneurs: impact on China’s globalization process
Journal of Contemporary China Publication: Entrepreneurs: impact on China's globalization process Huiyao Wang; David Zweig; Xiaohua Lin Online publication date: 09 May 2011 ABSTRACT: Recent research on returning Chinese [...]
Hong Kong’s Contribution to Mainland China’s Property Sector Helping to Turn Shanghai into a World City
Amy Liu Mei Heung, David Zweig Asian Survey, Vol. 51 No. 4, July/August 2011; (pp. 739-768) DOI: 10.1525/as.2011.51.4.739 ABSTRACT: Hong Kong property developers helped Shanghai become a "global city," revitalizing the city core, hosting multinational corporations, [...]
Educating a New Generation of Students: Transferring knowledge and Norms from Hong Kong to the Mainland
Educating a New Generation of Students: Transferring knowledge and norms from Hong Kong to the mainland Amy Liu Mei Heung and David Zweig Printed versionDate of publication: 15 March 2013 Number of [...]
Can China Bring Back the Best? The Communist Party Organizes China’s Search for Talent
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 12 September 2013 Revised and resubmitted to China Quarterly, March 2012 China Quarterly, (215), September 2013, p. 590-615 David Zweig and Huiyao Wang [...]
A Photo Essay of a Failed Reform
China Perspectives, v. 2016, (1), 2016, p. 5-28 A Photo Essay: Deng Xiaoping’s Failed Reform in 1975-1976 Beida, Tiananmen Square and the Defeat of Deng Xiaoping in 1975-76 ABSTRACT: [...]
Opposition to Change in Rural China: The System of Responsibility and People’s Communes
Asian Survey, Vol. 23, No. 7 (Jul., 1983), pp. 879-900 David Zweig Links: Asian Survey, Vol. 23, No. 7 (Jul., 1983), pp. 879-900 Repository.ust.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-31367 [
Redefining the Brain Drain: China’s ‘Diaspora Option’*
Science, Technology & Society 13:1 (2008): 1–33 David Zweig Chung Siu Fung Donglin Han ABSTRACT: For many years, China's government worried about the ‘brain drain’. But [...]
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Articles: North Korea
A Sinologist’s Observations on North Korea
Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, 1989, p. 62-82 Zweig, David ABSTRACT: This report provides reflections on a one-week visit to North Korea in April 1989 by a China scholar [...]