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NGOK Kinglun 

Professor

Department of Public Administration

Email:klngok@126.com

 

Education

BA: Sept. 1983- Jul. 1987, Department of International Politics, Renmin University of China;

MPhil: Sept. 1987- Jul. 1990, Department of International Politics, Renmin University of China;

PhD: Jan. 1995.01- Nov. 1999, Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong.

 

Employment

Jul. 1990- Aug. 1994: Department of Social Sciences, Beijing Foreign Studies University. Teaching assistant and lecturer；

Sept. 1994- Dec. 1994: Center for Contemporary China Research, City University of Hong Kong. RA (Research Assistant);

Jul. 1997- Jun. 2004: Department of Public and International Affairs, City University of Hong Kong. Instructor;

2004- present: Sun Yat-sen University, School of Government, Associate Professor and full Professor, Doctoral Supervisor.

 

Research Areas

China's Social Policy, Social Security and Public Management

 

English Publications

English book:

  1. China's Social Policy: Transformation and Challenges? (with Chak Kwan Chan), London: Routledge, 2016.
  2. Industrial Democracy in China: With Additional Studies on Germany, South Korea and Vietnam (With Rudolf Traub-Merz), Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2012.
  3. Welfare Reform in East Asia: Towards workfare? (with Chak Kwan Chan), London: Routledge, 2011.
  4. Social Policy in China (With Chak Kwan Chan), Bristol: Policy Press, 2008.

SSCI (A&HCI) Journal articles

  1. “Lifestyle and Addictive Behaviors Among Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong, Macau, Taipei, Wuhan, and Zhuhai-a First Cross-subculture Assessment”(with Chen X, Lau M, Kan MY, Chiang IC, Hu YJ, Gong J, Li L), International Journal Of Behavioral Medicine, 2016 Mar 15.
  2. “Workfare in the undemocratic states: The case of China” (With Chan, C.K.), International Social Work, No.1, 2015
  3. “Labour inspection in contemporary China: Like the Anglo-Saxon model, but different” (Wenjia Zhuang), International Labor Review, No.4, 2014.
  4. “The Recent Social Policy Expansion and Its Implications for Inter-governmental Financial Relations in China”，Australia Journal of Public Administration，No. 3, 2013.
  5. “Serving Migrant Workers: A Challenging Public Service Issue in China”，Australia Journal of Public Administration，no. 2, 2012
  6. “Accumulating human capital while increasing educational inequality: a study on higher education policy in China” (with Chan, W. K.), Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Vol. 31, No. 3(2011), pp.293-310.
  7.  “Multinational corporations, global civil society and Chinese labour: Workers’ solidarity in China in the era of globalization” (with Joseph Cheng), Economic and Industrial Democracy, published online 25 July 2011．
  8. “A New Working Class in the Making? The Rise of the Peasant Workers and Implications for Social Policy in China” (with Kaho Mok), Work, vol.38, No.3 (2011), pp.241-256.
  9. “The Survival and Development Space for China’s Labor NGOs Informal Politics and Its Uncertainty” (with Joseph Cheng) , Asian Survey, Vol. 50, Number 6 (2010), pp. 1082–1106.
  10. “Of Sustainability and Excellence: The Chinese Academia at a Crossroad” (with Arie Halachmi) , Public Administration Review, Volume 69, Supplement 1, December 2009 , pp. S13-S20(1).
  11. “The Changes of Chinese Labour Policy and Labour Legislation in the Context of Market Transition” , International Labour and Working Class History, No, 73, Spring 2008, pp. 45-64. [Cambridge]
  12. “One Country, Diverse Systems: Politics of Educational Decentralization and Challenges for Regulatory State in Post-Mao China” (with Kaho Mok), China Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2008, pp.169-199.
  13. “Marketization, Globalization and Administrative Reform in China: A Zigzag Road to Promising Future"(with Guobin Zhu),International Review of Administrative Sciences, Vol 73(2), 2007, pp.217-233. [Sage]
  14. “Chinese Education Policy in the Context of Decentralization and Marketization: Evolution and Implications,” Asia Pacific Education Review. vol 8, no. 1, (April 2007). pp.142-157. [Korea]
  15. “Social Policy between Plan and Market: Xiagang (Off-duty Employment) and the Policy of the Re-employment Service Centres in China” (with Linda Wong), Social Policy & Administration, 40 (2), 2006, 158-173 [UK].
  16. “The 1998 Administrative Reform of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China” (with Hon Chan), Chinese Law & Government (January February 2003) [M.E. Sharpe, USA]
  17. “Law-making and China's Market Transition: Legislative Activism at the Eighth National People's Congress”, Problems of Post-Communism (March-April, 2002), pp. 23-32 [M. E. Sharpe, USA]
  18. “The Development of the Labour Law of the People’s Republic of China: A Comparison of Three Versions”, Chinese Law & Government (January-February 2000), pp.3-21 [M. E. Sharpe, USA]
  19. “New Collective Labour Relations Mechanisms in the Workplace: the Collective Contract System in Mainland China”, Issues & Studies, 1999, No.6, pp119-143 [Taipei, Taiwan]
  20. “Unemployment and Policy Responses in Mainland China” (with Linda Wong), Issues & Studies, 1997, No.1, pp.43-63 [Taipei, Taiwan]

Other English Journal Articles

  1. "Policy Paradigm Shift and the Changing Role of the State: The Development of Social Policy in China since 2003"，Social Policy & Society, No.4 ,2013.
  2. “Migrant Labour, Urban Exclusion and Social Harmony in China”, Journal of Poverty and Social Justice , No. 3, 2012.
  3. “Tobacco control in China: process, actors and policy initiatives”, Journal of Asian Public Policy, Volume 3 Issue 1 (2010).
  4.  “Social Assistance Policy and Its Impact on Social Development in China: The Case of the Minimum Living Standard Scheme (MLSS)”, China Journal of Social Work, 2010, Vol. 3, No. 1, 35-52.
  5. “State Capacity, Policy Learning and Policy Paradigm Shift: The Case of the Institutionalization of the “Theory of Scientific Development” in China”, Korean Journal of Policy Studies 24(2) 1-23 (2009).
  6. “Localization of Higher Education and Its Social Consequences in China, 1993-2007, Journal of Asian Public Policy, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2009, pp.57-73.
  7. “The Quest for 'World Class Universities' in China: Critical Reflections” (first author, with Weiqing Guo), Policy Futures in Education, Vol. 6, No. 5, 2008, pp.545-557
  8. “Massification, Bureaucratization and Questing for “World-Class” Status: Higher Education in China since the Mid-1990s” (single author), International Journal of Educational Management, Vol. 22 No. 6, 2008, pp.547-564.
  9. “The Quest for 'World Class Universities' in China: Critical Reflections” (with Weiqing Guo), The Journal of Comparative Asian Development,Vol.6, No.1 (Spring 2007), pp.21-44 [Hong Kong]
  10.  “China’s Overseas Chinese Policy in the Globalization Era: Challenges and Responses” (with Philip Cheng and Joseph Cheng), The Journal of Comparative Asian Development, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 2004), pp. 157-82 [HK]
  11. “The 2001 Spy Plane Incident Revisited: the Chinese Perspective” (with Joseph Cheng), Journal of Chinese Political Science (vol.9, no.1, Spring 2004, pp.63-83 ) [USA ]
  12. “Market Transition and the Development of Chinese Labor Law”, Journal of Societal & Social Policy (August 2003), pp. 59-82 [Casa Verde Publishing, Hong Kong].
  13. “Reinventing the Communist Government in a Transitional Economy- A Review of China's 1998 Central Government Restructuring”(with Guobin Zhu), Asian Profile (February 2003, pp. 1-14) [Asian Research Centre, Canada]
  14. “Towards Centralization and Decentralization in Educational Development in Shanghai” (with David Chan), Education and Society, Volume 19, No. 3 (2001), pp. 59-78 [James Nicholas Publishers, Australia]
  15. “Hong Kong in the Eyes of Chinese Cadres” (with Joseph Cheng), Asian Affairs: An American Review (Summer 2000), Vol. 27, No. 2, pp.93-109 [Heldref Publications, USA]
  16. “Shanghai Education into the 21st Century: A Quest for Learning Society” (with David Chan), Chulalongkorn Educational Review (January 2000), Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 1-14 [Bangkok, Thailand]

Book chapters

  1. “Bringing the State Back In: The Developments of Chinese Social Policy in China since 2003”, in Mok, K. H. and Lau, M. eds., Managing Social Change and Social Policy in Greater China, London and New York: Routledge, pp96-110, 2014.
  2. “The transition of social protection in China”, in Midgley, J. and Piachaud, D. eds., Social protection, economic growth and social change—Goals, issues and trajectories in China, India, Brazil and South Africa, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2013.
  3. "Shaping social policy in the reform era in China"，in Misa, I. ed. Handbook on East Asian Social Policy,  Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2013.
  4. “Redefining Development in China: Towards a New Policy Paradigm for the New Century?”, in Mok, K. H. and Forrest, R. eds., Changing Governance and Public Policy in East Asia. London and New York: Routledge, 2009.
  5. “Globalization and Higher Education Reform in China”, in Pang, N. S. K. ed., Globalization: Educational Research, Change and Reform. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2006, pp. 73-99.
  6. “The Potential for Civil Unrest in China” (second author, with Joseph Cheng), in Annelies Heijmans, Nicola Simmonds, and Hans van de Veen, eds., Searching for Peace in Asia Pacific, Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc, 2004, pp. 166-180.
  7. “Chinese Nationalism and Sino-US Relations: the NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade”(second author, with Joseph Cheng), in L. H. Liew and Shangguan Wang eds. Nationalism, Democracy and National Integration in China, London and New York: RoutledgeCruzon, 2004, pp. 85-104.
  8. “Migration and Competitiveness (second author, with Ray Yep), in Linda Wong and Lynn White eds., A Tale of Two Cities: Social Policy Reform in Hong Kong and Shanghai, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2004, pp. 217-238
  9. “The Tension of Chinese Labor and the State in the Context of Globalization: Reflections from Guangdong”, in Joseph Cheng, ed., Guangdong: Preparing for the WTO Challenge, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2003, pp. 195-223.
  10. "Globalization and Educational Restructuring in China" (first author, with Julia Kwong), in Mok, K. H and Anthony Welch, eds., Glabolization and Educational Restructuring in the Asia Pacific Region, London: Palgrave [Macmillan], 2003, pp.160-188.
  11. “Decentralization and Changing Higher Education Governance in China” (second author, with Joshua Ka-ho), in The Society of Comparative Education of Taiwan ed., The Education Prospect in the New Era, Taipei: Pro-Ed Publishing Company, 2002, pp. 189-231.
  12. “Reforme Administrative Dans Une Economie En Transition: Une Analysis De La Reforme De 1998 Du Gouvernement Central Chinois” (first author, with Zhu G.B), In Annuaire Europeen D’Administration Publicque 2001, Paris : Presses Universitaires D’Aix-Marseille, 2002, pp.699-721
  13. "Collective Contracts and Chinese-Style Collective Bargaining: A Case Study of Guangdong" (second author, with Grace Lee), in Joseph Cheng ed., Guangdong in the Twenty-first Century: Stagnation or Second Take-off?, Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, 2000, pp.143-165.
  14. “Government Policy in the Reform Era: Interactions Between China’s Organs Responsible for Overseas Chinese Affairs and Qiaoxiang Communities” (second author, with Joseph Cheng), in L. M. Douw, Cen Huang and Michael R. Godley eds., Qiaoxiang Ties: Interdisciplinary Approaches to ‘Cultural Capitalism’ in South China, London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1999, pp. 113-142.

Book Reviews

CAO Jingqing, Huanghe Bian de zhongguo: yige xuezhe dui xiancun shehui de guancha yu sikao (China along the Yellow River: a scholar’s observation and thinking on rural society). Shanghai: Shanghai wenyi chubanshe, 2000，China Information, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, pp.112-114.

 

Working paper

What Kind of Welfare State is Emerging in China?，United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2013

 

Editorship

Chinese Law & Government (guest editor in 2000 and 2003).