Yongnian Zheng (editor) - Singapore-China Relations: 50 Years

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Singapore-China relations : 50 years / edited by Zheng Yongnian and Lye Liang Fook.

pages cm. -- (World Scientific series on Singapore's 50 years of nation-building)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-9814713559 (alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-9814713856 (alk. paper)

1. Singapore--Relations--China. 2. China--Relations--Singapore. I. Zheng, Yongnian, editor. II. Lye, Liang
Fook, editor.

DS610.47.C6S56 2015

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ZHENG Yongnian and LYE Liang Fook

John WONG and LYE Liang Fook

ZHENG Yongnian and LIM Wen Xin

Sarah Y TONG

CHIANG Min-Hua

LYE Liang Fook

CHEN Gang

Singbridge

ZHAO Litao

LIM Tai Wei

HUANG Yanjie and ZHAO Lingmin

John WONG and LIM Tai Wei

ZHENG Yongnian is professor and director of the East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore (NUS). He is the editor of the Series on Contemporary China (World Scientific Publishing) and editor of China Policy Series (Routledge). He is also the editor of China: An International Journal and the co-editor of East Asian Policy. He has studied both Chinas transformation and its external relations. His papers have appeared in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Political Science Quarterly, Third World Quarterly and China Quarterly. He is the author of numerous books, including The Chinese Communist Party as Organizational Emperor, Technological Empowerment, De Facto Federalism in China, Discovering Chinese Nationalism in China and Globalization and State Transformation in China, and co-editor of dozens of books on Chinas domestic development and international relations including the latest volumes China Entering the Xi Era and China and International Relations: The Chinese View and the Contribution of Wang Gungwu (2010). Besides his research work, Professor Zheng has also been an academic activist. He served as a consultant to United Nations Development Programme on Chinas rural development and democracy. In addition, he has been a columnist for Xinbao (Hong Kong) and Zaobao (Singapore) for many years, writing numerous commentaries on Chinas domestic and international affairs. Professor Zheng received his BA and MA degrees from Beijing University and his PhD at Princeton University. He was a recipient of Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (19951997) and John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (20032004). He was professor and founding research director of the China Policy Institute, the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (20052008). He can be reached at .

LYE Liang Fook is assistant director and research fellow at the EAI, NUS. His research interests cover Chinas central-local relations, political legitimacy, print media, ChinaASEAN relations and ChinaSingapore relations. He was part of a team that completed a study on the Suzhou Industrial Park, a flagship project between China and Singapore. He has also conducted research into the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city project, the second flagship project between China and Singapore. His publications have appeared in Routledge, International Relations of the Asia Pacific, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Eastern Universities Press, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Publishing, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Publishing, World Scientific Publishing and China: An International Journal. Besides the academia, he manages the Singapore Secretariat of the Network of East Asian Think Tanks (NEAT) and the Network of ASEANChina Think Tanks (NACT), two Track II bodies that aim to foster ASEAN plus Three cooperation and ASEAN plus One cooperation respectively. He can be reached at .

John WONG is professorial fellow and academic adviser at the EAI, NUS. Previously, he was research director at EAI and director of the Institute of East Asian Political Economy. Professor Wong also taught at the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore and Florida State University. He had held visiting appointments at Harvard Universitys Fairbank Centre, Yales Economic Growth Centre, Oxfords St Antonys College and Stanfords economics department. He also held the ASEAN chair at the University of Toronto. Professor Wong has written and edited 35 books and published more than 500 articles and papers on China and other East Asian economies. He has also circulated over 90 policy-related reports to the Singapore government. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of London. He can be reached at .

LIM Wen Xin is a research assistant at the EAI, NUS. She received her B Soc Science (Hons) in Economics and Chinese Studies from NUS in 2013. Her research interests include economic and political contexts in contemporary China, Chinas relations with Southeast Asian countries, Chinas media and East Asian popular culture. She can be reached at .

Sarah Y TONG graduated from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and worked at the Development Research Centre of Chinas State Council for several years. She obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of California at San Diego. She was assistant professor of the Department of Economics and research fellow of the EAI, both at the NUS. Currently, she is senior research fellow at the EAI. Her research interests concentrate on the recent development and transformation of Chinese economy, including development in trade and foreign investment, development of regions, financial sector reforms, the reforms of state-owned enterprises, and industrial policies and restructuring. Her work appeared in journals such as