Hong Kong Shue Yan University

Impact of Community Factors on Mental and Physical Health During Successive Waves of COVID‐19 Pandemic in China

ABSTRACT This study examined how community factors impacted well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China. Data were collected at two time points: Time 1 (T1) in September 2021 ( N = 992) when COVID‐19 cases stabilized, and Time 2 (T2) in January 2023 ( N = 497) during a sudde...

Accentedness and Comprehensibility in Second Language Cantonese: An Investigation of Mandarin Learners’ Read Speech

Research on accentedness and comprehensibility has largely focused on nontonal target languages, leaving it unclear whether established predictors of these two constructs apply to tonal languages with complex tone systems, such as Cantonese. We investigated 40 Mandarin-speaking l...

Understanding social responsibility of Hong Kong’s time-honoured business through the lens of yi-li unity

Abstract In recent years, anthropology of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been initiated to explore how some multinational corporations (MNCs) reconstruct their relationship with local communities where they operate. Meanwhile, a number of Chinese scholars have shown in...

ICT Infrastructure, Economic Growth and ASEAN Income Heterogeneity: A Panel Analysis

ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure on ASEAN economies, filling a research gap. It sheds light on ICT infrastructures, including internet usage, retail e‐commerce, fixed and mobile broadband penetration, and con...