Comments on: A tale of two cities: Chinese labor market performance in 2009 and reform priority in 2010 http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2009/12/25/a-tale-of-two-cities-chinese-labor-market-performance-in-2009-and-reform-priority-in-2010/ Economics, Politics and Public Policy in East Asia and the Pacific Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:23:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Dennis Collonhttp://www.eastasiaforum.org/2009/12/25/a-tale-of-two-cities-chinese-labor-market-performance-in-2009-and-reform-priority-in-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-174272 Dennis Collon Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:24:46 +0000 http://www.eastasiaforum.org/?p=8726#comment-174272 Remarkable!!! Bookmarked this page that has this astounding information. Will come back to see if there are any updates. You, the author, are a master. Thanks Remarkable!!! Bookmarked this page that has this astounding information. Will come back to see if there are any updates. You, the author, are a master. Thanks

]]> By: Lincoln Funghttp://www.eastasiaforum.org/2009/12/25/a-tale-of-two-cities-chinese-labor-market-performance-in-2009-and-reform-priority-in-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-87295 Lincoln Fung Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:18:10 +0000 http://www.eastasiaforum.org/?p=8726#comment-87295 This is an interesting paper. However, it is falls far too short in detail about how the Hukou system was in play to have so drastically and categorically different effects on the two cities mentioned. Why did the same system, in the same country, faced with the same externally generated crisis fair so differently? Was it because of the Hukou system? Or was it because of other reasons, like different stages of development, different structure of the economy? A minor point: why was the author using “mile” as the unit of distance in China? Was it because China has learned so much from either the Americans or the British, that it has abandoned what was once labelled as the international, scientific unit of measurement? Or was it because of what occurred in the economically more advanced southern region? Or was it because of the Academy of Social Science leading the country in making another revolution? It seems there is huge American influence on some Chinese people! Or maybe it is a result of globalisation, although ironically this is in the wake of such a crisis! This is an interesting paper. However, it is falls far too short in detail about how the Hukou system was in play to have so drastically and categorically different effects on the two cities mentioned.

Why did the same system, in the same country, faced with the same externally generated crisis fair so differently?

Was it because of the Hukou system? Or was it because of other reasons, like different stages of development, different structure of the economy?

A minor point: why was the author using “mile” as the unit of distance in China?

Was it because China has learned so much from either the Americans or the British, that it has abandoned what was once labelled as the international, scientific unit of measurement?

Or was it because of what occurred in the economically more advanced southern region?

Or was it because of the Academy of Social Science leading the country in making another revolution?

It seems there is huge American influence on some Chinese people!
Or maybe it is a result of globalisation, although ironically this is in the wake of such a crisis!

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