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4. Funded Research Projects

economic developments are entrepreneurial endeavours for individuals or

collectives who cannot afford fixed premises and are sources of income for those
who lack access to formal jobs. They also provide affordable goods and services
for the marginal groups. In order to mitigate the negative impact of informal

economic activities on urban growth, this research aims at exploring the

development of various types of informal economic activities in big cities in China
and analysing the location choice and spatial organisation patterns of these
informal activities. With case studies in Shenzhen and Nanjing, the determinants

of the location choice of informal economic developments will be uncovered using
spatial analysis and spatial econometric models. Based on the research findings

on the location choice and spatial organisation patterns of informal economic
developments, optimizing strategies and methodologies for urban planning and

governance will be devised. The findings of this research will contribute to urban
planning and policy making in coping with the current state and future

development of informal urban development, and help in the effective allocation
of commercial establishments, especially those businesses at the lower end of the
economic spectrum.

4.29 The Annotation Question of the Chinese Protestant Bible,
1877-1917 (on-going project)

Principal Investigator: Dr. George Kam-wah Mak

Research Assistant Professor, Cross-Cultural
Studies Working Group of LEWI
Source of Funding: GRF, RGC, HK

Amount Awarded: HKD529,000
Second Source of Funding: Faculty Research Grant, HKBU (AY 2014-15)

Grant secured: HKD147,000
Third Source of Funding: Faculty Research Grant, HKBU (AY 2016-17)

Grant secured: HKD149,980

Brief Introduction:

The research will explore the ‘annotation question’ of the Chinese Protestant Bible
(i.e. whether the Chinese Protestant Bible needed to be published with

annotations explaining the biblical world to Chinese readers) provoked by the
‘without note or comment’ principle of Bible societies in late Qing and early

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