China's ‘Singapore Model’ and Authoritarian Learning

Stephan Ortmann is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies at the City University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Environmental Governance in Vietnam: Institutional Reforms and Failures (2017) and Politics and Change in Singapore and Hong Kong (Routledge, 2010). Mark R. Thompson is Head and Professor of Politics in the Department of Asian and International Studies as well as Director of the Southeast Asia Research Centre at the City University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Authoritarian Modernism in East Asia (2019) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of the Contemporary Philippines (2018).

1. The Origins of the Singapore Fever in China: 1978-1992 2. Misunderstanding Singapore: China’s Challenges in Learning from the City-State 3. The Singapore School - Technocracy or less 4. Branding China: How Beijing Seeks to Improve its National image by learning from Singapore 5. Singapore’s Role in China’s Reform Process: Sharing of Experiences under the Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation Framework 6. Cadre Training and Government-to-Government Collaborations: Governance Knowledge Transfer from Singapore to China 7. Singapore’s Social Welfare System and Its Influence on China 8. Learning Local Lessons from Singapore in post-1978 China 9. The "Singapore Fever" in China: Policy Mobility and Mutation