Ping Su
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3877282 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ping Su |
| NOMBRES | Ping |
| APELLIDO | Su |
| FIRMA | SU P |
| AFILIACIONES | South China University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8028-2092 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 76 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Waterways, Lineages, Borders
The Dragon Boat Festival as understood by villagers of Guangzhou’s urban villages is not a festival of a single day, but a sequence of dragon boat-related activities, locally called Pa Longzhou, that lasts for nearly a month. During the festival, waterways are used as interactive spaces across villages through the organization of collective rituals, which softens the rigid boundaries and divisions between these villages. In this article, we argue…
Seeking the Present in the Past
hinese folklore studies possesses a long, complex trajectory shaped by local social, cultural and political discourses. While European and North American folklore often seeks ‘the past in the present’, this guest editorial introduction argues that Chinese folklore operates by finding ‘the present in the past’. We discuss the academic discipline of Chinese folklore studies as part of Chinese folklore itself, exploring the connections between folkl…
Why islandness matters for planning studies
In this response to Davies and Lai’s (2025) commentary ‘Is “Island Study” but a Form of Land Study?’ we advance the case for attentiveness to islandness within planning studies. Even though islands possess diverse characteristics, and it is impossible to formulate a universal definition for island or set of universal characteristics of islandness, perceptions surrounding islandness remain important for how people think about and engage with space…
Western esotericism, Chinese religion, and the supernatural fiction of Gustav Meyrink
Islands in Speculative Fiction
The study of islands in speculative fiction intersects with cultural geography, political theory, and literary futurology. It unfolds within the concept of relational shifts between islands and continents, the deconstruction and reconstruction of the East-West binary, and the dynamic interplay between technology and human knowledge systems. As one of the most technologically and socially imaginative forms of literature, speculative fiction positi…
If Islands Did Not Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent Them
Island studies has had much to say about why understanding perceptions of islandness matters for understanding the world, and it has often questioned what islandness is. Island studies has nevertheless often taken for granted that islandness ought to be perceived and has often seen islandness as something good that requires preservation. The act of studying islands per se introduces the risk that a researcher will look for and look at islands wit…
Examining maternal agency in family language policy among African-Chinese intermarriage families in Guangzhou from the lens of the actor-network theory
An Experience-Centred Approach to Animal Folklore in Denmark
Colonial Island Enclave and Discourses of Urban Modernization in Guangzhou, China
This article traces Guangzhou’s urban modernization in the late-Qing and early-Republican eras, with an emphasis on official and public discourses. Focus is placed on interactions between the colonial island enclave of Shamian, separated from the mainland by the Shaji Canal, and the Changdi waterfront that was built on the mainland as a Chinese reaction to the foreign island. Shamian and its Bund exhibited a Western urban modernity that prompted …
Migration, Discourse, and Water-Place
Discussions of migration are often dominated by negative discourses, focusing on issues such as security, threats, and governance, while ignoring the function of migration in renewing and creating local cultures, knowledges, and place itself. This article uses securitisation theory to analyse the causes and operation strategies of these negative discourses. The article first discusses the role of migration research in the journal Folk, Knowledge,…
The myth of the Others
This article studies Western (primarily Anglophone) representations of the Dan people (boat people) and the boat clusters on which they lived, relative to the mainland, in the island city of Guangzhou, focusing on 1842–1900. A change occurred over time, as the Dan went from being in close interaction with Westerners prior to the Opium Wars to being peripheral to Western interests and activities. This shift is evident in Western writings, and nega…
To study island China
As greater attention has been paid to island research in China, interactions between Chinese and international island scholars have increased. However, research has tended to take an ‘islands of China’ approach, which perceives China as a continental country surrounded by a large number of islands. The present paper proposes an alternative ‘island China’ perspective, informed by selected Chinese traditions of thinking about islands and the sea, t…
Bordered and crossborder perspectives on sustainable development
Challenges to social, economic, and environmental sustainability are global in scale, yet sustainable development policies must be implemented locally. There has been a tendency for sustainable urbanism projects to engage in the conspicuous sustainability of spatially bounded and highly visible sustainability achievements, rather than spatially expansive, long-term achievements. China's complex system of multilevel governance encourages policy ex…
The Chinese Caribbean diaspora and performative subjectivity in Jan Lowe Shinebourne’s The Last Ship
Interaction between islands and special economic zones
Despite considerable research into special economic zones (SEZs) and Island Studies, islands and SEZs are rarely considered together. Islands and SEZs are, however, closely associated, in part due to the attractiveness of island characteristics (remoteness, boundedness, isolation) for exclusive economic processes. Many prominent SEZs are located on small islands, and many island economies function similarly to SEZs. Defining SEZs as ‘bounded spac…
Indigenous Island Autonomy and Special Economic Zone Status
Islands are associated with both high levels of autonomous status and sovereign status on the one hand and the creation of exceptional spaces on the other, both linked with the development of distinctive island cultures. This article argues that there is a tension between these tendencies, as is illustrated by the case of Jeju Island, South Korea. Jeju is a self-governing province and subnational island jurisdiction (SNIJ). Its autonomy is rooted…
Caribbean legacies and interspecies community
Spaces of resistance and transformation
Jean Rhys’s best-known novel Wide Sargasso Sea, writing back to Charlotte Brontë’s classic Jane Eyre, is set in the exuberant natural world of the post-emancipation Caribbean. Despite its harsh depiction of cruelty, self-deception, and hypocrisy in the human world, the novel conveys a sympathetic impression of Caribbean society. The novel’s utopian/dystopian tension is centered on its imagining of the Caribbean as a paradoxical site of coexisting…
Rethinking utopian and dystopian imagination in island literature and culture
The trope of the utopian island occurs in a variety of cultural traditions. For example, in the West, the literary imagination of ideal islandness made manifest an imperialist rhetoric and contributed to European exploration and colonization. The tension between utopia and dystopia is an intrinsic feature of Western utopian island imaginations, which were complicit in colonial exploitation and oppression. Western models of island utopias and dyst…
Critical reflexivity and decolonial methodology in island studies
Although the field of island studies has from the start regarded itself as a defender of islands and islander interests, it is entangled in coloniality. This editorial focuses on issues of power, knowledge, and position. Who wields power in island studies? Who knows about islands? Where is island studies located, and how does it position itself? The paper discusses problems such as tokenism and forced inclusions, denial and circumscription of exp…
Literary and cultural (re)productions of a utopian island
In the second half of the 19th century, Shamian was established and developed as a colonial island enclave in the Chinese city of Guangzhou. Simultaneously, literary and cultural imaginations, depictions, and narrations of the place produced a discourse of Shamian as a utopian island: geographically insular and bounded, environmentally beautiful and peaceful, socially exclusive and harmonious, and technologically progressive and advantageous. Thi…
Regionmaking and conceptual development in South China
Using critical geopolitical discourse to examine China’s engagement in Arctic affairs
The People’s Republic of China is increasingly active in Arctic affairs. Its 2018 Arctic Policy and other texts and actions have received considerable attention and scrutiny from other countries. We use a critical geopolitical discourse framework to consider a wide range of actors within China. Doing so advances the concept of ‘discourse’ in the field of critical geopolitics by considering various aspects of ‘practice’. After examining cases in t…
Identity Negotiation and Segregated Integration of African-Chinese Mixed-race Children in Guangzhou, China
This article examines the lives of African-Chinese mixed-race children in Guangzhou, China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the city, the article explores the negotiation of identity and belonging of these children of mixed African and Chinese heritage. Occupying a third space between two or more ethnicities and cultures, mixed African-Chinese children often develop a sense of double consciousness and hybrid identities in response to the Chine…
The Chinese Shop and Carnival
Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China under Grant 17CZW060.Correction StatementThis article has been corrected with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article
Heritage tourism stakeholder conflict
Different from the existing UNESCO World Heritage Site (hereafter WHS) studies that focused predominantly on heritage tourism development, this study attempts to analyze the situation on the basis of the WHS inscription process, to examine the intertwined relationship among different heritage tourism stakeholders. Despite the extensive research on the branding effects of WHSs on tourism development, studies on the WHS inscription process are rath…
Practicing decolonial political geography
Critical reflexivity and decolonial methodology in island studies
Although the field of island studies has from the start regarded itself as a defender of islands and islander interests, it is entangled in coloniality. This editorial focuses on issues of power, knowledge, and position. Who wields power in island studies? Who knows about islands? Where is island studies located, and how does it position itself? The paper discusses problems such as tokenism and forced inclusions, denial and circumscription of exp…
The floating community of Muslims in the island city of Guangzhou
The paper explores how Guangzhou's urban density and hub functions have conditioned its cultural dynamics by looking specifically at the city's Muslim community. Guangzhou's island spatiality has influenced the development of the city's Muslim community both historically and in the contemporary era. As a historic island port city, Guangzhou has a long-standing tradition of commerce and foreign trade, which brought to the city the first group of M…
Literary and cultural (re)productions of a utopian island
In the second half of the 19th century, Shamian was established and developed as a colonial island enclave in the Chinese city of Guangzhou. Simultaneously, literary and cultural imaginations, depictions, and narrations of the place produced a discourse of Shamian as a utopian island: geographically insular and bounded, environmentally beautiful and peaceful, socially exclusive and harmonious, and technologically progressive and advantageous. Thi…
Identity Negotiation and Segregated Integration of African-Chinese Mixed-race Children in Guangzhou, China
This article examines the lives of African-Chinese mixed-race children in Guangzhou, China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the city, the article explores the negotiation of identity and belonging of these children of mixed African and Chinese heritage. Occupying a third space between two or more ethnicities and cultures, mixed African-Chinese children often develop a sense of double consciousness and hybrid identities in response to the Chine…
Regionmaking and conceptual development in South China
If Islands Did Not Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent Them
Island studies has had much to say about why understanding perceptions of islandness matters for understanding the world, and it has often questioned what islandness is. Island studies has nevertheless often taken for granted that islandness ought to be perceived and has often seen islandness as something good that requires preservation. The act of studying islands per se introduces the risk that a researcher will look for and look at islands wit…
To study island China
As greater attention has been paid to island research in China, interactions between Chinese and international island scholars have increased. However, research has tended to take an ‘islands of China’ approach, which perceives China as a continental country surrounded by a large number of islands. The present paper proposes an alternative ‘island China’ perspective, informed by selected Chinese traditions of thinking about islands and the sea, t…
Using critical geopolitical discourse to examine China’s engagement in Arctic affairs
The People’s Republic of China is increasingly active in Arctic affairs. Its 2018 Arctic Policy and other texts and actions have received considerable attention and scrutiny from other countries. We use a critical geopolitical discourse framework to consider a wide range of actors within China. Doing so advances the concept of ‘discourse’ in the field of critical geopolitics by considering various aspects of ‘practice’. After examining cases in t…
Island Geographies of Separation and Cohesion
Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) is an Arctic highly autonomous subnational island jurisdiction (SNIJ) of Denmark, its former coloniser. The coronavirus (COVID‐19) pandemic of 2020 has influenced both Kalaallit Nunaat’s relations with the outside world and relations between people and places within the territory. The Kalaallit Nunaat government’s response to the pandemic, including both internal and external travel bans and restrictions on movement, …
Interaction between islands and special economic zones
Despite considerable research into special economic zones (SEZs) and Island Studies, islands and SEZs are rarely considered together. Islands and SEZs are, however, closely associated, in part due to the attractiveness of island characteristics (remoteness, boundedness, isolation) for exclusive economic processes. Many prominent SEZs are located on small islands, and many island economies function similarly to SEZs. Defining SEZs as ‘bounded spac…
Indigenous Island Autonomy and Special Economic Zone Status
Islands are associated with both high levels of autonomous status and sovereign status on the one hand and the creation of exceptional spaces on the other, both linked with the development of distinctive island cultures. This article argues that there is a tension between these tendencies, as is illustrated by the case of Jeju Island, South Korea. Jeju is a self-governing province and subnational island jurisdiction (SNIJ). Its autonomy is rooted…
Rethinking utopian and dystopian imagination in island literature and culture
The trope of the utopian island occurs in a variety of cultural traditions. For example, in the West, the literary imagination of ideal islandness made manifest an imperialist rhetoric and contributed to European exploration and colonization. The tension between utopia and dystopia is an intrinsic feature of Western utopian island imaginations, which were complicit in colonial exploitation and oppression. Western models of island utopias and dyst…
The floating community of Muslims in the island city of Guangzhou
The paper explores how Guangzhou's urban density and hub functions have conditioned its cultural dynamics by looking specifically at the city's Muslim community. Guangzhou's island spatiality has influenced the development of the city's Muslim community both historically and in the contemporary era. As a historic island port city, Guangzhou has a long-standing tradition of commerce and foreign trade, which brought to the city the first group of M…
Distribution, assessment and coupling relationship of heavy metals and macroinvertebrates in sediments of the Weihe River Basin
Contamination Level, Ecological Risk, and Source Identification of Heavy Metals in the Hyporheic Zone of the Weihe River, China
The sediment pollution caused by different metals has attracted a great deal of attention because of the toxicity, persistence, and bio-accumulation. This study focuses on heavy metals in the hyporheic sediment of the Weihe River, China. Contamination levels of metals were examined by using "geo-accumulation index, enrichment factor, and contamination factor" while ecological risk of metals were determined by "potential ecological risk and risk i…
Heritage tourism stakeholder conflict
Different from the existing UNESCO World Heritage Site (hereafter WHS) studies that focused predominantly on heritage tourism development, this study attempts to analyze the situation on the basis of the WHS inscription process, to examine the intertwined relationship among different heritage tourism stakeholders. Despite the extensive research on the branding effects of WHSs on tourism development, studies on the WHS inscription process are rath…
Island Geographies of Separation and Cohesion
Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) is an Arctic highly autonomous subnational island jurisdiction (SNIJ) of Denmark, its former coloniser. The coronavirus (COVID‐19) pandemic of 2020 has influenced both Kalaallit Nunaat’s relations with the outside world and relations between people and places within the territory. The Kalaallit Nunaat government’s response to the pandemic, including both internal and external travel bans and restrictions on movement, …
Using critical geopolitical discourse to examine China’s engagement in Arctic affairs
The People’s Republic of China is increasingly active in Arctic affairs. Its 2018 Arctic Policy and other texts and actions have received considerable attention and scrutiny from other countries. We use a critical geopolitical discourse framework to consider a wide range of actors within China. Doing so advances the concept of ‘discourse’ in the field of critical geopolitics by considering various aspects of ‘practice’. After examining cases in t…
Identity Negotiation and Segregated Integration of African-Chinese Mixed-race Children in Guangzhou, China
This article examines the lives of African-Chinese mixed-race children in Guangzhou, China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the city, the article explores the negotiation of identity and belonging of these children of mixed African and Chinese heritage. Occupying a third space between two or more ethnicities and cultures, mixed African-Chinese children often develop a sense of double consciousness and hybrid identities in response to the Chine…
The Chinese Shop and Carnival
Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China under Grant 17CZW060.Correction StatementThis article has been corrected with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article
Voices and Visions
Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China under Grant 17CZW060.Correction StatementThis article has been corrected with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article
Social Networks, Identity Negotiation, and Segregated Integration in Hannah Lowe’s Long Time No See
Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China under Grant 17CZW060.Correction StatementThis article has been corrected with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article
China and the Pursuit of Harmony in World Politics
Practicing decolonial political geography
Caribbean legacies and interspecies community
Spaces of resistance and transformation
Jean Rhys’s best-known novel Wide Sargasso Sea, writing back to Charlotte Brontë’s classic Jane Eyre, is set in the exuberant natural world of the post-emancipation Caribbean. Despite its harsh depiction of cruelty, self-deception, and hypocrisy in the human world, the novel conveys a sympathetic impression of Caribbean society. The novel’s utopian/dystopian tension is centered on its imagining of the Caribbean as a paradoxical site of coexisting…
Rethinking utopian and dystopian imagination in island literature and culture
The trope of the utopian island occurs in a variety of cultural traditions. For example, in the West, the literary imagination of ideal islandness made manifest an imperialist rhetoric and contributed to European exploration and colonization. The tension between utopia and dystopia is an intrinsic feature of Western utopian island imaginations, which were complicit in colonial exploitation and oppression. Western models of island utopias and dyst…
Critical reflexivity and decolonial methodology in island studies
Although the field of island studies has from the start regarded itself as a defender of islands and islander interests, it is entangled in coloniality. This editorial focuses on issues of power, knowledge, and position. Who wields power in island studies? Who knows about islands? Where is island studies located, and how does it position itself? The paper discusses problems such as tokenism and forced inclusions, denial and circumscription of exp…
Literary and cultural (re)productions of a utopian island
In the second half of the 19th century, Shamian was established and developed as a colonial island enclave in the Chinese city of Guangzhou. Simultaneously, literary and cultural imaginations, depictions, and narrations of the place produced a discourse of Shamian as a utopian island: geographically insular and bounded, environmentally beautiful and peaceful, socially exclusive and harmonious, and technologically progressive and advantageous. Thi…
Regionmaking and conceptual development in South China
The Chinese Caribbean diaspora and performative subjectivity in Jan Lowe Shinebourne’s The Last Ship
Interaction between islands and special economic zones
Despite considerable research into special economic zones (SEZs) and Island Studies, islands and SEZs are rarely considered together. Islands and SEZs are, however, closely associated, in part due to the attractiveness of island characteristics (remoteness, boundedness, isolation) for exclusive economic processes. Many prominent SEZs are located on small islands, and many island economies function similarly to SEZs. Defining SEZs as ‘bounded spac…
Indigenous Island Autonomy and Special Economic Zone Status
Islands are associated with both high levels of autonomous status and sovereign status on the one hand and the creation of exceptional spaces on the other, both linked with the development of distinctive island cultures. This article argues that there is a tension between these tendencies, as is illustrated by the case of Jeju Island, South Korea. Jeju is a self-governing province and subnational island jurisdiction (SNIJ). Its autonomy is rooted…
Migration, Discourse, and Water-Place
Discussions of migration are often dominated by negative discourses, focusing on issues such as security, threats, and governance, while ignoring the function of migration in renewing and creating local cultures, knowledges, and place itself. This article uses securitisation theory to analyse the causes and operation strategies of these negative discourses. The article first discusses the role of migration research in the journal Folk, Knowledge,…
The myth of the Others
This article studies Western (primarily Anglophone) representations of the Dan people (boat people) and the boat clusters on which they lived, relative to the mainland, in the island city of Guangzhou, focusing on 1842–1900. A change occurred over time, as the Dan went from being in close interaction with Westerners prior to the Opium Wars to being peripheral to Western interests and activities. This shift is evident in Western writings, and nega…
To study island China
As greater attention has been paid to island research in China, interactions between Chinese and international island scholars have increased. However, research has tended to take an ‘islands of China’ approach, which perceives China as a continental country surrounded by a large number of islands. The present paper proposes an alternative ‘island China’ perspective, informed by selected Chinese traditions of thinking about islands and the sea, t…
Bordered and crossborder perspectives on sustainable development
Challenges to social, economic, and environmental sustainability are global in scale, yet sustainable development policies must be implemented locally. There has been a tendency for sustainable urbanism projects to engage in the conspicuous sustainability of spatially bounded and highly visible sustainability achievements, rather than spatially expansive, long-term achievements. China's complex system of multilevel governance encourages policy ex…
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