Renan Cai
Biographic Data
| ID | 289259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renan Cai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renan |
| FAMILY NAME | Cai |
| SIGNATURE | CAI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sun Yat-sen University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4624-9309 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Socio ‐ Spatial Reconfiguration of Rural – Urban Interstices: Multiscalar Governance of Commodity‐Resettlement Mixed Communities in Urbanizing China
This article examines commodity‐resettlement mixed communities (CRMCs) as a by‐product of land‐centred, property‐led urbanization. Within the repertoire of land‐centred urbanization, we show how the introduction of price‐capped land auctions, coupled with competitive resettlement provision, has subtly reconfigured speculative urban (re)development, transferring the responsibility for resettlement from the local state to developers, thereby genera…
The spatiotemporally varying relationship between LRT development and gentrification: Evidence from a mid-sized urban area in Canada
Urban rapid transit systems, such as light rail transit (LRT), may be associated with gentrification. Previous quantitative studies have adopted various analytical methods and reported mixed findings. However, they have often failed to differentiate gentrification from other forms of neighborhood change or assumed a homogeneous transit-gentrification relationship across space and time. This study argues that the relationship between transit and n…
Neighborhood safety in a university town: Linking studentification to crime and disorder
University and college towns represent distinctive physical and social environments that generate unique spatiotemporal patterns of crime and disorder. While on-campus offenses have been widely examined, crime and disorder associated with studentification (i.e., the increasing concentration of post-secondary students in off-campus residential neighborhoods) remain underexplored. This research uses Kitchener–Waterloo, Canada, a mid-sized urban are…
Cooperation or confrontation? The meaning of property rights for community participation in Shanghai, China
Property rights have played a critical role in shaping residents’ community participation within the realm of neighbourhood governance. More recently, debates around common property rights in gated communities have complicated community participation, presenting diverse driving forces underscoring either an economic logic aimed at securing property values or a political logic for facilitating self-governance. Yet it remains unclear how common pro…
Exploring the relationship between income inequality and crime in Toronto using frequentist and Bayesian models: Examining different crime types and spatial scales
Income inequality, which refers to the uneven distribution of income in a population, has been linked to many societal problems, including crime. Although environmental criminology theories, such as rational choice theory, suggest a positive association between income inequality and crime, previous empirical studies have reported divergent results based on different crime types, statistical models, and spatial units of analysis. This study employ…
Neighborhood governance and residents’ satisfaction during the Covid-19 pandemic in urban China: Evidence from six major Chinese cities
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a stress test for local neighborhood governance, as the responsibilities of detecting/containing infections largely fell onto neighborhood-level actors. Working at the frontlines, residents’ committees acted as grassroots government agents, together with property management companies (PMCs) and homeowners associations (HOAs), to implement pandemic prevention and control measures. Using survey data collected in si…
Policy-driven education-led gentrification and its spatiotemporal dynamics: Evidence from Shanghai, China
As a highly sought-after resource by parents, quality schools exert a strong influence on the housing market and other aspects of social life worldwide. Given the long-lasting prominence of education in urban society, scholars extensively explored the interplay between education and housing dynamics and their sociospatial implications, among which the scholarship on education-led gentrification offers a prominent and productive conceptual lens. W…
Are There Non-Business Days for Crime? A Small-Area Bayesian Spatiotemporal Analysis of Crime Patterns
Criminal behavior may be different on weekends and holidays compared to business days. Understanding the distinctive crime patterns on non-business days is useful for crime research and crime control. This study contributes to the literature by explicitly investigating the small-area spatiotemporal variation in five types of major crimes between business days and non-business days using a Bayesian modeling approach in Old Toronto, Canada. The res…
Negotiating the exclusive right to public schools in China’s education-featured gated communities under multiscalar and multidirectional urban entrepreneurialism
How urban entrepreneurialism is enacted at the neighbourhood level while connecting with broader urban processes remains insufficiently explored. This study introduces a novel conceptual framework of multiscalar and multidirectional urban entrepreneurialism to examine the governance of gated communities that involves dynamic interactions between the entrepreneurial local state, developers, gated communities and individual homeowners/investor-citi…
Experimentalist governance under hierarchy through leading small groups: A Solution to Power Fragmentation
Taking policy experimentation in several selected pilot sites as test beds prior to the implementation nationwide has emerged as a notable phenomenon amidst China's reform trajectories. However, the country's combined party-state authoritarian governance structure and relatively fragmented bureaucratic system have presented challenges to this experimentation process. This paper investigates the dynamic interplay between experimentalist governance…
Neighborly help and neighborhood-based social capital during the Covid-19 pandemic in major Chinese cities
Enacting urban entrepreneurialism through neighbourhood governance: A comparative study of Shanghai and Guangzhou, China
Under the concurrence of economic liberalization and political domination in post-reform China, a new mode of urban governance emerged, involving market and societal forces under the orchestration of state entrepreneurialism. However, empirical analysis investigating governance practices in urban neighborhoods through the lens of entrepreneurial urbanism is still lacking. Drawing on comparative case studies of Shanghai and Guangzhou, this study f…
Governing homeowner associations in China’s gated communities: The extension of state infrastructural power and its uneven reach
Homeowner associations (HOAs), the emergent neighborhood-based organizations, spawn new modes of neighborhood governance in post-reform China, meanwhile are profoundly influenced by state power. Aiming to unpack the complexity and hybridity of neighborhood governance, this research presents a detailed examination of how the local state exerts institutionalized control over HOAs through three critical mechanisms of infrastructural power: (1) the e…
Consciousness on property rights, homeowner associations and neighbourhood governance: Evidence from Shanghai
Screening War in Contemporary China: The Case of The Assembly
War has been a prominent theme in cultural productions of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Repeated representations by the socialist cinema and beyond have produced a revolutionary imagination of war that glorifies death and sacrifice, subsuming individual experience of pain and loss under the discourse of the Communist nation-building. This article focuses on a revisionist reading of the revolutionary imagination of war in Feng Xiaogang’s 2…
Gender Imaginations in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the Wuxia World
Research Article| May 01 2005 Gender Imaginations in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the Wuxia World Rong Cai Rong Cai Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2005) 13 (2): 441–471. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-13-2-441 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Rong Cai; Gender Imaginations in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the Wuxia World. positions …
The subject in crisis: Han Shaogong's cripple(s)
Once their initial bewilderment over the idiot protagonist Young Bing in Han Shaogong's novella "Pa Pa Pa" was over, Chinese critics came to recognize in the character yet another representative of the Chinese national character and, therefore a symbol of the defective aspects in the nation's cultural consciousness. This paper, however, examines Young Bing in his own right as a subject. It argues that because of his lack of access to language, Yo…
Governing homeowner associations in China’s gated communities: The extension of state infrastructural power and its uneven reach
Homeowner associations (HOAs), the emergent neighborhood-based organizations, spawn new modes of neighborhood governance in post-reform China, meanwhile are profoundly influenced by state power. Aiming to unpack the complexity and hybridity of neighborhood governance, this research presents a detailed examination of how the local state exerts institutionalized control over HOAs through three critical mechanisms of infrastructural power: (1) the e…
Policy-driven education-led gentrification and its spatiotemporal dynamics: Evidence from Shanghai, China
As a highly sought-after resource by parents, quality schools exert a strong influence on the housing market and other aspects of social life worldwide. Given the long-lasting prominence of education in urban society, scholars extensively explored the interplay between education and housing dynamics and their sociospatial implications, among which the scholarship on education-led gentrification offers a prominent and productive conceptual lens. W…
Enacting urban entrepreneurialism through neighbourhood governance: A comparative study of Shanghai and Guangzhou, China
Under the concurrence of economic liberalization and political domination in post-reform China, a new mode of urban governance emerged, involving market and societal forces under the orchestration of state entrepreneurialism. However, empirical analysis investigating governance practices in urban neighborhoods through the lens of entrepreneurial urbanism is still lacking. Drawing on comparative case studies of Shanghai and Guangzhou, this study f…
Negotiating the exclusive right to public schools in China’s education-featured gated communities under multiscalar and multidirectional urban entrepreneurialism
How urban entrepreneurialism is enacted at the neighbourhood level while connecting with broader urban processes remains insufficiently explored. This study introduces a novel conceptual framework of multiscalar and multidirectional urban entrepreneurialism to examine the governance of gated communities that involves dynamic interactions between the entrepreneurial local state, developers, gated communities and individual homeowners/investor-citi…
Neighborly help and neighborhood-based social capital during the Covid-19 pandemic in major Chinese cities
Consciousness on property rights, homeowner associations and neighbourhood governance: Evidence from Shanghai
Gender Imaginations in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the Wuxia World
Research Article| May 01 2005 Gender Imaginations in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the Wuxia World Rong Cai Rong Cai Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2005) 13 (2): 441–471. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-13-2-441 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Rong Cai; Gender Imaginations in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the Wuxia World. positions …
Are There Non-Business Days for Crime? A Small-Area Bayesian Spatiotemporal Analysis of Crime Patterns
Criminal behavior may be different on weekends and holidays compared to business days. Understanding the distinctive crime patterns on non-business days is useful for crime research and crime control. This study contributes to the literature by explicitly investigating the small-area spatiotemporal variation in five types of major crimes between business days and non-business days using a Bayesian modeling approach in Old Toronto, Canada. The res…
Experimentalist governance under hierarchy through leading small groups: A Solution to Power Fragmentation
Taking policy experimentation in several selected pilot sites as test beds prior to the implementation nationwide has emerged as a notable phenomenon amidst China's reform trajectories. However, the country's combined party-state authoritarian governance structure and relatively fragmented bureaucratic system have presented challenges to this experimentation process. This paper investigates the dynamic interplay between experimentalist governance…
The subject in crisis: Han Shaogong's cripple(s)
Once their initial bewilderment over the idiot protagonist Young Bing in Han Shaogong's novella "Pa Pa Pa" was over, Chinese critics came to recognize in the character yet another representative of the Chinese national character and, therefore a symbol of the defective aspects in the nation's cultural consciousness. This paper, however, examines Young Bing in his own right as a subject. It argues that because of his lack of access to language, Yo…
Gender Imaginations in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the Wuxia World
Research Article| May 01 2005 Gender Imaginations in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the Wuxia World Rong Cai Rong Cai Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2005) 13 (2): 441–471. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-13-2-441 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Rong Cai; Gender Imaginations in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the Wuxia World. positions …
Screening War in Contemporary China: The Case of The Assembly
War has been a prominent theme in cultural productions of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Repeated representations by the socialist cinema and beyond have produced a revolutionary imagination of war that glorifies death and sacrifice, subsuming individual experience of pain and loss under the discourse of the Communist nation-building. This article focuses on a revisionist reading of the revolutionary imagination of war in Feng Xiaogang’s 2…
Governing homeowner associations in China’s gated communities: The extension of state infrastructural power and its uneven reach
Homeowner associations (HOAs), the emergent neighborhood-based organizations, spawn new modes of neighborhood governance in post-reform China, meanwhile are profoundly influenced by state power. Aiming to unpack the complexity and hybridity of neighborhood governance, this research presents a detailed examination of how the local state exerts institutionalized control over HOAs through three critical mechanisms of infrastructural power: (1) the e…
Consciousness on property rights, homeowner associations and neighbourhood governance: Evidence from Shanghai
Enacting urban entrepreneurialism through neighbourhood governance: A comparative study of Shanghai and Guangzhou, China
Under the concurrence of economic liberalization and political domination in post-reform China, a new mode of urban governance emerged, involving market and societal forces under the orchestration of state entrepreneurialism. However, empirical analysis investigating governance practices in urban neighborhoods through the lens of entrepreneurial urbanism is still lacking. Drawing on comparative case studies of Shanghai and Guangzhou, this study f…
Neighborly help and neighborhood-based social capital during the Covid-19 pandemic in major Chinese cities
Negotiating the exclusive right to public schools in China’s education-featured gated communities under multiscalar and multidirectional urban entrepreneurialism
How urban entrepreneurialism is enacted at the neighbourhood level while connecting with broader urban processes remains insufficiently explored. This study introduces a novel conceptual framework of multiscalar and multidirectional urban entrepreneurialism to examine the governance of gated communities that involves dynamic interactions between the entrepreneurial local state, developers, gated communities and individual homeowners/investor-citi…
Experimentalist governance under hierarchy through leading small groups: A Solution to Power Fragmentation
Taking policy experimentation in several selected pilot sites as test beds prior to the implementation nationwide has emerged as a notable phenomenon amidst China's reform trajectories. However, the country's combined party-state authoritarian governance structure and relatively fragmented bureaucratic system have presented challenges to this experimentation process. This paper investigates the dynamic interplay between experimentalist governance…
Exploring the relationship between income inequality and crime in Toronto using frequentist and Bayesian models: Examining different crime types and spatial scales
Income inequality, which refers to the uneven distribution of income in a population, has been linked to many societal problems, including crime. Although environmental criminology theories, such as rational choice theory, suggest a positive association between income inequality and crime, previous empirical studies have reported divergent results based on different crime types, statistical models, and spatial units of analysis. This study employ…
Neighborhood governance and residents’ satisfaction during the Covid-19 pandemic in urban China: Evidence from six major Chinese cities
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a stress test for local neighborhood governance, as the responsibilities of detecting/containing infections largely fell onto neighborhood-level actors. Working at the frontlines, residents’ committees acted as grassroots government agents, together with property management companies (PMCs) and homeowners associations (HOAs), to implement pandemic prevention and control measures. Using survey data collected in si…
Policy-driven education-led gentrification and its spatiotemporal dynamics: Evidence from Shanghai, China
As a highly sought-after resource by parents, quality schools exert a strong influence on the housing market and other aspects of social life worldwide. Given the long-lasting prominence of education in urban society, scholars extensively explored the interplay between education and housing dynamics and their sociospatial implications, among which the scholarship on education-led gentrification offers a prominent and productive conceptual lens. W…
Are There Non-Business Days for Crime? A Small-Area Bayesian Spatiotemporal Analysis of Crime Patterns
Criminal behavior may be different on weekends and holidays compared to business days. Understanding the distinctive crime patterns on non-business days is useful for crime research and crime control. This study contributes to the literature by explicitly investigating the small-area spatiotemporal variation in five types of major crimes between business days and non-business days using a Bayesian modeling approach in Old Toronto, Canada. The res…
Socio ‐ Spatial Reconfiguration of Rural – Urban Interstices: Multiscalar Governance of Commodity‐Resettlement Mixed Communities in Urbanizing China
This article examines commodity‐resettlement mixed communities (CRMCs) as a by‐product of land‐centred, property‐led urbanization. Within the repertoire of land‐centred urbanization, we show how the introduction of price‐capped land auctions, coupled with competitive resettlement provision, has subtly reconfigured speculative urban (re)development, transferring the responsibility for resettlement from the local state to developers, thereby genera…
The spatiotemporally varying relationship between LRT development and gentrification: Evidence from a mid-sized urban area in Canada
Urban rapid transit systems, such as light rail transit (LRT), may be associated with gentrification. Previous quantitative studies have adopted various analytical methods and reported mixed findings. However, they have often failed to differentiate gentrification from other forms of neighborhood change or assumed a homogeneous transit-gentrification relationship across space and time. This study argues that the relationship between transit and n…
Neighborhood safety in a university town: Linking studentification to crime and disorder
University and college towns represent distinctive physical and social environments that generate unique spatiotemporal patterns of crime and disorder. While on-campus offenses have been widely examined, crime and disorder associated with studentification (i.e., the increasing concentration of post-secondary students in off-campus residential neighborhoods) remain underexplored. This research uses Kitchener–Waterloo, Canada, a mid-sized urban are…
Cooperation or confrontation? The meaning of property rights for community participation in Shanghai, China
Property rights have played a critical role in shaping residents’ community participation within the realm of neighbourhood governance. More recently, debates around common property rights in gated communities have complicated community participation, presenting diverse driving forces underscoring either an economic logic aimed at securing property values or a political logic for facilitating self-governance. Yet it remains unclear how common pro…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · China (7 works) · Corporate governance (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Economic geography (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Business (4 works)