J Qian
Biographic Data
| ID | 29741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Qian |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Qian |
| SIGNATURE | QIAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9638-3808 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 89 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 565 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 89 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Everyday creativity in wall studios under China’s creative-city turn: Migrant painters in Dafen, Shenzhen
Drawing on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork in Dafen, Shenzhen, and an analysis of policy and media discourses, this article examines how working-class migrant painters sustain everyday creativity within the creative policy gap of China’s creative-city turn. Dafen’s transformation from a replica-painting village into an ‘original’ art district has elevated institutionally recognized artistic production while marginalizing the copy-based cultur…
Incremental urbanism: Experimenting with land development and statecraft in Lhasa, Tibet
The theoretical agendas of comparative urbanism and Southern urban critique encourage scholars to attend to the locatedness of concepts and theories, to stress-test their applicability across various contexts and on this basis to generate new ones or revise existing ones. Methodologically, to unlock the potentiality of theorisation, it is conducive to view urban processes as conjunctural configurations codetermined by diverse forces, as well as i…
Circulating Blood and Qi: Leisure, Ageing‐In‐Place and the Internal Bodily Mobilities of Older Hong Kongers
Ageing‐in‐place is a strategy for enabling quality of life among older people who age in their own homes and neighbourhoods instead of care institutions. Various forms of bodily mobility and leisure are recognised as essential for successful ageing‐in‐place strategies. However, such strategies would be improved via the integration of culturally specific understandings of well‐being with human geography work on mobilities. This would further empha…
Urban adults' engagement in nature education and its interplay with everyday lived experiences: A case study from Shenzhen, China
Currently, scholarship on education to foster connectedness with nature primarily focuses on children. As adults likewise face the disconnection from nature and play a key role in influencing children, it is important to understand how they perceive, engage in, and benefit from relevant programmes. This epistemological angle advances a fuller assessment of such endeavours' contributions to wider public health and social well‐being. We conducted a…
Towards a socioenvironmental state: Governing countryside conservation in Hong Kong
Spiritual gentrification amid the rise of platform urbanism: Wanghong temples” and emerging Buddhist cultural economies in Tianzhu Road, Hangzhou, China
This study scrutinizes how the Tianzhu Road in the Lingyin Community – a peri -urban area in Hangzhou ringed by a cluster of temples that constitutes a distinct spiritual enclave – has been reworked through a two-phase gentrification process driven by the spiritual aesthetics and platform logics. Drawing on a two-month ethnography and media content analysis, this study conceptualizes spiritual gentrification as a spiritual aesthetics and culture-…
Community dynamics and echo chambers: A longitudinal study of the Belt and Road Initiative in the Twittersphere during Covid-19 pandemic
The “echo chamber” effect has been widely decried as a destructive consequence of social media on public discourse, leading people to repetitively encounter their pre-existing perspectives without rebuttal in online political discussions. In this research, we have tested this proposition by using text analytics and the hybrid Louvain method and K-mean clustering to categorize the diffusion patterns of more than 158,000 reposted threads about the …
The concrete plateau: Urban Tibetans and the Chinese civilizing machine , by Andrew Grant
Learning to be an urban state: Urban development as state building and market making in Lhasa, Tibet
The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) is currently undergoing an urban revolution. In tandem with this trend, the local state has increasingly turned to market instruments in the use and management of subsidies injected by the Chinese central state, to enhance its "self-developing capacity". This paper analyzes the intricate intersection of market making and state building in Lhasa, the capital city of TAR, focusing particularly on urban and land dev…
Culture-led rural revitalisation in China: Relational practices of materiality, creativity, and sustainability
Framing urban living lab as a multi-dimensional knowledge model: Experiences from Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town Wetland Park
Urban living labs (ULLs) have an experimental and transformative approach towards urban sustainability. Engaging with existing literature on two fields of research in which ULLs figure prominently, namely environmental governance and sustainability transition, this article rethinks hierarchical and institutional perspectives of ULL knowledge co-production that highlight the upscaling of policy models and institutions to achieve social relevance a…
Casual killing in the home: Ecological citizenship and the micro-geopolitics of mosquito cohabitation
This article explores how the visceral acts of being bitten by and killing mosquitoes can underpin the formation of ecological citizenship. This form of citizenship is premised on human-nature entanglement and raises questions concerning how the rights and responsibilities stemming from such entanglement become distributed across the public and private domains. As a space in which mosquito cohabitation is contested daily, the home is a key site t…
Unpacking the multifaceted rurality of Hong Kong's countryside: A social representation approach
Variegated forms of planetary ruralisation: A multiscalar contextual analysis of evolving ruralities of China's Dike-Pond System
Urban-centric attempts to disrupt the urban-rural binary have provoked a re-envisioning of rurality/ruralisation in recent rural scholarships, refracted through the lens of planetary and relational thinking. This paper engages the nascent field of planetary and relational rural geographies by proposing a ‘multiscalar contextual approach’ to showcase how planetary rurality should be understood within historical-geographically variegated contexts. …
Rural-urban interfaces and changing forms of relational and planetary rurality
Between binary- and mono-ontologies: The rewilding practice of Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town Wetland Park
This article engages with the scholarships on rewilding, the Anthropocene, and urban nature to advance a case study of urban rewilding in Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town Wetland Park (OCT Park), the only wetland park located in a megacity centre in China. We argue that the two philosophical underpinnings of rewilding, i.e., the ideal of a pristine baseline and human non-intervention, must be rethought in urban contexts. For one thing, Anthropoceni…
Paradoxical postsecularity in the making: A methodological experiment in the study of China's temple-centered urban redevelopment
The incorporation of Buddhist temples into urban redevelopment within China’s market transition became notable after the 2000s. Domestic and international real estate developers collaborated with local governments and state-owned enterprises in the construction of commercial complexes by converting under-used spaces around renowned Buddhist temples. Among these scattered projects of temple-centered redevelopment across Mainland China, this articl…
Mapping energy inequality between urban and rural China
Empowering left-behind places in Southwest China: Participation in coffee value chains as place-based development
Geographical scholarship has advocated the importance of endogenous and place-sensitive development to levelling up left-behind places, by means of reactivating untapped potentials and recuperating a sense of belonging. Drawing on the approaches of global value chain (GVC), and to a lesser extent, global production network (GPN), this paper rethinks how GVC/GPN participation articulates with endogenous assets and enhances local actors’ capacities…
Social and cultural geographies of economic innovation: Proliferation of meanings, articulation with user cultures, and dialectical power relations
Sociocultural mechanisms figure prominently in geographical accounts of economic innovation. At their heart lies a theoretical schema comprising relational assets and market rationality. This paper proposes an alternative epistemological framework for understanding social and cultural geographies of economic innovation by integrating the diverse actors, motives, power dynamics, and contexts that shape contemporary knowledge economies and technosc…
Counterurban sensibilities in the global countryside: The relational making of rurality and heritage in Xizhou Town, Southwest China
Fly Buddha to Mars”: The co-production between religiosity and science & technology at Longquan Monastery, Beijing
Branding the ‘VBA’ (Village Basketball Association) to revitalise a Miao village: Platform ruralism in the making
In recent years, short‐video platforms represented by Douyin (TikTok) and Kuaishou (Kwai) have expanded to rural China. The rural, as an emerging ‘sunken market’ for digital platforms to generate revenue, has become an uncharted terrain for digital platforms to compete for, particularly in the context of the state's rural revitalisation strategy. Yao Shunwei, an independent photographer, uploaded a short video on Douyin in July 2022, recording a …
The 'darkest history' must live: Narrating Sino-Japanese relations through museum geopolitics
While scholar have increasingly focused on the intersectional analysis on tourism and geopolitics, the material and affective dimensions underlying the geopolitical implications of tourism remains underexplored. This paper analyses the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders (MH-VNM-JI) in Nanjing, China, focusing on how it sustains and intensifies geopolitical narrations of militarism, fascism, and massacres inflict…
In the frontier zone of market transition: Economic possibilities across the market/non-market divide
This paper engages with two important approaches theorising the co-existence and even close entanglement between the market and non-market to rethink the making of actually existing market economies. The first, that is, the diverse/community economies approach, underscores alternative relations and ethics to capitalism but often views community economies as external to market processes. A second approach on market frontiers rejects the idea of th…
Aestheticisation, rent-seeking, and rural gentrification amidst China's rapid urbanisation: The case of Xiaozhou village, Guangzhou
Geographies of public space: Variegated publicness, variegated epistemologies
Given the rapid diversification and mutation of public space and public life across the globe, this article theorises epistemologies of publicness that move the research agenda beyond the conceptual straitjacket of presence, accessibility and visibility. It develops three theoretical approaches: public space as situated and lived; public space as assemblage; and public space as a liminal zone between inclusion and exclusion. Signposting more open…
New theoretical dialogues on migration in China: Introduction to the Special Issue
This special issue emerges from the observation that the current literatures on migration in China are constrained by a series of shortfalls, including a relative topical homogeneity centred on domestic labour migration, relatively narrowly conceived and institutionalist conceptions of migration and migrants, and a lack of engagement with theoretical models and paradigms in the broad discipline of migration studies. Assembling eight fine-grained …
C hinese urban migrants' sense of place: Emotional attachment, identity formation, and place dependence in the city and community of G uangzhou
In this paper, we study urban migrants' sense of place in G uangzhou, C hina, focusing on the structural relations between place attachment, identification and dependence as the three key place dimensions. Through both quantitative structural equation modelling and qualitative analysis of in‐depth interviews data, our research suggests that migrants' sense of place demonstrates complex relationships between the three registers of emotional attach…
From an emerging market to a multifaceted urban society: Urban China studies
China is undergoing an urban revolution. In 2011 more than half of the total population resided in cities and towns for the first time in history. Over the last two decades urban China scholars have actively engaged in dialogues with urbanists from different disciplines and different urban contexts. In consequence, urban China studies have embarked on a trail of rapid diversification and proliferation, moving beyond the topics of urbanisation and…
Tourism-driven urbanization in China’s small town development: A case study of Zhapo Town, 1986–2003
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience
Performing the Public Man: Cultures and Identities in China's Grassroots Leisure Class
This article examines cultural practices and social life in urban public spaces of postreform China, focusing on the everyday leisure, entertainment, and cultural activities spontaneously organized by grassroots residents or groups. It examines performativity in constituting cultural meanings, reproducing everyday identities, and building up mutual engagements, and unravels the ways in which ordinary people devote resources, labor, and energy to …
Rethinking Social Power and the Right to the City Amidst China's Emerging Urbanism
In this paper we engage with a theoretical reflection on the concept of the right to the city amidst China's emerging urbanism. In particular, we conceptualize the right to the city as embedded within the complex geometries of power relations throughout the production process of China's urban modernity; and in this sense assert the right to urban life is inevitably entangled with a social project of altering dominant power structures. We suggest …
University Geography in China: History, opportunities, and challenges
This Themed‐Intervention commentary provides a brief overview of the history of Geography as a modern academic discipline in China, its development in the reform era (1979–), and the distinctive conventions and norms that distinguish it from paradigms and practices of geography in the Anglophone academia. We identify two tensions: between sciences and social sciences orientations, and between applied knowledge and critical/reflexive knowlegde. Th…
Towards a material approach in rural geography: Architectural experiments in China’s rural renaissance and reconstruction movements
Knowledge circulation in urban geography/urban studies, 1990–2010: Testing the discourse of Anglo-American hegemony through publication and citation patterns
This article approaches the question of Anglo-American hegemony in urban studies by examining publication and citation patterns. The past one or two decades have witnessed critical arguments about how knowledge production in social sciences is characterised by centre–periphery relations, and risks universalising US–American and European knowledge and epistemology. While not much systematic analysis has been done to address the extent to which urb…
The Xinjiang Class: Multi-ethnic Encounters in an Eastern Coastal City
The Xinjiang Class ( Xinjiang neidi ban , or Xinjiangban ) has far-reaching implications for Beijing's governance of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. Existing literature has focused primarily on the Uyghur–Han dichotomy, with limited attention being paid to the actual multi-ethnic interactions that constitute the situated dynamics of policy implementation. Utilizing the notions of the space of prescription and the space of negotiation to develop an…
On the trail of comparative urbanism: Square dance and public space in China
Civic cultures in public space occupy a central place in the theorisations of social relations and social interactions in the modern city. But theoretical perspectives formulated in Western urban contexts tend to assume clear-cut distinction between Gesellschaft and Gemeinschaft, and between the public and private realms, and assume that encounter automatically steers people towards the ethics and politics of difference. These optics represent ep…
Buddhism Co. Ltd? Epistemology of religiosity, and the re-invention of a Buddhist monastery in Hong Kong
This article re-theorises the relationships between secularity and religiosity in modernity. While geographers have recognised that the secular and the religious are mutually constituted, this article pushes this theorisation further, arguing that the religious and the secular are in fact hybrid constructs that embrace simultaneously the sacred and profane, the transcendent and the immanent. Albeit the significant advancement in disrupting enclos…
Drifting” in Lhasa: Cultural Encounter, Contested Modernity, and the Negotiation of Tibetanness
During the past decade, thousands of Han Chinese have migrated to Lhasa, the capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, to pursue a slow-paced and leisurely lifestyle in a land in which they have invested both fantasies and emotional attachment. These lifestyle migrants constitute a culturally unique group dubbed, by themselves and in folk discourse alike, “drifters in Tibet.” This group puts into question the positions and identities of the so…
Theorising small city as ordinary city: Rethinking development and urbanism from China’s south-west frontier
A recurrent critical argument in urban studies holds that theories about relationships between cities and globalisation need to account for a broader diversity of urban experiences and contexts. Scholarship needs to move beyond the narrow focus on a limited number of prototypical cities exerting high degrees of command and control in the global system through networks of specific corporations and sectors, and account for the diverse, inventive wa…
Police and Politics in Aesthetics‐Based Urban Governance: Redevelopment and Grassroots Struggles in Enninglu, Guangzhou, China
Rancière's theorisation of police, politics, and aesthetics offers an illustrative framework to understand urban (re)developments. While extant works have examined separately the art of governing through aesthetics and the political subjectivities of those having no part in the frame of visibility and intelligibility, this study argues that hegemonic aesthetic regime and bottom‐up aesthetic practices can be mutually constitutive and reside in rel…
No right to the street: Motorcycle taxis, discourse production and the regulation of unruly mobility
This article investigates the state regulation of motorcycle taxis in Guangzhou, China. Motorcycle taxis play an important role in sustaining the livelihood of a subgroup of urban migrants. However, this urban informality has become the object of strict state regulation after the use of motorcycle was outlawed by the Guangzhou Municipal Government. This article examines how dominant representations and discourses of motorcycle mobility are implic…
Negotiating place and identity after change of administrative division
Place identity is a fluid construction that is in a constant dynamics of re-imagination. Changes in economic, social, cultural and political conditions lead individual and groups to re-imagine and rebuild their place-based identity. One major force that causes people's interruption in place identity is the rationalizing spatial process that reduces place into abstract space that is open to reorganization. In this paper, we investigate the interru…
Migrant worker museums in China: Public Cultures of Migrant Labour in State and Grassroots Initiatives
This paper offers a comparative investigation of two rural migrant workers museums, one state-run in Shenzhen and another grassroots project in the suburbs of Beijing. We take museums as institutions of the politics of recognition and identity politics par excellence, and as fields of forces through which the matrices of political economy, state formation and popular culture are played out. The theoretical problematiques that frame our analyses a…
Migrants on exhibition: The emergence of migrant worker museums in China as a neoliberal experiment on governance
This article develops a critical investigation of the recent emergence of migrant worker museums (MWMs) in Chinese cities. Though studies on migrant workers in urban China have examined in detail the state and popular discourses that construct migrants as uncivilized and inferior, limited attention has been dedicated to a more recent line of discursive formulation, which idealizes and romanticizes migrant workers as docile, hard-working subjects …
Self-orientalism, joke-work and host-tourist relation
Multi-scaled secularization or postsecular present? Christianity and migrant workers in Shenzhen, China
This article provides a multi-scaled, grounded understanding of how secularization and re-sacralization occur simultaneously in a context of rapid modernization. Recent geographical scholarship in the geography of religion have exhibited deficient reflection over the geo-historical contingencies and complexities of secularization and secularity. This article seeks to re-conceptualize secularization as a multi-scaled, grounded and self-reflective …
Beyond heteronormativity? Gay cruising, closeted experiences and self-disciplining subject in People’s Park, Guangzhou
In this paper, I examine relationships between public space, gay people’s cruising and construction of gay subjectivity in People’s Park, Guangzhou, China. In particular, I interrogate the complex dynamics between the performance of homosexual identity and the dominant heteronormative ideologies in China’s cultural–political sphere. I articulate how public cruising can be mobilized as a space of alternative socio-spatial ordering and simultaneous…
Globalization and the production of city image in Guangzhou’s metro station advertisements
Negotiating place and identity after change of administrative division
Place identity is a fluid construction that is in a constant dynamics of re-imagination. Changes in economic, social, cultural and political conditions lead individual and groups to re-imagine and rebuild their place-based identity. One major force that causes people's interruption in place identity is the rationalizing spatial process that reduces place into abstract space that is open to reorganization. In this paper, we investigate the interru…
Tourism-driven urbanization in China’s small town development: A case study of Zhapo Town, 1986–2003
Consuming the tourist gaze: Imaginative geographies and the reproduction of sexuality in lugu lake
Imaginative geographies engage with the understanding and experiencing of place and place‐based social and cultural specificities through a process of re‐creation and reproduction. In this article, we explore the imaginative geographies of Lugu Lake, a tourist destination in China's Yunnan Province, and of the Mosuo people, the local minority which practices a unique marriage system. We investigate how Mosuo society has been imagined in popular d…
Representing the imagined city: Place and the politics of difference during Guangzhou’s 2010 language conflict
Subjectivity, Modernity, and the Politics of Difference in a Periurban Village in China: Towards a Progressive Sense of Place
In this paper we investigate the cultural imageries of place and their relation to the politics of difference within China's emerging space of modernity. Using a case study of the place politics in Xiaozhou Village, Guangzhou, we consider how particular subject positions in relation to the ideologies of modernity and rurality shape particular imaginative structures of place and cognitive mappings of social relations. We argue that Massey's theory…
Rethinking Social Power and the Right to the City Amidst China's Emerging Urbanism
In this paper we engage with a theoretical reflection on the concept of the right to the city amidst China's emerging urbanism. In particular, we conceptualize the right to the city as embedded within the complex geometries of power relations throughout the production process of China's urban modernity; and in this sense assert the right to urban life is inevitably entangled with a social project of altering dominant power structures. We suggest …
Aestheticisation, rent-seeking, and rural gentrification amidst China's rapid urbanisation: The case of Xiaozhou village, Guangzhou
Performing the Public Man: Cultures and Identities in China's Grassroots Leisure Class
This article examines cultural practices and social life in urban public spaces of postreform China, focusing on the everyday leisure, entertainment, and cultural activities spontaneously organized by grassroots residents or groups. It examines performativity in constituting cultural meanings, reproducing everyday identities, and building up mutual engagements, and unravels the ways in which ordinary people devote resources, labor, and energy to …
From performance to politics? Constructing public and counterpublic in the singing of red songs
This article uses the conceptual constructs of ‘public’ and ‘counterpublic’ to examine the collective singing of ‘Red Songs’, a state-approved, ideology-laden popular culture, in the city of Guangzhou, China. It approaches these two concepts from actions, practices and shared meanings which render the public/counterpublic visible and concrete. In Guangzhou, the interplays between hegemonic ideas expressed in the red songs and ordinary singers’ ag…
C hinese urban migrants' sense of place: Emotional attachment, identity formation, and place dependence in the city and community of G uangzhou
In this paper, we study urban migrants' sense of place in G uangzhou, C hina, focusing on the structural relations between place attachment, identification and dependence as the three key place dimensions. Through both quantitative structural equation modelling and qualitative analysis of in‐depth interviews data, our research suggests that migrants' sense of place demonstrates complex relationships between the three registers of emotional attach…
Narrating the trope of abnormality: The making of closeted experiences in gay public cruising
Drifting” in Lhasa: Cultural Encounter, Contested Modernity, and the Negotiation of Tibetanness
During the past decade, thousands of Han Chinese have migrated to Lhasa, the capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, to pursue a slow-paced and leisurely lifestyle in a land in which they have invested both fantasies and emotional attachment. These lifestyle migrants constitute a culturally unique group dubbed, by themselves and in folk discourse alike, “drifters in Tibet.” This group puts into question the positions and identities of the so…
Public Space in non-Western Contexts: Practices of Publicness and the Socio-spatial Entanglement
In Western traditions, conceptions of public space have been pivotal to ideas and imaginations of civic and political life. Public space is understood as a political forum where ideas and claims are expressed and as a civic arena where identities and differences are rendered visible and thereby acknowledged. Recently, studies on public space have made a timely theoretical move towards theorising the ways in which spatial practices are constitutiv…
Between God and Caesar? Christianity, Ethnic Identity, and Resistant Politics in Shimenkan, China
This paper focuses on the politics of religious space and hybridized cultural identity in the reconstruction of Miao ethnicity in China. With a case study of the entanglement of ethnic language and ethnic minority's relationship with Han Chinese cultural hegemony, this paper examines the translocal production of cultural hybridity and the political potentials of religion and religious space in a multiethnic social milieu. It is argued that transl…
Charting the development of social and cultural geography in Mainland China: Voices From the Inside
This article provides an overview of the recent development of social and cultural geography in China. It discusses six major bodies of work: cultural areas, cultural diffusion and cultural integration; geographies of ethnic cultures; cultural landscape and cultural economy; place and place-based cultural politics; marginal social groups; and geographies of social injustice. Although social and cultural geography is still located on the periphery…
No right to the street: Motorcycle taxis, discourse production and the regulation of unruly mobility
This article investigates the state regulation of motorcycle taxis in Guangzhou, China. Motorcycle taxis play an important role in sustaining the livelihood of a subgroup of urban migrants. However, this urban informality has become the object of strict state regulation after the use of motorcycle was outlawed by the Guangzhou Municipal Government. This article examines how dominant representations and discourses of motorcycle mobility are implic…
Disciplined Mobility and Migrant Subalternity: Sketching the Politics of Motorcycle Taxis in Guangzhou
Tea Production, Land Use Politics, and Ethnic Minorities: Struggling Over Dilemmas in China’s Southwest Frontier
Tea Production, Land Use Politics, and Ethnic Minorities: Struggling Over Dilemmas in China’s Southwest Frontier." Journal of Borderlands Studies, 33(3), pp. 511–512
Beyond heteronormativity? Gay cruising, closeted experiences and self-disciplining subject in People’s Park, Guangzhou
In this paper, I examine relationships between public space, gay people’s cruising and construction of gay subjectivity in People’s Park, Guangzhou, China. In particular, I interrogate the complex dynamics between the performance of homosexual identity and the dominant heteronormative ideologies in China’s cultural–political sphere. I articulate how public cruising can be mobilized as a space of alternative socio-spatial ordering and simultaneous…
Writing Tibet as Han Chinese sojourners: The Discourses, Practices and Politics of Place in an Era of Rapid Development
This paper engages with the debates on place, and develops an analysis of a corpus of writings on Tibet produced by Han Chinese writers, documenting their experiences of sojourning in Tibet. Recent literature in human geography has conceptualised place as a centre of meanings. Moreover, it has been recognised that place is implicated in the fashioning of the self. Following these theorisations, this article examines how the Han writers' senses of…
Han Chinese "drifters" in Lhasa: The ambivalent cultural politics of Tibetanness amidst China's geographies of modernity
© 2016 Taylor & Francis.As rampant modernization profoundly reshapes the economy, culture and ideologies of post-reform China, Han Chinese have encountered directly the malaises of modernity, and are gradually losing faith in modernity’s promises of reason and progress. Numerous small towns and cities, consequently, have become anchors of alternative identities and lifestyles. This article examines the group of ‘drifters in Lhasa’, namely Han Chi…
From an emerging market to a multifaceted urban society: Urban China studies
China is undergoing an urban revolution. In 2011 more than half of the total population resided in cities and towns for the first time in history. Over the last two decades urban China scholars have actively engaged in dialogues with urbanists from different disciplines and different urban contexts. In consequence, urban China studies have embarked on a trail of rapid diversification and proliferation, moving beyond the topics of urbanisation and…
Dilemma of modernity: Interrogating cross‐border ethnic identities at China's southwest frontier
Recent theoretical advancement in human geography has reconceptualised the border as a process and becoming, which is appropriated and constructed by myriad actors to yield diverse and changing meanings, and accommodate various needs and interests. This enables us to appreciate the dual qualities of the border, both as a barrier to be overcome and an enabling factor for practices and meanings. In particular, cross‐border mobility plays an essenti…
The Xinjiang Class: Multi-ethnic Encounters in an Eastern Coastal City
The Xinjiang Class ( Xinjiang neidi ban , or Xinjiangban ) has far-reaching implications for Beijing's governance of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. Existing literature has focused primarily on the Uyghur–Han dichotomy, with limited attention being paid to the actual multi-ethnic interactions that constitute the situated dynamics of policy implementation. Utilizing the notions of the space of prescription and the space of negotiation to develop an…
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