Zhigang Li
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zhigang Li |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zhigang |
| FAMILY NAME | Li |
| SIGNATURE | LI Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wuhan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4679-4622 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 119 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 968 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 119 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 18 |
Beyond individualism: Social integration, family responsibilities, and the return intentions of rural migrants in urban China
China's rapid urbanization and changing urban labor markets have sparked fresh concerns about the emerging “returning-home tide” among rural migrant workers. Existing explanations often rely on an individualistic narrative of “ losers return, winners stay ”, paying limited attention to how family responsibilities are negotiated within migrant households. This study re-examines the association between social integration, particularly migrants' soc…
Can DeepSeek Intelligent Chatbot’s Emotion Induction Enhance College Students’ English Learning Ability
Chatbots have become increasingly popular as tools for supporting English language learning. However, how to effectively enhance learning ability through emotion induction during interactions with intelligent chatbots remains an unresolved issue. This study integrates Flow Theory, Perceived Value Theory, and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) with emotion-induction features of a chatbot to develop and test a theoretica…
Latest Reforms of Territorial Spatial Planning in China: Edited by Mee Kam Ng and Kang Cao
ContentsLatest Reforms of Territorial Spatial Planning in China: An IntroductionMee Kam Ng, Kang Cao, Wan Liu and Bing ZhangThe Ancient Roots of China’s Territorial Spatial PlanningKang Cao and Lan
Tilting‐Tracking Photovoltaic Systems Mitigate Soil Degradation Risks While Maintain Native Vegetation Productivity Across All Reshaped Micro‐Zones in a Desert Steppe
Unlike fixed photovoltaic systems, which can only form one ground rainwater accumulation micro‐zone, the tilting‐tracking photovoltaic systems (TT‐PVS) can create two rainwater accumulation micro‐zones (west and east edges). However, the impacts of TT‐PVS on ecological restoration in arid areas remain poorly understood. This study assessed TT‐PVS impacts on soil quality and plant growth in a desert steppe. Soil quality indices (SQIs) were quantif…
Multi-objective optimization of urban land use across multiple scales: Balancing ecosystem services supply and demand with an integrated NSGA-II–PLUS model
Living by the landscape, living with belonging? Urban space, social relations, and spatial satisfaction
Upscaled state entrepreneurialism: Centrally controlled state-owned enterprises in post-pandemic urban development
State capitalism has resurged in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. As China encounters geopolitical tensions, property market decline, economic slowdown, and public fiscal deficit, how does new state capitalism become relevant to China’s contemporary urban development? This paper examines post-pandemic urban development and governance and investigates a new trend of state capital expansion in large-scale urban development in Wuhan. Th…
Nonlinear and spatially heterogeneous effects of the built environment on urban flood resilience: An interpretable spatially weighted machine learning framework
Governing resettlement under the new state politics: A case study of Yanji in Ezhou, China
From stigma to strategy: Unpacking the roles of narcissism and humility in entrepreneurs’ responses to failure and CSR engagement
The failure of entrepreneurial endeavors presents a formidable challenge for entrepreneurs, with the associated stigma exerting multifaceted effects. Grounded in the proactive motivation model and the value-centered approach to institutional corporate social responsibility (CSR) research, this paper investigates the intricate interplay between the stigma of entrepreneurial failure and venture choice of CSR activities from the perspective of entre…
Perceived organizational status and change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior: Mediating role of psychological empowerment and moderating role of organizational error tolerance
Change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior (CO-OCB) is essential for organizational adaptation in dynamic environments. This study investigated whether perceived organizational status promotes CO-OCB and whether psychological empowerment mediates this relationship. We conducted two vignette-based experiments with full-time employees in China (Study 1: N = 216; Study 2: N = 372) recruited from multiple industries and provinces through a p…
Pet Ownership is Associated with Durable Viral Suppression but Presents Healthcare Access Challenges for People with HIV
Human-animal interaction (HAI; e.g., pet ownership) may contribute to enhanced health and well-being among individuals managing chronic conditions like HIV; however, responsibilities associated with pet ownership may also prevent owners from accessing timely healthcare. This study investigates the relationship between pet ownership, pet-related barriers to healthcare (PRBH), and comfort derived from pets with durable HIV viral suppression among p…
Tiragnn: Temporal and Implicit Relation-Aware Graph Neural Networks for Social Recommendation
Social recommendation systems predict user preferences by using social relationships to address data sparsity and cold-start problems. Since social relations and user–item interactions can naturally be modeled as graph structures, graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved significant success in social recommendation. However, most existing models fail to incorporate temporal information when modeling user–item interactions and rely solely on exp…
Incorporating Cattle Manure Improves Hydraulic Properties and Enhances Infiltration Rates of Low‐Infiltrability Saline‐Sodic Soils
Drylands present a significant challenge to global agricultural production, especially in dryland saline‐sodic soils, which are marked by poor structure and low infiltrability. Enhancing the infiltration capacity of these soils is crucial for enhancing soil health and optimizing land‐use efficiency. However, few studies have been conducted to improve soil physical structure and enhance water infiltration and storage capacity in saline‐sodic soils…
The death of neighborhood food outlets: Untangling spatial determinants of food retail environment vulnerability via interpretable machine learning
The global transformation of the retail environment has led to the widespread closure of small food outlets, threatening urban sustainability and dietary health. While extensive studies have explored the relationship between urban environments and food outlet closures, most of them do not differentiate between the closures of healthy and unhealthy food outlets. To address this gap, this study employs interpretable machine learning methods to exam…
The internationalization of digital cultural content creators on global social media: Navigating virtual outsidership in a borderless space
Compact infill expansion: A spatially efficient and low-carbon path to sustainable urbanization
Prevalence and characteristics of people with HIV who had late, delayed and timely HIV diagnoses in Florida, 2015–2021
Different definitions of late HIV diagnosis are used to represent people diagnosed at an advanced stage of their illness. How well varying definitions represent those at risk for poor outcomes is unclear. Our aim was to examine proportions of late, delayed and timely HIV diagnoses in Florida and identify factors associated with diagnosis status. Using the first laboratory test in the Enhanced HIV/AIDS Reporting System, we determined annual propor…
An Analysis of Factors Influencing Chatbots on College Students’ Programming Self-learning Ability
Against the backdrop of the deep integration of chatbots into education, this study, based on Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and the UTAUT model, constructed a model of factors influencing college students’ self-directed learning ability in programming. Through a review of existing literature, six key determinants were identified: learning expectancy, effort expectancy, facilitation conditions, teaching interaction, learning motivation, and lear…
The Use Behavior of Farmers’ Short-Form Video Marketing of Agricultural Products From the Perspective of Government Trust
Short-form video (SFV) marketing is a new technology for farmers in the context of rural revitalization. This study aims to analyze the factors and mechanisms influencing the use behavior of farmers’ SFV marketing of agricultural products from the perspective of government trust. By adding policy perception and government trust as external factors, the conceptual model and hypotheses were proposed based on UTAUT2. SEM was built to analyze the que…
Health information addiction and older adults’ health product purchases: The mediating role of perceived illness severity and social support
Health information addiction drives older adults' health product purchases by heightening perceived illness severity and increasing reliance on online social support. To mitigate this effect, interventions should focus on developing senior-centric digital platforms with enhanced accessibility to reduce addictive consumption patterns, creating moderated online health communities to provide reliable social support, and implementing digital health l…
A Closer Look at the Perceived Factors Contributing To Late HIV Diagnoses: A Qualitative Study among People with HIV
Unrealised aspiration: Migrants’ intergroup relations in China
Although migrants wish to make friends with local urbanites, they may not eventually realise their aspirations. This paper considers the mismatch between migrants’ intention and intergroup relations in China to reveal the gap between aspirations and outcomes. The instrumental variable results suggest that residing in migrant-concentrated neighbourhoods can lead to a gap between migrants’ aspired and real intergroup relations. This confirms the ne…
Factors influencing young adults’ organic food purchase intention on fresh food e-commerce platforms
Purpose Understanding young adults’ organic food purchasing behavior in the fresh food e-commerce platforms (FFEP) is crucial for expanding the global environmental product market. The study aims to investigate how specific characteristics of platforms and organic food information impact young adults’ perceived value, leading to their subsequent purchase intention. Design/methodology/approach Around 535 valid responses were collected through an o…
Spatial correlation network characteristics and influencing factors of water environmental efficiency in three major urban agglomerations in the Yangtze River Basin, China
Tenure‐based residential segregation in post‐reform Chinese cities: A case study of Shanghai
The Chinese cities, once characterised by egalitarianism, are becoming the most unequal cities in the world. However, little is known about the spatial implications of such a tremendous transition. This paper examines residential segregation in post‐reform Shanghai. For the first time in studying Chinese cities, fine resolution data on the level of the residential committee, from the fifth population census conducted in 2000, are used. The spatia…
Residential Satisfaction in China's Informal Settlements: A Case Study of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou
China's informal settlements - villages inside urbanized areas - are often characterized by local governments as dirty, chaotic, and dangerous places. This negative discourse inevitably leads to recommendations for demolition. A number of criteria have been invoked in state decisions regarding the demolition of informal settlements; however, rarely are these places evaluated from the residents perspective. This paper, following a long tradition o…
The social networks of new-generation migrants in China’s urbanized villages: A case study of Guangzhou
China’s ‘Chocolate City’: An Ethnic Enclave in a Changing Landscape
The recent rise of African communities in Guangzhou has been widely noted. To understand this ‘Chocolate City,’ with a series of field surveys in 2006-2010, we examine its different development stages and shed particular light upon its internal and external linkages. Three modalities: the emerging enclave, the prosperous enclave and the collapsing enclave, have been identified. The rise of the ‘Chocolate City’ has been mainly attributed to the ri…
Growth of rural migrant enclaves in Guangzhou, China: Agency, everyday practice and social mobility
Previous studies have attributed the proliferation of rural migrant enclaves in China’s large cities primarily to the constraints limiting migrants’ residential options. Through an ethnographic exploration of Xiaohubei, a migrant enclave with a high concentration of Hubei rural migrants and small-scale garment producers in Guangzhou, this paper sheds new light on the dynamics and implications of the migrant enclaves. It argues that rural migrants…
Changing neighbourhood cohesion under the impact of urban redevelopment: A case study of Guangzhou, China
Published by Taylor & Francis Large-scale urban redevelopment has caused the breakdown of traditional social bonds in Chinese cities. To date, very few studies have attempted to delve into the impact of this urban redevelopment on neighbourhood cohesion. Using data collected from questionnaires conducted in 20 urban villages and 1 urban village redevelopment neighbourhood in Guangzhou, this paper examines the impact of urban village redevelopment…
Speculative urbanism and the making of university towns in China: A case of Guangzhou University Town
The subjective wellbeing of migrants in Guangzhou, China: The impacts of the social and physical environment
China has witnessed a surge of rural-urban migrants over the past three decades. Although a plethora of literature has shed light on the low quality of migrants' lives, little research has been done to understand how migrants evaluate their own lives in host cities, and no study has been undertaken to link migrants' subjective wellbeing with their residential environments. Using the data collected from a questionnaire survey in Guangzhou and mult…
From Revanchism to Ambivalence: The Changing Politics of Street Vending in Guangzhou
By focusing on Guangzhou's street-vending policy transformation, this article explores how exclusionary practices of urban politics in China are undermined by those who it seeks to exclude and the progressive political climate that questions the exclusionary framework. The exclusion of street vendors in Guangzhou has been led by the National Sanitary City campaign as a revanchist project. It has been discovered that while the exclusionary strateg…
An African Enclave in China: The Making of a New Transnational Urban Space
The paper, by three geographers, including a noted U.S.-based senior specialist on China's urban and human realm, presents the first known academic study of the country's African migrants. The authors examine the emergence of a new African community (primarily traders from West Africa) in the Xiaobei urban district of Guangzhou City, arguing that Xiaobei is not only a space for transacting transnational business but also a place of sojourn where …
Socio-spatial Differentiation and Residential Inequalities in Shanghai: A Case Study of Three Neighbourhoods
Urban space in China has been subjected to a tremendous transformation after 20 years of market-oriented reform. With ongoing housing reform and a massive increase in housing construction, residential spaces in urban China are changing from largely mixed work-unit compounds towards differentiated neighbourhoods. Drawing upon a survey of three neighbourhoods in Shanghai, this paper examines the impact of new residents on different neighbourhoods. …
Social integration of migrants across Chinese neighbourhoods
The effects of social ties on rural-urban migrants' intention to settle in cities in China
Estimating the mediating effect of privately-supplied green space on the relationship between urban public green space and property value: Evidence from Shanghai, China
The effect of neighbourhood social ties on migrants' subjective wellbeing in Chinese cities
Sociospatial Differentiation: Processes and Spaces in Subdistricts of Shanghai
Social space in urban China has been experiencing fundamental reorganization in line with economic reform. This paper aims to develop a conceptual framework concerning the processes of sociospatial differentiation as well as to shed light on major outcomes of differentiation. Specifically, we examine urban spatial structure through the spaces of subdistricts (jiedao). The processes of sociospatial differentiation include the revealing of historic…
Beyond neighbouring: Migrants' place attachment to their host cities in China
The existing literature on migrants' social integration tends to focus on neighbourhood. Few studies have explored migrants' place attachment to their host cities, which might be a better scale for social integration. Drawing on the 2014 China Migrants Dynamic Survey, this paper examines migrants' place attachment and explores how it is influenced by individual status and the factors of social and physical environment. It is found that migrants w…
In the Dragon's Den: African Traders in Guangzhou
A growing literature studies the Chinese diasporas in Africa, involved in the import and distribution of manufactured goods across the continent, identifying their economic and social strategies and their interactions with African urban and political life. In contrast, the counter-flow of African private traders to China has been relatively little studied, yet is part of significant changes in African economies and societies, and creates new inte…
The ‘third tier’ of globalization: African traders in Guangzhou
In recent years, China’s major trading cities have witnessed rapid social, cultural and physical change which has accompanied the country’s boom in manufacturing and exports. A small but increasingly significant element of this growth has been the China--Africa trade in small‐scale manufactured goods. The opening of China’s economy has created new spaces for migrant entrepreneurs capturing a share of international value chains, transforming socia…
Asr Forum: Engaging With African Informal Economies
This article analyzes the value chain for Chinese manufactured goods such as garments and textiles sold in sub-Saharan Africa. It explores the opportunities for Africans with small, private businesses in the export trade from China, the potential for long-term business development, and how strategies of engagement have changed over time. It finds that the value chains for low-cost goods vary. There is great diversity of entry levels and opportuni…
Migrants’ perceived social integration in different housing tenures in urban China
Residential satisfaction of migrants in Wenzhou, an ‘ordinary city’ of China
Exploring the linkage between greenness exposure and depression among Chinese people: Mediating roles of physical activity, stress and social cohesion and moderating role of urbanicity
Mobility and the Transiency of Social Spaces: African Merchant Entrepreneurs in China
This paper investigates how China's heterogeneous African population contributes to shaping new types of social spaces in Chinese cities. We analyse how their different types of collective ( primary and corporate ) agency work in the creation of trans ient spaces, that is, trans local and trans forming spaces in Guangzhou and Foshan, China. A mixed‐methods research approach was applied to cover the breadth and depth of African merchants' social s…
Revisiting entrepreneurial governance in China’s urban redevelopment: A case from Wuhan
The unprecedented scale and varied forms of urban redevelopment in China provide an experimental field for understanding the transformation of urban governance. Noting that existing studies have often focused on coastal or developed Chinese cities, this study examines urban redevelopment in Wuhan, an inland city. We use the Erqi Riverfront Business District (RBD) redevelopment project as a case to examine the evolving entrepreneurial governance i…
Sociospatial Differentiation: Processes and Spaces in Subdistricts of Shanghai
Social space in urban China has been experiencing fundamental reorganization in line with economic reform. This paper aims to develop a conceptual framework concerning the processes of sociospatial differentiation as well as to shed light on major outcomes of differentiation. Specifically, we examine urban spatial structure through the spaces of subdistricts (jiedao). The processes of sociospatial differentiation include the revealing of historic…
Socio-spatial Differentiation and Residential Inequalities in Shanghai: A Case Study of Three Neighbourhoods
Urban space in China has been subjected to a tremendous transformation after 20 years of market-oriented reform. With ongoing housing reform and a massive increase in housing construction, residential spaces in urban China are changing from largely mixed work-unit compounds towards differentiated neighbourhoods. Drawing upon a survey of three neighbourhoods in Shanghai, this paper examines the impact of new residents on different neighbourhoods. …
Socioeconomic transformations in Shanghai (1990–2000): Policy impacts in global–national–local contexts
Transformation of the Chinese City, 1995-2005: Geographical Perspectives and Geographers’ Contributions
Focusing primarily on the period 1995-2005 and on research published in English, this article reviews the contributions geographers have made to the field of urban China studies, which are broadly grouped around three themes: internal change and reorganization of cities; the interplay with external globalizing forces; and political and social transformations. This article also proposes research emphases for further consideration
The ‘third tier’ of globalization: African traders in Guangzhou
In recent years, China’s major trading cities have witnessed rapid social, cultural and physical change which has accompanied the country’s boom in manufacturing and exports. A small but increasingly significant element of this growth has been the China--Africa trade in small‐scale manufactured goods. The opening of China’s economy has created new spaces for migrant entrepreneurs capturing a share of international value chains, transforming socia…
Tenure‐based residential segregation in post‐reform Chinese cities: A case study of Shanghai
The Chinese cities, once characterised by egalitarianism, are becoming the most unequal cities in the world. However, little is known about the spatial implications of such a tremendous transition. This paper examines residential segregation in post‐reform Shanghai. For the first time in studying Chinese cities, fine resolution data on the level of the residential committee, from the fifth population census conducted in 2000, are used. The spatia…
An African Enclave in China: The Making of a New Transnational Urban Space
The paper, by three geographers, including a noted U.S.-based senior specialist on China's urban and human realm, presents the first known academic study of the country's African migrants. The authors examine the emergence of a new African community (primarily traders from West Africa) in the Xiaobei urban district of Guangzhou City, arguing that Xiaobei is not only a space for transacting transnational business but also a place of sojourn where …
Housing Conditions and Housing Determinants of New Migrants in Chinese Cities: A Case Study of Guangzhou, Dongguan, Shenyang, Chengdu, Hangzhou, and Zhengzhou
With a database based on 3,168 questionnaires collected from six Chinese cities: Guangzhou, Dongguan, Shenyang, Chengdu, Hangzhou, and Zhengzhou, this study examines housing conditions and determinants of new migrants in urban China. Quantitative analysis reveals that three types of Chinese new migrants—labor migrants, intellectual migrants, and entrepreneurial migrants—have different housing conditions. Marked disparities in housing facility qua…
The social networks of new-generation migrants in China’s urbanized villages: A case study of Guangzhou
The impact of stress on the life history strategies of African American adolescents: Cognitions, genetic moderation, and the role of discrimination
The impact of 3 different sources of stress--environmental, familial (e.g., low parental investment), and interpersonal (i.e., racial discrimination)--on the life history strategies (LHS) and associated cognitions of African American adolescents were examined over an 11-year period (5 waves, from age 10.5 to 21.5). Analyses indicated that each one of the sources of stress was associated with faster LHS cognitions (e.g., tolerance of deviance, wil…
China’s ‘Chocolate City’: An Ethnic Enclave in a Changing Landscape
The recent rise of African communities in Guangzhou has been widely noted. To understand this ‘Chocolate City,’ with a series of field surveys in 2006-2010, we examine its different development stages and shed particular light upon its internal and external linkages. Three modalities: the emerging enclave, the prosperous enclave and the collapsing enclave, have been identified. The rise of the ‘Chocolate City’ has been mainly attributed to the ri…
In the Dragon's Den: African Traders in Guangzhou
A growing literature studies the Chinese diasporas in Africa, involved in the import and distribution of manufactured goods across the continent, identifying their economic and social strategies and their interactions with African urban and political life. In contrast, the counter-flow of African private traders to China has been relatively little studied, yet is part of significant changes in African economies and societies, and creates new inte…
Residential Satisfaction in China's Informal Settlements: A Case Study of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou
China's informal settlements - villages inside urbanized areas - are often characterized by local governments as dirty, chaotic, and dangerous places. This negative discourse inevitably leads to recommendations for demolition. A number of criteria have been invoked in state decisions regarding the demolition of informal settlements; however, rarely are these places evaluated from the residents perspective. This paper, following a long tradition o…
Road investments and inventory reduction: Firm level evidence from China
China's Internal and International Migration
Part 1: Inequality and Migration 1.The Work Situation and Social Attitudes of Migrant Workers in China under the Crisis LI Peilin and LI Wei 2. Institutional and Non-Institutional Paths: Migrants and Non-Migrants' Different Processes of Socioeconomic Status Attainment in China LI Chunling 3. The Impact of Remittances on Rural Poverty Reduction and Rural Household Living Expenditures Meiyan WANG Part 2: Social Exclusion and Integration 4. The Impa…
Specificity of early movie effects on adolescent sexual behavior and alcohol use
Asr Forum: Engaging With African Informal Economies
This article analyzes the value chain for Chinese manufactured goods such as garments and textiles sold in sub-Saharan Africa. It explores the opportunities for Africans with small, private businesses in the export trade from China, the potential for long-term business development, and how strategies of engagement have changed over time. It finds that the value chains for low-cost goods vary. There is great diversity of entry levels and opportuni…
State Rescaling and the Making of City-Regions in the Pearl River Delta, China
This study empirically tests the theory of state rescaling with a study of recent city-region making in China. The implementation of two interjurisdictional projects, the Pearl River Delta Intercity Railway and the Guangzhou–Foshan Metro, are critically investigated to probe the restructuring states in the transitional Pearl River Delta. We argue that the principle of scale theory is relevant to China, where scalar reconfiguration of states has b…
Global Change, National Development Goals, Urbanisation and International Migration in China: African Migrants in Guangzhou and Foshan
Visibility has more to say about the pollution–income link
Speculative urbanism and the making of university towns in China: A case of Guangzhou University Town
Crisis-induced reform, state–market relations, and entrepreneurial urban growth in China
From Revanchism to Ambivalence: The Changing Politics of Street Vending in Guangzhou
By focusing on Guangzhou's street-vending policy transformation, this article explores how exclusionary practices of urban politics in China are undermined by those who it seeks to exclude and the progressive political climate that questions the exclusionary framework. The exclusion of street vendors in Guangzhou has been led by the National Sanitary City campaign as a revanchist project. It has been discovered that while the exclusionary strateg…
Growth of rural migrant enclaves in Guangzhou, China: Agency, everyday practice and social mobility
Previous studies have attributed the proliferation of rural migrant enclaves in China’s large cities primarily to the constraints limiting migrants’ residential options. Through an ethnographic exploration of Xiaohubei, a migrant enclave with a high concentration of Hubei rural migrants and small-scale garment producers in Guangzhou, this paper sheds new light on the dynamics and implications of the migrant enclaves. It argues that rural migrants…
Mobility and the Transiency of Social Spaces: African Merchant Entrepreneurs in China
This paper investigates how China's heterogeneous African population contributes to shaping new types of social spaces in Chinese cities. We analyse how their different types of collective ( primary and corporate ) agency work in the creation of trans ient spaces, that is, trans local and trans forming spaces in Guangzhou and Foshan, China. A mixed‐methods research approach was applied to cover the breadth and depth of African merchants' social s…
China (72 works) · Geography (69 works) · Economics (54 works) · Political science (52 works) · Sociology (47 works) · Economic growth (38 works) · Psychology (36 works) · Economic geography (34 works) · Business (31 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (28 works)