Yushu Zhu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584470 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yushu Zhu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yushu |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhu |
| SIGNATURE | ZHU Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3843-0941 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 203 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Post renewal residential experiences in urban renewal
As urban renewal evolves into a spatial strategy for capital accumulation in the global context, there has been an increasing focus in the literature on assessing these initiatives' socio-economic benefits and consequences. However, postrenewal residential experiences (PRE) and associated factors remain unclear and open to debate. This study uses T-test and Ridge Regression to examine residents' PRE in eight Guangzhou neighbourhoods. Specifically…
Social Trust and Corporate Greenwashing
Social media influencers on Douyin and Saudi Arabia’s national image building in China
Purpose As social media influencers increasingly shape national images, this study explores how Douyin influencers – with a special focus on Roujie – construct and communicate Saudi Arabia’s national image and influence Chinese public perceptions. Design/Methodology Drawing on national image and framing theories, the study employs content analysis, framing analysis, and a survey to examine the main patterns of Saudi-related influencers, the frami…
Environmental judicial reform and corporate greenwashing
Environmental public interest litigation (EPIL) is an innovative judicial system for strengthening judicial protections and safeguarding social and public interests. However, the effect of EPIL on corporate greenwashing remains underexplored. To fill this gap, this study investigates the impact of environmental judicial reform on corporate greenwashing behavior and explores the underlying mechanism. Using data of China’s A-share listed companies …
The Housing We Need by 2050 for a Sustainable and Equitable Future
Housing Vulnerability Reconsidered
Social housing policies in neoliberal contexts have become residualized. The notions of housing vulnerability and vulnerable populations emerged as a new organizing principle for the housing policy agenda and interventions in many countries. However, there is no cohesive and shared understanding of the characteristics and types of vulnerable households and housing situations, nor the drivers and consequences of different forms of vulnerability. T…
The neighbor spectrum in community housing
This article presents focus group research with community housing residents in Vancouver, Canada, investigating the role, activities, and importance of neighboring to these individuals living in vulnerable situations. Neighborly relationships play a key role in connecting the private home with the larger urban community through processes of home-making, social inclusion and integration, but an increasing share of urbanites are excluded from the s…
The big contradiction between the dream and the reality of homeownership
Comparative Study on the Effectiveness of Official Media Coverage and Self-Media Communication of a Friction Event in Tangshan, China Based on Framing Theory
On June 10, 2022, an attack at a barbeque restaurant in Tangshan, China, triggered considerable public concern on the Internet and drew the utmost attention from departments responsible for relevant matters. The case advanced swiftly and yielded the best possible outcomes with the collaboration of numerous parties. The 2022 restaurant attack in Tangshan is a successful illustration of how the interaction between new mainstream media and self-medi…
Neoliberalization and inequality
The neoliberalization of housing policy and housing financialization have brought unequal impacts on housing outcomes. Drawing on eight waves of census data, this study uncovers the changing mechanism of housing stratification in selected Canadian census metropolitan areas from 1981 to 2016, a period when Canada transitioned from a welfare housing regime to a neoliberal regime. This study reveals entrenched housing inequality and strengthened inc…
Housing and psychosocial well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic
The loss of psychosocial well-being is an overlooked but monumental consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. These effects result not only from the pandemic itself but, in a secondary way, from the Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) made to curb the spread of disease. The unprecedented physical distancing and stay-at-home requirements and recommendations provide a unique window for housing researchers to better understand the mechanisms by whic…
Urban renewal without gentrification
This study contributes to the debate on the psychological dimensions of displacement in urban renewal (UR) literature by examining how different modes of UR may disrupt or reconstruct the sense of home for affected residents in urban China. The forms of UR in China have evolved from the intensive pro-growth urban redevelopment that was prevalent in the 1990s and early 2000s to the emerging trend of micro-renewal, which features neighborhood renov…
State-embedded gentrification in China
Sleeping Lion or Sick Man? Machine Learning Approaches to Deciphering Heterogeneous Images of Chinese in North America
Based on more than 280,000 newspaper articles published in North America, this study proposes an integrative machine learning framework to explore heterogeneous social sentiments over time. After retrieving and preprocessing articles containing the term “Chinese” from six mainstream newspapers, we identified major discussion topics and assigned articles to their corresponding topics via posterior probabilities estimated by using a novel Bayesian …
Detecting temporal anomalies with pseudo age groups
Methodological advances in demographic research, especially age‐period‐cohort (APC) analysis, primarily focus on developing new models yet often fail to consider practical concerns in empirical analysis. We propose a mixed approach that integrates multiple data imputation and structural change analysis in time series so that scholars can (i) construct pseudo age groups based on more coarsely grouped age data and (ii) identify temporal anomalies. …
Interests driven or socially mobilized? Place attachment, social capital, and neighborhood participation in urban China
Why do residents participate in neighborhood affairs in different forms? This study probes this question by integrating the social capital framework and the place attachment framework. Drawing on a qualitative case study and survey data in the city of Guangzhou, China, this research demonstrates the differential effects of place attachment and social capital on different forms of neighborhood participation. Neighborhood attachment (i.e., place se…
Spatial equity in accessing secondary education
Whereas education inequality has attracted wide scholarly attention, there has been little attention paid to the spatial patterns of schools or, more specifically, the spatial equity of secondary schools. This study investigates the spatial patterns of secondary schools (regular vs. key) in Guangzhou, China and disparities in school accessibility among different social groups at the neighbourhood level. We use a two‐step floating catchment area m…
Toward community engagement
Toward a Relational Account of Neighborhood Governance
Although changes in urban space often mean a restructuring of social relations, few studies elucidate why network-related frameworks are inherently related to residential outcomes in urban neighborhoods. By proposing a relational account of neighborhood governance, we investigate outcomes of neighborhood governance by incorporating a series of measures of network forms of organization, network-based social capital, and neighborly interactions. Ba…
The downside of marketization
Spatiality of China's Market-Oriented Urbanism
Drawing on case studies of three urban villages in China, with special attention to residential experience of rural migrants, this paper seeks to link the discourse of the right to the city to the political rhetoric of contemporary urbanism in China. The concept of 'right to city space' is introduced, which emphasizes the spatial attributes of the right to the city. I first argue that China's market-oriented urbanism is a spatial project built up…
Residential mobility within Guangzhou city, China, 1990–2010
Drawing on residential history data from two household surveys conducted in Guangzhou in 2005 and 2010, this paper compares the pattern of intra-city residential moves of local residents and that of migrants. The findings show different trajectories of residential moves for the two groups. While migrants showed increasing mobility over time, residential moves of locals first rose until the early 2000s, then declined steadily afterward. Moreover, …
Cross-City Variations in Housing Outcomes in Postreform China
Using the 2005 microcensus data set, this research adopts a multilevel approach to examine housing outcomes in relation to city-level contexts. We find that housing stratification in contemporary China is not homogeneous across cities but rather is spatially dynamic and conditioned by local contexts. Net of other effects, per capita gross domestic product and housing price are significantly associated with housing outcomes in the open market, whe…
Neighborhood Type, Gatedness, and Residential Experiences in Chinese Cities
The transition from a socialist centrally planned economy to a socialist market economy, together with a land tenure system reflecting an institutionalized urban-rural divide, has produced neighborhood and housing types characterized by distinct built-environment features and socio-occupational mixes. Using data from a household survey conducted in Guangzhou, this study analyzes the interrelationship between neighborly relations and community att…
The Changing Meaning of Neighbourhood Attachment in Chinese Commodity Housing Estates
The housing reform in urban China since the 1990s and the ensuing spatial and social dynamics gave rise to new kinds of neighbourhoods with new logics of neighbouring and neighbourhood attachment. Meanwhile, neighbourhoods are actively promoted as platforms for policy implementation. Both are reasons to revisit the meaning of neighbourhood attachment in the Chinese context. This article focuses on the roles of neighbourly interaction and physical…
Neighborhood Type, Gatedness, and Residential Experiences in Chinese Cities
The transition from a socialist centrally planned economy to a socialist market economy, together with a land tenure system reflecting an institutionalized urban-rural divide, has produced neighborhood and housing types characterized by distinct built-environment features and socio-occupational mixes. Using data from a household survey conducted in Guangzhou, this study analyzes the interrelationship between neighborly relations and community att…
The Changing Meaning of Neighbourhood Attachment in Chinese Commodity Housing Estates
The housing reform in urban China since the 1990s and the ensuing spatial and social dynamics gave rise to new kinds of neighbourhoods with new logics of neighbouring and neighbourhood attachment. Meanwhile, neighbourhoods are actively promoted as platforms for policy implementation. Both are reasons to revisit the meaning of neighbourhood attachment in the Chinese context. This article focuses on the roles of neighbourly interaction and physical…
Residential mobility within Guangzhou city, China, 1990–2010
Drawing on residential history data from two household surveys conducted in Guangzhou in 2005 and 2010, this paper compares the pattern of intra-city residential moves of local residents and that of migrants. The findings show different trajectories of residential moves for the two groups. While migrants showed increasing mobility over time, residential moves of locals first rose until the early 2000s, then declined steadily afterward. Moreover, …
Toward community engagement
Urban renewal without gentrification
This study contributes to the debate on the psychological dimensions of displacement in urban renewal (UR) literature by examining how different modes of UR may disrupt or reconstruct the sense of home for affected residents in urban China. The forms of UR in China have evolved from the intensive pro-growth urban redevelopment that was prevalent in the 1990s and early 2000s to the emerging trend of micro-renewal, which features neighborhood renov…
State-embedded gentrification in China
The downside of marketization
Neoliberalization and inequality
The neoliberalization of housing policy and housing financialization have brought unequal impacts on housing outcomes. Drawing on eight waves of census data, this study uncovers the changing mechanism of housing stratification in selected Canadian census metropolitan areas from 1981 to 2016, a period when Canada transitioned from a welfare housing regime to a neoliberal regime. This study reveals entrenched housing inequality and strengthened inc…
Toward a Relational Account of Neighborhood Governance
Although changes in urban space often mean a restructuring of social relations, few studies elucidate why network-related frameworks are inherently related to residential outcomes in urban neighborhoods. By proposing a relational account of neighborhood governance, we investigate outcomes of neighborhood governance by incorporating a series of measures of network forms of organization, network-based social capital, and neighborly interactions. Ba…
Cross-City Variations in Housing Outcomes in Postreform China
Using the 2005 microcensus data set, this research adopts a multilevel approach to examine housing outcomes in relation to city-level contexts. We find that housing stratification in contemporary China is not homogeneous across cities but rather is spatially dynamic and conditioned by local contexts. Net of other effects, per capita gross domestic product and housing price are significantly associated with housing outcomes in the open market, whe…
Interests driven or socially mobilized? Place attachment, social capital, and neighborhood participation in urban China
Why do residents participate in neighborhood affairs in different forms? This study probes this question by integrating the social capital framework and the place attachment framework. Drawing on a qualitative case study and survey data in the city of Guangzhou, China, this research demonstrates the differential effects of place attachment and social capital on different forms of neighborhood participation. Neighborhood attachment (i.e., place se…
Housing and psychosocial well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic
The loss of psychosocial well-being is an overlooked but monumental consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. These effects result not only from the pandemic itself but, in a secondary way, from the Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) made to curb the spread of disease. The unprecedented physical distancing and stay-at-home requirements and recommendations provide a unique window for housing researchers to better understand the mechanisms by whic…
Spatiality of China's Market-Oriented Urbanism
Drawing on case studies of three urban villages in China, with special attention to residential experience of rural migrants, this paper seeks to link the discourse of the right to the city to the political rhetoric of contemporary urbanism in China. The concept of 'right to city space' is introduced, which emphasizes the spatial attributes of the right to the city. I first argue that China's market-oriented urbanism is a spatial project built up…
Housing Vulnerability Reconsidered
Social housing policies in neoliberal contexts have become residualized. The notions of housing vulnerability and vulnerable populations emerged as a new organizing principle for the housing policy agenda and interventions in many countries. However, there is no cohesive and shared understanding of the characteristics and types of vulnerable households and housing situations, nor the drivers and consequences of different forms of vulnerability. T…
Spatial equity in accessing secondary education
Whereas education inequality has attracted wide scholarly attention, there has been little attention paid to the spatial patterns of schools or, more specifically, the spatial equity of secondary schools. This study investigates the spatial patterns of secondary schools (regular vs. key) in Guangzhou, China and disparities in school accessibility among different social groups at the neighbourhood level. We use a two‐step floating catchment area m…
The Housing We Need by 2050 for a Sustainable and Equitable Future
The neighbor spectrum in community housing
This article presents focus group research with community housing residents in Vancouver, Canada, investigating the role, activities, and importance of neighboring to these individuals living in vulnerable situations. Neighborly relationships play a key role in connecting the private home with the larger urban community through processes of home-making, social inclusion and integration, but an increasing share of urbanites are excluded from the s…
The big contradiction between the dream and the reality of homeownership
Detecting temporal anomalies with pseudo age groups
Methodological advances in demographic research, especially age‐period‐cohort (APC) analysis, primarily focus on developing new models yet often fail to consider practical concerns in empirical analysis. We propose a mixed approach that integrates multiple data imputation and structural change analysis in time series so that scholars can (i) construct pseudo age groups based on more coarsely grouped age data and (ii) identify temporal anomalies. …
Neighborhood Type, Gatedness, and Residential Experiences in Chinese Cities
The transition from a socialist centrally planned economy to a socialist market economy, together with a land tenure system reflecting an institutionalized urban-rural divide, has produced neighborhood and housing types characterized by distinct built-environment features and socio-occupational mixes. Using data from a household survey conducted in Guangzhou, this study analyzes the interrelationship between neighborly relations and community att…
The Changing Meaning of Neighbourhood Attachment in Chinese Commodity Housing Estates
The housing reform in urban China since the 1990s and the ensuing spatial and social dynamics gave rise to new kinds of neighbourhoods with new logics of neighbouring and neighbourhood attachment. Meanwhile, neighbourhoods are actively promoted as platforms for policy implementation. Both are reasons to revisit the meaning of neighbourhood attachment in the Chinese context. This article focuses on the roles of neighbourly interaction and physical…
Spatiality of China's Market-Oriented Urbanism
Drawing on case studies of three urban villages in China, with special attention to residential experience of rural migrants, this paper seeks to link the discourse of the right to the city to the political rhetoric of contemporary urbanism in China. The concept of 'right to city space' is introduced, which emphasizes the spatial attributes of the right to the city. I first argue that China's market-oriented urbanism is a spatial project built up…
Residential mobility within Guangzhou city, China, 1990–2010
Drawing on residential history data from two household surveys conducted in Guangzhou in 2005 and 2010, this paper compares the pattern of intra-city residential moves of local residents and that of migrants. The findings show different trajectories of residential moves for the two groups. While migrants showed increasing mobility over time, residential moves of locals first rose until the early 2000s, then declined steadily afterward. Moreover, …
Cross-City Variations in Housing Outcomes in Postreform China
Using the 2005 microcensus data set, this research adopts a multilevel approach to examine housing outcomes in relation to city-level contexts. We find that housing stratification in contemporary China is not homogeneous across cities but rather is spatially dynamic and conditioned by local contexts. Net of other effects, per capita gross domestic product and housing price are significantly associated with housing outcomes in the open market, whe…
Toward community engagement
Toward a Relational Account of Neighborhood Governance
Although changes in urban space often mean a restructuring of social relations, few studies elucidate why network-related frameworks are inherently related to residential outcomes in urban neighborhoods. By proposing a relational account of neighborhood governance, we investigate outcomes of neighborhood governance by incorporating a series of measures of network forms of organization, network-based social capital, and neighborly interactions. Ba…
The downside of marketization
Spatial equity in accessing secondary education
Whereas education inequality has attracted wide scholarly attention, there has been little attention paid to the spatial patterns of schools or, more specifically, the spatial equity of secondary schools. This study investigates the spatial patterns of secondary schools (regular vs. key) in Guangzhou, China and disparities in school accessibility among different social groups at the neighbourhood level. We use a two‐step floating catchment area m…
Interests driven or socially mobilized? Place attachment, social capital, and neighborhood participation in urban China
Why do residents participate in neighborhood affairs in different forms? This study probes this question by integrating the social capital framework and the place attachment framework. Drawing on a qualitative case study and survey data in the city of Guangzhou, China, this research demonstrates the differential effects of place attachment and social capital on different forms of neighborhood participation. Neighborhood attachment (i.e., place se…
Detecting temporal anomalies with pseudo age groups
Methodological advances in demographic research, especially age‐period‐cohort (APC) analysis, primarily focus on developing new models yet often fail to consider practical concerns in empirical analysis. We propose a mixed approach that integrates multiple data imputation and structural change analysis in time series so that scholars can (i) construct pseudo age groups based on more coarsely grouped age data and (ii) identify temporal anomalies. …
Urban renewal without gentrification
This study contributes to the debate on the psychological dimensions of displacement in urban renewal (UR) literature by examining how different modes of UR may disrupt or reconstruct the sense of home for affected residents in urban China. The forms of UR in China have evolved from the intensive pro-growth urban redevelopment that was prevalent in the 1990s and early 2000s to the emerging trend of micro-renewal, which features neighborhood renov…
State-embedded gentrification in China
Sleeping Lion or Sick Man? Machine Learning Approaches to Deciphering Heterogeneous Images of Chinese in North America
Based on more than 280,000 newspaper articles published in North America, this study proposes an integrative machine learning framework to explore heterogeneous social sentiments over time. After retrieving and preprocessing articles containing the term “Chinese” from six mainstream newspapers, we identified major discussion topics and assigned articles to their corresponding topics via posterior probabilities estimated by using a novel Bayesian …
Comparative Study on the Effectiveness of Official Media Coverage and Self-Media Communication of a Friction Event in Tangshan, China Based on Framing Theory
On June 10, 2022, an attack at a barbeque restaurant in Tangshan, China, triggered considerable public concern on the Internet and drew the utmost attention from departments responsible for relevant matters. The case advanced swiftly and yielded the best possible outcomes with the collaboration of numerous parties. The 2022 restaurant attack in Tangshan is a successful illustration of how the interaction between new mainstream media and self-medi…
Neoliberalization and inequality
The neoliberalization of housing policy and housing financialization have brought unequal impacts on housing outcomes. Drawing on eight waves of census data, this study uncovers the changing mechanism of housing stratification in selected Canadian census metropolitan areas from 1981 to 2016, a period when Canada transitioned from a welfare housing regime to a neoliberal regime. This study reveals entrenched housing inequality and strengthened inc…
Housing and psychosocial well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic
The loss of psychosocial well-being is an overlooked but monumental consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. These effects result not only from the pandemic itself but, in a secondary way, from the Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) made to curb the spread of disease. The unprecedented physical distancing and stay-at-home requirements and recommendations provide a unique window for housing researchers to better understand the mechanisms by whic…
Housing Vulnerability Reconsidered
Social housing policies in neoliberal contexts have become residualized. The notions of housing vulnerability and vulnerable populations emerged as a new organizing principle for the housing policy agenda and interventions in many countries. However, there is no cohesive and shared understanding of the characteristics and types of vulnerable households and housing situations, nor the drivers and consequences of different forms of vulnerability. T…
The neighbor spectrum in community housing
This article presents focus group research with community housing residents in Vancouver, Canada, investigating the role, activities, and importance of neighboring to these individuals living in vulnerable situations. Neighborly relationships play a key role in connecting the private home with the larger urban community through processes of home-making, social inclusion and integration, but an increasing share of urbanites are excluded from the s…
The big contradiction between the dream and the reality of homeownership
Social media influencers on Douyin and Saudi Arabia’s national image building in China
Purpose As social media influencers increasingly shape national images, this study explores how Douyin influencers – with a special focus on Roujie – construct and communicate Saudi Arabia’s national image and influence Chinese public perceptions. Design/Methodology Drawing on national image and framing theories, the study employs content analysis, framing analysis, and a survey to examine the main patterns of Saudi-related influencers, the frami…
Environmental judicial reform and corporate greenwashing
Environmental public interest litigation (EPIL) is an innovative judicial system for strengthening judicial protections and safeguarding social and public interests. However, the effect of EPIL on corporate greenwashing remains underexplored. To fill this gap, this study investigates the impact of environmental judicial reform on corporate greenwashing behavior and explores the underlying mechanism. Using data of China’s A-share listed companies …
The Housing We Need by 2050 for a Sustainable and Equitable Future
Post renewal residential experiences in urban renewal
As urban renewal evolves into a spatial strategy for capital accumulation in the global context, there has been an increasing focus in the literature on assessing these initiatives' socio-economic benefits and consequences. However, postrenewal residential experiences (PRE) and associated factors remain unclear and open to debate. This study uses T-test and Ridge Regression to examine residents' PRE in eight Guangzhou neighbourhoods. Specifically…
Social Trust and Corporate Greenwashing
Sociology (16 works) · Geography (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Economics (13 works) · China (12 works) · Economic growth (12 works) · Place Attachment and Urban Studies (8 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (8 works) · Economic geography (7 works) · Psychology (7 works)