Sean Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3609588 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4567-3263 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Displaying Spatial Epistemologies on Web GIS: Using Visual Materials from the Chinese Local Gazetteers as an Example
In this paper, we introduce a web GIS platform created expressly for exploring and researching a set of 63,467 historical maps and illustrations extracted from 4,000 titles of Chinese local gazetteers. We layer these images with a published, geo-referenced collection of Land Survey Maps of China (1903–1948), which includes the earliest large-scale maps of major cities and regions in China that are produced with modern cartographic techniques. By …
Recent books on gender in China
Book review essay for "Gender, Place and Culture
Fetal citizens? Birthright citizenship, reproductive futurism, and the "panic" over Chinese birth tourism in southern California
In September 2012, residents of Chino Hills, California-a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles-exposed a maternity hotel in their city. Subsequently, controversy erupted as protesting residents argued that Chinese birth tourism is an immigration loophole, where foreigners took advantage of jus soli birthright citizenship guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This paper uses this controversy as a springboard to explore how temp…
Walking in Memphis: Revisiting the street politics of Ms Jacqueline Smith
This piece revisits the street politics of Ms Jacqueline Smith and her two-plus decades of protest outside the former Lorraine Motel, where civil rights leader Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, was assassinated. Now the National Civil Rights Museum, the Motel is part of a growing heritage tourism industry in the American South, where landscapes of civil rights memorialization are often contested publicly and exist alongside other landscapes of racis…
The Changs next door to the Diazes: Remapping race in suburban California
Sean H. WangSyracuse University, NY, [email protected]© 2014, Sean H. Wang
Fetal citizens? Birthright citizenship, reproductive futurism, and the "panic" over Chinese birth tourism in southern California
In September 2012, residents of Chino Hills, California-a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles-exposed a maternity hotel in their city. Subsequently, controversy erupted as protesting residents argued that Chinese birth tourism is an immigration loophole, where foreigners took advantage of jus soli birthright citizenship guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This paper uses this controversy as a springboard to explore how temp…
Walking in Memphis: Revisiting the street politics of Ms Jacqueline Smith
This piece revisits the street politics of Ms Jacqueline Smith and her two-plus decades of protest outside the former Lorraine Motel, where civil rights leader Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, was assassinated. Now the National Civil Rights Museum, the Motel is part of a growing heritage tourism industry in the American South, where landscapes of civil rights memorialization are often contested publicly and exist alongside other landscapes of racis…
The Changs next door to the Diazes: Remapping race in suburban California
Sean H. WangSyracuse University, NY, [email protected]© 2014, Sean H. Wang
Recent books on gender in China
Book review essay for "Gender, Place and Culture
Fetal citizens? Birthright citizenship, reproductive futurism, and the "panic" over Chinese birth tourism in southern California
In September 2012, residents of Chino Hills, California-a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles-exposed a maternity hotel in their city. Subsequently, controversy erupted as protesting residents argued that Chinese birth tourism is an immigration loophole, where foreigners took advantage of jus soli birthright citizenship guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This paper uses this controversy as a springboard to explore how temp…
Walking in Memphis: Revisiting the street politics of Ms Jacqueline Smith
This piece revisits the street politics of Ms Jacqueline Smith and her two-plus decades of protest outside the former Lorraine Motel, where civil rights leader Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, was assassinated. Now the National Civil Rights Museum, the Motel is part of a growing heritage tourism industry in the American South, where landscapes of civil rights memorialization are often contested publicly and exist alongside other landscapes of racis…
Displaying Spatial Epistemologies on Web GIS: Using Visual Materials from the Chinese Local Gazetteers as an Example
In this paper, we introduce a web GIS platform created expressly for exploring and researching a set of 63,467 historical maps and illustrations extracted from 4,000 titles of Chinese local gazetteers. We layer these images with a published, geo-referenced collection of Land Survey Maps of China (1903–1948), which includes the earliest large-scale maps of major cities and regions in China that are produced with modern cartographic techniques. By …
Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Tourism (2 works)