Gengzhi Huang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780250 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gengzhi Huang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gengzhi |
| FAMILY NAME | Huang |
| SIGNATURE | HUANG G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sun Yat-sen University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9987-0353 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
IInvestigating the Role of Motivation-Opportunity-Ability in the Prediction of Senior Residential Tourism Destination Choice
Senior residential tourism (SRT) deserves thorough examination as a valuable means for encouraging active and healthy aging. This research focuses on Sanya as the target destination and utilizes Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) and Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to investigate the roles of motivation, opportunity, and ability in choosing SRT destinations. The PLS-SEM findings indicated that enjoying…
Reactive or proactive? Examining demands and geographies of manufacturing workers’ collective actions in China
What drives rural women’s participation in informal tourism employment? Evidence from Hainan, China
Impacts of dual informalities on migrants’ social integration in megacities
Identifying World Sports Cities based on the network analysis of global sports diffusion from 1984 to 2022
Geopolitical influences on spatial network structure of China-Asean tourism flows
Analysing the heterogeneity in working conditions of migrant informal workers in China
This paper sheds light on the internal heterogeneity within the informal economy by examining the working conditions of migrant informal workers in China. It presents the first attempt to test the WIEGO model on the relationship between informality, income, poverty and gender. Based on 107,020 samples of informal workers from the 2017 China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS), economic, social and occupational health components of working conditions o…
From Western centralism to decentralization
Beyond regional endogenous and firm-centric accounts
Resilience analysis of global agricultural trade
This study examined the transport network of global marine dry bulk carriers for agricultural trade during the period from 2018 to 2021. Firstly, the resilience of agricultural trade network is noteworthy throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Agricultural trade initially plunged by 10.15% from 2019 to 2020 and bounced by a remarkable 11.45% in 2021, ultimately restoring trade volumes to the average level observed in the pre-pandemic year of 2019. How…
Missing Elements of Knowledge Diffusion between Trade Fairs and Industrial Clusters Beyond Pipelines
This study illustrates neglected elements of knowledge transfer from trade fairs to industrial clusters. Based on a case study of the knowledge interactions between a trade fair and a furniture industrial cluster in China, the article presents several non-pipeline-based knowledge creation and diffusion mechanisms that have been downplayed in existing literature. Major findings of this article include that, first, trade fairs do not exist in isola…
Urbanization and vulnerable employment
Connecting world cities through sports events
Where in China is the labour unrest rising? Visualising workers’ collective actions in mainland China
China is an emerging epicentre of labour unrest in the world. However, the geography of labour unrest in China is not well known due to the lack of official data. This study draws upon data from the China Labour Bulletin to characterise the spatial patterns of workers’ collective actions in mainland China from 2011 to 2020. The results show that the incidence of labour collective actions was generally higher in the less-developed central and west…
Differences in Subjective Well-Being between Formal and Informal Workers in Urban China
This paper examines the relationship between different types of employment and subjective well-being with a focus on informal employment. The China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) for three selected years (2012, 2014 and 2016) shows an upward trend in the subjective well-being of urban workers in the 2010s. However, although the gap in subjective well-being between formal and informal workers narrowed, informal workers’ subjective well-being w…
Does China’s direct investment in Asean have institutional preference from the perspective of investment motivation heterogeneity
Location choice for outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) is key to companies’ strategic decision-making on internationalization. We provide a comprehensive framework for Chinese companies selecting OFDI locations based on an eclectic (OLI) paradigm and neo-institutional economics. We reveal that investment motivation and host country’s quality of institutions and bilateral institutional distance play interactive, complex roles in China’s loca…
Becoming Smarter through Smart City Pilot Projects
Although a large body of research has advanced our understanding of the definition, characteristics, and domains of smart cities at a high level of abstraction, relatively little attention has been given to varying smart city practices. This study analyses the contents and progress of 2,080 smart city pilot projects across 136 sampled smart cities in China since 2013. While the central government has set a unified framework for guiding smart city…
Beyond the Intention
The migration process and patterns of floating populations have received continuing attention from scholars and policymakers. In China, however, studies have been focused on the settlement intention of floating populations based on sampling surveys and yielded inconsistent findings. Drawing upon 18,178,167 authentic individual samples of floating populations in Dongguan city, this study contributes to the literature by examining the effect of ind…
The Changing Factors Affecting Local Environmental Governance in China
This paper aims to examine the changing factors underlying China's environmental governance, by investigating the long-term dynamic impacts of related endogenous and exogenous factors and considering regional differences in these factors. The study estimated environmental regulation intensity and employed the geographical detector technique to analyze its driving factors, based on 21 prefecture-level cities in Guangdong Province, China, from 1990…
Connecting Chinese cities with the global performing arts market
Research on global cultural cities has been biased toward dominant global cities in advanced economies. In this paper, we present the first geographical analysis of performing-arts consumption in major Chinese cities through measuring the presence, origins and inter-city network of performing arts events. We demonstrate that the distribution of performing-arts consumption in China displays both dispersive and concentrative patterns, generating an…
Constrained voluntary informalisation
Governmentality and Spatial Strategies
A new policy approach that seeks to formalize street vendors by immobilizing them in designated places has been taken as an alternative to exclusion in Guangzhou, China. This article develops an analytical framework for understanding this spatial formalization by drawing upon Foucault's concept of governmentality. Formalization can be understood as a form of spatial governmentality that seeks to guide the behaviour of informal economic individual…
Beyond unemployment
The proliferation of urban street vending in developing countries is generally viewed as being as a result of unemployment. Using a theoretical approach based on mainstream perspectives on informal employment and first-hand material from 200 semi-structured vendor interviews in Guangzhou, we challenge this view by revealing the heterogeneity of people’s motivations for participating in street vending in present-day China. Various types of laboure…
Spatial Characteristics and Driving Factors of Provincial Wastewater Discharge in China
Based on the increasing pressure on the water environment, this study aims to clarify the overall status of wastewater discharge in China, including the spatio-temporal distribution characteristics of wastewater discharge and its driving factors, so as to provide reference for developing "emission reduction" strategies in China and discuss regional sustainable development and resources environment policies. We utilized the Exploratory Spatial Dat…
Informality and the state’s ambivalence in the regulation of street vending in transforming Guangzhou, China
Informality and the state’s ambivalence in the regulation of street vending in transforming Guangzhou, China
From Revanchism to Ambivalence
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…
Beyond unemployment
The proliferation of urban street vending in developing countries is generally viewed as being as a result of unemployment. Using a theoretical approach based on mainstream perspectives on informal employment and first-hand material from 200 semi-structured vendor interviews in Guangzhou, we challenge this view by revealing the heterogeneity of people’s motivations for participating in street vending in present-day China. Various types of laboure…
Governmentality and Spatial Strategies
A new policy approach that seeks to formalize street vendors by immobilizing them in designated places has been taken as an alternative to exclusion in Guangzhou, China. This article develops an analytical framework for understanding this spatial formalization by drawing upon Foucault's concept of governmentality. Formalization can be understood as a form of spatial governmentality that seeks to guide the behaviour of informal economic individual…
Constrained voluntary informalisation
Connecting Chinese cities with the global performing arts market
Research on global cultural cities has been biased toward dominant global cities in advanced economies. In this paper, we present the first geographical analysis of performing-arts consumption in major Chinese cities through measuring the presence, origins and inter-city network of performing arts events. We demonstrate that the distribution of performing-arts consumption in China displays both dispersive and concentrative patterns, generating an…
Urbanization and vulnerable employment
Connecting world cities through sports events
From Revanchism to Ambivalence
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…
Informality and the state’s ambivalence in the regulation of street vending in transforming Guangzhou, China
Spatial Characteristics and Driving Factors of Provincial Wastewater Discharge in China
Based on the increasing pressure on the water environment, this study aims to clarify the overall status of wastewater discharge in China, including the spatio-temporal distribution characteristics of wastewater discharge and its driving factors, so as to provide reference for developing "emission reduction" strategies in China and discuss regional sustainable development and resources environment policies. We utilized the Exploratory Spatial Dat…
Beyond unemployment
The proliferation of urban street vending in developing countries is generally viewed as being as a result of unemployment. Using a theoretical approach based on mainstream perspectives on informal employment and first-hand material from 200 semi-structured vendor interviews in Guangzhou, we challenge this view by revealing the heterogeneity of people’s motivations for participating in street vending in present-day China. Various types of laboure…
Governmentality and Spatial Strategies
A new policy approach that seeks to formalize street vendors by immobilizing them in designated places has been taken as an alternative to exclusion in Guangzhou, China. This article develops an analytical framework for understanding this spatial formalization by drawing upon Foucault's concept of governmentality. Formalization can be understood as a form of spatial governmentality that seeks to guide the behaviour of informal economic individual…
Beyond the Intention
The migration process and patterns of floating populations have received continuing attention from scholars and policymakers. In China, however, studies have been focused on the settlement intention of floating populations based on sampling surveys and yielded inconsistent findings. Drawing upon 18,178,167 authentic individual samples of floating populations in Dongguan city, this study contributes to the literature by examining the effect of ind…
The Changing Factors Affecting Local Environmental Governance in China
This paper aims to examine the changing factors underlying China's environmental governance, by investigating the long-term dynamic impacts of related endogenous and exogenous factors and considering regional differences in these factors. The study estimated environmental regulation intensity and employed the geographical detector technique to analyze its driving factors, based on 21 prefecture-level cities in Guangdong Province, China, from 1990…
Connecting Chinese cities with the global performing arts market
Research on global cultural cities has been biased toward dominant global cities in advanced economies. In this paper, we present the first geographical analysis of performing-arts consumption in major Chinese cities through measuring the presence, origins and inter-city network of performing arts events. We demonstrate that the distribution of performing-arts consumption in China displays both dispersive and concentrative patterns, generating an…
Constrained voluntary informalisation
Becoming Smarter through Smart City Pilot Projects
Although a large body of research has advanced our understanding of the definition, characteristics, and domains of smart cities at a high level of abstraction, relatively little attention has been given to varying smart city practices. This study analyses the contents and progress of 2,080 smart city pilot projects across 136 sampled smart cities in China since 2013. While the central government has set a unified framework for guiding smart city…
Where in China is the labour unrest rising? Visualising workers’ collective actions in mainland China
China is an emerging epicentre of labour unrest in the world. However, the geography of labour unrest in China is not well known due to the lack of official data. This study draws upon data from the China Labour Bulletin to characterise the spatial patterns of workers’ collective actions in mainland China from 2011 to 2020. The results show that the incidence of labour collective actions was generally higher in the less-developed central and west…
Differences in Subjective Well-Being between Formal and Informal Workers in Urban China
This paper examines the relationship between different types of employment and subjective well-being with a focus on informal employment. The China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) for three selected years (2012, 2014 and 2016) shows an upward trend in the subjective well-being of urban workers in the 2010s. However, although the gap in subjective well-being between formal and informal workers narrowed, informal workers’ subjective well-being w…
Does China’s direct investment in Asean have institutional preference from the perspective of investment motivation heterogeneity
Location choice for outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) is key to companies’ strategic decision-making on internationalization. We provide a comprehensive framework for Chinese companies selecting OFDI locations based on an eclectic (OLI) paradigm and neo-institutional economics. We reveal that investment motivation and host country’s quality of institutions and bilateral institutional distance play interactive, complex roles in China’s loca…
Missing Elements of Knowledge Diffusion between Trade Fairs and Industrial Clusters Beyond Pipelines
This study illustrates neglected elements of knowledge transfer from trade fairs to industrial clusters. Based on a case study of the knowledge interactions between a trade fair and a furniture industrial cluster in China, the article presents several non-pipeline-based knowledge creation and diffusion mechanisms that have been downplayed in existing literature. Major findings of this article include that, first, trade fairs do not exist in isola…
Urbanization and vulnerable employment
Connecting world cities through sports events
Analysing the heterogeneity in working conditions of migrant informal workers in China
This paper sheds light on the internal heterogeneity within the informal economy by examining the working conditions of migrant informal workers in China. It presents the first attempt to test the WIEGO model on the relationship between informality, income, poverty and gender. Based on 107,020 samples of informal workers from the 2017 China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS), economic, social and occupational health components of working conditions o…
From Western centralism to decentralization
Beyond regional endogenous and firm-centric accounts
Resilience analysis of global agricultural trade
This study examined the transport network of global marine dry bulk carriers for agricultural trade during the period from 2018 to 2021. Firstly, the resilience of agricultural trade network is noteworthy throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Agricultural trade initially plunged by 10.15% from 2019 to 2020 and bounced by a remarkable 11.45% in 2021, ultimately restoring trade volumes to the average level observed in the pre-pandemic year of 2019. How…
What drives rural women’s participation in informal tourism employment? Evidence from Hainan, China
Impacts of dual informalities on migrants’ social integration in megacities
Identifying World Sports Cities based on the network analysis of global sports diffusion from 1984 to 2022
Geopolitical influences on spatial network structure of China-Asean tourism flows
IInvestigating the Role of Motivation-Opportunity-Ability in the Prediction of Senior Residential Tourism Destination Choice
Senior residential tourism (SRT) deserves thorough examination as a valuable means for encouraging active and healthy aging. This research focuses on Sanya as the target destination and utilizes Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) and Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to investigate the roles of motivation, opportunity, and ability in choosing SRT destinations. The PLS-SEM findings indicated that enjoying…
China (18 works) · Geography (16 works) · Political science (16 works) · Economics (15 works) · Business (9 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (9 works) · Economic geography (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Regional science (5 works)