Keisyu Kan
Biographic Data
| ID | 782854 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keisyu Kan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keisyu |
| FAMILY NAME | Kan |
| SIGNATURE | KAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2408-132X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 164 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Agro‐Industrial Enclosures: Food Security, Land Consolidation and Rural Displacement in China
This paper examines rural enclosures for industrialized agriculture as a window into the local political economy and territorial politics underlying projects of agricultural modernization. In recent years, agro‐industrial parks with ‘characteristic’ industries have proliferated in China as the government viewed it as a technical solution to problems of declining grain security and land use inefficiency. Comparing these enclosures with previous wa…
Network analysis of chronic disease among middle-aged and older adults in China: A nationwide survey
Background: Given the rising prevalence of chronic diseases and multimorbidity among middle-aged and older individuals in China, it is crucial to explore the patterns of chronic disease multimorbidity and uncover the underlying mechanisms driving the co-existence of multiple chronic conditions. Methods: This study analyzed data from 19,206 participants in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS 2018). The IsingFit model was use…
Social Enterprise in China: State–Third Sector Relations and Institutional Effectiveness
Dispossession and beyond: Politics of rural land conversion in China's tourism villages
Across the peripheries of global South cities, projects to convert rural land for development purposes have brought dramatic impact on rural communities and environments. Many of these initiatives involve aggregating land, mobilizing investments, and resettling populations, with direct implications for villagers’ land rights and livelihoods. In existing studies, rural land conversions have often been examined through frameworks of “land grabbing”…
Tilling another's land: Migrant farming under rural industrialization and urbanization in China
Studies of labour migration in China usually focus on rural residents seeking wage employment in the urban industrial or service sector. This article provides an account of migrant farmers who have moved from the impoverished countryside to peri‐urban villages in more developed areas to engage in substitute agricultural production. They took over fields abandoned by local villagers and lived and worked among them as tenants. This article situates…
Of Mad Cows and Dead Pigs: Negotiating Food Safety and Everyday Sovereignty in Taiwan
The globalisation of food and agricultural trade has brought issues of food safety and biosecurity to the centre of geopolitical research. This paper explores the relationship between food risks and sovereignty practices, a topic that has received relatively scant attention in the scholarship. Going beyond conventional conceptualisations of sovereignty as an external-legal notion that is delimited to the realm of ‘high politics’ in international …
Rural Urbanization in China: Administrative Restructuring and the Livelihoods of Urbanized Rural Residents
202202 bcvc
Administrative reclassification and neighborhood governance in urbanizing China
Before the economic reforms, the Chinese state relied on mutually exclusive hierarchies within and between rural and urban governance at the subnational level to structure administration, organize populations, and exert political authority. Other than spatial restructuring and population transformation, urbanization in China also involves rural-to-urban administrative reclassification of territories. Drawing on a 2018 national survey conducted in…
Land speculation by villagers: Territorialities of accumulation and exclusion in peri-urban China
Speculation in land and real estate has become a chief means of revenue generation in cities across the world. The literature on speculative urbanism has discussed how the advent of land markets transformed government strategies and created new partnerships between state and capital for rent extraction. Far less attention, however, has been paid to grassroots practices of speculation among residents of peri-urban and rural areas, whose neighbourh…
Social work and sustainable rural development: The practice of social economy in China
The impact of globalisation on local agriculture and food systems has brought issues such as food security and rural sustainability to the forefront of policy‐making in developing countries. In China, the restructuring of domestic agriculture and liberalisation of trade following accession to the World Trade Organization have led to the growing reliance on imported food and raised concerns for food self‐sufficiency and safety. Inspired by the con…
Serving the People, Building the Party: Social Organizations and Party Work in China’s Urban Villages
The reform era has been associated with the waning authority of the Chinese Communist Party in urban society. While existing studies have investigated the Party’s self-reinvention through the incorporation into its ranks of professional groups and the new socioeconomic elite, much less attention has been given to how the Party has rebuilt its presence in neighborhoods among urban residents and migrant communities. Drawing on a case study in Kunmi…
Creating land markets for rural revitalization: Land transfer, property rights and gentrification in China
The reform of collective land ownership in post-socialist contexts offers a useful window into how changes in property rights shape and structure the dynamics of territorial transformation. Focusing on China's rural revitalization campaign, this paper demonstrates how the state, as creator and regulator of land rights and property titles, facilitates landscape change by relaxing regulations over the lease of rural land and creating market institu…
The social politics of dispossession: Informal institutions and land expropriation in China
Extant studies on land dispossession often focus on its economic and extra-economic aspects, with respective emphasis on the operation of market mechanisms and the deployment of state-led coercion in bringing about the separation of households from their land. This article draws attention to the under-examined role of informal institutions in the politics of dispossession. Social organisations such as lineages and clans pervade grassroots societi…
Building SoHo in Shenzhen: The territorial politics of gentrification and state making in China
This paper examines the territorial politics of gentrification at China’s rural-urban interface. Drawing on empirical fieldwork in Shenzhen, it is shown that gentrification in China can be seen as a state-making strategy deployed by the government to consolidate territorial control and extend the reach of the state. Unlike conventional accounts of gentrification which assumes the universality of formal, property-based land tenure, this paper high…
Accumulation without Dispossession? Land Commodification and Rent Extraction in Peri-urban China
The urbanization of rural China is increasingly achieved not through physical land grabs but the strategic enrolment of rural communities in the commodification of land via speculative rentiership. This article critically examines this shift in approach from the deployment of extra-economic force in state-led land expropriations toward an increasing reliance on market mechanisms in land development. A case study, the construction of a financial d…
Visceral politics across the Strait: Food and risk in China-Taiwan relations
The globalization of food systems has led to the increased circulation of food risks across national boundaries. While there is a rich literature on the domestic risk politics of food safety in China, much less attention has been given to the external dimension of China's food safety issues and how these interplay with relations in the international arena. This article examines the visceral politics of food and risk in China-Taiwan relations. Dra…
The transformation of the village collective in urbanising China: A historical institutional analysis
Un espace public sinophone sous pression: Les Médias Hongkongais Depuis La Rétrocession
ZEN Buddhism of Youmyo Enju: 永明延寿とその門下を中心に
Creating land markets for rural revitalization: Land transfer, property rights and gentrification in China
The reform of collective land ownership in post-socialist contexts offers a useful window into how changes in property rights shape and structure the dynamics of territorial transformation. Focusing on China's rural revitalization campaign, this paper demonstrates how the state, as creator and regulator of land rights and property titles, facilitates landscape change by relaxing regulations over the lease of rural land and creating market institu…
Building SoHo in Shenzhen: The territorial politics of gentrification and state making in China
This paper examines the territorial politics of gentrification at China’s rural-urban interface. Drawing on empirical fieldwork in Shenzhen, it is shown that gentrification in China can be seen as a state-making strategy deployed by the government to consolidate territorial control and extend the reach of the state. Unlike conventional accounts of gentrification which assumes the universality of formal, property-based land tenure, this paper high…
Accumulation without Dispossession? Land Commodification and Rent Extraction in Peri-urban China
The urbanization of rural China is increasingly achieved not through physical land grabs but the strategic enrolment of rural communities in the commodification of land via speculative rentiership. This article critically examines this shift in approach from the deployment of extra-economic force in state-led land expropriations toward an increasing reliance on market mechanisms in land development. A case study, the construction of a financial d…
The transformation of the village collective in urbanising China: A historical institutional analysis
Land speculation by villagers: Territorialities of accumulation and exclusion in peri-urban China
Speculation in land and real estate has become a chief means of revenue generation in cities across the world. The literature on speculative urbanism has discussed how the advent of land markets transformed government strategies and created new partnerships between state and capital for rent extraction. Far less attention, however, has been paid to grassroots practices of speculation among residents of peri-urban and rural areas, whose neighbourh…
Rural Urbanization in China: Administrative Restructuring and the Livelihoods of Urbanized Rural Residents
202202 bcvc
Serving the People, Building the Party: Social Organizations and Party Work in China’s Urban Villages
The reform era has been associated with the waning authority of the Chinese Communist Party in urban society. While existing studies have investigated the Party’s self-reinvention through the incorporation into its ranks of professional groups and the new socioeconomic elite, much less attention has been given to how the Party has rebuilt its presence in neighborhoods among urban residents and migrant communities. Drawing on a case study in Kunmi…
The social politics of dispossession: Informal institutions and land expropriation in China
Extant studies on land dispossession often focus on its economic and extra-economic aspects, with respective emphasis on the operation of market mechanisms and the deployment of state-led coercion in bringing about the separation of households from their land. This article draws attention to the under-examined role of informal institutions in the politics of dispossession. Social organisations such as lineages and clans pervade grassroots societi…
Administrative reclassification and neighborhood governance in urbanizing China
Before the economic reforms, the Chinese state relied on mutually exclusive hierarchies within and between rural and urban governance at the subnational level to structure administration, organize populations, and exert political authority. Other than spatial restructuring and population transformation, urbanization in China also involves rural-to-urban administrative reclassification of territories. Drawing on a 2018 national survey conducted in…
Social work and sustainable rural development: The practice of social economy in China
The impact of globalisation on local agriculture and food systems has brought issues such as food security and rural sustainability to the forefront of policy‐making in developing countries. In China, the restructuring of domestic agriculture and liberalisation of trade following accession to the World Trade Organization have led to the growing reliance on imported food and raised concerns for food self‐sufficiency and safety. Inspired by the con…
Dispossession and beyond: Politics of rural land conversion in China's tourism villages
Across the peripheries of global South cities, projects to convert rural land for development purposes have brought dramatic impact on rural communities and environments. Many of these initiatives involve aggregating land, mobilizing investments, and resettling populations, with direct implications for villagers’ land rights and livelihoods. In existing studies, rural land conversions have often been examined through frameworks of “land grabbing”…
Visceral politics across the Strait: Food and risk in China-Taiwan relations
The globalization of food systems has led to the increased circulation of food risks across national boundaries. While there is a rich literature on the domestic risk politics of food safety in China, much less attention has been given to the external dimension of China's food safety issues and how these interplay with relations in the international arena. This article examines the visceral politics of food and risk in China-Taiwan relations. Dra…
Of Mad Cows and Dead Pigs: Negotiating Food Safety and Everyday Sovereignty in Taiwan
The globalisation of food and agricultural trade has brought issues of food safety and biosecurity to the centre of geopolitical research. This paper explores the relationship between food risks and sovereignty practices, a topic that has received relatively scant attention in the scholarship. Going beyond conventional conceptualisations of sovereignty as an external-legal notion that is delimited to the realm of ‘high politics’ in international …
ZEN Buddhism of Youmyo Enju: 永明延寿とその門下を中心に
Un espace public sinophone sous pression: Les Médias Hongkongais Depuis La Rétrocession
The transformation of the village collective in urbanising China: A historical institutional analysis
Visceral politics across the Strait: Food and risk in China-Taiwan relations
The globalization of food systems has led to the increased circulation of food risks across national boundaries. While there is a rich literature on the domestic risk politics of food safety in China, much less attention has been given to the external dimension of China's food safety issues and how these interplay with relations in the international arena. This article examines the visceral politics of food and risk in China-Taiwan relations. Dra…
Accumulation without Dispossession? Land Commodification and Rent Extraction in Peri-urban China
The urbanization of rural China is increasingly achieved not through physical land grabs but the strategic enrolment of rural communities in the commodification of land via speculative rentiership. This article critically examines this shift in approach from the deployment of extra-economic force in state-led land expropriations toward an increasing reliance on market mechanisms in land development. A case study, the construction of a financial d…
Social work and sustainable rural development: The practice of social economy in China
The impact of globalisation on local agriculture and food systems has brought issues such as food security and rural sustainability to the forefront of policy‐making in developing countries. In China, the restructuring of domestic agriculture and liberalisation of trade following accession to the World Trade Organization have led to the growing reliance on imported food and raised concerns for food self‐sufficiency and safety. Inspired by the con…
Serving the People, Building the Party: Social Organizations and Party Work in China’s Urban Villages
The reform era has been associated with the waning authority of the Chinese Communist Party in urban society. While existing studies have investigated the Party’s self-reinvention through the incorporation into its ranks of professional groups and the new socioeconomic elite, much less attention has been given to how the Party has rebuilt its presence in neighborhoods among urban residents and migrant communities. Drawing on a case study in Kunmi…
Creating land markets for rural revitalization: Land transfer, property rights and gentrification in China
The reform of collective land ownership in post-socialist contexts offers a useful window into how changes in property rights shape and structure the dynamics of territorial transformation. Focusing on China's rural revitalization campaign, this paper demonstrates how the state, as creator and regulator of land rights and property titles, facilitates landscape change by relaxing regulations over the lease of rural land and creating market institu…
The social politics of dispossession: Informal institutions and land expropriation in China
Extant studies on land dispossession often focus on its economic and extra-economic aspects, with respective emphasis on the operation of market mechanisms and the deployment of state-led coercion in bringing about the separation of households from their land. This article draws attention to the under-examined role of informal institutions in the politics of dispossession. Social organisations such as lineages and clans pervade grassroots societi…
Building SoHo in Shenzhen: The territorial politics of gentrification and state making in China
This paper examines the territorial politics of gentrification at China’s rural-urban interface. Drawing on empirical fieldwork in Shenzhen, it is shown that gentrification in China can be seen as a state-making strategy deployed by the government to consolidate territorial control and extend the reach of the state. Unlike conventional accounts of gentrification which assumes the universality of formal, property-based land tenure, this paper high…
Rural Urbanization in China: Administrative Restructuring and the Livelihoods of Urbanized Rural Residents
202202 bcvc
Administrative reclassification and neighborhood governance in urbanizing China
Before the economic reforms, the Chinese state relied on mutually exclusive hierarchies within and between rural and urban governance at the subnational level to structure administration, organize populations, and exert political authority. Other than spatial restructuring and population transformation, urbanization in China also involves rural-to-urban administrative reclassification of territories. Drawing on a 2018 national survey conducted in…
Land speculation by villagers: Territorialities of accumulation and exclusion in peri-urban China
Speculation in land and real estate has become a chief means of revenue generation in cities across the world. The literature on speculative urbanism has discussed how the advent of land markets transformed government strategies and created new partnerships between state and capital for rent extraction. Far less attention, however, has been paid to grassroots practices of speculation among residents of peri-urban and rural areas, whose neighbourh…
Tilling another's land: Migrant farming under rural industrialization and urbanization in China
Studies of labour migration in China usually focus on rural residents seeking wage employment in the urban industrial or service sector. This article provides an account of migrant farmers who have moved from the impoverished countryside to peri‐urban villages in more developed areas to engage in substitute agricultural production. They took over fields abandoned by local villagers and lived and worked among them as tenants. This article situates…
Of Mad Cows and Dead Pigs: Negotiating Food Safety and Everyday Sovereignty in Taiwan
The globalisation of food and agricultural trade has brought issues of food safety and biosecurity to the centre of geopolitical research. This paper explores the relationship between food risks and sovereignty practices, a topic that has received relatively scant attention in the scholarship. Going beyond conventional conceptualisations of sovereignty as an external-legal notion that is delimited to the realm of ‘high politics’ in international …
Dispossession and beyond: Politics of rural land conversion in China's tourism villages
Across the peripheries of global South cities, projects to convert rural land for development purposes have brought dramatic impact on rural communities and environments. Many of these initiatives involve aggregating land, mobilizing investments, and resettling populations, with direct implications for villagers’ land rights and livelihoods. In existing studies, rural land conversions have often been examined through frameworks of “land grabbing”…
Network analysis of chronic disease among middle-aged and older adults in China: A nationwide survey
Background: Given the rising prevalence of chronic diseases and multimorbidity among middle-aged and older individuals in China, it is crucial to explore the patterns of chronic disease multimorbidity and uncover the underlying mechanisms driving the co-existence of multiple chronic conditions. Methods: This study analyzed data from 19,206 participants in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS 2018). The IsingFit model was use…
Social Enterprise in China: State–Third Sector Relations and Institutional Effectiveness
Agro‐Industrial Enclosures: Food Security, Land Consolidation and Rural Displacement in China
This paper examines rural enclosures for industrialized agriculture as a window into the local political economy and territorial politics underlying projects of agricultural modernization. In recent years, agro‐industrial parks with ‘characteristic’ industries have proliferated in China as the government viewed it as a technical solution to problems of declining grain security and land use inefficiency. Comparing these enclosures with previous wa…
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