- China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Housing Market and Economics
- Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Disaster Response and Management
- IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
- Cloud Computing and Resource Management
- Rural development and sustainability
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
University College London
2023-2025
New York University Shanghai
2024
University of Cambridge
2023
Peking University
2021-2022
The death of urban entrepreneurialism is proclaimed surprisingly by opposite conceptualisations austerity urbanism and radical municipalism. This paper argues that rather than seeing them as contrasting types, post-pandemic statecraft reflects the increasing tension entanglement between capitalistic territorial logic. From ground Chinese governance, we illustrate how maintains state strategic extra-economic intention through deploying mobilising market society - to create its own agents...
Nowadays, urban and community resilience have become the core issues of theoretical research construction practices. While there are many studies on climate change, natural hazards environmental pollution, relatively less attention has been paid to public human health. However, current COVID-19 pandemic, which is a major global health crisis, posing severe challenges cities communities in context high-mobility, high-density high-intensity, as well expands connotation To compensate for lack...
The global financial crisis started a new context of late capitalism and austerity urbanism. Instead unidirectional governance transformation towards entrepreneurialism, rising finance financialisation, pervasive state roles in post-growth municipal radicalism are competing trends. Previously, China witnessed private entrepreneurship, economic devolution, housing commodification at the turn millennium. They have been portrayed as urban or entrepreneurialism. These features were transformed...
With increasing globalization and consumerism, heritage tourism has contributed to local economic development, while over-tourism may have impeded experienced locality by residents facilitated cultural alienation. To compensate for the dearth of cross-case comparisons spatial quantifications using big data existing research, this study constructed an enriched framework space production theory integrating historic-sociological analysis connect process outcomes consumer reproduction in...
This paper reviews the literature on state entrepreneurialism. It clarifies theoretical construction of entrepreneurialism in historical context and identifies tension between structural coherence for capital accumulation multiple logics by state. also compares with other alternative studies Chinese urban governance, thus revealing its structuralist roots conceptualisation. Its distinctive ontological understanding China’s governance emphasises coherence. We call rethinking evolving...