A5049591458- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Sex work and related issues
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Asian Culture and Media Studies
- Emotional Labor in Professions
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Gender Politics and Representation
- African history and culture studies
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Public Spaces through Art
- Gender, Security, and Conflict
- Rural development and sustainability
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Fashion and Cultural Textiles
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
- Media, Gender, and Advertising
City University of Hong Kong
2023-2024
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2022
University of Amsterdam
2017-2019
This article sheds light on the intricate relationship between revival of Hanfu, traditional couture from Han Dynasty, and rising Chinese nationalism among youth living in United Kingdom. Mobilizing theoretical tool ‘affective economies’, we explore how particular feelings values are assigned attached to thereby circulate young migrants. We begin by examining Hanfu movement interrogate is reinvented based a selective historicity past, serving as specific cultural product for China’s...
Hanfu, an attire newly reinvented by China's youth, has been revived as traditional Chinese and further reconstructed a symbol of emerging cultural identity. During the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, annual National Costume Day, launched 2018 Communist Youth League, transitioned into online event on Bilibili, media platform China. Known Hanfu ceremony, this Day comprised self-produced short films contributed supporters who created videos during lockdown. This article employs case study approach...
Drawing on GenUrb's comparative research undertaken in mid-2020 with communities five cities—Cochabamba, Bolivia, Delhi, India, Georgetown, Guyana, Ibadan, Nigeria, and Shanghai, China—we engage an intersectional analysis of the gendered impacts Covid-19 pandemic women's everyday lives. Our employs a variety context-specific methods, including virtual phone interviews, socially-distanced interviews to women living neighbourhoods characterized by underdevelopment economic insecurity. While...
This article studies rural migrant women working in the Shanghai beauty parlour industry, focusing on how this industry emphasises affective labour and articulates it along lines of migration, gender seniority. The analysis looks at three types female workers: apprentices, senior beauticians, entrepreneurs. Bringing together Hardt Negri's (2004) theorisation Yang Jie's (2011) notion aesthetic labour, investigates demanded from these affects their minds bodies, position value marriage market....
Abstract. In this short intervention addressing the impact of crises on geographical knowledge practices, we, members GenUrb (a multi-sited, longitudinal, partnered urban research project), ask, “what counts as crisis?”, sketching out epistemological and methodological points about our project's engagement with call. We query adeptness dominant Eurocentric epistemologies in crises, adopting work Bedour Alagraa, who places firmly within a historical–geographical colonial framing that...
On the basis of fieldwork conducted in Shanghai, this article explores how Chinese rural-to-urban migrant women cope with stigmatization they face as a result conflicting gender norms regarding singlehood and marriage their home communities Shanghai. We focus on legitimate relationship status single, married or having boyfriend relation to these norms. Our findings reveal that women, while not rejecting existing outright, actively pre-empt counteract fact live apart from husband using coping...
This article sheds light on the media representations of successful women using theorization affective economies. We focus four female characters in three popular television series: Andy Ode to Joy (2016–17), Su Mingyu All Is Well (2019) and Luo Zijun Tang Jing The First Half My Life (2017). First, we begin by content analysis examine ways are subjected paradoxical cultural values that stigmatize unmarried as shengnü (‘leftover women’) while promoting neo-liberal ideal duli nüxing...
ABSTRACTWomen of the lower working-class in Shanghai are seemingly invisible Chinese urban scholarship. Drawing on fieldwork conducted between 2017 and 2021 Shanghai, this article sheds light social lives women dwelling Workers' New Villages wake rapid urbanization. Mounting a threefold conceptual exploration grassroots urbanism, genderscapes, guanxi (social connectivity), develops coins term grassrootscapes to explicate women's sociospatial relations with housing units, community, city....
Since the 1970s, Marxist feminists have extensively discussed social reproduction to argue that women's unwaged domestic labour is a form of exploitation deriving from capitalism. This article focuses on socialist socio-historical context explore performed by lower working-class women in Shanghai during COVID-19 outbreaks. To probe pandemic interruptions reproduction, Diary-Writing Workshop was conducted 2020 collect diaries written destitute and disadvantaged (pinkun funü) living Workers'...