Mette Thunø is Associate Professor in China studies, Department of Global Studies, China Section, Jens Chr. Skousvej 5, DK-8000, Aarhus University, Denmark (mettethunoe@cas.au.dk). This special…
Read moreJulia Marinaccio is a comparative political scientist who studied China studies and political science in Vienna and Taipei. Currently, she works as a postdoctoral researcher…
Read moreWhile Hong Kong has always garnered international attention, especially in recent years when protests seemingly paralysed the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), Stephen W….
Read moreThe third book in what is a very intriguing trilogy exploring consumerism in China over the decades, Karl Gerth’s Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China’s…
Read more JONES, Andrew. 2020. Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. TSAI, Eva, Tung-hung HO, and Miaoju JIAN…
Read moreAfter the “Organic Law of the Village Committee of the People’s Republic of China” was promulgated in 1987, elections to posts within the Village Committee…
Read moreIntroduction The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) policymaking and implementation processes are often opaque, as is the process of policy innovation and diffusion. Some scholars have…
Read moreDarren Man-wai Cheung, Daphne Ngar-yin Mah, Alice Siu, Benjamin C. McLellan, Shinya Wakao Victor Wai Yin Lam, and Glenn Hin-fan Lee Darren Man-wai Cheung is…
Read moreIntroduction Many cities in advanced economies have embraced the “smart city” agenda. Hong Kong is no exception. Smart cities are “cities using technological solutions to…
Read moreHong Kong, consistently ranked as one of the world’s leading smart cities, is undergoing a period of disruptive change.[1] While still shaped fundamentally by the…
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