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…

Darren 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…

Introduction Many cities in advanced economies have embraced the “smart city” agenda. Hong Kong is no exception. Smart cities are “cities using technological solutions to…

Hong 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…

Introduction The article endeavours to interpret the linked phenomena of trust and the smart city, focusing on the public support for the smart city in…

Introduction Confucianism, the philosophical and moral values of which were considered by the iconoclasts of the early twentieth century to run counter to modernisation, consequently…

Introduction: Reading the classics and the perspective of utopia in social movements The study of Confucian classics used to be at the heart of the…

  Since the start of the twenty-first century, China has experienced a growing revival of references to the Confucian tradition in various realms such as…

Introduction: An invitation to dujing Since the 1980s, the Confucian revival in contemporary Chinese society has grown as a local, national, and even global phenomenon…

Introduction Understanding the Confucian revival in contemporary China entails clarifying the conditions of modernity that have materialised in present-day Chinese society. Since the early twentieth…