China Forty years and beyond: China’s rapid urbanisation since reform and opening-up March 14, 2019 0 Written by Mingxing Chen. China is experiencing the largest urbanisation process in human history. Since the beginning of reform and opening-up forty years ago, China’s…
China The interaction between urbanisation and house prices in China March 13, 2019 0 Written by Wei Bu and Yunyun Luo. Over the past decade, the rate of urbanisation in China has increased from 29.92 per cent in 1997…
China Can digital technology solve the trust issue in urbanising China? March 11, 2019 0 Written by Bingqin Li. In a country like China, rural and urban societies are geographically, economically, socially, and even culturally separated societies. Urbanisation breaks this…
China PRD, YRD and JJJ: The rise of Alphabet China March 8, 2019 0 Written by Salvatore Babones. China has been the economic success story of the century (so far). Although its growth may now be slowing, China's gross…
Asia Human trafficking and the use of social media: Keeping up with the criminals January 11, 2019 0 Written by Foo Yen Ne and Tamara Nair. Commentary Photographs of Erwiana Sulistyaningsih, an abused Indonesian domestic worker who was undernourished, badly bruised and hardly…
Culture and Society Pampering London with Pinoy care January 11, 2019 0 Written by Aileen Macalintal. Patricia ‘Patchot’ Manuel, 33, has just finished her 12-hour nursing duty at an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for babies. Over dinner…
Asia The long read: From the Anthropocene to the Urbanocene: Understanding Asia’s rural out-migration and global climate change December 14, 2018 0 By Tun Myint In addition to natural cycles of change, global climate change is driven by individual behaviours of consumption and life-style dynamics, which are…
Asia Tell the World I am Coming Home: Asian Culture and the Third Culture Kid October 16, 2018 0 Written by Niyati Pingali By definition, a third culture kid (TCK) is one who has grown up in a culture different to that of their…
China Who are the expats in China? The case of Suzhou April 17, 2018 0 Written by Hyungmin Kim. There are increasing numbers of foreign nationals in large Chinese cities. The number of foreign nationals with a working permit increased…
China How Chinese women in the sex industry (xiaojie) are knit into the fabric of society April 16, 2018 0 Written by Yeon Jung Yu. An estimated four to ten million women are currently working in China’s sex trade. The majority of these women are…