Asia Rethinking the food system to address hunger, health and social equality: Notes from the northeast of India November 26, 2019 0 Image Credit: Dozens of tea pickers among tea bushes, Roger Burks/ Flickr ; Licence: CC BY NC ND 2.0 Written by Sujata Dutta Hazarika I…
China The end of funerals in China? October 30, 2019 0 Image Credit: Yu Rong Cun Cemetery by David Schroeter/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-ND 2.0. Written by Andrew B. Kipnis. An official in charge of arranging funerals…
Africa Cleaning up Guangzhou’s African enclave: A historical perspective August 28, 2019 0 Image Credit: Photo by the author. Written by Guangzhi Huang. In November 2014, the local government in Guangzhou launched a sweeping clean-up in Dengfeng Village,…
China Puncturing the picture of poverty elimination in China July 12, 2019 0 Written by Dorothy J. Solinger. Image Credit: Keep in Touch by Gauthier DELECROIX - 郭天/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. China’s success in ‘lifting millions out of poverty’…
China Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area plan: The prospects for integration June 5, 2019 0 Written by Alan Smart. Image Credit: Hong Kong from Shenzhen by leniners/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC 2.0. The Greater Bay Area (GBA) plan is an ambitious strategy…
China Five years on: The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration March 15, 2019 0 Written by Jon Taylor. In February 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the creation of the ‘Jing-Jin-Ji’ (JJJ) metropolitan region in order to integrate the economies…
China Towards a new understanding of ageing and care in urban China March 12, 2019 0 Written by Jason Powell. There has been a wide range of academic monographs and articles published recently on ageing and care in Asia. Much of…
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…
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…
China The opportunities and challenges of the sponge city project in Chinese cities – the solution of urban flood and drought issues? June 1, 2018 0 Written by Faith Chan. Since the “Open Door Policy” was established in the late 1970s in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), many Chinese cities…
