Chinese Cities in the World-System’s City System: 2001–2014

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-79
Author(s):  
Michael Timberlake ◽  
John Orville Stevens ◽  
Xiulian Ma
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Cities ◽  
The World ◽  
City System

scholarly journals Russians from China: Migrations and Identity

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-158
Author(s):  
Mara Moustafine
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
North China ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
The World ◽  
China And Japan ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Almost All

In the first half of the 20th century, sizeable Russian communities lived in a number of Chinese cities, including Harbin, Shanghai and Tientsin. The largest and most diverse of these was the community that grew up around Harbin in north China. By the mid 1920s, Harbin was home to one of the largest Russian diaspora communities in the world, with over 120,000 Russians and other nationalities from the former Tsarist Empire. Moreover, many Russians in Shanghai and Tientsin had links to Harbin, as their first place of domicile in China. By the late 1950s, political transformations in China had driven almost all these people elsewhere. But for many of them, their roots in China became a key aspect of their identity in emigration in their new diasporas. This paper explores the background to this unique community and the geo-political forces underpinning the various waves of migration of Russians into and out of Harbin. It analyses the complex issues of identity and citizenship Russians faced while living in Harbin, their fates determined at various points in time by the dominance of three powers – Russia, China and Japan. Drawing on the experience of my own family, whose life in Harbin and Manchuria spanned four generations over fifty years, it touches on the rich ethnic and cultural mix that lay beneath the surface of “Russian” Harbin, with particular reference to the Jewish community that once thrived there. Finally, it examines how the ‘Harbintsy’ perceive their identity in emigration and the recent changes in attitude towards them of the Chinese authorities.

Changing Connectivities of Chinese Cities in the World City Network, 2010–2016

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Derudder ◽  
Zhan Cao ◽  
Xingjian Liu ◽  
Wei Shen ◽  
Liang Dai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World City ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
World City Network ◽  
The World ◽  
City Network

Conceptualising and Mapping the Structure of the World System's City System

Urban Studies ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Smith ◽  
Michael Timberlake
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
City System

scholarly journals Neighbourhood characteristics and mental disorders in three Chinese cities: multilevel models from the World Mental Health Surveys

BMJ Open ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. e017679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Dias Porto Chiavegatto Filho ◽  
Laura Sampson ◽  
Silvia S Martins ◽  
Shui Yu ◽  
Yueqin Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Health Surveys ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
Lower Odds ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
World Mental Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Neighbourhood Level

ObjectivesThe rapid growth of urban areas in China in the past few decades has introduced profound changes in family structure and income distribution that could plausibly affect mental health. Although multilevel studies of the influence of area-level socioeconomic factors on mental health have become more common in other parts of the world, a study of this sort has not been carried out in Chinese cities. Our objectives were to examine the associations of two key neighbourhood-level variables—median income and percentage of married individuals living in the neighbourhood—with mental disorders net of individual-level income and marital status in three Chinese cities.SettingHousehold interviews in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, PRC, as part of the cross-sectional World Mental Health Surveys.Participants4072 men and women aged 18–88 years.Primary and secondary outcome measuresLifetime and past-year internalising and externalising mental disorders.ResultsEach one-point increase in neighbourhood-level percentage of married residents was associated with a 1% lower odds of lifetime (p=0.024) and 2% lower odds of past-year (p=0.008) individual-level externalising disorder, net of individual-level marital status. When split into tertiles, individuals living in neighbourhoods in the top tertile of percentage of married residents had 54% lower odds of a past-year externalising disorder (OR=0.46, 95% CI: 0.24 to 0.87) compared with those in the bottom tertile. Neighbourhood-level marital status was not statistically associated with either lifetime or past-year internalising disorders. Neighbourhood-level income was not statistically associated with odds of either internalising or externalising disorders.ConclusionsThe proportion of married residents in respondents’ neighbourhoods was significantly inversely associated with having externalising mental disorders in this sample of Chinese cities. Possible mechanisms for this finding are discussed and related to social causation, social selection and social control theories. Future work should examine these relationships longitudinally.

scholarly journals WORLD CITY-SYSTEM AS A NEW PERCEPTION OF THE WORLD

2012 ◽  
Vol Volume 5 Issue 8 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yavuz ALPTEKİN
Keyword(s):  
World City ◽  
The World ◽  
City System

scholarly journals Ambient nitrogen dioxide pollution and spread ability of COVID-19 in Chinese cities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye Yao ◽  
Jinhua Pan ◽  
Zhixi Liu ◽  
Xia Meng ◽  
Weidong Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nitrogen Dioxide ◽  
Respiratory Diseases ◽  
World Health ◽  
Virus Infections ◽  
High Exposure ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
Intervention Measures ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
And Control

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, which was first reported in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, has caused 219,331 confirmed cases as of 20 March 2020, with 81,301 cases being reported in China. It has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in 11 March 2020 (1). Although massive intervention measures have been implemented in China (e.g. shutting down cities, extending holidays and travel ban) and many other countries, the spread of the disease are unlikely to be stopped over the world shortly. It is becoming evident that environmental factors are associated with seasonality of respiratory-borne diseases’ epidemics (2). Previous studies have suggested that ambient nitrogen dioxide (NO2) exposure may play a role in the phenotypes of respiratory diseases, including, but not limited to, influenza, asthma and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). NO2), for example, might increase the susceptibility of adults to virus infections (3). High exposure to NO2 before the start of a respiratory viral infection is associated with the severity of asthma exacerbation (4). This study aims to assess the associations of ambient NO2 levels with spread ability of COVID-19 across 63 Chinese cities, and provides information for the further prevention and control of COVID-19.

scholarly journals Bridging Theory on Global Corporate Hierarchy and City Diplomacy: The Case of China

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150011
Author(s):  
YU Hongyuan ◽  
Benjamin LEFFEL ◽  
LI Qianyuan ◽  
Craig SIMON
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
World City ◽  
Collective Effect ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
External Relations ◽  
Corporate Hierarchy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

This study tests the relationship between the hierarchical position of cities in the global economy and a typology of cultural, economic, political, and social external relations, namely city diplomacy. We conduct this test on a sample of 46 Chinese cities, seeking to bridge otherwise separate existing theories on the structure of the world city hierarchy and varied dimensions of city diplomacy. Contrary to expectations, we find that the aggregate of the typology of city diplomacy, rather than only the economic dimension, is most closely associated with position in the world city hierarchy. This tentatively suggests that the collective effect of internationally-oriented cultural, economic, political and social activities in Chinese cities reflect the global structure of the highest levels of globalized urban wealth.

Cities in global matrices: toward mapping the world-system's city system

1995 ◽  
pp. 79-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Smith ◽  
Michael Timberlake
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
City System
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