The Sounds of Social Space: Branding, Built Environment, and Leisure in Urban China by Paul Kendall

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 306-309
Author(s):  
Han Li
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Urban China

Adapt or Voice: Class,Guanxi, and Protest Propensity in China

2013 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Su ◽  
Shizheng Feng
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Working Hypothesis ◽  
Personal Connections ◽  
Labor Protest ◽  
The Will ◽  
Class Status ◽  
The Individual

We study the propensity for protest in the context of individuals’ alternative choices in urban China. Depending on the number and quality of social ties (orguanxiin Chinese), individuals may resort to one of two alternatives: to engineer life-changing events through personal connections or to join others in labor protest. We call one “adaptation” and the other “voice.” As our working hypothesis, we first expect them to be mutually exclusive. That is, adaptation throughguanxinetworks may help diffuse the will to protest, as those who enjoy betterguanxinetworks would advance their class status through such networks. With data from a national survey, our analysis rejects this working hypothesis. Those who are better connected are not only more likely to adapt but also more inclined to voice, and the effect of social ties on protest is significantly smaller for those who are connected to people with power. The implications are twofold. First, our data not only confirm the well-known effect of social connections on protest, but also specify the effects caused by high-class versus low-class connections. Second, in a comparative vein, the individual decision making on adaptation and/or voice offers a glimpse into the intertwining domains of social space in contemporary China.

Social Space and Governance in Urban China (review)

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-73
Author(s):  
Hong Yung Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Urban China

Chasing the Concrete Dragon: China’s Urban Landscapes in Skate Video

2020 ◽  
pp. 120633122091639
Author(s):  
Duncan McDuie-Ra
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Encounter ◽  
China’S Cities

This article explores the centrality of China’s cities to skate video; the most popular form for capturing, circulating, and consuming skateboarding. China’s urban growth produces endless spots to skate; a spot is assemblage of objects and surfaces that offer the opportunity to perform skateboarding maneuvers (tricks). Skate video is the substance of skate culture, the once quintessentially Californian pastime turned global subculture and industry. After skateboarding left the skatepark for the streets in the 1990s, and once video became easier to circulate digitally through streaming platforms in the mid-2000s, the search for spots to perform and capture unsanctioned street skateboarding spread to China’s urban landscapes, beginning with Shenzhen. China’s cities are sites of global desire among skateboarders for the perfect surfaces and obstacles created in the built environment and the speed at which they are produced. Using skate video as an archive I make four arguments. First, China’s cities imputed with a mythical character; endless spots produced with miraculous speed. Second, skate videos re-map China’s cities through the skater’s gaze, a form of urban knowledge both unique and widely shared. Third, the search for spots indexes urban development in China, privileging the recent and shunning the past. Fourth, skateboarding in China’s cities create spaces for inter-cultural encounter between skateboarders and authority, the public and other skateboarders. The article concludes by discussing the utility of skate video as an alternative visual archive of urban China for foreign audiences and increasingly for skate communities in China itself.

scholarly journals The social structure and physical form of the state-owned farm in north-east China

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Xiujie ◽  
Fu Hongpeng ◽  
Yang Meng
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
The State ◽  
Urban China ◽  
East China ◽  
North East ◽  
The Social ◽  
Physical Form

The social structure and physical form of the state-owned farm in north-east China Xiujie Li, Hongpeng Fu, Meng Yang College of Urban and Environmental Sciences. Peking University. Beijing. China. 100871 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]   Keywords: state-owned farm, policy, social structure, physical form, urban morphology Conference topics and scale: Urban form and social use of space   State-owned farms in north-east China are numerous and large in size. They have played an important role in the reclamation and guarding of the frontier in China.  Their physical form is sensitive to government policy. Following the historical development of a particular farm, an examination is made of how its social structure and physical form have been influenced by the policies of different periods. The development process has experienced three stages since this farm’s founding. There has been a change from ‘farmers farming together on the land which belongs to the whole farm’ to ‘farmers farming together on the land which belongs to the companies of the farm’, and then ‘farmers farming severally on the land’.  The physical form of the farm has been influenced by the policies in different historical periods. Important aspects of these policies include industrial structure, population structure, land ownership, and town and country planning. This study provides a basis for future urban morphological research.   References Conzen, M.R.G. (2011) Alnwick, Northumberland: a study in town-plan analysis (China Architecture & Building Press, China) Bray, D. (2005) Social space and governance in urban China (Stanford University Press, Stanford) 

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