The sublime chaos of Chongqing
Of all the places in China that I’ve gotten lost in, my favorite might be Chongqing. More specifically, its central district of …
Hu-Su-Zhe-Wan: China’s latest economic super-region
Move over, Beijing. Just weeks after national economic planners declared they would build the area around China’s capital into a 100-million strong …
Want to get on the right side of China’s regional inequality? Follow the 4 C’s
Analyzing China at the prefectural level both confirms and complicates widely held views of the nation’s wealth gap. Let’s summarize the patterns as the “the four C’s” for besting China’s regional inequality.
Chinese stereotypes, in more detail
This post discusses the results of the China Autocompleted piece in further detail, with observations that didn’t make the cut for the …
Chinese stereotypes, mapped
Why does the western Chinese region of Xinjiang have “so many terrorists”? And do people from central Henan Province really steal manhole covers? These are just some of the questions that Chinese people ask about themselves and each other. Or at least, those are the questions they ask Baidu, the country’s top search engine.
Boluo Village, a Kunming “village-in-the-city”
This post is about one of China’s most unique urban spaces, the so-called “village in the city” (城中村), and some personal observations …
San Francisco Masses and Voids
This being a China blog, I don’t intend to dwell on non-China topics, but since I went through the trouble to establish …
Masses and Voids: An Introduction
One of the most valuable methods for studying urban spaces that I picked up in graduate school was masses and voids. It’s a …