Jin, Y. and Shin, H.B. (2025) Revisiting urban governance in China: The manifestation of entrepreneurial neo-managerialism in shantytown redevelopment in Luzhou. Urban Studies 62(10): 2136 – 2153 Over the past few decades, much of the discussion around China’s urban transformation has focused on the entrepreneurial nature of local governments—those acting like business agents, aggressively pursuing land development, […]
Good to see the release of this copy, The Urbanising Dynamics of Global China: Speculation, Articulation, and Translation in Global Capitalism, a republication edition of our journal special issue with the same title (see here) with Yimin Zhao and Sin Yee Koh. It was a pleasant surprise when Taylor & Francis reached out in mid-November 2024 […]
I am deeply honoured and thrilled to announce that I have been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS). This prestigious recognition celebrates my contributions to the social sciences and affirms the impact of my work in advancing the field. Link: https://acss.org.uk/news/the-academy-of-social-sciences-welcomes-64-leading-social-scientists-to-its-fellowship/ As part of this distinguished fellowship, I join 63 […]
A little before the Covid-19 pandemic, I experimented with a new mode of teaching assessments that involved the writing of academically informed but public-facing blogs. Some of the exemplary pieces have been released on this teaching blog, https://urbanasia.blog. The site, https://urbanasia.blog, is designed for educational purpose to share primarily the writings of students who carry […]
At the end of 2024, I was very pleased to see the publisher proofs of a forthcoming book that I co-edited with Dr Dong-Wan Gimm, entitled The Political Economy of Megaprojects in Asia: State power, Land Control, Financial Flows, and Dispossession and to be published by Routledge. More details about the book and its table […]