I’m pleased to be teaching “Remaking China’s Urban Futures: Urban Transformations in a Global Context” as part of the Global Public Policy International Summer School, jointly launched by the LSE–Fudan Research Centre for Global Public Policy and the Fudan Institute for Global Public Policy. This course builds on my research on China, examining how China’s […]
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 […]
A postgraduate course I teach, titled Cities and Social Change in East Asia (Course code: GY438), has blog writing as an assignment. This course is an interdisciplinary course that encourages students to develop a criticalunderstanding of how urban space is transformed in diverse social, economic and political settings. The course is comparative in nature, taking […]
LSE is one of the first universities in the UK to deliver the rest of teaching online as part of its effort to tackle the COVID19 pandemic situation, and also to switch summer term written exams into online assessments. All public events are also to be cancelled or postponed. My department is to enact this […]
I’ve been nominated as Eminent Scholar by KyungHee University in recognition of my research, and will be visiting Seoul and the university a couple of times this year, once between 20 August and 9 September, and again between 11 October and mid-November. I look forward to many fruitful discussions about Korea/Asia’s speculative urbanisation, gentrification, the […]
The London School of Economics runs a summer school programme annually in Beijing in collaboration with Peking University. There will be altogether 15 courses provided for the 2015 session, including Speculative Urbanisation in Asia (course code GY201). This is an urban geography course of mine, an updated version of Urban Asia and China taught in the […]
I am running a summer school course, Urban Asia and China (course code: LPS-GY201) as part of the LSE-Peking University Summer School in August 2014. The Summer School runs between 11-22 August 2014, and takes place in Beijing. More information on the Summer School can be found here: LSE-Peking University Summer School. Applications for the 2014 […]