Seminars

Cities and Governance Seminar Series 2025/26

Edu-featured Gated Communities in China: Navigating Urban Entrepreneurialism and the Dynamics of Education-led Gentrificationt

1 April 2026 (Wednesday)

2:30 pm

Online via Zoom

The Recent Downturn of Property Market in Mainland China: Key Aspects and Future Outlook

26 March 2026 (Thursday)

2:30 pm

Online via Zoom

Entrepreneurial Local-state Driven Rural E-commerce Development: Evidence From Less-developed Rural West China

11 February 2026 (Wednesday)

2:30 pm

Online via Zoom

China's Landless Peasants and The Role of State-led Rural Urbanization: Narratives, Meaning Making, and The Puzzle of Social Stability

4 February 2026 (Wednesday)

4:00 PM

Online via Zoom

Remaking Urban Life in Chongqing’s Public Rental Housing: A Family-Based Account

21 January 2026 (Wednesday)

3:00 pm

Online via Zoom

Book Launch – Shifting Production to Southeast Asia: Electronics Transnational Corporations Moving to Vietnam since the 2000s

15 Apr 2025

2:30 PM

MBG06, G/F, Lam Woo Lecture Theatre, Patrick Lee Wan Keung Academic Building, Lingnan University

Divergent Multiple Actor-Driven Path Creation and Spatial Evolution of Emerging Digital Economy Industry in Guangzhou City, China

20 Jan 2025

7:00PM

Zoom

Gendering Grassrootscapes: Socialist Workers' New Villages in Post-Socialist Shanghai

7 Feb 2025

5:00PM

 LCHLG01, LG, Lau Chung Him Building, Lingnan University

Spatial and Social Transformations in the Beijing Hutong Neighbourhood and Beyond: An Anthropological Perspective

12 Feb 2025

7:00PM

Zoom

Formation of City Regions from Bottom-up Initiatives: Investigating Coalitional Developmentalism in the Pearl River Delta

26 Feb 2025

7:00PM

Zoom