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View article: Exploring Livable Communities in Urban Renewal: Case Study of China’s Metropolises
Exploring Livable Communities in Urban Renewal: Case Study of China’s Metropolises Open
As urban boundaries continue to expand and core city areas undergo optimization, megacities such as New York, London, Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou exert a siphon effect on surrounding regions, intensifying population concentration and …
View article: Channels and Logistical Power: Making a ‘Perfect Market’ under Authoritarian Rule in China
Channels and Logistical Power: Making a ‘Perfect Market’ under Authoritarian Rule in China Open
This article probes the changing relation between commodity circulation and state power in China by focusing on Yiwu Market, which Xi Jinping has repeatedly praised as an exemplar for future development. In the state-owned and managed mark…
View article: Optimizing Advertising Efficacy: Implementing Cost-Effective Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithms
Optimizing Advertising Efficacy: Implementing Cost-Effective Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithms Open
This paper proposes a novel approach of multi-armed bandit (MAB) algorithms for online advertising across multiple platforms with no budget limitation. The study adapts the application of two algorithms, Cost-Subsidized Upper Confidence Bo…
View article: (Im)mobility infrastructure: a 21st-century dystopia?
(Im)mobility infrastructure: a 21st-century dystopia? Open
Based on the contributions in the special issue on Infrastructures and (Im)mobile Lives and the author's observations about changes in global mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic, this article proposes to broaden the concept of migration …
View article: Research Updates on the Mechanism and Influencing Factors of the Photocatalytic Degradation of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) in Water Environments
Research Updates on the Mechanism and Influencing Factors of the Photocatalytic Degradation of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) in Water Environments Open
Perfluorooctanoic acid is ubiquitous in water bodies and is detrimental to the health of organisms. Effectively removing perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a persistent organic pollutant, has been a hot topic around the world. With traditional…
View article: SOC Estimation for Lithium Batteries Based on Fractional Order Model and Robust Unscented Kalman Filter
SOC Estimation for Lithium Batteries Based on Fractional Order Model and Robust Unscented Kalman Filter Open
Lithium batteries are widely used due to their advantages such as high energy density, stable performance, low pollution, and long recyclable life. Accurate SOC estimation is important for the use of lithium batteries. To address the probl…
View article: Logistical power and logistical violence: lessons from China’s COVID experience
Logistical power and logistical violence: lessons from China’s COVID experience Open
The Chinese government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic can be broken into three stages – from denial in early 2020, to relatively successful management from March 2020 to March 2022, and finally to the disastrous zero-COVID policy from…
View article: Remote work, social inequality and the redistribution of mobility
Remote work, social inequality and the redistribution of mobility Open
Remote work, or more precisely work from home, is widely expected to become a new normal (Raghunath & Tan, 2020). The popularization of remote work has two important backgrounds, in addition to technological advancement. The first is the C…
View article: Self as Method
Self as Method Open
This open access book provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China's young people to think by themselves and for themselves
View article: Personal Crisis
Personal Crisis Open
Wu Qi: Maybe this is the time to talk a little bit more about the obstacles you ran into. We've already mentioned it several times, but every time, we were talking about something else, so we didn't follow it up. It seems to have been a fa…
View article: Anthropologists and Their World
Anthropologists and Their World Open
Wu Qi: The three levels of "directness" you just mentioned—shouldn't they be the whole point of anthropology as a discipline? Shouldn't anthropology be in the business of getting deeply into a subject, discovering its inner workings, and w…
View article: Common Ideals
Common Ideals Open
Wu Qi: You said something that struck me as quite important, which was your reference to a "loss of common ideals," in relation to what we were saying about China and history before. Where did you get this concept? Does it come from a part…
View article: Setting the Stage
Setting the Stage Open
Wu Qi: Continuing the conversation we started in Beijing, there are many issues we still need to unpack. I was recently reading Politics and Letters, the New Left Review's interview with the writer Raymond WilliamsWilliams, Raymond (1921–1…
View article: Beida After 1989
Beida After 1989 Open
Wu Qi: Our past life experienceBeida sometimes merely has a random influence on us, and it is hard to identify any one-on-one correspondence. But when you get to university, you should be entering a more orderly, clear-headed period. You a…
View article: Looking for a New Discourse
Looking for a New Discourse Open
Wu Qi: When you talk about the situation of class mobility and universal feelings about life, I think most readers can empathize, but they still lack the tools or the framework to understand them. In the context of the late 1990s or early …
View article: Nationalism and Populism
Nationalism and Populism Open
Right wing populism has become an apparent and expanding phenomenon of the present. Nationalist claims to protect the state against waves of immigration are en vogue. Populists claim to secure national interests and to defend cultural valu…
View article: New Research
New Research Open
Wu Qi: We have talked a good bit about your public talks and your interviews in the media, which might be seen as the more social side of your work, which was part of our original intention, but on reflection, it seems like we have talked …
View article: Impressions of Oxford
Impressions of Oxford Open
Wu Qi: What are your most important impressions of OxfordOxford?
View article: Setting the Stage
Setting the Stage Open
Wu Qi: I first wanted to ask why you are interested in the interview format. In China, it is not too common, and most scholars are not used to expressing themselves through interviews. In part, this is because interviews don't count on the…
View article: Setting the Stage
Setting the Stage Open
Xiang Biao: Coming back to WenzhouWenzhou this time inspired me with a lot of thoughts and feelings. On this trip, I went from OxfordOxford to Beijing and then from Beijing to Wenzhou, and the three worldsthree worlds are very different. O…
View article: A Sense of Distance and Directness
A Sense of Distance and Directness Open
Wu Qi: This came up in Global "Body Shopping" as well. When you were explaining the reasons behind Indian tech workers' migrationmigration abroad, you basically started from a political economy standpoint, and paid less attention to choice…
View article: Globalization and Anti-Globalization
Globalization and Anti-Globalization Open
Wu Qi: In the past few years, scholars inside and outside of China have been paying close attention to international news treating the US election and BrexitBrexit, and their moods have varied widely, but they have come to feel that the pr…
View article: Universities Should Look for the Exceptional
Universities Should Look for the Exceptional Open
Wu Qi: To continue our discussion of community, perhaps we can be a bit more concrete. What sort of expectations should we have of universities today? What should universities be doing?
View article: Academics Is Not a Vocation
Academics Is Not a Vocation Open
Wu Qi: The opportunity to interview you in OxfordOxford gave me a feeling for your work and life environment there, and the whole thing struck me as very routinized, clean, and a long way from any "center." No one bothers you, your college…
View article: The Paradox of Class Mobility
The Paradox of Class Mobility Open
Wu Qi: You talked about examples of transnational mobility like studying abroad or marriagemarriage, which for the most part is about horizontal mobility, but you also mentioned various vertical processes like social differentiation, class…
View article: Problematizing Individual Experience
Problematizing Individual Experience Open
Wu Qi: Since you published Zhejiang Village and Global "Body Shopping," the Chinese world hasn't seen any more books from you, but at the same time we can read any number of specialized articles on theory or methodology. Does this represen…
View article: The Local Gentry: Once More with Feeling
The Local Gentry: Once More with Feeling Open
Wu Qi: Being back in WenzhouWenzhou, we should talk about the local gentrygentry again, since it was your experience of living here that is the source of your gentry spirit.
View article: Social Reproduction
Social Reproduction Open
Wu Qi: To return to our main topic. Why, today, are you researching, and especially focusing on, social reproductionsocial reproduction? Is this an idea that you discovered while working on migrationmigration, which put it on your radar, o…
View article: Youth Melancholy
Youth Melancholy Open
Wu Qi: At present, the most common mood among Chinese youth on the Internet is "melancholy." Material conditions are better and kids have more freedom and their own hobbies and are starting to have fun, but the result is that they all laps…