"The emergence of large-scale urban development and redevelopment projects presents urban managers with tasks of daunting complexity. Such projects involve a huge variety of participants, global and local, public and private. The development process can be lengthy. The developme…
This dissertation uses changes in Shanghai’s urban geography as a lens to study the processes and meanings of urban revolution for the daily lives of workers in the 1950s. Using a large body of archival documents, I focus especially on the construction of so-called Workers’ New …
More than 1.2 million students have left China to study abroad during the past three decades of economic reform in China. In 2007 alone, China sent around 144,000 students abroad, 167 times of the number of students in 1978. This large scale of student migration has often raised…
This thesis is an examination of the development of régionalisation, marketisation and commercialisation in contemporary Chinese broadcasting, focusing in particular on the turn to tabloid content and tabloid programming formats and styles. It argues that tabloidisation is the m…
This thesis proposes an urban intervention to create a new type of public space in the city of Shanghai. It investigates the historical evolution of the public spaces in the city and concludes that a new type of public space without prescribed functions and boundary restrictions…
This dissertation focuses on Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and its applicability in China and Chinese culture. The primary goal is to examine the critical success factors (CSFs) to successfully implement U.S. CRM solutions in Chinese markets. The research questions focu…