Ma.gnolia: Karen Quinn Fung's Bookmarks

Between 1860 and 1945, the Chinese port city of Tianjin was the site of up to nine foreign-controlled concessions, functioning side by side. China historian Ruth Rogaski defined it as a 'hyper-colony', a term which reflects Tianjin's socio-political intricacies and the multiple colonial discourses of power and space. This presentation focuses on the transformation of the Tianjin cityscape during the last 150 years, and aims at connecting the hyper-colonial socio-spatial forms with the processes of post-colonial identity negotiation. Tianjin is currently undergoing a massive renovation programme: its transmogrifying cityscape unveils multiple layers of 'globalising' spatialities and temporalities, throwing into relief processes of power and capital accumulation, which operate via the urban regeneration's experiment. This study uses an 'interconnected history' approach and traces the interweaving 'worlding' nodes of today's Tianjin back to the global connections established in the city during the hyper-colonial period. What emerges is Tianjin's simultaneous tendency towards 'world-class-ness' and 'China-class-ness'. Two sets of questions will be explored: 1. What were the characteristics of Tianjin's place making in the period 1860-1945? To what extent have these features been reproduced by the recent process of urban regeneration? Was/Is there a 'model' for Tianjin? 2. Considering the official ultra-positive master narrative of urban regeneration, and the renaming and reclaiming process aimed at asserting a 'new'—'global' identity for Tianjin: Is there a substantial claim to 'world-class-ness'? Or is the cycle of commodification via aestheticisation of spatial forms a process of internal colonisation? Is this an inter-referential attempt to affirm Tianjin’s 'China-class-ness', capitalising on a selective rewriting of its past?

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Tags: hong kong, hong kong university, lecture, urban regeneration, tianjin

Lung Fu Shan Environmental Education Centre

countablyinfinite — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:18:52 PDT

To develop an appreciation of the natural and built environments through interactive learning experiences relating to: * Climate Change and Society * Heritage and ecological significance of Lung Fu Shan and Mid-Levels West

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Hong Kong Public Library Lectures and Exhibitions

countablyinfinite — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:14:53 PDT

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Reflections on user experience: Social capital in online social networks

countablyinfinite — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:49:09 PDT

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Tags: socialcapital, socialnetwork, online, facebook, socialscience, academic

Reflections on user experience: Structural Holes and online social networks

countablyinfinite — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:48:29 PDT

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Tags: socialnetwork, socialcapital, structuralholes, theory, communication, facebook, academia

Unit Structures: Social Network Transitions

countablyinfinite — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:19:40 PDT

Differentiating ego-centered and object-centered social networks.

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equinux - Website

countablyinfinite — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:02:04 PDT

How to configure parallels Desktop and VPN Tracker 5

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DigiTunnel PPTP VPN client for Mac OS X

countablyinfinite — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:59:34 PDT

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Many Eyes

countablyinfinite — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:25:32 PDT

IBM application for visualizations with dynamic data.

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Tags: viz, visualizations, ibm, software, data, data visualization, graphing, infographics

The COMsumer manifesto: Empowering communities of consumers through the Internet

countablyinfinite — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:24:29 PDT

"In this new world, communities sense needs, desires, and wishes for the future and create new data markets - to which organizations must respond or die". An older article with some terrible terminology and capitalization, but a good time-capsule read?

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Tags: communities, onlinecommunities, empowered consumers, marketing, cluetrain, marketconversations

The Augmented Social Network

countablyinfinite — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:12:49 PDT

Crazy idea - could this be a "deeper" thing that could be aided by openID?

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Tags: privacy, identity, security, socialnetwork

REGIONAL» Blog Archive » Self-portraiture and emerging artistic consciousness in Dafen

countablyinfinite — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:12:31 PDT

Something about this makes me feel like an imposter at life.

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Tags: portraiture, art, dafen, china, factorypainting, self-portrait, chinese, artists, talent

Bookwinked into Bed :: tyeebooks.ca

countablyinfinite — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:37:00 PDT

It's funny because it's true!

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Cover story: 'China's new intelligentsia' by Mark Leonard | Prospect Magazine March 2008 issue 144

countablyinfinite — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:22:48 PDT

"One of the most surprising features of Chinese intellectual life is the way that "democracy" intellectuals who demanded elections in the 1980s and 1990s have changed their positions on political reform."

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ScribeMedia.Org » Mary Lou Jepsen at Greener Gadgets: XO Laptop Keynote

countablyinfinite — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:47:11 PDT

The full lecture from the designer of the XO Laptop. She is absolutely inspirational. "If people say it's impossible, it's a compliment."

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Tags: laptop, xolaptop, green, science, hardware, software, electricalengineering, sustainability

Entrepreneurs require some failure to succeed - An Interview with Martin Dufort from Kakiloc » Billions With Zero Knowledge

countablyinfinite — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:34:01 PDT

Passing on the hard-earned wisdom

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Tags: entrepreneurship, failure, venturecapital, technology, mobile, socialnetwork, canada, canadianstartup

MatthewGood.org » Al Gore On Climate Change

countablyinfinite — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:46:30 PDT

I think I know the lineage of "HeroCamp"

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MobHappy » Blog Archive » Dead Happy

countablyinfinite — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:18:23 PDT

Digital things mean we never have to move on.

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Tags: death, life, reminders, memory, digital, voice

A Truth Teller: Professional Curiosity: Death, Weddings, and Truth

countablyinfinite — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:00:48 PDT

I am feeling a marked lack of ritual in my life.

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Tags: death, weddings, truth, life, transitions, depth, import

MindNode » Frequently Asked Questions

countablyinfinite — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:27:49 PDT

No new mind-map love for me until I get Leopard. 'till then, it's Freemind all the way.

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little. yellow. different. – Dear Google Maps: Your public transportation options mock me

countablyinfinite — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:05:20 PDT

Reminds me of the trip from GM place to 1 Alexander.

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Tags: googlemaps, googletransit, transit, publictransit, google, tripplanning

International Youth Summit on Sustainable Urban Transportation - Transport Canada

countablyinfinite — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:08:40 PDT

...but did they leave *empowered*?

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Leading Organic Products Found To Have Carcinogenic Contaminants. | The Good Human

countablyinfinite — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:13:51 PDT

That's really irritating, I just went shopping last week and bought some of the stuff on this list. At some point I wonder if it's just going too far to even care, when the misleading marketing is out to get you too.

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Millionaire Mommy Next Door: How To Avoid One of the Most Common Mistakes Women Make When Starting a Business

countablyinfinite — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:52:16 PDT

My friend Sacha is already walking down this path. "...you must realize that doing things you hate (or simply endure) isn't a given." Runs counter to my instinct, certainly.

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Tags: entrepeneur, women, success, outsourcing, growth

TTC Union: the Propaganda Way

countablyinfinite — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:58:15 PDT

This thread needs to be moved to Metronauts, tracked and learned from. STAT

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