In the corner of the city

Author: Zheng Yefu
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Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: Hegel said, "The owl of Minerva only takes flight at dusk." China's contemporary urbanization movement has already entered its second decade, and it is time to record its history. As local scholars, we have received more stimuli from social life and bear greater responsibilities for our homeland. Our society and urban life are undergoing tremendous changes, even to the point of making us feel unfamiliar, and people have a desire to understand their surroundings. The work of me and my classmates is to recognize and reveal this transformed city. When guiding students to conduct such surveys, my advice is: do not engage in cheap criticism. It is not because the criticism is wrong, but because anyone can do it. Since anyone can do it, academics should leave it to others and choose more challenging tasks for themselves. That is to understand the complexity of the context. This book includes over forty articles such as "Street Fortune-Tellers," "Survey on Bicycle Repair Industry," and "Current Status of University Student Apartments," covering various focal issues such as gray jobs, rental housing, extracurricular education, and urban new corners.