Sinocities
Andrew StokolsCities, China, Geopolitics, Technology, and everything in between. By: Andrew Stokols ; Phd, MIT Department of Urban Studies & Planning, Masters in Urban Planning, Harvard.
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Feng Shui: between spirituality and state legitimation
The concept of 风水 Feng shui or literally “wind and water” is a multifaceted spatial and spiritual practice in China, with a deep history. The term ‘Feng Shui’ was “first mentioned in the ‘Zang Jing’ (The Book of Burial), written during The...
China’s Data Center Boom: a view from Zhangjiakou
After a quick 40 min high speed rail trip from Beijing North Station, I step off the platform in the sleepy station of Donghuayuan Bei in Hebei’s Zhangjiakou. From the elevated platform I get a glimpse of the wind turbines dotting Guanting...
Visiting China During the Age of AI
AI Ads greet passengers at Beijing’s Capital Airport (Author, November 2025)
I landed in Beijing’s capital airport on a cold evening in October. Inside T3, which was completed just in time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, bright towering ill...
From Research Academy to State Venture Capitalist: The transformation of Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS, 中国科学院) was founded only one month after the founding of the PRC on November 1, 1949. It was created by merging several older institutes, including the Beiping Academy of Sciences (北平研究院, est 1928) with...
CIA maps reveal the legacy of the planned economy in Chinese cities
Inset of map of Guangzhou 1984
The Chinese city in the planned economy
One assumption of those interested in Chinese cities is that between the end of the Chinese Civil War and the the Reform and Opening up period (from 1949 to about...
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Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Singapore Management University; research affiliate at MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Writing about cities, China/SE Asia, geopolitics, future cities and architecture.
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