Everyday Heritage, Spatio-temporal Dynamics and Place-making: Rethinking the Social Production of London’s Chinatown on the Backdrop of COVID-19

PhD project title: Everyday Heritage, Spatio-temporal Dynamics and Place-making: Rethinking the Social Production of London’s Chinatown on the Backdrop of COVID-19

Research project lead: Xiao Ma

Project length: 2020–2024

Project overview 

This PhD project was funded by the Quintin Hogg Research Studentship. It investigated the cultural complexities of London’s Chinatown through critically examining the notion and practice of Chinatown heritage in global London. Through analysing how different Londoners create meanings about Chinatown, this PhD research challenged the homogenising portrait of Chinatown as a bounded urban space defined by fixed ethnic differences.

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