Guan Min (MDes CC’17) was awarded a winter grant by the Harvard University Asia Center to support his research project, Field Research in Anhui: Towards a New Geography. The research used Anhui province as a case study, the eastern region of China adjacent to the Yangtze River Delta economic zone. Based on Neil Brenner’s planetary urbanization theory, Min’s research tried to untangle the relationship between the blossoming rural tourism market and the urbanization process, exposing how the capital investments flowing into the rural tourism industry formed a new geography in China’s countryside and how the new business affected the local residents and identity.
