Dr Mei Zhang
BA (Peking University), PhD (Cambridge)
School of East Asian Studies
Lecturer in Chinese Studies
Full contact details
School of East Asian Studies
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
91Ö±²¥
S3 7RA
- Research interests
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Having worked in a number of multidisciplinary research environments in Beijing, Cambridge, Stuttgart and 91Ö±²¥, Dr Zhang’s research interests lie mainly in two themes: globalisation and its impact on rural-urban migration, rural development and urbanisation in China; and cultural, environmental and sustainable development.
Following her PhD work in Cambridge, Dr. Zhang has systematically studied the growth of the post-1978 Chinese economy, especially focusing on rural development in China’s poor regions and the role of rural-urban migration in solving rural poverty during the process of globalization.She has also examined the impacts of economic growth on environmental and cultural reservation, considering different cultural backgrounds.
Through a number of research projects funded by the European Commission and the British Academy, Dr Zhang has studied cross-cultural differences in urban comfort and sustainable development between China and UK, from social, economical and psychological viewpoints.
Based on a series of large scale surveys, quantitative and qualitative analyses have been made, including semantic differential analysis.
- Publications
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Books
- China’s Poor Regions. Rural-Urban Migration, Poverty, Economic Reform and Urbanization. London: Routledge Curzon.
Journal articles
- . Building and Environment, 230.
- . Frontiers in Psychology, 12.
- . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147(3), 1516-1530.
- . Applied Sciences, 10(4).
- . Sustainable Development, 26(6), 741-748.
- . Sustainability, 10(11).
- . Building and Environment, 142, 58-69.
- . Africa, 88(1), 11-37.
- . Applied Acoustics, 111, 188-197.
- . Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management, 24(1), 21-36.
- . Ergonomics, 59(2), 916-927.
- . Current Anthropology, 56, 92-93.
- . Sci Total Environ, 438, 517-526.
- Evaluation of acoustic characteristics of Chinese open-plan office environment. Shengxue Xuebao/Acta Acustica, 35(2), 179-184.
- Acoustic characteristics of open-plan offices in developing China. 39th International Congress on Noise Control Engineering 2010, INTER-NOISE 2010, 2, 1369-1375.
- . China Information, 24(2), 169-189.
- Subjective evaluation of urban environment: a case study in Beijing. INT J ENVIRON POLLUT, 39(1-2), 187-199.
- Towards the evaluation, description and creation of soundscape in urban open spaces. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 34(1), 68-86.
- . ENVIRON PLANN B, 34(1), 68-86.
- Soundscape animation of urban open spaces in an interactive virtual environment. 12th International Congress on Sound and Vibration 2005, ICSV 2005, 1, 129-136.
- . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115(5), 2497-2497.
- Acoustic simulation of urban squares. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress on Sound and Vibration, 1405-1412.
- . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 112(5), 2435-2435.
Chapters
- , Families, Intergenerationality, and Peer Group Relations (pp. 351-369). Springer Singapore
- , Families, Intergenerationality, and Peer Group Relations (pp. 1-19). Springer Singapore
- , Families, Intergenerationality, and Peer Group Relations (pp. 1-19). Springer Singapore
Conference proceedings papers
- Research group
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SEAS Research Cluster
Movement(s), Economy and Development in East Asia
Associated research groups, collaborators and projects
INTERSECTION: A cross-national research project about intergenerational justice, consumption and sustainability - Investigator
- Teaching activities
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EAS6271 Chinese Language 1
EAS6272 Chinese Language 2
EAS6273 Chinese Language 3
EAS6274 Chinese Language 4
Mei Zhang also coordinates the China Year Abroad