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SUMMARY:Uneasy Streets: How Chinese Money Is Remaking Urban Britain - Car
 oline Knowles [Manchester/online]
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DESCRIPTION:This talk explores Chinese investment and its impact on Briti
 sh cities.\n\nHosted by the Manchester China Institute and the Centre on
  the Dynamics of Ethnicity\, this event will be a book launch of Uneasy 
 Streets: How Chinese Money Is Remaking Urban Britain by Caroline Knowles
 \, with remarks by Amy Y. Zhang. The event will be followed by a recepti
 on and opportunity to meet the author.\n\nAt the high tide of UK–China r
 elations\, Chinese investors pumped billions into British property and p
 rojects each year\, promising urban renewal and economic prosperity. But
  as political tides turned in both countries\, the money dried up. A dec
 ade on\, we live in the ruins of this ‘golden era’.\n\nCaroline Knowles 
 explores China’s global influence from the bottom up. Focusing on London
  and Manchester\, she contrasts Beijing’s grand claims with the ramshack
 le physical evidence she finds at street level: a series of half-finishe
 d buildings and abandoned holes in the ground. And this isn’t just a Bri
 tish phenomenon. All along the continent-spanning Belt and Road network\
 , Chinese-funded cities are patchworks of incompleteness\, the products 
 of relentlessly profit-driven urbanism that puts people last.\n\nCombini
 ng urban observation with sharp commentary\, interviewing property devel
 opers\, Chinese migrants and other city-dwellers\, Knowles paints an int
 imate\, nuanced portrait.
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TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Alistair Ulph Boardroom\, Arthur Lewis Building\, Manchester
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