Chinese Projects are divided into 2 parts: three projects in Shanghai and one in Beijing. Shanghai, an international city with Osaka City, covers a main part of the joint research.
Beijing Sub-center, located in the Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, examines cities in Japan and China by focusing on cultures, geography, and the history. A lot of faculty, graduate students, and resident researchers work on the research in Shanghai Sub-center, located at East China Normal University, which has become a vibrant office.
The projects promoted at Shanghai sub-center are collaborative projects with three departments in East China Normal University.
The first project is a collaboration with the Humanities department. In this project, we have already had 4 international symposiums in Shanghai and in Osaka and 3 publications. This year we are planning to have a meeting for the study of “The comparison of the maldistribution of intellectuals in the modern age and in the pre-modern age."
The second project is a collaboration with the department of Education. Two international symposiums have been already held in Shanghai and one in Osaka; two publications also have come out. In this year, we will observe schools both in Osaka and in Shanghai to work on the curriculum in an integrated study and the process of making schools with special characteristics.
The third project is a collaboration with the department of Law and Political Science, researching “the history of urbanization and the current state and issues in city economics, society, and architecture." We have already held study meetings and published reports and books, besides newsletters distributed every two months. Shanghai Sub-center focuses on the observation of new immigrants’ settlements in the city, residents’ eviction from redeveloped areas, redevelopment states, and the renewal of new towns, by researching architecture and ecology in Shanghai today. UCRC focuses on slum environments, the transformation of condominiums, and the association of transformation between behavioral spaces and the building environment in Japanese society in Shanghai. We have scheduled two symposiums in Osaka about the “benefits and issues in urban development," one of which includes research achievements in Hong Kong

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