Reply To: 1. Tue 12 Jan: Finale and new beginning

Current debates 2015 01 12

Yu Wang
wytt2002@sina.com

1, Christina’s thesis topic is “ Peace Park and transfrontier nature conservation in South Africa: The case of the Great Lompopo Transfrontier Park”
Peace Park is a new and also interesting concept for me as a Chinese student. I mean, the concept of “Peace Park ” as an idea is more about the nice imagination about humans future with nature which is not only for Africa but also full of meaning for other countries in the world.
In Christina’s thesis plan, she will use the Great Lompopo Transfrontier Park that corsss Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Afica as one of her major case, together with some other cases as a whole to be the funderment of the whole thesis. In order to explain she focus on the history of peace and conflict, even try to analyse the land ownership between public and private which from law perspective.

2, Nisa Dedic “ The experience of a socialist urban plan- a class-based perspective”
As we know that Nisa Dedic comes from a socialist town in Slovenia which was created in 1940 as a government project. I come from China that had similer political system with Slovenia before. This is why I could easily understand what Nisa wants to express on her thesis. My home town which located in Northwest of China was set up as the similar reason like Nisa’s hometown in Slovenia.
Nisa’s aim on her thesis is analisy how big influence a city would get from different social background people.
Maxism, social construction will be used as theories and method on her study. She is also consider to interview different people from Slovenia as one of her method.

YongLiang Gao He will conduct a researsh on migrant rural worker’s happiness in Changsha city which is in south of China. Gao just change his theis no more than two weeks before the seminer. So that he couln’t give a clearly explian on research aim, method and theory he will use on his thesis later, But I still have strong interesting on it.

YongLiang Gao He will conduct a researsh on migrant rural worker’s happiness in Changsha city which is in south of China. Gao just change his theis no more than two weeks before the seminer. So that he couln’t give a clearly explian on research aim, method and theory he will use on his thesis later, But I still have strong interesting on it. Some of my classmates have asked Gao questiones about his questionnaire. Through those questions I could find how different reactions towards to the same question depend on different culture and background. I would like to suggest Gao to add some more information as introduction in order to help the readers who may come from out of China could easily grab his point. For example, Gao need explain the reason why he choose to focus on Happiness. Also, definite what is happiness. Does Chinese people share the same idea about happiness with Swedish or even Western people, if not, what is the difference, what is the reason to result in the different idea about happiness. Beside, Gao need to exlain what is migrant rural worker in China. The reason I ask here is because the migrant rural worker has huge population in China, and has to be an important role to reflect a lot of social contradictions in China. Such as HuKou which refers to warfare system. HuKou is typical belong to Chinese style, which is not ease to let others understand. But if Gao want to analsy the migrant rural worker’s happiness, he has to find a way to explain the different social system in China today. Otherwise some readers may not understand the relationship between his topic “ Happy” with his questionnaire about education, income, housing and so on.
Also, Gao has to be careful about different culture. For example, I have deep impression about a question Gao was asked during seminal that if Chinese will feel uncomfortable be asked about their income. This question reveal how different idea we have as Chinese with Swedish.