Navigating Taobao villages: platform-led urbanization in Rural China

Sofia Leoni discusses her current doctoral research, which aims at spatially examining the emergence of e-commerce
platforms in some rural areas in China, taking the “Taobao Rural initiative” as the main case study.

The presentation will be discussed with the China Room fellow Astrid Safina, and the PhD Candidates Lidia Preti and Hanqing Zhao.

Event curated by Camilla Forina and Leonardo Ramondetti.