Pukyong National University

You criss-crossed southern cities of China with only your mobile phone?
『Southern Cities of China』, eye-catching book written by Professor Lee Jung-hee of Pukyong National University

A university professor who has been studying modern China for nearly 30 years, attracts attention with a record of traveling with only mobile phone for five months in southern cities of China.

Recently, professor Lee Jung-hee (Department of Chinese Studies) Pukyong National University published a book entitled "Traveling to Southern Cities of China" (published by Sanjini publication).

△ Professor Lee Jung-hee. ⓒPhoto by Lee Sung-jae (PR team)

The author stayed in Zhuhai city of Guangdong province in China for five months starting from September 2017, researching the 30 cities in southern China. Especially, he got travel information using various mobile apps such as Mafengwo and CTrip without any guide or guidebook. It is also easy to make a moving line because it can accurately predict the travel times.

During the trip, the author came to an accommodation booked with the mobile app and when the Wi-Fi was connected, he left a record of the day with photos and text on his mobile phone.

Impressions and beautiful photos about hotels and restaurants that you visited in a travel spots do not appear. Instead, it is a travel guide that gives a feeling of happiness that is accompanied by a social scientist who well knows about the social and economic fields of China, guides through unfamiliar southern Chinese cities.

"The southern cities that I visited with only my mobile phone were amazingly evolving in the mobile revolution, the consumer revolution, and the transportation revolution.", he said. "I hope that everyone who reads this book will have the opportunity to broaden their mental visions while traveling in the same cities just with a mobile phone."

Meanwhile, the author majored in business administration at Yonsei University and received a master's and doctoral degrees in sociology at Brown University in the United States. He stayed in Beijing and Zhuhai as a visiting scholar at Beijing University, the Renmin University of China, and Zhongshan University. He has visited China several times for 25 years and has been conducting research. He also wrote books on 『China's Consumption of the Pacific Rim』, 『Modern Chinese Society』, and 『Understanding of Modern China』. <Pukyong Today>


△ The Book, 『Traveling to Southern Cities of China with Mobile phone Only』