Caroline is an urban explorer and Honorary Professor, Geography, Queen Mary University of London, author of Uneasy Streets: How Chinese Money is Remaking Urban Britain (Hurst 2026), Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London (Random House Penguin 2022) and Flip-Flop: a journey through globalisation’s backroads (Pluto Press 2014).

Chinese lessons
In her new book, Uneasy Streets sociologist, Caroline Knowles, points out the marks made on British society by Chinese money while Britain’s understanding of the superpower remains scant. She shares


