Xiangming Chen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3675397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xiangming Chen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xiangming |
| FAMILY NAME | Chen |
| SIGNATURE | CHEN X |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2571-3539 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 186 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Zone, city, border, corridor: Recombined territoriality, infrastructural coupling, and geoeconomic regionalization across the China‐Laos nexus and beyond
Through its growing impact on different scales, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has shaped the recombination of such territorial elements as cities and borders, with transformative consequences for place‐making and regional development. This impact has become especially visible across a number of hitherto relatively peripheral and largely unconnected localities and livelihoods that have received connective projects via infrastructural coup…
A (Long) Tale of Two Leaders: Charting the Spatial and Sectoral Roles of the West and China in Shaping Past, Present and Future Economic Globalization(s)
Globalization has run into two intersected momentous shifts over the past decade. One is an accelerating retreat in the Western-led economic globalization. The other is the continued surge of China as a leader of alternative economic globalization, via the Belt and Road Initiative. These two powerful trends are complicated by COVID-19 and the Ukraine war with their disruptions of global geopolitics, plus a potential technological decoupling betwe…
How did teachers learn in boundary-crossing lesson study in a Chinese secondary school
Most of current Chinese teachers’ in-service learning takes place in two modes: listening to experts’ lectures, and sharing experiences among peers. How a boundary-crossing learning context can be created so as to inspire teachers’ deep reflection on their mindsets and change their routine behaviour remains a challenge. This paper explores how the teachers in a Chinese secondary school learned in a boundary-crossing lesson study with the support …
Research-practice partnerships (RPPs) through lesson and learning studies in Asia: Moving beyond steps to support transformation of practices
(2022). Research-practice partnerships (RPPs) through lesson and learning studies in Asia: moving beyond steps to support transformation of practices. Asia Pacific Journal of Education: Vol. 42, Research-Practice Partnerships in Asia: Bridging the Gap through Lesson Study, pp. 1-12
The draw of hometown: Understanding rural teachers’ mobility in Southwest China
This two-year study explores the sociocultural factors for the mobility decisions and trajectories of 7 rural teachers in southwest China. It finds that those who teach outside their home regions tend to make efforts to return to their hometown in order to gain a sense of belonging, in addition to pursuing better working and living conditions. Several factors, such as lack of a sense of belonging, linking personal success to their family, and fil…
A tale of two recoveries: Uncovering the imbalance between state-driven production and private consumption in post-pandemic Wuhan, China
The world’s first epicentre of Covid-19 that contained the virus early and recovered quickly, Wuhan, the capital city of China’s Hubei province, offers a rare case for examining the effective but unbalanced role of the Chinese state in recovering a post-Covid city against a continued zero-Covid policy. Due to institutional inertia in policy-making, Wuhan has experienced a two-track recovery of (i) rapid GDP growth from infrastructure investment f…
What Is in a Rim: Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea
The Belt and Road Initiative as Epochal Regionalisation
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched by China in 2013, carries and projects powerful regional dimensions and transformations, with short- and long-term global, national and local consequences. The BRI’s regional significance lies in its designation and creation of several cross-border corridors that originate from inside China and extend out into its neighbouring countries, and those farther afield in Asia, Africa and Europe. Through driv…
Reconnecting Eurasia: A new logistics state, the China–Europe freight train, and the resurging ancient city of Xi’an
Large-scale transport systems project expansive geographical reach via far-reaching connectivity and spillovers. This phenomenon, however, is understudied for its impact on economic and spatial relations across geographic scales and economic domains and the mechanism carrying and transmitting that impact. Despite its short existence, the China–Europe Freight Train (CEFT) has already created a long geographical reach and major impact on the transp…
Shanghai
Shanghai's rise and transformations over the past 25 years have fascinated and intrigued the world. Many looking at Shanghai outside China accept the word “rise” as capturing the city's post‐1990 trajectory. Shanghai is also seen as a new global city that may soon rival Hong Kong and even London and New York in the future, although it was already one of the world's largest and most cosmopolitan cities in the 1920s. This entry suggests understandi…
Globalisation redux: Can China’s inside-out strategy catalyse economic development and integration across its Asian borderlands and beyond
As the narrative of globalisation in crisis heats up, China has stepped up as a new champion of globalisation with its ‘Belt and Road Initiative’. This article repositions ‘China in the Global South’ to the front and centre of the globalisation discourse. Through a triangular framework, I differentiate and reconnect the three ‘master’ processes of urbanisation, development and globalisation to understand the inside-outside connections between Chi…
Re-centering Central Asia: China’s “New Great Game” in the old Eurasian Heartland
China’s President Xi Jinping’s Central Asian tour in fall 2013 marked Beijing’s unprecedented (re)turn to Central Asia as a lynchpin of the “Silk Road Economic Belt” of the globally ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). China’s BRI positions Central Asia as the crucial nexus for the cross-regional long-distance loops of trade, investment, and infrastructure development. By revisiting the classical geopolitical theory about the original Eurasi…
Challenges and Strategies of Teaching Qualitative Research in China
Teaching qualitative research (QR) in China is challenging due to its short and scattered history with a Western origin and complicated domestic sociopolitical context. This article introduces two strategies that have been developed to address these challenges: pedagogy of unity of knowing and doing (zhi xing he yi知行合一), and practical reasoning (shi jian li xing实践理性). These strategies resonate with the Chinese cultural beliefs of learning by doin…
Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai
Modernity and Globalization: The Local and Global Sources of Individualistic and Materialistic Values in Shanghai
Sociological research has arrived at an intellectual crossroad where it faces the challenge of understanding how the dynamics of globalization have joined the forces of modernization in inducing social change. In this paper, using a survey conducted in Pudong, Shanghai, in 2001, which had captured conditions of the area's rapid transformations in a globalizing city, first, we have uncovered two distinctive dimensions of individualistic vs. materi…
Shaping cities of the global south: Legal histories of planning and colonialism
As we look back around the world over the last 30 years or so, fewer developments have had more transformative consequences globally and locally, especially in the global south, than the coupling of accelerated globalization and urban growth. While many cities of the global south such as those in India and Africa have been growing rapidly, they do not measure up to the speed and scale at which China's cities have exploded to massive proportions w…
Living in in-between spaces: A structure-agency analysis of the India–China and India–Bangladesh borderlands
Rethinking Global Urbanism: Comparative Insights from Secondary Cities
Preface Tim Bunnell and James D. Sidaway. Introduction: Bringing the Less Familiar Cities In and Together Ahmed Kanna and Xiangming Chen Part I: Urban Present and Past: How Culture, History, and Politics Shape Secondary Global and Local Cityscapes 1. Competitive Globalization and Urban Change: The Allure of Cultural Strategies Sharon Zukin 2. The Trajectories of Two Tigers: The Colonial Roots of Capitalism in Dubai and Singapore Ahmed Kanna 3. Sh…
Research Note—The "Instant City" Coming of Age: Production of Spaces in China's Shenzhen Special Economic Zone
Shenzhen, China's first special economic zone (SEZ), not only heralds the essence and evolution of the PRC's earlier domestic reform and global integration, but also demonstrates how urban spaces are rapidly produced in a socialist economy undergoing market transformation. This note identifies three such spaces: an economic space of globalization; a social space of exclusion and contestation; and a political space of governance
Introduction: Why Chinese and Indian Megacities
The rise of China and India to global economic powers has become a familiar story and remains a dominant headline, which intrigues scholars, journalists, and policymakers everywhere to ponder its wide and deep implications. Somewhat less known, however, is the phenomenon that the boom of China and India is symbolized and driven by their key megacities such as Shanghai and Mumbai. Even less understood is how Chinese and Indian megacities have tran…
Localizing the Production of Global Cities: A Comparison of New Town Developments around Shanghai and Kolkata
This article investigates the role played by the state in the production and management of urban space vis–à–vis global agents of change. the proliferation of new towns and special economic zones as urban restructuring strategies in rapidly developing countries like China and India are receiving much attention from the scholarly community, documenting and interrogating urban transitions from centralized planning to more participatory and often pr…
A Tale of Two Regions in China: Rapid Economic Development and Slow Industrial Upgrading in the Pearl River and the Yangtze River Deltas
The study of regions has been undergoing an intellectual `renaissance', resulting in a growing literature on the renewed importance and dynamics of varied forms of regions and regionalism (see Amin, 1999; Lovering, 1999; MacLeod, 2001). However, insufficient research has been devoted to the `crucial middle' role of regions in bridging and integrating global, national, and local economies. This role also turns regions into highly contested terrain…
Untangling a Global-Local Nexus: Sorting Out Residential Sorting in Shanghai
The local 'touchdown' of globalization gives rise to many complex global-local nexuses, and understanding their nature, structure, and consequences presents a major analytical challenge for globalization research. This paper attempts to untangle one global-local nexus by examining the 'sorting' of people into residential or neighborhood spaces in globalizing Shanghai as a function of individual demographic and socioeconomic attributes and by exam…
Sociological Perspectives on Urban China: From Familiar Territories to Complex Terrains
This article provides an integrated review of sociological perspectives and research on seven areas of inquiry regarding change and continuity in urban China over the past two decades or so. We begin with an assessment of the sociological literature on stratification and inequality in light of the state-market debate and its extensions. Then we evaluate the research on social networks as a resilient resource that can influence social stratificati…
Personal Global Connections and New Residential Differentiation in Shanghai
A Tale of Two Regions in China: Rapid Economic Development and Slow Industrial Upgrading in the Pearl River and the Yangtze River Deltas
The study of regions has been undergoing an intellectual `renaissance', resulting in a growing literature on the renewed importance and dynamics of varied forms of regions and regionalism (see Amin, 1999; Lovering, 1999; MacLeod, 2001). However, insufficient research has been devoted to the `crucial middle' role of regions in bridging and integrating global, national, and local economies. This role also turns regions into highly contested terrain…
The One-Child Population Policy, Modernization, and the Extended Chinese Family
This article examines structural social-psychological and ecological factors affecting the direction and types of changes occuring in the Chinese family and concludes that multiple demographic and socioeconomic influences and the families adaptive responses are creating conditions in China for the traditional household arrangement to survive while generating new variants of family organization. The 1-child population policy and the general modern…
China's Urban Housing Development in the Shift from Redistribution to Decentralization
This paper examines the influence of economic and housing reforms on urban housing development in China during the early transition from central state redistribution to administrative and fiscal decentralization. In socialist redistributive economies, the central state historically favored production investment at the expense of housing investment, monopolized the limited urban housing investment through administrative planning, and allocated urb…
Population aging in the People's Republic of China
Globalisation redux: Can China’s inside-out strategy catalyse economic development and integration across its Asian borderlands and beyond
As the narrative of globalisation in crisis heats up, China has stepped up as a new champion of globalisation with its ‘Belt and Road Initiative’. This article repositions ‘China in the Global South’ to the front and centre of the globalisation discourse. Through a triangular framework, I differentiate and reconnect the three ‘master’ processes of urbanisation, development and globalisation to understand the inside-outside connections between Chi…
Re-centering Central Asia: China’s “New Great Game” in the old Eurasian Heartland
China’s President Xi Jinping’s Central Asian tour in fall 2013 marked Beijing’s unprecedented (re)turn to Central Asia as a lynchpin of the “Silk Road Economic Belt” of the globally ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). China’s BRI positions Central Asia as the crucial nexus for the cross-regional long-distance loops of trade, investment, and infrastructure development. By revisiting the classical geopolitical theory about the original Eurasi…
Both glue and lubricant: Transnational ethnic social capital as a source of Asia-Pacific subregionalism
The Evolution of Free Economic Zones and the Recent Development of Cross-National Growth Zones
Localizing the Production of Global Cities: A Comparison of New Town Developments around Shanghai and Kolkata
This article investigates the role played by the state in the production and management of urban space vis–à–vis global agents of change. the proliferation of new towns and special economic zones as urban restructuring strategies in rapidly developing countries like China and India are receiving much attention from the scholarly community, documenting and interrogating urban transitions from centralized planning to more participatory and often pr…
China's City Hierarchy, Urban Policy and Spatial Development in the 1980s
Cities play an important role in population distribution and economic development. Policies which alter city systems can create new patterns of spatial economic development. This paper, using the most recent data, examines changes in China's city hierarchy, urban policy and spatial development in the 1980s in international, national and local contexts. The time series data show that the process of urbanisation had been gradual between 1949 and th…
Research Note—The "Instant City" Coming of Age: Production of Spaces in China's Shenzhen Special Economic Zone
Shenzhen, China's first special economic zone (SEZ), not only heralds the essence and evolution of the PRC's earlier domestic reform and global integration, but also demonstrates how urban spaces are rapidly produced in a socialist economy undergoing market transformation. This note identifies three such spaces: an economic space of globalization; a social space of exclusion and contestation; and a political space of governance
Sociological Perspectives on Urban China: From Familiar Territories to Complex Terrains
This article provides an integrated review of sociological perspectives and research on seven areas of inquiry regarding change and continuity in urban China over the past two decades or so. We begin with an assessment of the sociological literature on stratification and inequality in light of the state-market debate and its extensions. Then we evaluate the research on social networks as a resilient resource that can influence social stratificati…
Challenges and Strategies of Teaching Qualitative Research in China
Teaching qualitative research (QR) in China is challenging due to its short and scattered history with a Western origin and complicated domestic sociopolitical context. This article introduces two strategies that have been developed to address these challenges: pedagogy of unity of knowing and doing (zhi xing he yi知行合一), and practical reasoning (shi jian li xing实践理性). These strategies resonate with the Chinese cultural beliefs of learning by doin…
The Belt and Road Initiative as Epochal Regionalisation
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched by China in 2013, carries and projects powerful regional dimensions and transformations, with short- and long-term global, national and local consequences. The BRI’s regional significance lies in its designation and creation of several cross-border corridors that originate from inside China and extend out into its neighbouring countries, and those farther afield in Asia, Africa and Europe. Through driv…
Living in in-between spaces: A structure-agency analysis of the India–China and India–Bangladesh borderlands
Reconnecting Eurasia: A new logistics state, the China–Europe freight train, and the resurging ancient city of Xi’an
Large-scale transport systems project expansive geographical reach via far-reaching connectivity and spillovers. This phenomenon, however, is understudied for its impact on economic and spatial relations across geographic scales and economic domains and the mechanism carrying and transmitting that impact. Despite its short existence, the China–Europe Freight Train (CEFT) has already created a long geographical reach and major impact on the transp…
Untangling a Global-Local Nexus: Sorting Out Residential Sorting in Shanghai
The local 'touchdown' of globalization gives rise to many complex global-local nexuses, and understanding their nature, structure, and consequences presents a major analytical challenge for globalization research. This paper attempts to untangle one global-local nexus by examining the 'sorting' of people into residential or neighborhood spaces in globalizing Shanghai as a function of individual demographic and socioeconomic attributes and by exam…
The demographic profiles of the world's largest cities
The changing roles of free economic zones in development: A comparative analysis of capitalist and socialist cases in East Asia
A tale of two recoveries: Uncovering the imbalance between state-driven production and private consumption in post-pandemic Wuhan, China
The world’s first epicentre of Covid-19 that contained the virus early and recovered quickly, Wuhan, the capital city of China’s Hubei province, offers a rare case for examining the effective but unbalanced role of the Chinese state in recovering a post-Covid city against a continued zero-Covid policy. Due to institutional inertia in policy-making, Wuhan has experienced a two-track recovery of (i) rapid GDP growth from infrastructure investment f…
Modernity and Globalization: The Local and Global Sources of Individualistic and Materialistic Values in Shanghai
Sociological research has arrived at an intellectual crossroad where it faces the challenge of understanding how the dynamics of globalization have joined the forces of modernization in inducing social change. In this paper, using a survey conducted in Pudong, Shanghai, in 2001, which had captured conditions of the area's rapid transformations in a globalizing city, first, we have uncovered two distinctive dimensions of individualistic vs. materi…
Taiwan Investments in China and Southeast Asia: Go West, but Also Go South
Research Article| May 01 1996 Taiwan Investments in China and Southeast Asia: "Go West, but Also Go South" Xiangming Chen Xiangming Chen Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1996) 36 (5): 447–467. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645493 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon…
Disaster Tradition and Change: Remarriage and Family Reconstruction in a Post-Earthquake Community in the People's Republic of China
On July 28 1976 a devastating earthquake struck the Chinese city of Tangshan killing over 200000 and injuring more than 160000 people. Following this disaster researchers...began studying the reconstruction of the survivors families through rapid and extensive remarriage....This paper presents perspectives and evidence on why so many remarriages occurred in a society where remarriage was traditionally considered a violation of established norms. …
Long Lives: Chinese Elderly and the Communist Revolution
The One-Child Population Policy, Modernization, and the Extended Chinese Family
This article examines structural social-psychological and ecological factors affecting the direction and types of changes occuring in the Chinese family and concludes that multiple demographic and socioeconomic influences and the families adaptive responses are creating conditions in China for the traditional household arrangement to survive while generating new variants of family organization. The 1-child population policy and the general modern…
Population aging in the People's Republic of China
China's One-Child Family Policy
Ethnicity and the Economy: The State, Chinese Business, and Multinationals in Malaysia
China's City Hierarchy, Urban Policy and Spatial Development in the 1980s
Cities play an important role in population distribution and economic development. Policies which alter city systems can create new patterns of spatial economic development. This paper, using the most recent data, examines changes in China's city hierarchy, urban policy and spatial development in the 1980s in international, national and local contexts. The time series data show that the process of urbanisation had been gradual between 1949 and th…
Disaster Tradition and Change: Remarriage and Family Reconstruction in a Post-Earthquake Community in the People's Republic of China
On July 28 1976 a devastating earthquake struck the Chinese city of Tangshan killing over 200000 and injuring more than 160000 people. Following this disaster researchers...began studying the reconstruction of the survivors families through rapid and extensive remarriage....This paper presents perspectives and evidence on why so many remarriages occurred in a society where remarriage was traditionally considered a violation of established norms. …
Urban Economic Reform and Public-Housing Investment in China
The authors examine the characteristics and determinants of urban public-housing investment in the People's Republic of China. After discussing the characteristics of the state-controlled urban housing sector through the 1970s and the market-oriented reform in the 1980s to commodity urban housing, they use regression analysis to estimate the effects of several factors on urban public-housing investment in 1984 and 1987. The role of the state in h…
China's Urban Housing Development in the Shift from Redistribution to Decentralization
This paper examines the influence of economic and housing reforms on urban housing development in China during the early transition from central state redistribution to administrative and fiscal decentralization. In socialist redistributive economies, the central state historically favored production investment at the expense of housing investment, monopolized the limited urban housing investment through administrative planning, and allocated urb…
The changing roles of free economic zones in development: A comparative analysis of capitalist and socialist cases in East Asia
The Evolution of Free Economic Zones and the Recent Development of Cross-National Growth Zones
The demographic profiles of the world's largest cities
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Taiwan Investments in China and Southeast Asia: Go West, but Also Go South
Research Article| May 01 1996 Taiwan Investments in China and Southeast Asia: "Go West, but Also Go South" Xiangming Chen Xiangming Chen Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1996) 36 (5): 447–467. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645493 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon…
The Dynamics of Urban Growth in Three Chinese Cities
Teamwork in China: Where Reality Challenges Theory and Practice 1
This chapter examines theoretical and conceptual issues concerning teamwork in China. We discuss the increasing importance of teamwork in China’s business organizations and its relationship to the changing Chinese culture and economic environment. By placing teamwork in China in a cross-cultural context, we develop a conceptual model and associated propositions describing how individual attitudes and values influence teamwork. These keywords were…
Both glue and lubricant: Transnational ethnic social capital as a source of Asia-Pacific subregionalism
The Dynamics of Urban Growth in Three Chinese Cities
Why Wang Xiaogang Does Not Go to School: A Case Study of One Student Who Dropped Out
The "Study into the Repeating of Elementary Education and Dropping Out of School in Poor Provinces in China" is a technical aid project in the World Bank's overall financial aid plan to alleviate poverty in China. Since this project relates to six Chinese provinces, and in order to coordinate the project at the national level, Beijing University's "Repeating or Dropping Out of School Investigative Unit" was responsible for the overall project des…
Personal Global Connections and New Residential Differentiation in Shanghai
Sociological Perspectives on Urban China: From Familiar Territories to Complex Terrains
This article provides an integrated review of sociological perspectives and research on seven areas of inquiry regarding change and continuity in urban China over the past two decades or so. We begin with an assessment of the sociological literature on stratification and inequality in light of the state-market debate and its extensions. Then we evaluate the research on social networks as a resilient resource that can influence social stratificati…
A Tale of Two Regions in China: Rapid Economic Development and Slow Industrial Upgrading in the Pearl River and the Yangtze River Deltas
The study of regions has been undergoing an intellectual `renaissance', resulting in a growing literature on the renewed importance and dynamics of varied forms of regions and regionalism (see Amin, 1999; Lovering, 1999; MacLeod, 2001). However, insufficient research has been devoted to the `crucial middle' role of regions in bridging and integrating global, national, and local economies. This role also turns regions into highly contested terrain…
Untangling a Global-Local Nexus: Sorting Out Residential Sorting in Shanghai
The local 'touchdown' of globalization gives rise to many complex global-local nexuses, and understanding their nature, structure, and consequences presents a major analytical challenge for globalization research. This paper attempts to untangle one global-local nexus by examining the 'sorting' of people into residential or neighborhood spaces in globalizing Shanghai as a function of individual demographic and socioeconomic attributes and by exam…
Introduction: Why Chinese and Indian Megacities
The rise of China and India to global economic powers has become a familiar story and remains a dominant headline, which intrigues scholars, journalists, and policymakers everywhere to ponder its wide and deep implications. Somewhat less known, however, is the phenomenon that the boom of China and India is symbolized and driven by their key megacities such as Shanghai and Mumbai. Even less understood is how Chinese and Indian megacities have tran…
Localizing the Production of Global Cities: A Comparison of New Town Developments around Shanghai and Kolkata
This article investigates the role played by the state in the production and management of urban space vis–à–vis global agents of change. the proliferation of new towns and special economic zones as urban restructuring strategies in rapidly developing countries like China and India are receiving much attention from the scholarly community, documenting and interrogating urban transitions from centralized planning to more participatory and often pr…
Political science (34 works) · Geography (27 works) · Economics (25 works) · China (24 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Economic geography (18 works) · Economic growth (17 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (15 works) · Development economics (11 works) · Economy (11 works)