Kam Wing Chan

 

陳金永

 BA; MSc., Hong Kong
Ph.D, Toronto, 1988

Current Positions at University of Washington


Research Interests

  • Urban and economic geography; migration; labor market, urban finance; China.

 

Recent Major Grants and Contract Research

  • Consultant for McKinsey Global Institute, 2007-09, for a project entitled “Preparing for China’s Urban Billion.”
  • Consultant for the United Nations Population Division, 2007-08, research on internal migration in China and advice for World Urbanization Prospect projects.
  • Co-PI, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2005-08, for a research project on China’s urban administrative hierarchy and economic development.
  • Consultant for the World Bank, 1999-2001, and 2003-2005 for a research and policy project on urban development strategy in China (with China’s State Development and Reform Commission)
  • PI, National Science Foundation, 1997-2002, Collaborative research on "Recent Migration in China and the Impact of the Hukou System".
  • PI, Henry Luce Foundation, 1997-2002, research project: "Internal Migration in China: the Hukou System, Labor Market and Social Change"
  • Co-PI, Ford Foundation, 2000-2001, Chinese Public Policy Research Grant for a project on urban unemployment and migration in China.

 

Current Editorial Positions

·         Eurasian Geography and Economics, Co-Editor

·         The China Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China, Editorial Board

·         Journal of China in Comparative Perspective, Executive Editor

·         Asian Geographer, Editorial Board

 

 

Selected Publications

 

Books and Edited Volumes:

杨云彦、蔡昉、 陈金永 、王德文,  2004. 《城 市 就 业 与 劳 动 力 市 场 转 型》 中国统计出版社 (Yang Yunyan, Cai Fang, Kam Wing Chan, and Wang Dewen, 2004. Employment and Transition of Labor Market, Beijing: Chinese Statistical Press, 298 pp.）.

Chan, Kam Wing, Guest editor, 2003. Special Issue on Chinese Census 2000, The Chinese Review, 3(2), 197 pp.

Chan, Kam Wing, Guest editor, 1996. Special Issue on Internal Migration in China, Chinese Environment and Development, 7 (1 and 2), 173 pp.

Chan, Kam Wing, 1994. Cities with Invisible Walls: Reinterpreting Urbanization in Post-1949 China, Oxford University Press, 194 pp.

 

Recent Articles and Book Chapters:

Cai, Fang and Kam Wing Chan, 2009. “Global Recession and Unemployment in China,” Eurasian Geography and Economics, 50 (5), pp.513-531.

Chan, Kam Wing, 2009. “Population, Migration and the Lewis Turning Point in China,” in Cai Fang and Du Yang (eds.), The China Population and Labor Yearbook, Volume 1: The Approaching Lewis Turning Point and Its Policy Implications, Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, pp.xix-xli. (download chapter)

Chan, Kam Wing, 2009.  “Measuring the Urban Millions,” China Economic Quarterly, March, pp.21-26. (download paper)

Chan, Kam Wing, 2009. “The Chinese Hukou System at 50,” Eurasian Geography and Economics, 50 (2), pp.197-221 (download paper).

Chan, Kam Wing and Will Buckingham, 2008. “Is China Abolishing the Hukou System?” The China Quarterly, 195, pp.582-606 (download paper) (中文译文：陈金永 威尔·白金汉：“中国正在废除户口制度吗？”)

Chan, Kam Wing, Vernon Henderson, and Kai Yuen Tsui, 2008. “Spatial Dimensions of Chinese Economic Development,” in Thomas Rawski and Loren Brandt (eds.), China’s Great Transformation: Origins, Mechanisms, and Consequences of the Post-Reform Economic Boom, Cambridge University Press, pp.776-828 (中文译本: 《伟大的中国经济转型》)

Williams, Jack and Kam Wing Chan, 2008. "Cities of East Asia," in Stanley Brunn, Maureen Hays-Mitchell, and Donald Zeigler (eds.), Cities of the World: World Regional Urban Development, 4rd ed, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, pp.474-527 (download chapter).

Chan, Kam Wing and Man Wang, 2008. “Remapping China’s Regional Inequalities, 1990-2006: A New Assessment of de Facto and de Jure Population Data,” Eurasian Geography and Economics, 49(1), pp.21-56 (download paper).

Chan, Kam Wing, 2008. “Internal Labor Migration in China: Trends, Geographical Distribution and Policies,” Proceedings of United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Population Distribution, Urbanization, Internal Migration and Development, ESA/P/WP.206, United Nations, pp.93-122.

Wang, Enru and Kam Wing Chan, 2007. “Store Wars: Changing Retail Ownership in Beijing,” Eurasian Geography and Economics, 48(5), pp.573-602.

Chan, Kam Wing, 2007. “Misconceptions and Complexities in the Study of China’s Cities: Definitions, Statistics, and Implications,” Eurasian Geography and Economics, 48(4), pp.383-412. (download paper)

Bae, Christine and Kam Wing Chan, 2006.  “The Extended Pacific Rim: An Awakening Giant” in H.S. Geyer (ed.) Global Regionalization: Core Peripheral Trends, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp.113-162. (download chapter)

王恩儒、陈金永, 2005.“倾斜的分数线—中国大学录取条件的地区差异” (Wang, Enru and Kam Wing Chan 2005.  “Tilting Scoreline: Geographical Inequalities in Admission Scores to Higher Education in China,”) in Cai Fang and Zhang Zhanxin (eds.), Labor Market in China’s Transition, Beijing: China Population Publishing House, pp.237-266. (download paper)

苏红、陈金永, 2005. “土地征用与地方政府的行为” (Su Hong and Kam Wing Chan, 2005. Land Expropriation and Local Government Behavior), Hong Kong Baptist University, The Centre for China Urban and Regional Studies, Occasional Paper No.58, 24 pp. (download manuscript)

陈金永, 2004.“中国户籍制度改革和城乡人口迁移”《中国劳动经济》 (Chan, Kam Wing, 2004. “Chinese Hukou Reforms and Rural-urban Migration,”) China Labor Economics, 2004 (1), pp.108-123. (download paper)

Chan, Kam Wing, 2003. "Chinese Census 2000: New Opportunities and Challenges," The China Review, 3(2), pp.1-12. (download paper)

Chan, Kam Wing and Ying Hu, 2003. "Urbanization in China in the 1990s: New Definition, Different Series, and Revised Trends," The China Review, 3(2), pp.49-71 (download paper )

Chan, Kam Wing, 2003. “Migration in China in the Reform Era: Characteristics, Consequences, and Implications” in Alvin So (ed.) The Chinese Developmental Miracle: Origins, Transformation, and Challenges (Armonk: M.E.Sharpe), pp.111-135.

Solinger, Dorothy and Kam Wing Chan, 2002. "The China Difference:  City Studies Under Socialism and Beyond," in John Eade and Chris Mele, eds., Understanding the City, (Blackwell Press), pp.204-221.(download chapter)

Chan, Kam Wing, 2001. "Recent Migration in China: Patterns, Trends, and Policies," Asian Perspectives, 25(4), pp.127-155. (download paper)

Liu, Ta and Kam Wing Chan, 2001. "National Statistics on Internal Migration in China: Comparability Problems," China Information, 15(2), pp.75-113.(download paper)

Yang Yunyan, Kam Wing Chan, and Ta Liu, 2001. "The Impacts of Outside Labor on Urban Labor Market," (in Chinese) Zhongguo renkou kexue (Population Science of China), No.2, pp.52-58.

Chan, Kam Wing, 2000. "Internal Migration in China: Trends, Development and Scenarios," in China's Urbanization Strategy: Opportunities, Issues & Policy Options," (published by the World Bank and PRC State Development Planning Commission), pp.56-63.

杨云彦、陈金永, 2000.“转型劳动力市场的分层与竞争” 《中国社会科学》(Yang Yunyan and Kam Wing Chan, 2000. "Job Competition and Segmentation in a Transitional Labor Market," Social Sciences in China, No.5, pp.28-38. (download paper)

Cai Fang and Kam Wing Chan, 2000. "The Political Economy of Urban Protectionist Employment Policies in China," Working Paper Series No.2, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Population Studies. 14 pp. (download paper)

 

      More…  Papers and Book Chapters Published in the 20th C

 

Recent Public Media Citations and Appearances

 

第一财经日报 (China Business News), Shanghai, on urbanization rate in China, November 4, 2009.

BBC Radio World Service, interview on the impact of financial crisis on China’s migrant workers, September 8, 2009.

BBC News web article on China’s migrant labor, September 8, 2009.

Financial Times, invited blog on China’s city population data, July 14, 2009.

China Radio International, “Today”, Panel discussion on China’s hukou system, June 24, 2009, (hour 1).

      Thomson-Reuter's Science Watch, “Moving Front” recent highly cited recent article in social sciences, May 2009

Appearance and commentaries in documentary film, Man Zou: From Beijing to Shanghai, 2009.

USC US-China Institute, “What are China's largest and richest cities?”, 2008.

 

Web Publications

 

苏红、陈金永, 2004. “土地征用与地方政府的行为 ,”  香港中文大学中国研究服务中心

陈金永、杨云彦, 1999. “中国人口迁移的规模及二元特征,” 人口世界（上海）

 

Current Research Projects on China

·         Internal migration and the hukou reforms

·         City population statistics

·         Spatial administrative hierarchy

·         Urbanization and land conversion

·         Cities and regional development

·         Urban social geography and suburbanization

 

Courses Taught at UW

·         Geog 195 Discovery Seminar: Where is China? 

·         Geog 236 Development and Challenge in Greater China   (Winter 2010)

·         Geog 326 Quantitative Methods in Geography  (Winter 2010)

·         Geog 438 Cities of East Asia: Geography and Development 

·         Geog 435 Industrialization and Urbanization in China (Spring 2010)

·         Geog 495 Migration and Development in China

·         Geog 497 Tutorials in Geography  

·         Geog 505 Spatial Dimensions of Chinese Development (Autumn 2009)

       Non-academic Writings


Contact Address:
Department of Geography
University of Washington, Box 353550
Seattle, WA 98195-3550, USA
Tel: (206) 543-6994; Fax: (206) 543-3313
E-mail: kwchan@uw.edu

http://faculty.washington.edu/kwchan/

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last revised: Dec 20, 2009