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Kam Wing
Chan 陳金永 Professor ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My recent commentaries: 外来”与未来：美国移改对中国户改的启示 《中国改革》,
2013年第8期,
2013-8-1 改革移民制度、户籍制度，中美各自都说了十多年。这个题目终于成为今年的热门课题。经过多月来艰苦的讨论和谈判，美国参议院在6月底以大比数压倒性通过了30多年来最重要的移民改革法案，主要内容是让1100万无证移民可以成为合法居民。.... 阅读全文 户籍改革路线图 财新《新世纪》, 2013年第18期,
2013-05-13 从2015年开始， 所有大中小城镇，首先向外地大学毕业生开放，然后向有熟练技术又有稳定就业的农民工开放，再逐步有序地向其他农民工开放.... 阅读全文 Related Links: 十五年完成户籍改革 《中国改革》2013年第6期, 2013-6-1 English
Trans.: Urbanization
and the Chinese Dream, Caixin Online, June
13, 2013. Cities of Dreams South China Morning Post,
January 19, 2013 Dreams
are in vogue in mainland China. During a widely publicised tour of Shenzhen,
the new head of the Communist Party, Xi Jinping, called for the realisation
of the “Chinese dream”…. Read more Related
Link: 圆“城市梦”须改革户籍制度,《参考消息》, 2013-1-21 Not Quite There Yet July
1, 2012 (with Dorothy Solinger)
Chasing China’s middle class shoppers has been American business’
“China dream” for decades. In a recent Wall
Street Journal article titled “Chasing China’s Shoppers” (June 15, 2012,
B1), the authors attributed the lack of success of some American businesses
in China to their misjudgment of its middle-class shoppers' preferences. …
.. Read more Path to Riches is Paved through Cities China Daily, May 25, 2012.
Last year marked a milestone in China’s
several-thousand-year history: for the first time, more people lived in
cities and towns than in the countryside. The country’s 690 million urban
dwellers now account for 51.3 percent of China’s total population of 1.35
billion. China’s recent urban transition is definitely a historic event of
global importance. … . Read
the full article. Related links: 中文译文: 迈向富裕的城市化道路 Can China’s
Urbanisation Save the World? Conversation, June 1, 2012. Apple’s
Secret The Ave, January 23,
2012 Apple, despite its innovative
greatness, has a reputation for secrecy. “How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone
Work” (The New York Times, January 22) puts some of its secrets,
perhaps dirty ones, out in the open. In addition to low costs (to Apple),
“the speed and flexibility (of Chinese labor) is breathtaking,” ….. Read
the full text F(r)ee
Country The Ave, January
15, 2012 As a
lifelong foreign student of English I’ve been intrigued, if at times
confused, by the magical power of certain words to conceal as well as to
reveal. For example, after twenty years in this free country, I have finally
come to learn about the real meanings …
Read the full text The Limp in China’s Great Leap The Seattle Times,
December 6, 2011. With the U.S. economy in the doldrums and
Europe's ongoing debt crisis continuing its downward spiral, analysts are
left to wonder if China might be the savior of the global economy or, rather,
whether the country is simply a multitrillion bubble about to burst… Read the full text 美國夢、中國夢，仍然遙遠 《星島日報》（美西版）2011-11-30 剛下筆開始寫這篇文章時，在紐約的兒子就傳來電郵，說警察已在清晨時份強制清走在曼哈頓祖科蒂公園的帳篷。有人說，一個人沒有夢，生命也就死了。一個沒有夢的社會，是一個死的社會。... 阅读全文 Urbanization in China:
Growth Driver or Urban Legend? G+
Forum, webcast,
October 4, 2011. In the City, but Not of the City: the Myth
of China’s Urbanization China-US Focus, July 16, 2011.
In the popular media and the business world,
urbanization is often the most cited fundamental driver of global economic
growth, especially for the next few decades. The assumption is that such a
rural-urban shift will transform poor farmers into industrial and office
workers, raise their incomes and create a mass consumer class.... Read
the full text Related links: Bright Lights,
Big Questions About China's Urban Legend, Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2011.
（中文译文: 中国式城市化的发展症结）
Urban Myth, South China Morning
Post, August 24, 2011.
Plight of the
Rat Pack, The Straits Times, September 10,
2011 Mothers Who Understand the Importance of Education, The
Ave, May 7, 2011.
Many mothers understand the importance of education. Some pushy
ones, like the “tiger mom” who has ignited a firestorm of debate about
parenting, have given mom a bad name. Many others, gentler and far less
known, in my opinion, are equally powerful and decidedly smarter,…… Read
the full text China’s High-Speed Trains: Too Fast, Too Furious, China-US Focus, March 28, 2011. This year China endured its
grueling 40-day annual chunyun – the epic “spring movement” of an estimated
120 million people traveling long distances home and back during the Lunar
New Year interlude. This took place right after China entered its glittering
bullet-train age last year… Read
the full text
Related link: Fast and
Furious, China Economic Review, September
2011, pp.12-13. China
is Not ‘Eating Our Lunch’, The
Seattle Times, January 3, 2011. The lackluster performance of our
15-year-olds in math, science and reading in a standardized test compared
with Shanghai's students scoring first in all three subjects, have stirred
some interesting and somewhat self-deprecating comments. President Obama
declared it a "Sputnik moment," …
Related link: Chinese
Education: The Truth Behind the Boasts, China Bloomberg
Businessweek, April 4, 2013. 中国要走正常城镇化道路 财新网 (2010-12-8) 城镇化将成为中国经济下一轮的新增长点，但如何结合发展战略，具体走什么样的城镇化的路，是目前急需要探讨的问题.. 阅读全文 户籍改革如何在渐进中突破 南方报网 (2010-03-10 ) 在金融危机后的中国，
户口改革又成为热烘烘讨论的话题。温总理最近讲了几次关于开放中小城市的户籍，要解决好民工的新生代的就业和生活问题，要利用城市化推动内需。户籍改革已经谈了十几年… 阅读全文 Making Real Hukou Reform, East Asia Forum, March 3, 2010 Yes
it’s true – hukou (household registration) reform is again back in vogue
in China’s ‘post-crisis’ conversations. Premier Wen Jiabao
has been talking.... Read the
full text The Problem with China’s Population
Data, ft.com Dragonbeat, July 14,
2009. How big are Chinese cities? That depends on
how you measure them. Back in 2005, Time magazine proclaimed that
Chongqing had become “the largest city not only in China but in the world”,
with a population in excess of 30m....
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AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS 陈金永, 2013. “探讨户籍改革之路” Chan, Kam Wing, 2013. “China,
Internal Migration,” in Immanuel Ness and Peter Bellwood (eds.) The
Encyclopedia of Global Migration, Blackwell Publishing. Chan, Kam Wing, 2012. “Migration and Development in China: Trends,
Geography and Current Issues,” Migration and Development, Vol.1, No.2,
pp.187-205 Chan, Kam Wing,
2012. “Crossing the 50 Percent Population Rubicon: Can China Urbanize to
Prosperity?” Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vo1.53, No.1, pp.63-86. Related links: China’s
Urbanization Unlikely to Lead to Fast Growth of Middle Class: UW Geographer, UW Today, February 29, 2012 China's
Imaginary Middle Class, The Wilson
Quarterly, December 2012, Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars. Chan, Kam Wing,
2012. “Internal Labor Migration in China: Trends, Geography and Policies” in
United Nations Population Division, Population
Distribution, Urbanization, Internal Migration and Development: An
International Perspective, New York: United Nations, pp.81-102. Chan, Kam Wing
and Alana Boland, 2012. "Cities of East Asia," in Stanley Brunn, Maureen Hays-Mitchell, Donald Zeigler (eds.), Cities
of the World: World Regional Urban Development,5th ed, Lanham: Rowman &
Littlefield, pp.470-521 陈金永, 2011.“中国户籍制度和农民工,”《神州交流》, 第八卷,
第一期, 第32-41页。 USEFUL resources on China Migration Statistics and
Trends Urban
Population Statistics Urban Population Data,
1970-2010 Population of Largest 10 Cities Rural and Urban Employment
and Unemployment in 2009
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