Prof. Kam Wing Chan

Department of Geography

University of Washington, USA

Professor

Email: kwchan@uw.edu

Qualifications

1988 Ph.D., University of Toronto, Geography

1983 M.Sc., University of Hong Kong, Urban Planning

1980 B.A., University of Hong Kong, Geography and Statistics

Publications (selected)

1. Yunyan Yang, Fang Cai, Kam Wing Chan, Dewen Wang, 2004. Urban Employment and Transition of Labor Market, Beijing: Chinese Statistical Press, 298 pp.
2. Chan, Kam Wing, Guest editor, 2003. Special Issue on Chinese Census 2000, The Chinese Review, 3(2), 197 pp.
3. Chan, Kam Wing, Guest editor, 1996. Special Issue on Internal Migration in China, Chinese Environment and Development, 7 (1 and 2), 173 pp.
4. Chan, Kam Wing, 1994. Cities with Invisible Walls: Reinterpreting Urbanization in Post-1949 China, Oxford University Press, 194 pp.
5. Chak-lam So and Kam Wing Chan (eds.) 1993. Dili fazhen yu yanjiu (Geographical Research and Development) (in Chinese), University of Hong Kong Press, 439 pp.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Chan, Kam Wing, (in press) “China, Internal Migration,” in Encyclopedia of Global Migration, Wiley-Blackwell.
10. Kam Wing Chan, 2011. “China’s Household Registration System and Rural Migrant Labor,” Chinese Cross Currents, Vol.8, No.1, pp.33-41.
11. Beyers, William, J.W. Harrington, Charles Kauffman, Nick Veluzzi, Richard Morril, Kam Wing Chan, and Spencer Cohen, 2011. “Economic Geographies,” Michael Brown (ed.) Seattle: Geographies of Here and Beyond, University of Washington Press, pp.19-47.
12. Chan, Kam Wing, 2010. “China’s Population Development, Trends of Rural Migrant Labor,and Lewis Turning Point,” China Labor Economics), Vol.6, No.1, pp.1-24. Lead article
13. Chan, Kam Wing, 2010. “The Global Financial Crisis and Migrant Workers in China: There is No Future as a Labourer; Returning to the Village has No Meaning,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 34(3), pp.659-77.
14. Chan, Kam Wing, 2010. “A China Paradox: Migrant Labor Shortage amidst Rural Labor Supply Abundance,” Eurasian Geography and Economics, 51(4), pp.513-530.
15. Chan, Kam Wing, 2010. “Fundamentals of China’s Urbanization and Policy,” The China Review, Vol. 10, No.1, pp.63-94.
16. Chan, Kam Wing, 2010. “The Chinese Household Registration System and Migrant Labor in China: Notes on a Debate,” Population and Development Review, 36(2), pp.357-364.
17. Fang Cai and Kam Wing Chan, 2009. “The Global Economic Crisis and Unemployment in China,” Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol.50, No.5, pp.513-531.

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