Xiangming Chen

Dr. Xiangming Chen is a Chinese sociologist and the founding Dean and Director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies and Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Chen was born in Beijing and graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University and received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Duke University. He also holds the positions of Distinguished Professor at Fudan University in Shanghai and honorary research fellows at the Institute of Economics of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and the IC² Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He also serves on the Council for the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.^[1]

Select Works

Books ^[2]

• Yuan Ren, Xiangming Chen, and Dieter Läpple (Eds.), The Era of Global City-Regions (in Chinese). Shanghai: Fudan University Press
• Xiangming Chen (editor and author of introduction and co-author of conclusion and three other chapters), Shanghai Rising: State Power and Local Transformations in a Global Megacity (12 chapters). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
• Jiaming Sun and Xiangming Chen (Eds.), Empirical Approaches to Urban Sociology. New Delhi: Indo American Books
• Xiangming Chen, As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Zhou Zhenhua, Chen, Xiangming, and Huang Jianfu (Eds.), World Cities: International Lessons and Shanghai's Development (in Chinese). Shanghai: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press
• Anthony M. Orum and Xiangming Chen, The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and Historical Perspective. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers

Journal Articles ^[3]

• Xiangming Chen and Tomas de‟Medici (Trinity Class ‟11), “The „Instant City‟ Coming of Age: The Production of Spaces in China‟s Shenzhen Special Economic Zone.” Urban Geography 31 (8): 1141-1147.
• Xiangming Chen, “Introduction: Why Chinese and Indian Megacities?” City & Community 8 (4): 363-368.
• Xiangming Chen and Jiaming Sun, “Untangling a Global-Local Nexus: Sorting Out Residential Sorting in Shanghai.” Environment and Planning A 39 (10): 2324-2345.
• Dow Scott, James Bishop, and Xiangming Chen, “An Examination of the Relationship of Employee Involvement with Job Satisfaction, Employee Cooperation, and Intention to Quit in U.S. Invested Enterprises in China.” International Journal of Organizational Analysis 11 (1): 3- 19.
• Xiangming Chen, "Taiwan Investments in China and Southeast Asia: 'Go West But Also Go South'." Asian Survey XXXVI (5): 447-467.

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