Urban Specialist and China Scholar

Public Engagements

A Rather Difficult Balancing Act.” Interview by knowledge.allianz.com.

Urban Life in China's Brave New World.” Seminar organized by the Comparative Urban Studies Program, Asia Program and China Environment Forum, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, January 3, 2008 (webcast).

Voice of America (VOA) TV. Panelist on weekly news show 'Pro and Con' on the topic of “Can China Sustain Its Economic Growth Without Major Policy Changes?” January 5, 2007 (video will play in RealPlayer).

Conference Presentations

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Migration and China's Urban Transformation.” Washington seminar, U.S. China Peoples Friendship Association, Washington, DC , April 18, 2008.

"Building World-Class Research Universities for Knowledge Transfer." The First Biennial Conference of the Fudan University International Urban Forum. Shanghai, China, November 3-5, 2006.

"Migration and Housing: Comparing China with the United States." Conference on Changing Geography in a Diversified World, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, June 1-3, 2006.

"Urban Infrastructure and Financing in China." Symposium on Important Issues in the Era of Rapid Urbanization in China, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, May 22, 2006.

"China's Unprecedented Transformations - Migration and Urbanization." Inaugural Distinguished Speaker for Bryant University's newly established China Seminar Series, Smithfield, Rhode Island, February 13, 2005.

"Universities as Drivers of Metropolitan Economies: The Case of Shanghai, China." Workshop on Universities as Drivers of Urban Economies in Asia, sponsored by the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank and Social Science Research Council, Washington, DC, November 17-18, 2005.

"Migrant Settlement and Spatial Transformation in Urban China: The Case of Shanghai." World Bank Third Urban Research Symposium, Brasilia, Brazil, April 4-6, 2005.

"Migrant Housing and Residential Mobility in Urban China." 2nd MIT-Harvard China Planning Symposium - Managing Rapid Growth and Developing Competitive Cities in China, Cambridge, MA, March 17-18, 2005.

"Migration and the Quest for Urban Citizenship Rights." International Symposium - Chinese Politics and Society: Continuity and Change. Tufts Institute for Leadership and International Perspective, Medford, Massachusetts, February 11-13, 2005.

"Targeted Public Policies in Shanghai's Path to a Knowledge-Based Economy." Annual Conference of Research Committee 21 (RC21) on Sociology of Urban and Regional Development, International Sociological Association, Singapore , December 9-11, 2004.

"Creative Clusters and Dynamic Cities." Workshop on Creative Cities in the East Asia's Future, organized by the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank, Bangkok, Thailand, February 22-23, 2004.

"Rejuvenating a Cosmopolitan Culture: Globalization and Shanghai's Cultural Strategies." 44th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Baltimore, Maryland, November 2002.

"Migrant Housing in Urban China: Choices and Constraints." World Planning Schools Congress. Shanghai, China, July 2001.

"Shanghai Rising in a Globalizing World." Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers. New York, NY, March 2001.