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Xiangming Chen () served as the founding dean and director of urban and global studies and director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies at
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, from 2007 to 2019. He is currently the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology at Trinity College. Prior to this, Chen served as assistant to full professor of sociology and adjunct professor of political science and urban planning and policy at the
University of Illinois at Chicago The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a Public university, public research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its campus is in the Near West Side, Chicago, Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus esta ...
. Chen holds the positions of distinguished guest professor in the School of Social Development and Public Policy at
Fudan University Fudan University () is a national public research university in Shanghai, China. Fudan is a member of the C9 League, Project 985, Project 211, and the Double First Class University identified by the Ministry of Education of China. It is als ...
in
Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...
, China, adjunct professor at the graduate school of the
Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences The Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS; ) was founded in 1958 and is China's oldest think tank for the humanities and social sciences. It is the country's second largest such institution, after the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CAS ...
, and honorary research fellow at the Institute of Economics of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and the IC² Institute at the
University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...
. He has also taught at
Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
. Chen has received fellowships and grants from the
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, the
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, the
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (CCKF; ) is a private nonprofit organization located in Taipei, Taiwan, that provides support for research grants on Chinese studies in the humanities and social sciences at ove ...
,
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, and the Regional Studies Association.


Education

Chen studied English at the
Beijing Foreign Studies University Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU; ), is a public university in Beijing, China. BFSU boasts the oldest language programs in China offering the largest number of foreign language majors on different educational levels. Located in Haidia ...
. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from
Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
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Scholarly work

Chen co-authore
The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and Historical Perspective
with Anthony Orum. Chen is the author o
As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim
which was a finalist for the Association of Borderland Studies Book Award in 2007. He edited and contributed t
Shanghai Rising: State Power and Local Transformations in a Global Megacity
co-edited and contributed t
Rethinking Global Urbanism: Comparative Insights from Secondary Cities
co-authore
Introduction to Cities: How Place and Space Shape Human Experience
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012; second edition, 2018); co-edited and contributed to Confronting Urban Legacy: Rediscovering Hartford and New England’s Forgotten Cities; and co-edited and contributed t
Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai
Chen helped create, and is currently a senior contributor for the “China & the World” series at ''The European Financial Review''. His articles have appeared in major urban studies and international social science journals such as ''Urban Affairs Review'', ''International Journal of Urban and Regional Research'', ''City & Community'', ''Urban Geography'', ''Environment and Planning A'', ''International Journal of Comparative Sociology'', ''Globalizations'', ''Cambridge Journal of Regions'', ''Economy and Society'', ''Transnational Corporations'', and many edited books.


Books

* 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

* Xiangming Chen and Tomas de'Medici (Trinity College '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.


Associations

Chen has served on the board of trustees of the Alfred Herrhausen Society, the International Forum of the
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, the advisory board of the
Urban Age Urban Age is a research programme started in 2005. It is led by LSE Cities with support from Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen Society into the relationship between the shape and society of cities. Research includes comparing urbanisation in alr ...
project based at the
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, and the World Affairs Council of Connecticut. Chen also served as president of the North American Chinese Sociologists Association and on the Council for the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. He has consulted for the
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(Conference on Trade and Development), the
Asian Development Bank The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established on 19 December 1966, which is headquartered in the Ortigas Center located in the city of Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines. The bank also maintains 31 field office ...
, the
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, the
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, and the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development,
OECD The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; french: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, ''OCDE'') is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate e ...
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References

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