一、邀請演講
2009
Urban Expansionism and Chinese peasants: territorialization and deterritorialization. Center for Chinese studies, University of California at Los Angeles.
The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land and Property in China. Center for Developmental Studies, National Chengchi University, Taipei.
2008
The great urban transformation in China, The Henry Jackson School of International Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Washington, Seattle.
Politics of Property in Chinese Cities, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy, Boalt Hall School of Law, U C Berkeley.
Land and Territorial Politics in China, Department of Geography, DePaul University, Chicago.
Urban construction and destruction in China. Center for Chinese Studies, forum on Beijing’s 2008 Olympics. U C Berkeley.
2006
Studies of Chinese urban Politics. Institute of Geography and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.
二、近年研究
Spatial Planning in the Post-Planned Economy: Chengdu and Xi’an Metropolitan Regions in Western China, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, 2008-2010.
Land loss and peasants’ strategies of self-protection: A comparison between Northern and Southern China, UC Berkeley Faculty Research Grant, 2008-09
Land rights protest in rural and urban China, UC Berkeley Faculty Research Grant and Center for Chinese Studies Faculty Research Grant, 2007-08
三、新研究方向
Taking advantage of my visiting professorship with NTU, I plan to conduct a pilot study of the dynamics of Taiwan’s civil society and civic space in the past twenty years. After completing my book on China’s urban transformation (forthcoming from Oxford University Press in December 2009), I am expanding my research to greater China, and from urban construction to social formation, emphasizing the connection between social-ciltural and spatial questions. I ask: what is the historical and spatial condition of the formation of Taiwan’s civil society, defined as a field that is outside of the state arena, and a cultural logic that goes beyond partisan politics and economic utilitarianism? In this pilot study, I will try to identify that third space outside of the rationale of the state and the market, while not assuming the existence of a totally separate field with fixed boundaries and scales.
More specifically, I plan to focus on three types of civic activities and spaces in Taiwan, namely, community colleges in the city, farmers’ associations in the countryside, and independent documentary production networks that have shifting locations. I will look at the organization, participants, operational and spatial strategies of these activities, as well as their connections with social mobilization in the process of Taiwan’s transition into a “post-development” society. These activities are examined in parallel with the type of physical, socio-political and discursive spaces they create, occupy, and are conditioned by.
This exploratory project on Taiwan will lead to a larger proposal that involves other places in greater China. My next step will be taking a similar set of questions to Hong Kong and Beijing, identifying similar types of civil organizations and activities in these two places, compare them with those in Taiwan, and see what type of cross-border connections they have established, if any. Ultimately, I hope to find a way of understanding the civil dimension of greater China that goes beyond the framing of “Chinese business networks” or the “developmental state.” This pilot study just received the funding from the Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley.
四、教學經驗
(一) At Berkeley Geography, I taught the following courses in the past three years:
1. Graduate Seminars
1). Comparative Urban Politics
2). China Through the Russian Lense
3). Urban Politics and Cultures
4). Reflexive Economic Geography
2. Undergraduate Lectures
1). Geography of Development in China
2). Geography of East and Southeast Asia
(二) At Chengxiangsuo in NTU, I am teaching two graduate seminars:
1. Space, Culture and Politics
2. Politics Economy of Development in China
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