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*You can read and downland most of the journal articles in pdf format with Acrobat Reader, while few pieces are in MS Word format. If you are interested in the whole article or book chapter of which only the first page is available here, please send me an email with your postal address to xmchen@uic.edu, and I will mail it to you. Please do NOT cite or quote any of the work-in-progress pieces without my permission. Your comments are welcome!
Books:
1. Xiangming Chen, As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005. See the preface and table of contents of the book. Click on its title for all the information including purchase from the publisher. The book is also available for purchase on Amazon.com. See the book's cover and pre-publication reviews.
2. Anthony M. Orum and Xiangming Chen, The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and Historical Perspective. Blackwell Publishing, 2003. To see the front cover of the book, click the above link. See the preface and overview of the book. To purchase this book, go to the information and order links at Blackwell Publishing or Amazon.com.
3. 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, 2004.
Journal Articles:
2007a. Xiangming Chen and Jiaming Sun, "Untangling a Global-Local Nexus: Sorting Out Residential Sorting in Shanghai." Environment and Planning A 39 (10): 2324-2345.
2007b. Xiangming Chen, "A Tale of Two Regions in China: Rapid Economic Development and Slow Industrial Upgrading in the Pearl River and the Yangtze River Deltas." International Journal of Comparative Sociology 48 (2-3): 167-201.
2006. Xiangming Chen and Jiaming Sun, "Sociological Perspectives on Urban China: From Familiar Territories to Complex Terrains." China Information 20 (3): 519-551.
2005. Jiaming Sun and Xiangming Chen, "Personal Global Connections and New Residential Differentiation in Shanghai." China: An International Journal 3 (2): 301-319.
2003. 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." Interational Journal of Organizational Analysis 11 (1): 3-19.
2002. Lei Wang, James Bishop, Xiangming Chen, and Dow Scott, "Collective Orientation as a Predictor of Affective Organizational Commitment: A Study Conducted in China." International Journal of Organizational Analysis 10 (3): 226-239.
2000. Xiangming Chen, "Both Glue and Lubricant: Transnational Ethnic Social Capital as a Source of Asia-Pacific Subregionalism." Policy Sciences 33 (3/4): 269-287.
1996a. Xiangming Chen, "The Demographic Profiles of the World's Largest Cities: A Baseline Analysis and Policy Implications." Cities 13 (3): 165-174.
1996b. Xiangming Chen, "Taiwan Investments in China and Southeast Asia: 'Go West But Also Go South'." Asian Survey XXXVI (5): 447-467.
*Reprinted in The Globalization of Business Firms from Emerging Markets, Volume II, pp 460-480, edited by Henry Wai-Chung Yeung. United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1999.
1995. Xiangming Chen, "The Evolution of Free Economic Zones and the Recent Development of Cross-National Growth Zones." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 19 (4): 593-621.
1994. Xiangming Chen, "The Changing Roles of Free Economic Zones in Development: A Comparative Analysis of Capitalist and Socialist Cases in East Asia." Studies in Comparative International Development 29 (3): 3-25.
1993a. Xiangming Chen and Xiaoyuan Gao, "China's Urban Housing Development in the Shift from Redistribution to Decentralization." Social Problems 40 (2): 266-283.
1993b. Xiangming Chen and Xiaoyuan Gao, "Urban Economic Reform and Public-Housing Investment in China." Urban Affairs Quarterly 29 (1): 117-145.
1992. Xiangming Chen, Kejing Dai and Allan Parnell, "Disaster, Tradition and Change: Remarriage and Family Reconstruction in a Post-Earthquake Community in the People's Republic of China." Journal of Comparative Family Studies 32 (1): 115-132.
1991. Xiangming Chen, "China's City Hierarchy, Urban Policy and Spatial Development in the 1980s." Urban Studies 28 (3): 341-367.
1987. Xiangming Chen, "Magic and Myth of Migration: A Case Study of a Special Economic Zone in China." Asia-Pacific Population Journal 2 (3): 57-77.
1986. Jersey Liang, Edward J. Tu and Xiangming Chen, "Population Aging in the People's Republic of China." Social Science and Medicine 23 (12): 1353-1362.
*A Chinese version of this article appeared in Northwestern Population 1: 43-49 (1987).
1985. Xiangming Chen, "The One-Child Population Policy, Modernization and the Extended Chinese Family." Journal of Marriage and the Family 47 (1): 193-202.
Other Articles:
2007a. Xiangming Chen, "China's Urban Revolution." Invited for Endless City - Living in an Urban Age, edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic, Phaidon (forthcoming).
2007b. Xiangming Chen, "Shanghai: The Urban Laboratory." Invited for Endless City - Living in an Urban Age, edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic, Phaidon (forthcoming).
2007c. Xiangming Chen, "Pacific Rim." An invited essay for the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift, Elsevier (forthcoming).
2006. Xiangming Chen, "Rising Cities and the Restructured State: Local Autonomy in the Name of Economic Development Is Changing China." Internationale Politik (Fall): 62-65. For the German edition of this article, click here.
2000. Xiangming Chen and Warren Barshes, "To Team Or Not To Team?" The China Business Review 27 (March-April):30-34.
1999. Xiangming Chen, "Business Over Politics: Taiwan Investment in China. (Cross-Strait Transport Links)."The China Business Review 26 (March-April):8-14.
1995. Xiangming Chen, "Chicago as a Global City." Chicago Office 5:15-20.
Book Chapters:
2007a. Jiaming Sun and Xiangming Chen, "When Local Meets Global: Residential Differentiation, Global Connections, and Consumption in Shanghai." Pp. 284-302 in China's Emerging Cities: The Making of New Urbanism, edited by Fulong Wu. London: Routledge.
2007b. Xiangming Chen, "Economic Glocalizing, Regional Embedding, and State Scaling: A Comparative Analysis of the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta in China." Pp. 79-110 in The Regional and Local Shaping of World Society, edited by Mark Herkenrath. Hamburg and London: LIT Verlag.
2006. Xiangming Chen, "Beyond the Reach of Globalization: China's Border Regions and Cities in Transition." Pp. 21-46 in Globalization and the Chinese City, edited by Fulong Wu. Routledge.
2005. Xiangming Chen, "Magic or Myth? Social Capital and Its Consequences in the Asian, Chinese, and Vietnamese Contexts." Pp. 49-62 in Modernisation and Social Transformation in Vietnam: Social Capital Formation and Institutional Building, edited by Gerd Mutz and Rainer Klump. Hamburg, Germany: Institut für Asienkunde.
2004. Shunfeng Song, George Chu, and Xiangming Chen, "Housing Investment and Consumption in Urban China." Pp. 87-106 in Urbanization and Social Welfare in China, edited by Aimin Chen, Gordon G. Liu, and Kevin H. Zhang. England: Ashgate.
2001a. Xiangming Chen, "Both Glue and Lubricant: Transnational Ethnic Social Capital as a Source of Asia-Pacific Subregionalism." Pp. 43-61 in Social Capital as a Policy Resource, edited by John D. Montgomery and Alex Inkeles. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
2001b. Xiangming Chen, "From Regional Integration to Export Competition? The Evolution of the Chinese Economic Triangle." Pp. 23-42 in The Chinese Triangle of Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: Comparative Institutional Analyses, edited by Alvin Y. So, Nan Lin, and Dudley Poston. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
2000a. Xiangming Chen, "The Geoeconomic Reconfiguration of the Semiperiphery: The Asia-Pacific Transborder Regions in the World-System." Pp. 185-201 in Questioning Geopolitics: Political Projects in a Changing World-System, edited by Georgi M. Derlugian and Scott L. Greer. Westport, CT: Praeger.
2000b. Xiangming Chen, "Regional Integration, Networked Production, and Technological Competition: The 'Greater China' Economic Circle Through and Beyond 1997." Pp. 459-471 in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy: Opportunities and Challenges for the Knowledge Economy, edited by Pedro Concei??o, David V. Gibson, Manuel V. Heitor, and Syed Shariq. Westport, CT: Quorum Books.
2000c. Xiangming Chen, James Bishop, and Dow Scott, "Teamwork in China: Where Reality Challenges Theory and Practice." Pp. 269-282 in Management and Organizations in the Chinese Context, edited by J.T. Li, Anne Tsui, and Elizabeth Weldon. London: Macmillan Press.
1999. Xiangming Chen, "Research on Chinese Urbanization: Western Theories and Chinese Realities," Pp. 170-191 in Social Change in China's Reform Era: Syntheses and Critiques of Western Sociological Perspectives (in Chinese), edited by Jow-Ching Tu and Yimin Lin. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.
1998. Elizabeth Weldon, Karen A. Jehn, Lorna Doucet, Xiangming Chen, Wang Zhong-ming, "Conflict Management in Sino-US Joint Ventures." In International Management in China: Cross-Cultural Issues, edited by Jan Selmer. London: RoutledgeCurzon.
1996a. Xiangming Chen and William L. Parish, "Urbanization in China: Reassessing an Evolving Model." Pp. 61-90 in The Urban Transformation of the Developing World, edited by Josef Gugler. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1996b. Xiangming Chen and Xiaoyan Hua, "Housing Reform and Private Housing Investment in Urban China." Pp. 298-329 in Urban Land and Housing Reform in Socialist and Formerly Socialist Countries, edited by George Tolley, Shou-yi Hao, and Marcia Occomy. Mount Pleasant, MI: Blackstone Books.
1994. Xiangming Chen, "The New Spatial Division of Labor and Commodity Chains in the Greater South China Economic Region." Pp. 165-186 in Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism, edited by Gary Gereffi and Miguel Korzeniewicz. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
o Reprinted in Emerging Regions in the Pacific Basin, pp. 127-154, edited by Patricia Roe. Austin, TX: IC2 Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 1994.
1993a. Xiangming Chen, "China's Growing Integration with the Asia-Pacific Economy." Pp. 89-119 in What Is in a Rim? Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea, edited by Arif Dirlik. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
o Updated and reprinted in What Is in a Rim? Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea, pp. 187-217 (2nd edition), edited by Arif Dirlik. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998.
1993b. Xiangming Chen, "The Changing Role of Shenzhen in China's National and Regional Development in the 1980s." Pp. 251-279 in China in Transition: Economic, Political and Social Developments, edited by George T. Yu. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
1993c. Xiangming Chen, "China's Urbanization and City Growth: A Retrospective and Prospective View" (in Chinese). Pp. 182-202 in China's Cities and Regional Development: Prospect for the 21st Century, edited by Yue-man Yeung. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies.
1988. Xiangming Chen, "Giant Cities and the Urban Hierarchy in China." Pp. 225-251 in The Metropolis Era: A World of Giant Cities, edited by Mattei Dogan and John D. Kasarda. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
Work in Progress:
Book:
Xiangming Chen (Ed) with Zhenhua Zhou, Shanghai Rising: Global Impact, State Power, and Local Transformations in the World's Most Dynamic Mega-City (Table of Contents). See my introduction "A Globalizing City on the Rise: Shanghai's Transformation in Comparative Perspective" and conclusion (with Anthony Orum) "Shanghai as a New Global(izing) City: Historical, Theoretical, and Analytical Lessons for and from Shanghai" to the book. Forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press.
Articles for Journals and Books:
1. Xiangming Chen and Yuan Ren, "Dual Modernity in the Global Age: The Internal and External Sources of Individualistic and Materialistic Values in Shanghai." Under review at International Sociology.
2. Xiangming Chen, Dow Scott, and James Bishop, "From Forced to Flexible Loyalty: Predicting Organizational Commitment in U.S.-Invested Enterprises in China."
3. James Bishop, Xiangming Chen, and Dow Scott, "What Drives Chinese toward Teamwork? A Study of U.S.-Invested Enterprises in China."
*You can read and downland most of the journal articles in pdf format with Acrobat Reader, while few pieces are in MS Word format. If you are interested in the whole article or book chapter of which only the first page is available here, please send me an email with your postal address to xmchen@uic.edu, and I will mail it to you. Please do NOT cite or quote any of the work-in-progress pieces without my permission. Your comments are welcome!