Professor
Contact Information
Smith 416 D
Office Hours
by appointment
Awards and Honors
Distinguished Alumnus, Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong, 2022
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Department of Geography and Program in Planning, University of Toronto, 2014.
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning, University of Hong Kong, 2010.
Research
Selected Research
- Chan, Kam Wing. "Migration and Development in China: Trends, Geography and Current Issues."Migration and Development 1, no. 2 (2012): 187-205.
- Li, Si-Ming, Kam Wing Chan, and Shenjing He. "Migration, Mobility, and Community Change in Chinese Cities: Introducing the Special Issue." Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2015, 1-6.
- Forstall, Richard L., and Kam Wing Chan, 2015. “Urban Places: Statistical Definitions,” in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol. 24. Oxford: Elsevier. pp. 854–861.
- Chan, Kam Wing. "China's Urbanization 2020: A New Blueprint and Direction." Eurasian Geography And Economics 55, no. 1 (2014): 1-9.
- Wang, Fang and Kam Wing Chan, 2014. “Beijing ‘daduhuiqu’ de jieding yu tantao” (Discussion on the delimitation of Beijing Metropolitan Area), Zhongguo kexue (Population Science of China). No.3, pp.43-52.
- Wing Chan, Kam, and Will Buckingham. "Is China abolishing the hukou system?." The China Quarterly 195 (2008): 582-606.
- Chan, Kam Wing, and Li Zhang. "The hukou system and rural-urban migration in China: Processes and changes." The China Quarterly 160 (1999): 818-855.
- Chan, Kam Wing. "Post‐Mao China: A Two‐Class Urban Society in the Making." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 20, no. 1 (1996): 134-150.
- Chan, Kam Wing, 1994. Cities with Invisible Walls: Reinterpreting Urbanization in Post-1949 China, OxfordUniversity Press, 194 pp. (ISBN 0-19-585764-X)
- 陈金永, 2023.《大国城民：城镇化及户籍改革》,北京大学出版社.(Kam Wing Chan, 2023. Becoming Urban Citizens: Urbanization and China’s Hukou Reform, Beijing: Beijing University Press, 221 pages) (1st and 2nd printing).
Research Advised
- Yang, X., & Chan, K. W. (2021). The selective migration and children of migrants in China. [University of Washington Libraries].
- Dwyer, M., & Chan, K. W. (2018). Urban citizenship, quality domesticity, and the queer precarity of rural migrants in Beijing. [University of Washington Libraries].
- Wei, Y., & Chan, K. W. (2016). Under the dual system : children of Rural-Hukou migrants In China. [University of Washington Libraries].
- Cohen, S., & Chan, K. W. (2016). Local states, markets, and the geography of political economy and land in China. [University of Washington Libraries].
- Weng, G., & Chan, K. W. (2014). Moving towards neoliberal(izing) urban space? : housing and residential segregation in Beijing. [University of Washington Libraries].
- Buckingham, W. S., & Chan, K. W. (2014). Assembling the Chinese city : production of place and the articulation of new urban spaces in Wuhan, China. [University of Washington Libraries].
- Chen, H., & Chan, W. K. (2012). “Villages-in-the-city” and urbanization in Guangzhou, China. University of Washington.
Courses Taught
Spring 2025
Winter 2025
Spring 2024
Winter 2024
Autumn 2023
Spring 2023
Winter 2023
Autumn 2022
Spring 2022
Winter 2022
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- Kam Wing Chan and Xiaxia Yang’s Commentary on China’s Urban Youth is Published in Caixin Weekly (January 31, 2024)
- UW opens new online BA featuring four geography courses (April 22, 2014)
- Congratulations to Guilan Weng for a Successful Dissertation Defense! (March 4, 2014)
- Dr. Kam Wing Chan Featured in the People's Daily and Bloomberg (November 14, 2013)
- China: The Largest Migration in Human History (February 28, 2012)