Professor Contact Information kwchan@uw.edu (206) 543-6994 Smith 416 D Office Hours by appointment Personal Website Fields of Interest children China Cities Citizenship Economics Education Labor Migration Population Poverty Public Scholarship the hukou system Urban Studies Biography Ph.D., Toronto, 1988 M.SC. Hong Kong, 1983 Curriculum Vitae (232.28 KB) 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. 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. Chan, Kam Wing. "China's Urbanization 2020: A New Blueprint and Direction." Eurasian Geography And Economics 55, no. 1 (2014): 1-9. 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]. Courses Taught Spring 2025GEOG 326 A: Quantitative Methods in Geography GEOG 337 A: Migration and Development in China Winter 2025GEOG 435 A: Industrialization and Urbanization in China GEOG 505 A: Spatial Dimensions of Chinese Development Spring 2024GEOG 337 A: Migration and Development in China Winter 2024GEOG 435 A: Industrialization and Urbanization in China Autumn 2023GEOG 326 A: Quantitative Methods in Geography GEOG 505 A: Spatial Dimensions of Chinese Development Spring 2023GEOG 435 A: Industrialization and Urbanization in China Winter 2023GEOG 326 A: Quantitative Methods in Geography GEOG 337 A: Migration and Development in China Autumn 2022GEOG 337 A: Migration and Development in China GEOG 505 A: Spatial Dimensions of Chinese Development Spring 2022GEOG 326 A: Quantitative Methods in Geography GEOG 497 A: Tutorial in Geography Winter 2022GEOG 337 A: Migration and Development in China GEOG 497 A: Tutorial in Geography Resources & Related Links Follow me on Twitter My Research Gate Affiliations Home Department Geography Related Departments Arts & Sciences College of Built Environments Related News Related News 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)
