Kam Wing Chan

Kam Wing

Chan

Professor

kwchan@uw.edu

Personal Website

(206) 543-6994

Smith 416 D

Office Hours: 

by appointment

Fields of Interest

• Cities
• Citizenship
• Economics
• Education
• Labor
• Migration
• Population
• Poverty
• Public Scholarship
• Urban Studies

• China
• the hukou system
• children

Background and Experience

Summary

Ph.D., Toronto, 1988

M.SC. Hong Kong, 1983

Affiliated Departments: 

• Arts & Sciences
• College of Built Environments

Research

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Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters

• 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. "Migration and Development in China: Trends, Geography and Current Issues."Migration and Development 1, no. 2 (2012): 187-205.  
• 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.  

Books

• Chan, Kam Wing, 1994. Cities with Invisible Walls: Reinterpreting Urbanization in Post-1949 China, OxfordUniversity Press, 194 pp. (ISBN 0-19-585764-X)  

Courses Taught

Spring 2023

• GEOG 435 A: Industrialization and Urbanization in China

Winter 2023

• GEOG 326 A: Quantitative Methods in Geography
• GEOG 337 A: Migration and Development in China

Autumn 2022

• GEOG 337 A: Migration and Development in China
• GEOG 505 A: Spatial Dimensions of Chinese Development
• GEOG 600 A: Independent Study or Research

Spring 2022

• GEOG 326 A: Quantitative Methods in Geography
• GEOG 497 A: Tutorial in Geography

Winter 2022

• GEOG 337 A: Migration And Development In China
• GEOG 497 A: Tutorial in Geography

Autumn 2021

• GEOG 497 A: Tutorial in Geography
• GEOG 505 A: Spatial Dimensions of Chinese Development

Winter 2021

• GEOG 326 A: Quantitative Methods in Geography
• GEOG 337 A: Migration and Development in China - Course Website

Autumn 2020

• GEOG 236 A: Development and Challenge in Greater China
• GEOG 505 A: Spatial Dimensions of Chinese Development

Spring 2020

• GEOG 435 A: Industrialization and Urbanization in China

Winter 2020

• GEOG 326 A: Quantitative Methods in Geography

Summer 2019 A-term

• GEOG 326 A: Quantitative Methods in Geography

Spring 2019

• GEOG 435 A: Industrialization and Urbanization in China

Winter 2019

• GEOG 236 A: Development and Challenge in Greater China
• GEOG 505 A: Spatial Dimensions of Chinese Development

Spring 2018

• GEOG 326 A: Quantitative Methods in Geography
• GEOG 435 A: Industrialization and Urbanization in China

Winter 2018

• GEOG 236 A: Development and Challenge in Greater China

Autumn 2017

• GEOG 505 A: Spatial Dimensions Of Chinese Development

Spring 2017

• GEOG 326 A: Quantitative Methods In Geography
• GEOG 435 A: Industrialization And Urbanization In China

Winter 2017

• GEOG 236 A: Development And Challenge In Greater China

Autumn 2016

• GEOG 337 A: Migration And Development In China
• GEOG 505 A: Spatial Dimensions Of Chinese Development

Spring 2016

• GEOG 326 A: Quantitative Methods In Geography
• GEOG 435 A: Industrialization And Urbanization In China

Winter 2016

• GEOG 236 A: Development And Challenge In Greater China

Autumn 2015

• GEOG 505 A: Spatial Dimensions Of Chinese Development

Related News

Related News

• UW opens new online BA featuring four geography courses Apr 22, 2014
• Congratulations to Guilan Weng for a Successful Dissertation Defense! Mar 4, 2014
• Dr. Kam Wing Chan Featured in the People's Daily and Bloomberg Nov 14, 2013
• China: The Largest Migration in Human History Feb 28, 2012