Dr. Jiang Xu

Department of Geography and Resource Management

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (China)

Professor

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

Ph.D., The University of Hong Kong

M.Sc., Sun Yat-sen University

B.Sc., Sun Yat-sen University

Publications (selected)

1. Xu, J., & Zhang, M. (2025). The power of representation: Re-theorizing China’s land development as a state-led strategic discursive–material nexus. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544251319472
2. Wang, Kun & Chung, Calvin King Lam & Xu, Jiang & Long, Zhaohui. (2024). Reconceiving China's urban economic transition through symbiotic state-firm dynamics: An integrated perspective from urban governance and global production networks. Cities. 150. 104974. 10.1016/j.cities.2024.104974. 
3. Xu, J., & Chung, C. K. L. (2023). Of scale and discourse: China’s ecological civilization and the struggle for development in Anshun. Urban Geography, 45(6), 986–1005. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2243141
4. Zhou, Zhengke & Chung, Calvin King Lam & Xu, Jiang. (2023). Geographies of green industries: The interplay of firms, technologies, and the environment. Progress in Human Geography. 47. 10.1177/03091325231188377. 
5. Xu, Jiang & Li, Aidong & Chung, Calvin & Yue, Yang. (2023). Mapping the Unmapped: Investigating Big Data Companies via Online Sources. The Professional Geographer. 75. 1-11. 10.1080/00330124.2023.2169175. 
6. Xu, J. and Chung, C.K.L.* (2022). New Sectors, New Spaces, and China’s Evolving State-Firm Relations. The China Review. 22(3).
7. Wang, J.J. and Xu, J.* (2022). Strategic state-firm relations for the Belt and Road Initiative: A geoeconomics reading. The China Review. 22(3).
8. Xu, J., Guannan Zou*, Calvin King Lam Chung (2022). (Re)shaping Urban Governance through State-business Interaction in Inland China’s Emerging Industries. The China Review. 22(3).
9. Chung, C.K.L. & Xu, J. (2021). Scalar politics of urban sustainability: Governing the Chinese city in the era of ecological civilization. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 46: 689–703. Doi.org/10.1111/tran.12436.
10. Zhang, M.M, Xu, J. & Chung, C.K.L. (2020). Scalar Politics and Uneven Accessibility to Intercity Railway in the Pearl River Delta, China. Annals of the American Association of Geographers.110:4, 1260-1277
11. Xu, J., & Shao, Y. (2020). The role of the state in China’s post-disaster reconstruction planning: Implications for resilience. Urban Studies, 57(3): 525-545.
12. Shao, Z., Xu, J., Chung, C. K. L., Spit, T., & Wu, Q. (2020). State as both the regulator and the player: The politics of transfer of development rights in China. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
13. Zhang, M.M, Xu, J. & Chung, C.K.L. (2020). Politics of scale, bargaining power and its spatial impacts: Planning for intercity railway in the Pearl River Delta, China. The China Quarterly. 242: 676-700
14. Xu, J. (2018), ‘Land and housing markets’, in Weiping Wu and Mark W. Frazier (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Contemporary China, pp. 898 – 919, LA and London: Sage Publishing.
15. Shao, Yiwen and Xu, J. (2017), ‘Regulating Post-disaster Reconstruction Planning in China: Towards a Resilience-based Approach?’, Asian Geographer, 34(1): 71-89.
16. Xu, J. (2017), ‘Contentious Space and Politics of Scale: Planning for Inter-City Railway in China’s Mega-City Regions’, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 58(1): 57-73 doi: 10.1111/apv.12142.
17. Xu, J. (2016), ‘Bargaining for Nature: Treating the Environment in China’s Urban Planning Practice’, Urban Geography. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2016.1139414
18. Xu, J. (2016), ‘Environmental discourses in China’s urban planning system: a scaled discourse analytical-perspective’, Urban Studies, Vol. 53(5) 978–999, DOI: 10.1177/0042098015571054
19. Chung, K.L. and Xu, J. (2016), ‘Scale as both material and discursive: A view through China’s rescaling of urban planning system for environmental governance’, Environment and Planning C. DOI: 10.1177/0263774X15619630.
20. Xu, J. and Chung, K.L. (2014), ‘Environment’ as an Evolving Concept in China’s Urban Planning System’, International Development Planning Review, 36(4): 391-412.

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