Title: Professor

Sociology Office: 4150B BSB

Sociology Phone: 312-996-5391

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Research Interests: Urban, Globalization, China

Recent Courses:

• Sociology 473 Cities and Regions
• Sociology 548 Making Sense of Globalization

Web Addresses: http://www.uic.edu/depts/soci/xmchen

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Bio: Xiangming Chen is Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as Visiting Professor in the School of Social Development and Public Policy at Fudan University in Shanghai. His research focuses on the multiple facets of global-local relations in the urban and regional contexts of China and Asia. He has received fellowships and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Exchange, and the Open Society Institute. He is co-author (with Anthony Orum) of The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and Historical Perspective (Blackwell, 2003; Chinese edition from People's Press of Shanghai, 2005) and author of As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). He has published in a number of leading social science and urban studies journals.