Xiangming Chen

Xiangming Chen served as the founding Dean and Director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College, Connecticut, USA during 2007-19, and is currently the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology at Trinity College. He is also a distinguished guest professor in the School of Social Development and Public Policy at Fudan University in Shanghai and an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of the Shanghai Academic of Social Sciences. His (co)authored and co-edited books include The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and Historical Perspective (Blackwell Publishers, 2003; Chinese edition, 2005), As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), Shanghai Rising: State Power and Local Transformations in a Global Megacity (University of Minnesota Press, 2009; Chinese edition, 2009), Rethinking Global Urbanism: Comparative Insights from Secondary Cities (Routledge, 2012; paperback, 2013), Introduction to Cities: How Place and Space Shape Human Experience (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012; second edition, 2018), Confronting Urban Legacy: Rediscovering Hartford and New England's Forgotten Cities (Lexington Books, 2013; paperback, 2015), Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai (Routledge, 2015; Chinese edition, 2016, Korean edition, 2017), and The Belt and Road Initiative as Epochal Regionalisation (Routledge, 2020).