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Prof. George C.S. Lin
Professor
BSc, MSc(Zhongshan), MA(Akron), PhD(Brit Col)

Office
: HC305
Phone
: 2859-7023
Email: gcslin@hkucc.hku.hk

Research Interests
Urban and regional development in China; land property rights in China; transnationalism and Chinese diaspora; social geography of China; public policy and regional development; economic geography; Hong Kong-Guangdong integration.

Most Recent Publications
Books:

Lin, G.C.S. (2009) Developing China: Land, Politics, and Social Conditions. London: Routledge (342pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-41322-0).

McGee, T.G., Lin, G.C.S., Wang, M.Y.L., Marton, A., and Wu, J. (2007)  China's Urban Space: Development under Market Socialism. London: Routledge.

Lin, G.C.S. (1997)  Red Capitalism in South China: Growth and Development of the Pearl River Delta. Vancouver: UBC Press.

 

Journal Articles:

Lin, G.C.S. (2007)  "Reproducing Spaces of Chinese Urbanization: New City-Based and Land-Centered Urban Transformation." Urban Studies. 44(9):1827-1855. London: Routledge.

Lin, G.C.S. (2007)  "Chinese Urbanism in Question: State, Society, and the Reproduction of Urban Spaces." Urban Geography. 28(1): 7-29. Columbia, MD: Bellwether.

Smart, A. and Lin, G.C.S. (2007)  "Local Capitalisms, Local Citizenship and Translocality: Rescaling from Below in the Pearl River Delta Region, China" International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 31(2):280-302. Oxford: Blackwell.

Lin, G.C.S. (2006)  "Peri-urbanism in Globalizing China: A Study of New Urbanism in Dongguan." Eurasian Geography and Economics. 47(1): 28-53. Columbia, MD: Bellwether.

Lin, G.C.S. and Tse, P.H.M. (2005) "Flexible sojourning in the era of globalization: cross-border population mobility in the Hong Kong-Guangdong border region." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 29(4):867-894. Oxford: Blackwell.

Lin, G.C.S. and Ho, S.P.S. (2005)  "The state, land system, and land development processes in contemporary China." Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 95(2):411-436. Oxford: Blackwell.

Lin, G.C.S. (2004)  Toward a Post-Socialist City? Economic tertiarization and urban reformation in the Guangzhou Metropolis, China Eurasian Geography and Economics. 45(1):18-44.  Columbia, MD: Bellwether.

Lin, G.C.S. (2004)  The Chinese globalizing cities: national centers of globalization and urban transformationProgress in Planning. 61(3):143-157.  London: Elsevier.

Ho, S.P.S. and Lin, G.C.S. (2004)  Converting land to non-agricultural use in China's coastal provinces-Evidence from JiangsuModern China. 30(1):81-112,  Los Angeles: Sage.

Ho, S.P.S. and Lin, G.C.S. (2004)  Non-Agricultural Land Use in Post-Reform China The China Quarterly. No. 179: 758-781. Cambridge: Cambridge University.

Smart, A. and Lin, G.C.S. (2004)  Border Management and Growth Coalition in the Hong Kong Transborder RegionIdentities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. 11(3):377-396.  London: Routledge.

Lin, G.C.S. and Ho, S.P.S. (2003)  China's land: Insights from the 1996 land survey Land Use Policy. 20(2):87-107.  London: Elsevier.

Ho, S.P.S. and Lin, G.C.S. (2003)  Emerging land markets in rural and urban China: Policy and practicesThe China Quarterly. No. 175: 681-707.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Yeung, H.W.C. and Lin, G.C.S. (2003)  Theorizing economic geographies of Asia Economic Geography. 79(2):107-128.  Worcester, MA: Clark University.

Lin, G.C.S. (2002)  Changing discourses in China Geography: A narrative evaluation.  Environment and Planning A 34(10):1809-1831. London, UK: Pion.

Lin, G.C.S. (2002)  Transnationalism and the Geography of Sub-ethnicity in Hong Kong.  Urban Geography 23(1):57-84.  Columbia, MD: Bellwether.

Lin, G.C.S. (2002)  The growth and structural change of Chinese cities: a contextual and geographic analysis.  Cities 19(5):299-316.  London, UK: Elsevier.

Lin, G.C.S. (2002)  Hong Kong and the Globalization of the Chinese Diaspora: A geographical perspective.  Asia-Pacific Viewpoint 43(1):63-91.  Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

Lin, G.C.S. (2002)  Urbanization and the Changing System of Cities in Socialist China.  Journal of Population Studies 24:89-139.  Taipei: National Taiwan University.

Lin, G.C.S. and Wei, D.Y.H. (2002)  China's restless urban landscapes 1: new challenges for theoretical reconstruction.  Environment and Planning A 34(9):1535-1544. London, UK: Pion.

Wei, Y.H.D. and Lin, G.C.S. (2002)  China's restless urban landscapes 2: socialist state, globalization, and urban change.  Environment and Planning A 34(10):1721-1724.

Lin, G.C.S. (2001)  Regional integration in South China: Processes and consequences in a local economy of the Pearl River Delta.  Asian Perspective 25(4):93-125.  Korea: Kyungnam University.

Lin, G.C.S. (2001) Evolving spatial form of urban-rural interaction in the Pearl River Delta, China. Professional Geographer 53(1): 56-70. Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers. Malden, MA, USA: Blackwell.   

Lin, G.C.S. (2001) Metropolitan development in a transitional socialist economy: Spatial restructuring in the Pearl River Delta, China. Urban Studies 38(3): 383-406. London, UK: Carfax. 

Lin, G.C.S. (2000)  State, capital, and space in China in an age of volatile globalization.  Environment and Planning A.  32(3):455-471. London, UK: Pion. 

Lin, G.C.S. (1999)  State policy and spatial restructuring in post-reform China, 1978-1995.  International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 23(4):670-696, Oxford, UK: Blackwell. 

Lin, G.C.S. (1999)  Transportation and metropolitan development in China's Pearl River Delta: The experience of Panyu.  Habitat International 23(2):249-270, Exeter, UK: Elsevier. 

Lin, G.C.S. (1998)  China's industrialization with controlled urbanization: Anti-urbanism or urban-biased?  Issues & Studies  34(6): 98-116. 

Lin, G.C.S. (1997)  Transformation of A Rural Economy in the Zhujiang Delta, China,  The China Quarterly  149:56-80, London, UK: Oxford University Press. 

Lin, G.C.S. (1994)  Changing Theoretical Perspectives on Urbanization in Asian Developing Countries,  Third World Planning Review 16(1):1-23, Liverpool,UK: Liverpool University Press. 

Scholarly Journal Editorship
Editorial Board Member Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Editorial Board Member The Canadian Geographer
Editorial Board Member Urban Geography
Co-guest-editor Economic Geography (April 2003)
Co-guest-editor Environment and Planning A (Sep and Oct. 2002)
Guest-editor Progress in Planning (June 2004)
Associate Editor Eurasian Geography and Economics
Associate Editor Asian Geographer
 
Courses Taught
GEOG1011 Introduction to human geography
GEOG2001 Economic geography
GEOG2002 China: development issues
GEOG2062 China: the land and the people
GEOG7117 Public Policy and Regional Development
GEOG7122 Dissertation in China Development Studies
GEOG7123 Directed Project in China Development Studies