Qian, J. 2018. Re-visioning the public in post-reform urban China: poetics and politics in Guangzhou. Singapore: Springer
 

Zhu, H, Qian, J. (Eds.) 2023. New theoretical dialogues on migration in China. London: Routledge
 

Dombroski, K., Goodwin, M., Qian, J., Williams, A., Cloke, P. (Eds.) (2024). Introducing Human Geographies (4th Edition). London Routledge. 

Chen X, Lyu Z, Qian J. Urban adults’ engagement in nature education and its interplay with everyday lived experiences: A case study from Shenzhen, China. People and Nature, online first
 

Gong W, Qian J, He S. Towards a socioenvironmental state: Governing countryside conservation in Hong Kong. Territory, Politics, Governance, online first
 

Qian JX, Liu LJ, Liu YJ. Learning to be an urban state: Urban development as state building and market making in Lhasa, Tibet. Urban Geography, online first
 

Man E, Palmer D, Qian JX (corresponding author). (2025). Community Dynamics and Echo Chambers: A Longitudinal Study of The Belt and Road Initiative in Twittersphere during COVID-19 Pandemic. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12, article No. 1421. 
 

Shen ZJ, Qian JX (corresponding author), Zhu, H, Tian, S. (2025). Framing Urban Living Lab as a multi-dimensional knowledge model: Experiences from Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town Wetland Park. Urban Studies, 65(12), 2436–2454. 
 

Qian JX, Lu YH, Cai YN. (2025). Culture-led rural revitalisation in China: Relational practices of materiality, creativity, and sustainability. Habitat International, 165, 103557.
 

Wang K, Qian JX (corresponding author), Chen C, Zhang H. 2025. Variegated forms of planetary ruralisation: A multiscalar contextual analysis of evolving ruralities of China’s Dike-Pond System. Journal of Rural Studies, 119, 103786.
 

Qian JX, Yang XH, Tang XQ. (2025). Thinking through the everywhereness of borders: Mobile borders, everyday practices, and state logics in Southwest China. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 66(2), 189-216. 
 

Wang Y, Qian, JX (corresponding author), Lei, YS. (2025). Paradoxical Postsecularity in the Making: A Methodological Experiment in the Study of China’s Temple-Centred Urban Redevelopment. Asian Anthropology, 24(1), 18-35.
 

Qian JX, He SJ, Smith D. (2025). Rural-urban interfaces and changing forms of relational and planetary rurality. Journal of Rural Studies, 116, 103614. 
 

He, SJ, Gong, WH, Qian JX (corresponding author) (2025). Unpacking the multifaceted rurality of Hong Kong’s countryside: A social representation approach. Journal of Rural Studies, 114, 103589.
 

Lyu, ZY, Qian, JX (corresponding author). (2025). Social and cultural geographies of economic innovation: Proliferation of meanings, articulation with user cultures, and dialectical power relations. Progress in Human Geography, 49(1), 62-83. 
 

Shen, ZJ, Qian, JX (corresponding author), Zhu, H, Tian, S. (2025). Between binary- and mono-ontologies: The rewilding practice of Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town Wetland Park. Geoforum, 159, 104201. 
 

Qian JX, Ma Y, Tang XQ. (2024). In the frontier zone of market transition: Economic possibilities across the market/non-market divide. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 56(6): 1710-1730. 
 

Ning A, Qian JX (corresponding author). (2024). The “darkest history” must live: Narrating Sino-Japanese relations through museum geopolitics. Tourism Geographies, 26(5): 833-851. 
 

Lu YH, Qian JX (corresponding author) (2024). Social experiments and the praxis of geographical knowledge production: Emerging architectural practices in urban and regional China. Dialogues in Human Geography, 14(2): 297-301. 
 

Zhang H, Qian JX (corresponding author). (2024). Branding the ‘VBA’ (Village Basketball Association) to revitalize a Miao village in China: Platform ruralism in the making. Area, 56(3), e12951.
 

Qian JX, Zeng Y, Tang XQ, Hu XH. (2024) Empowering left-behind places in Southwest China: Participation in coffee value chains as place-based development. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 17(2), 375-392. 
 

Qian JX, Lu YH, Li XP, Tang X. 2024. Counterurban sensibilities in the global countryside: The relational making of rurality and heritage in Xizhou Town, Southwest China. Habitat International, 149, 103109. 
 

Yu Y, Qian JX (corresponding author). (2024) Being mobile in an era of lockdown: Chinese citizens in the U.S. negotiating homo sacer and the state of exception during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social & Cultural Geography, 25(3), 460-477. 
 

Zhang H, Qian JX (corresponding author), Kong L. (2024) “Fly Buddha to Mars”: The co-production between religiosity and science & technology in Longquan Monastery, Beijing. Geoforum, 148, 103948.
 

Wang K, Qian JX (corresponding author), He SJ. (2023) From campaign-style governance to multiple environmentalities: Urban political ecologies of e-waste regulation in Guiyu, China. Urban Geography, 44(7), 1345-1368. 
 

Qian JX, Zhang H, Liu YJ. (2023) Everyday geographies of market transition: Agro-science, socio-technical relations, and the contingencies of market making in peri-urban Lhasa, Tibet. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 48(3), 634-649. 
 

He SJ, Qian JX (corresponding author). (2023) Police and politics in aesthetics-based urban governance: Redevelopment and grassroots struggles in Enninglu, Guangzhou, China. Antipode, 55(3), 853-876. 
 

Qian JX, Wei L. (2023) A prosaic state? Development visions, banal state encounters and indigenous politics in Southwest China. Territory, Politics, Governance, 11(3), 415-433.
 

Lu YH, Qian JX (corresponding author). 2023. Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience. Journal of Rural Studies, 97, 255-268. 
 

Qian JX, Lu YH. 2022. Beyond abstract space: Architectural experiments for dwelling and concrete utopia in urban China. Transactions in Planning and Urban Research, 1(1-2), 152-166. 
 

Qian JX, Lu YH. 2022. Architecture as social laboratory: Modernity, cultural revival, and architectural experiment in peri-urban China. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 46(5), 729-748. 
 

Zhang H, Qian JX (corresponding author). 2022. Reconciling essential and socially constructed selves: Han Chinese traveling to Tibet and the making of assemblage self. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 63(2), 180-193.
 

Wang, K, Qian, JX (corresponding author), He, SJ. 2022. Global destruction networks and hybrid e-waste economies: Practices and embeddedness in Guiyu, China. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 54(3), 533-553. 
 

Qian JX, Zhang H. 2022. University Geography in China: History, opportunities and challenges. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 47(1), 28-33. 
 

Qian, JX. 2022. Towards a perspective of everyday urbanism in researching migrants in urban China. Cities, 120, 103461.
 

Qian JX, Lyu ZY, Guo JWG. 2021. Making a grassroots knowledge economy: Cultural economies and communities of practice in the shanzhai electronics industry. Geoforum, 125, 66-77. 
 

Wei L, Qian JX, Zhu H. 2021. Rethinking indigenous people as tourists: modernity, cosmopolitanism, and the re-invention of indigeneity. Annals of Tourism Research, 89, 103200.
 

Wang K, Qian JX, He SJ. 2021. Contested worldings of e-waste environmental justice: non-human agency and e-waste scalvaging in Guiyu, China. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 111(7), 2165-2184. 
 

Qian JX, An N. 2021. Urban theory between political economy and everyday urbanism: desiring machine and power in a saga of urbanization. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 45(4), 679-695. 
 

Qian JX, Florence E. 2021. Migrant worker museums in China: public cultures of migrant labor in state and grassroots initiatives. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(12), 2706-2724.
 

Zhu, H, Qian JX (corresponding author). 2021. New theoretical dialogues on migration in China: Introduction to the special issue. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(12), 2685-2705.
 

Lu YH, Qian JX (corresponding author). 2020. Towards a material approach in rural geography: Architectural experiments in China's rural renaissance and reconstruction movements. Geoforum, 116, 119-129.
 

Gao Q, Qian JX (corresponding author). 2020. Migrant workers in an era of religious revival: industrial capitalism, labour and Christianity in Shenzhen. The China Quarterly, 214: 62-86.
 

Qian JX. 2020. Geographies of public space: variegated publicness, variegated epistemologies. Progress in Human Geography, 44(1): 77-98.
 

Qian, JX, Wei, L. 2020. Development at the edge of difference: rethinking capital and market relations from Lugu Lake, Southwest China. Antipode, 52(1): 246-269.
 

Qian JX, Lu YH. 2019. On the trail of comparative urbanism: square dance and public space in China. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, NS, 44(4): 692-706.
 

Yin D, Qian JX, Zhu H. 2019. Frontier development in the midst of ecological civilization: unravelling the production of maca in Yunnan, China. Geoforum, 106: 144-154.
 

Qian JX., Guo JWG. 2019. Migrants on exhibition: the emergence of Migrant Worker Museums in China as a neoliberal experiment on governance. Journal of Urban Affairs, 41(3): 305-323.
 

Qian JX, Tang XQ. 2019. Theorising small city as ordinary city: rethinking development and urbanism from China’s southwest frontier. Urban Studies, 56(6): 1215-1233.
 

Qian, JX. 2019. Redeeming the Chinese modernity? Zen Buddhism, culture-led development, and local governance in Xinxing County, China. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 51(1): 187-205.
 

Kong, L., Qian, JX. 2019. Knowledge circulation in urban geography/urban studies, 1990-2010: testing the discourse of Anglo-American hegemony through publication and citation patterns. Urban Studies, 56(1): 44-80.
 

Gao Q, Qian JX (corresponding author), Yuan Z. 2018. Multi-scaled secularization or postsecular present? Christianity and migrant workers in Shenzhen, China. Cultural Geographies, 25(4): 553-570.
 

Qian JX, Kong L. 2018. When secular universalism meets pluralism: religious schools and the politics of school-based management in Hong Kong. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108(3): 794-810.
 

Qian JX, Kong L. 2018. Buddhism Co. Ltd? Epistemology of religiosity, and the re-invention of a Buddhist monastery in Hong Kong. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 36(1): 159-177. 
 

Wei L, Qian JX, Sun JX. 2018. Self-orientalism, joke-work and host-tourist relations. Annals of Tourism Research, 68: 89-99.
 

Qian JX. 2018. The possibilities of cosmopolitan dialogue. Dialogues in Human Geography, 8(2): 138-142.
 

Yuan ZJ, Qian JX. Zhu H. 2017. The Xinjiang Class: Multi-ethnic encounters in an eastern coastal city. The China Quarterly, 232: 1094-1115.
 

He, SJ, Qian, JX. 2017. From an emerging market to a multifaceted urban society: Urban China studies. Urban Studies, 54(4): 827-846.
 

Qian JX. 2017. Beyond heteronormativity? Gay cruising, closeted experiences and self-disciplining subject in People’s Park, Guangzhou. Urban Geography, 38(5): 771-794.
 

Qian, JX, Tang, XQ. 2017. Dilemma of modernity: interrogating cross-border ethnic identities at China’s Southwest frontier. Area, 49(1): 52-59.
 

Qian, JX, Zhu, H. 2016. Writing Tibet as Han Chinese sojourners: the discourses, practices and politics of place in an era of post-reform development. The Geographical Journal, 182(4): 418-428.
 

Qian, JX, Zhu, H. 2016. Han Chinese “drifters” in Lhasa: The ambivalent cultural politics of Tibetanness amidst China’s geographies of modernity. Social & Cultural Geography, 17(7): 892-912. 
 

Qian, JX. 2015. No right to the street: motorcycle taxis, discourse production and the regulation of unruly mobility. Urban Studies, 52(15): 2922-2947.
 

Zhu, H., Qian, JX. 2015. “Drifting” in Lhasa: cultural encounter, contested modernity and the negotiation of Tibetanness. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 105(1): 144-161. 
 

Qian, JX. 2014. Public space in non-Western contexts: practices of publicness and the socio-spatial entanglement. Geography Compass, 8(11): 834-847. 
 

Qian, JX. 2014. From performance to politics? Constructing public and counterpublic in the singing of red songs. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 17(5): 602-628.
 

Yuan, ZJ, Qian, JX, Zhu, H. 2014. Between God and Caesar? Christianity, ethnic identity and the resistant politics in Shimenkan, China. Environment and Planning A, 46(7): 1620-1637. 
 

Qian, JX. 2014. Performing the public man: cultures and identities in China’s grassroots leisure class. City & Community, 13(1): 26-48. 
 

Qian, JX, Zhu, H. 2014. Chinese urban migrants’ sense of place: emotional attachment, identity formation, and place dependence in the city and community of Guangzhou, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 55(1): 81-101. 
 

Qian, JX. 2014. Narrating the trope of abnormality: the making of closeted experiences in gay public cruising. Geoforum, 52: 157-166. 
 

Qian, JX. 2014. Deciphering the prevalence of neighborhood enclosure in post-1949 Chinese cities: a critical synthesis. Journal of Planning Literature, 29(1): 3-19. 
 

Qian, JX, He, SJ, Liu, L. 2013. Aestheticisation, rent-seeking, and rural gentrification amidst China's rapid urbanisation: the case of Xiaozhou village, Guangzhou. Journal of Rural Studies, 32: 331-345. 
 

Qian, JX, Qian, LY, Zhu, H. 2012. Representing the imagined city: place and the politics of difference during Guangzhou's 2010 language conflict. Geoforum, 43(5): 905-915. 
 

Qian, JX, Wei, L, Zhu, H. 2012. Consuming the tourist gaze: imaginative geographies and the reproduction of sexuality in Lugu Lake. Geografiska Annaler Series B: Human Geography, 94(2): 107-124.
 

Qian, JX, He, SJ. 2012. Rethinking social power and the right to the city amidst China's emerging urbanism. Environment and Planning A, 44(12): 2801-2816. 
 

Qian, JX, Qian, LY, Zhu, H. 2012. Subjectivity, modernity and the politics of difference in a peri-urban village in China: towards a progressive sense of place? Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 30(6): 1064-1082. 
 

Qian, JX, Feng, D, Zhu, H. 2012. Tourism-driven urbanization in China's small town development: a case study of Zhapo Town, 1986-2003. Habitat International, 32(1): 152-160. 
 

Qian, JX, Zhu, H, Liu, Y. 2011. Investigating urban migrants' sense of place from a multi-scalar perspective. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 31 (2): 170-183. 

Qian JX, Zhang H. 2025. Religious economies: Insights from Buddhist innovations in China. In: Woods O, Kong L, Tse J (eds.), Handbook of the Geographies of Religion. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 779-806. 
 

Qian, J., & Williams, A. 2024. Knowing area geographies. In: Dombroski, K., Goodwin, M., Qian, J., Williams, A., & Cloke, P. (eds.), Introducing Human Geographies, fourth edition. London: Routledge, 186-198. 
 

Qian, J., & Williams, A. 2024. Knowing cultural geographies. In: Dombroski, K., Goodwin, M., Qian, J., Williams, A., & Cloke, P. (eds.), Introducing Human Geographies, fourth edition. London: Routledge, pp. 295-208. 
 

Wang, K., Qian, J., He, S. (2023) From state entrepreneurialism to state-led ecological civilisation: changing dispositifs of governing e-waste metabolism and ‘cyborg' urbanisation in China's e-waste cities. In: Zhang, F., Wu, F. (eds.), Handbook on China’s Urban Environmental Governance, pp. 323-339. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 
 

Florence E, Qian JX. 2022. “Make Contributions and Offer Your Youth for Tomorrow's Dream”: The Establishment of the Shenzhen Migrant Workers Museum. In: Franceschini I, Sorace C (eds.), Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour, pp. 598-607. London and New York: Verso Books.
 

Qian JX, Ling J, and He SJ. 2021. Making cities and regions in globalizing East Asia. In: Orum A, Ruiz-Tagle J, Haddock V (eds.), Companion to Urban and Regional Studies, pp. 21-42. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. 
 

Zhang H, Qian JX. 2020. This-worldly Buddhism: social media and religiosity in China. In: Gomes C, Woods O, Kong L (eds.), Religion, Hypermobility and Digital Media in Global Asia: Faith, Flows and Fellowship, pp. 95-121. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press.
 

Qian JX. 2020. Urban citizenship. In: Kobayashi, A (ed.), Ho, ELE (Section Editor), International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, 2nd Edition, Vol. 14, pp. 33-37. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
 

Qian JX. 2019. Place Politics. In Orum, A (ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Urban and Regional Studies, Vol.3, pp.1479-1483. Oxford and Chichester, UK: Wiley Blackwell. 
 

Qian JX, He, SJ. 2019. The right to the city: theoretical outline and reflections on migrants’ activism in post-reform urban China. In: T Schwanen, R van Kempen (Eds.), Handbook of Urban Geography, pp. 396-410. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 
 

Qian JX. 2019. Making urban public space amidst modern Chinese urbanism. In: Yep, R, Wang, J & Johnson, T. (eds.), Handbook on Urban Development in China, pp. 156-170. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 
 

Kong L, Qian JX. 2018. Dialogue with religious life in Asia. In: Beaumont, J (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Postsecularity, pp. 258-268. London: Routledge.
 

Qian JX. 2018. Towards critical urbanism: urban public space in modern China. In: M Jayne (Ed.), Chinese urbanism: critical perspectives, pp. 17-29. London: Routledge.
 

Lyu ZY, Qian JX. 2018. A coffeehouse neo-tribe in the making: exploring a fluid cultural public space in post-reform Chinese urbanism. In: A Hardy et al. (Eds.), Neo-Tribes - Consumption, Leisure and Tourism, pp. 51-67. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
 

He SJ, Qian JX. 2017. New Frontiers in Researching Chinese Cities. In: J Hannigan, G W Richards (Eds.), Handbook of New Urban Studies, pp. 462-479. London: Sage.
 

Qian JX. 2016. Disciplined mobility and migrant subalternity: the politics of motorcycle taxis in Guangzhou. In: D G Wang, S J He (Eds.), Mobility, Sociability and Wellbeing of Urban Living, pp. 23-48. Berlin: Springer.