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Sen-Dou Chang
Sen-Dou Chang, Professor
Research Interests: Regional geography, urban geography, cultural geography; China.
Phone: (808) 956-8465
Email: sdchang@hawaii.edu
Education
B.A. Shanghai University
M.A. University of Wisconsin
Ph.D. University of Washington
Research interests
Regional geography, urban geography, cultural geography; China.
- Urbanization, population redistribution, labor transfer, rural development, and spatial issues of socio-economic development in China.
- Constraints of land, water, and energy resources on China's sustainable development.
- The impact of economic growth on China's environment.
Publications
1999. Book review of The River Dragon Has Come by Dai Qing, Armonk, New York: M.E.Sharpe (1998), in China Review International, 6(l), spring l999, 91-96.
1998. "Beijing:Perspectives on Preservation, Environment, and Development" Cities, l5(l) Spring l998: l3-25.
1996. "Floating Population: An Informal Process of Urbanization in China" International Journal of Population Geography 2(3) September l996: l97-2l4.
1994. "The Economic Performance and Regional Systems of Chinese Cities", (co-author with Won Bae Kim), Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1 (January 1994): 58-77.
1992. "Tianjin: The Reviving Metropolis in North China" in Chinese Coastal Cities, ed. by Yeung Yue-man, Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, pp. 42-68.
1991. "Urban Growth and Regional Development in the Yellow Sea Rim" in Regional Development in the Yellow Sea Rim, ed. by Won Bae Kim, Honolulu: East-West Center Population Institute, pp. 321- 338.
1991. "A Preliminary Analysis of China's Urban System", co-author with Won Bae Kim, in A Macro-perspective of China's Urbanization Strategy (Zhongguo chengshihua daolu hongguan yanjiu), ed. by Zhang Pingchen et al., Harbin: Heilongjiang People's Publications, pp. 393-407.
1990. "The Urbanization of Rural China" (co- author with R. Yin-Wang Kwok), in Chinese Urban Reform: What Model Now? ed. by R. Yin-Wang Kwok and William L. Parish, Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, pp. 140-157.
2003 Book review of The Lhasa Atlas: Traditional Tibetan Architecture
and Townscape by Knud Larsen and Amud Sindling-Larsen, Shambhala
Publications, Boston, 200l, l80 pp. in Urban Morphology 7(2),
P. l23-140.2003 "Community as Catalyst: The Chinese in Honolulu" in The Chinese
Diaspora, edited by Laurence J.C. Ma and Carolyn Cartier,
London: Rowman & Littlefield Publications, pp.293-3l0.
Graduate Advising
I am currently advising students working on topics related to urbanization, labor transfer, rural industries, and inland development of China. These students are in geography, economics, sociology, and Asian Studies at UH.
