Xue Li Editor & Author

Xiangming Chen served as the founding Dean and Director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College in Connecticut from 2007 to 2019. He is Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology at Trinity College and a guest professor at Fudan University, Shanghai. He has published extensively on urbanization and globalization with a focus on China and Asia and conducted policy research for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, OECD and UNCTAD.

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Julie Tian Miao is a Senior Lecturer in Property and Economic Development in the University of Melbourne and also an honorary Research Fellow in Shanghai Jiaotong and Henan Universities, China. Dr Miao studied economic geography and planning at the University College London. Her research has been developed along two innovative fields on the ‘intrapreneurial state’ and at the interface between housing, labor and the knowledge economy. She has published widely on these themes and conducted policy research for the Chinese Ministry of Land and Resources Management, Scottish Cities Alliance in the UK and the Victorian Government in Australia.

Xue Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Fudan University. Her research interests are in political sociology, social inequality and stratification, and global analysis. Her current projects involve social consequences of the fiscal reform, and how economic globalization reshapes social inequality in China. Her research work has been published in American Sociological Review, Social Sciences of China, and other peer-reviewed journals.