Hsing, You-Tien
Submitted by cmjones on February 27, 2007 - 12:49pm.
Name of Person:
You-Tien Hsing
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Department:
Geography, Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
You-tien Hsing's research and teaching has been focused on political economy of development in East Asia and China. She has published works on cultural-historical processes of capital flows in East Asia. She is now working on the territorial politics of land and state-society dynamism in Chinese cities and rural towns
Achievements:
Hsing’s research and teaching has been focused on the political economy of development in East Asia, especially China. Her book, Making Capitalism in China: The Taiwan Connection (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) analyzes the cultural and institutional configuration in the processes of Taiwanese direct investment in southern China in the 1990s. In the last few years she extended this work in two directions. The first one concerns the politics of growth in Chinese cities and towns. In her upcoming book temporarily entitled The Politics of Land Development in Chinese Cities, Hsing discusses the issue of land rights and the territorial power consolidation of the local state in China’s late socialist transformation. The second project, which she started this year, focuses on telecommunication as a technological, political-economic, as well as social-cultural platform in China’s interaction with the global.