Faculty Member
Prof. Henry YEUNG Wai-Chung
Choh-Ming Li Professor of Geography and Resource Management
B.A. (NUS)
PhD (Manchester)
(852) 3943-6645
henryyeung@cuhk.edu.hk Download CV >RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Theory and explanation in Geography (ongoing)
- Economic integration within China’s Greater Bay Area and its geographical linkages with Southeast Asia (2025-2029)
- Geopolitics and the changing industrial organization of semiconductor global production networks in the post-pandemic Northeast and Southeast Asia (TBC 2026-2030)
- Global Production Networks, Global Value Chains and East Asian Development (2014-2020)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Five most representative publications in last five years (i.e. 2020 – 2024)
Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2024), Theory and Explanation in Geography, RGS-IBG Book Series, Chichester: Wiley. Published in Oct 2023.
Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2024), ‘Method in relational-explanatory geography’, Progress in Human Geography, 48(4), 391-420.
Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2023), ‘Troubling economic geography: new directions in the post-pandemic world’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 48(4), 672-680.
Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (June 2022), Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia, Innovation and Technology in the World Economy Series, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2021), ‘Regional worlds: from related variety in regional diversification to strategic coupling in global production networks’, Regional Studies, 55(6), 989-1010. Invited as the Regional Studies Annual Lecture 2020.
Five representative publications beyond the recent five-year period.
Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2019), ‘Rethinking mechanism and process in the geographical analysis of uneven development’, Dialogues in Human Geography, 9(3), 226-55.
Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2016), Strategic Coupling: East Asian Industrial Transformation in the New Global Economy, Cornell Studies in Political Economy Series, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Coe, Neil M. and Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2015), Global Production Networks: Theorizing Economic Development in an Interconnected World, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Yeung, Henry Wai-chung and Coe, Neil M. (2015), ‘Toward a dynamic theory of global production networks’, Economic Geography, 91(1), 29-58.
Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2005), ‘Rethinking relational economic geography’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 30(1), 37-51.
Teaching Fields
- Human Geography
- Development of Geographical Thought
- Economic Geography
- Regional Studies
- East Asia
- Theory and method in Geography
Research interests
- Theory and method in Geography
- Transnational corporations from East Asia
- Global production networks and urban and regional development
- The political economy of development in East Asia
Services/ Posts
Editorships
Economic Geography, Clark University/Wiley. Associate Editor (2001–2003) and Co–Editor (2003–now)
Environment and Planning A, Sage. Co–Editor (2001–now)
Review of International Political Economy, Routledge. Co–Editor (2004–April 2013) and International Advisory Board (2002–2004; 2013–now).
Global Network: A Journal of Transnational Affairs, Wiley. Asia–Pacific Editor (2001–2022; Editorial Board member 2022-2025)
Editorial board memberships on 17 other international journals in the fields of human geography, management, urban studies, area studies, and general social science, such as Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Eurasian Geography and Economics, European Urban and Regional Studies, and Regional Studies
External Committees and International Organizations
2023-2025: Chair, International Political Economy Distinguished Scholar Award Committee, International Studies Association
Administrative Service in NUS (2010-2024)
Chair (2011–2012; 2014-2024), Faculty Promotion and Tenure Committee, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Vice Dean (Academic Personnel), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (2015-2016)
Acting Head, Department of Geography (2010-2011; 2018-2019)
Awards
Winner of the 2024 RSA Best Book Award , sponsored by the Regional Studies Association, February 2025; Winner of 2024 ISA Asia-Pacific Distinguished Book Award sponsored by the International Studies Association, March 2024; winner of the Silver Medal in the Business Theory Category from the 2023 Axiom Business Book Awards, March 2023. For Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia, Stanford University Press (June 2022).
The 2022 Sir Peter Hall Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Field of Regional Studies: “acknowledging and celebrating excellence in the field of regional studies”, Regional Studies Association, United Kingdom, November 2022.
Winner of the 2018 Regional Studies Association Best Paper Award in Area Development and Policy, September 2018.
The inaugural University Research Recognition Award 2018, National University of Singapore, May 2018.
The AAG Distinguished Scholarship Honors for 2018 “in recognition of his extraordinary scholarship and leadership in the discipline”, the American Association of Geographers, United States, December 2017.
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Murchison Award 2017 for “pioneering publications in the field of globalisation”, United Kingdom, April 2017.
Individual Residency Fellowship, the Bellagio Study and Conference Center (Italy), the Rockefeller Foundation, USA, November 2012.
Elected Academician, the Academy of Social Sciences, UK, September 2012.
