本系職員
鍾璟霖教授
Assistant Professor
BSSc Geography and Resource Management (CUHK)
MPhil Geography and Resource Management (CUHK)
PhD Planning Studies (UCL)
FRGS
FeRSA
AFHEA
(852) 3943-9791
calvin.chung@cuhk.edu.hkRESEARCH PROJECTS
As principal investigator (selected)
On the way to zero waste? A spatialised sociotechnical analysis of waste management transition in Chinese cities. General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong. (2025-27, HKD 750,900)
Everyone goes green: A structure-technology nexus analysis of China’s municipal green bond issuance. General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong. (2024-26, HKD 689,400)
More data, better governance? The central-local politics of environmental data in China. Early Career Scheme, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong. (2021-24, HKD 891,700)
Financing urban green projects in China: An urban political ecology perspective. Direct Grant, Faculty of Social Science, CUHK. (2022-23, HKD 100,000)
Health by design in contest: The planning politics of healthy city in China. Direct Grant, Faculty of Social Science, CUHK. (2020-22, HK$99,377)
As co-investigator (selected)
Green gentrification studies in China’s global city: Measures, mechanism and effects. General Programme, National Natural Science Foundation of China. (2024-27, CNY 460,000)
Zoning urbanisation: A global comparison of sustainable growth management. Research Development Fund, Worldwide Universities Network. (2024-25, GBP 10,000)
Taming the dragons: A structure–technology nexus analysis of China’s New Spatial Planning System. General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong. (2023-25, HKD 781,384)
Big data for big land grab? A discursive–material nexus analysis of big data-themed land development in China’s inland Data Valley. General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong. (2022-24, HKD 916,896)
The role of neighbourhood governance in cities in China and the UK amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. National Social Science Fund of China. (2021-24, CNY 200,000)
Teaching grant
Internationalisation at home through introducing virtual field trips to geography teaching and learning. Grant Scheme for Internationalization of Curriculum, Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant, CUHK. (2021-22, HKD 85,650).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
(* for corresponding author)
Teo, S. S. K., Chung, C. K. L.*, & Wang, Z. (forthcoming). Theorising with urban China: Methodological and tactical experiments for a more global urban studies. Dialogues in Human Geography. [Full paper]
Teo, S. S., Chung, C. K. L.*, & Wang, Z. (forthcoming). Theorising (with) urban China, across the border: Two sides of the same coin. Dialogues in Human Geography.
Chung, C. K. L.*, & Dai, J. (2024). Rural greenways for urban environmental demands: Environmentalised urbanisation in the Pearl River Delta. Transactions in Planning and Urban Research, 3(3), 202-215. [Full paper]
Wang, K., Chung, C. K. L., Xu, J.*, & Cheung, A. C. K. (2024). Can the locked-in be unlocked? University stratification in China under state-led quest for world-class university. Higher Education Policy, 37, 1-20. [Full paper]
Wang, K., Chung, C. K. L., Xu, J.*, & Long, Z. (2024). Reconceiving China’s urban economic transition through symbiotic state-firm dynamics: An integrated perspective from urban governance and global production networks. Cities, 150, 104974. [Full paper]
Xu, J., & Chung, C. K. L.* (2024). Of scale and discourse: China’s ecological civilization and the struggle for development in Anshun. Urban Geography, 45(6), 986-1005. [Full paper]
Chung, C. K. L.*, & Dai, J. (2023). Negotiating urban sustainability on the ground: China’s greenway development as land politics. In F. Zhang, & F. Wu (Eds.), Handbook on China’s Urban Environmental Governance (pp. 257-270). Edward Elgar. [Full chapter]
Day, T.*, Chung, C. K. L., Doolittle, W. E., Housel, J., & McDaniel, P. N. (2023). Beyond COVID chaos: What postsecondary educators learned from the online pivot. The Professional Geographer, 75(1), 14-30. [Full paper] [Digest on The Conversation]
Xu, J., Li, A.*, Chung, C. K. L., & Yue, Y. (2023). Mapping the unmapped: Investigating big data companies via online sources. The Professional Geographer, 75(5), 816-826. [Full paper]
Zhou, Z.*, Chung, C. K. L., & Xu, J. (2023). Geographies of green industries: The interplay of firms, technologies, and the environment. Progress in Human Geography, 47(5), 680-698. [Full paper]
Xu, J., Chung, C. K. L.*, Yang, H., & Guan, H. (2022). New sectors, new spaces, and China’s evolving state–firm relations. The China Review, 22(4), 1-18. [Full paper]
Xu, J., Zou, G.*, & Chung, C. K. L. (2022). (Re)shaping urban governance through state-business interaction in inland China’s emerging industries. The China Review, 22(4), 77-104. [Full paper]
Zheng, S., Qin, X., Chung, C. K. L., Pan, M., & Li, X.* (2022). State–firm relations in knowledge sourcing for regional innovation: The rise of the robotics industry in Dongguan, China. The China Review, 22(4), 19-44. [Full paper]
Chung, C. K. L.*, & Xu, J. (2021). Scalar politics of urban sustainability: Governing the Chinese city in the era of ecological civilisation. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 46(3), 689-703. [Full paper]
Zhang, F., Chung, C. K. L.*, Lu, T., & Wu, F. (2021). The role of the local government in China’s urban sustainability transition: A case study of Wuxi’s solar development. Cities, 117, 103294. [Full paper]
Xu, J.*, Chung, C. K. L., & Zhang, M. (2021). Governing mega-city regions in China: One region, many systems. In A. G. O. Yeh, G. S. C. Lin, & F. F. Yang (Eds.), Mega-city region development in China (pp. 226-247). Routledge. [Full chapter]
Day, T.*, Chang, I.-C. C., Chung, C. K. L., Doolittle, W. E., Housel, J., & McDaniel, P. N. (2021). The immediate impact of COVID-19 on postsecondary teaching and learning. The Professional Geographer, 73, 1-13. [Full paper]
Chung, C. K. L.*, Xu, J.*, & Zhang, M.* (2020). Geographies of Covid-19: How space and virus shape each other. Asian Geographer, 37(2), 99-116. [Full paper]
Shao, Z.*, Xu, J., Chung, C. K. L., Spit, T., & Wu, Q. (2020). State as both the regulator and the player: The politics of transfer of development rights in China. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 44(1), 38-54. [Full paper] (Top Cited Article of the journal, 2020-21)
Zhang, F.*, Chung, C. K. L., & Yin, Z. (2020). Green infrastructure for China’s new urbanisation: A case study of greenway development in Maanshan. Urban Studies, 57(3), 508-524. [Full paper]
Zhang, M., Xu, J., & Chung, C. K. L.* (2020). Scalar politics and uneven accessibility to intercity railway in the Pearl River Delta, China. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110(4), 1260-1277. [Full paper]
Zhang, M.*, Xu, J., & Chung, C. K. L. (2020). Politics of scale, bargaining power and its spatial impact: Planning for intercity railway in the Pearl River Delta. The China Quarterly, 243, 676-700. [Full paper]
Chung, C. K. L.*, Zhang, F., & Wu, F. (2018). Negotiating green space with landed interests: The urban political ecology of greenway in the Pearl River Delta, China. Antipode, 50(4), 891-909. [Full paper]
He, S., Chung, C. K. L., Bayrak, M. M., & Wang, W.* (2018). Administrative boundary changes and regional inequality in provincial China. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 11(1), 103-120.
Chung, C. K. L.*, & Xu, J. (2016). Scale as both material and discursive: A view through China’s rescaling of urban planning system for environmental governance. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 34(8), 1404–1424.
Chung, C. K. L.* (2015). Upscaling in progress: The reinvention of urban planning as an apparatus of environmental governance in China. In T. C. Wong, S. S. Han, & H. Zhang (Eds.), Population mobility, urban planning and management in China (pp. 171–187). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Wang, L.*, Shen, J., & Chung, C. K. L. (2015). City profile: Suzhou – A Chinese city under transformation. Cities, 44, 60–72.
Xu, J.*, & Chung, C. K. L. (2014). ‘Environment’ as an evolving concept in China’s urban planning system. International Development Planning Review, 36(4), 391–412. (Awarded the journal’s best paper in 2014)
Lam, K. C.*, Ma, W., Chan, P. K., Hui, W. C., Chung, K. L., Chung, Y. T. T., Wong, C. Y., & Lin, H. (2013). Relationship between road traffic noisescape and urban form in Hong Kong. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 185(12), 9683–9685.
Teaching Fields
- Theories of global political economy (GPEC5801)
- Environmental politics and sustainability (GRMD1402, GPEC5817)
- Smart city policies and governance (GRMD4503)
Research interests
- Politics of urban sustainability
- Greenway planning and governance
- Urban sustainability transition
- Theorising from urban China
Services/ Posts
Internal: GRM
- Board Secretary (08/2021 – present)
- Deputy Chair, Research Committee (08/2024 – present)
- Member, Green Committee (Aug 2023 – present)
- Member, Library Committee (Aug 2022 – present)
- Member, Staff-Student Consultative Committee (Aug 2020 – present)
- Seminar Coordinator (08/2020 – 07/2022)
Internal: Others
- Member, Survey and Behavioural Research Ethics Sub-Committee of Social Science (08/2024 – present)
- College Coordinator for GRM, United College (08/2024 – present)
- Member, Campus Planning Committee, United College (06/2022 – present)
- Member, MSSc in Global Political Economy Programme Committee (08/2019 – present)
External
- Interim Co-chair, Urban Geography Research Group, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) (12/2023 – 09/2024)
- Events and Conference Officer, Urban Geography Research Group, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) (12/2022 – present)
- Board Member, Asian Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers (10/2021 – present)
- Associate Editor, Asian Geographer (11/2020 to present)
SUGGESTED RESEARCH TOPICS FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS
Politics of urbanisation
The study of how the planning and development of cities are shaped by a constellation of actors, institutions and discourses at and across different sites and scales; those with a focus on the themes of urban and regional infrastructure and data-driven governance are particularly welcomed.
Political ecology and environmental governance
The study of how environmental changes at various sites and scales both shape and are shaped by political, economic, social and cultural conditions; those attempting to combine qualitative and quantitative approaches for their research are particularly welcomed.
