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Professor CHUNG King Lam, Calvin (鍾璟霖教授)

 
 

Assistant Professor

BSSc (CUHK)
MPhil (CUHK)
PhD (UCL)
FRGS
AFHEA

(852) 3943-9791
calvin.chung@cuhk.edu.hk


Teaching Fields

Theories of global political economy
Cities and global political economy
Global environmental politics

Research Interests

Geographies of state restructuring
Politics and practice of spatial planning
Political ecology and environmental policy

Services/Posts

Internal:
Seminar Coordinator, Department of Geography and Resource Management (08/2020 to present)
Member, Staff-Student Consultative Committee, Department of Geography and Resource Management (08/2020 to present)
Member, MSSc in Global Political Economy Programme Committee, Faculty of Social Science (08/2019 to present)

External:
Editorial Manager, Asian Geographer (05/2018 to present)

Selected Publications

Day, T., Chang, I.-C. C., Chung, C. K. L., Doolittle, W. E., Housel, J., & McDaniel, P. N. (forthcoming). The immediate impact of COVID-19 on postsecondary teaching and learning. The Professional Geographer.[Link to 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. [Link to 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. [Link to full paper]

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. [Link to 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.

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.

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. [Link to 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 Assessment185(12), 9683–9685.

Research Projects

Principal investigator. More data, better governance? The central-local politics of environmental data in China. Early Career Scheme, Research Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong. (2021–23, HK$891,700)

Principal supervisor. 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, HK$85,650).

Principal investigator. Health by design in contest: The planning politics of healthy city in China. Direct Grant, Faculty of Social Science, CUHK.(2020–21, HK$99,377)

Principal investigator. The greening of urban governance in China: A case study of greenway development in the Pearl River Delta cities. Hong Kong Research Grant 2016, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). (2016–17, £2,500)

Co-investigator. How can the dragon soar? An interdisciplinary approach to China’s post-reform dialectics of state, market and space. Research Sustainability of Major RGC Funding Schemes, CUHK. (2019–21, HK$680,000)