Positions

Research Areas research areas

Overview

  • Dr. Tu Lan has been a faculty member at the University of New Hampshire since 2015. Dr. Lan specializes in economic geography, with research interests encompassing global production networks, industrial districts, political economy, and social theory. His work focuses on the transformation of the global economy and the evolving economic relations between China and other countries. Specifically, he investigates industrial upgrading in China, the international operations of Chinese firms, and the roles of migrant workers, including students and knowledge workers, as well as entrepreneurs.
  • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title
    2024 Desirable and disposable: Tracing the racialization of Chinese students in American higher educationGeoforum.  156:104127-104127. 2024
    2022 The new whole state system: Reinventing the chinese state to promote innovationEnvironment and Planning A.  55:201-221. 2022
    2021 The New Whole State System: State-led Financialization, State-Private Fusion, and China’s Innovation Policies after 2008 2021
    2021 Geography of government support in China: a case study of college studentsAREA DEVELOPMENT AND POLICY.  6:143-165. 2021
    2018 The Geoeconomics/Politics of Italy's Investment Promotion CommunityGeopolitics.  23:690-717. 2018
    2017 New Generation, New Path: Industrial Restructuring Led by China's "Notorious" Fuerdai GenerationThe China Review: an interdisciplinary journal on greater China.  17:1-30. 2017
    2017 Mapping ideological opinions in China using online surveyAnnals Of GIS.  23:79-91. 2017
    2016 The Transnational Investment Promotion Community between Italy and China: An Example of Post Washington Consensus NeoliberalismJ-Reading - Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography.  5:35-49. 2016
    2016 New economic geographies of manufacturing in ChinaGeography Compass.  10:470-481. 2016
    2015 Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy: From Sprezzatura to SatireJournal of Modern Italian Studies.  20:742-743. 2015
    2015 State Regulation, Economic Reform and Worker Rights: The Contingent Effects of China's Labour Contract LawJournal of Contemporary Asia.  45:266-293. 2015
    2015 Industrial District and the Multiplication of Labour: The Chinese Apparel Industry in Prato, ItalyAntipode: a radical journal of geography.  47:158-178. 2015
    2014 Chinese apparel value chains in Europe: low-end fast fashion, regionalization, and transnational entrepreneurship in Prato, ItalyEurasian Geography and Economics.  55:156-174. 2014
    2011 China’s New Labour Contract Law: State Regulation and Worker Rights in Global Production NetworksSSRN Electronic Journal2011
    INNOVATING URBAN CHINA: The Rise of the Local Venture State and the Making of New Entrepreneurial SpacesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research
    Made in Italy by Chinese: fashionability and transnational Chinese entrepreneursChinese Journal of Communication.  1-19.

    Article

    Year Title
    2019 Banks, Services, and the State: The Infrastructure Supporting Italian SMEs AbroadProceedings of the 32nd Italian Geography Congress “the Contribution of Geography between Revolutions and Reforms.  1453-1460. 2019

    Chapter

    Year Title
    2017 F ordism/Post‐ F ordism.  1-3. 2017
    2016 Politics of Visibility in the Chinese Community in Prato, Italy 2016

    Teaching Activities

  • Global Trade Taught course
  • Making Maps: GIS Fundamentals Taught course
  • China Taught course 2023
  • World Regions II Taught course 2023
  • Global Trade Taught course 2022
  • Internship Taught course 2022
  • Making Maps: GIS Fundamentals Taught course 2022
  • China Taught course 2022
  • World Regions II Taught course 2022
  • Global Trade Taught course 2021
  • Making Maps: GIS Fundamentals Taught course 2021
  • China Taught course 2021
  • World Regions II Taught course 2021
  • Global Trade Taught course 2020
  • Making Maps Taught course 2020
  • Geography of China Taught course 2020
  • Rgnl Geography Non-Westrn Wrld Taught course 2020
  • Global Trade Taught course 2019
  • Making Maps Taught course 2019
  • Internship Taught course 2019
  • Rgnl Geography Non-Westrn Wrld Taught course 2019
  • World Economy & Globalization Taught course 2019
  • Global Trade Taught course 2018
  • Statistics for Spatial Science Taught course 2018
  • Geography of China Taught course 2018
  • Rgnl Geography Non-Westrn Wrld Taught course 2018
  • Global Trade Taught course 2017
  • Rgnl Geography Non-Westrn Wrld Taught course 2017
  • World Economy & Globalization Taught course 2017
  • Geography of China Taught course 2016
  • Statistics for Geographers Taught course 2016
  • Rgnl Geography Non-Westrn Wrld Taught course 2016
  • Economic Geography Taught course 2015
  • Education And Training

  • B.S. Geography, Peking University
  • M.S. Geoinformation Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Ph.D. Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Full Name

  • Tu Lan