Tu Lan is an Assistant Professor of Geography. Before joining UNH in 2015, he was a Visiting Lecturer of Geography at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also received his Ph.D. in Geography in 2014. He is an economic geographer working in the fields of global production networks, industrial districts, political economy, and social theory. Focusing on transformation of the global economy after the Great Recession and the resultant changing economic relations between China and other countries, his research includes Chinese apparel firms in Italy, investment promotion communities between China and Italy, industrial upgrading in China, and more recently Chinese international students at American colleges. He also has a second line of research studying political attitudes in China.
