Tu Lan

Tu Lan

Associate Professor
Phone: (603) 862-1719
Office: Geography, Huddleston Hall Rm 102, Durham, NH 03824
Websites:

<p>I am an economic geographer, with research interests encompassing global value chains, industrial districts, political economy, and urban studies. My work focuses on the transformation of the global economy and the evolving economic relations between China and other countries. I have so far studied and published about industrial upgrading in China, overseas operations of Chinese firms, and the roles played by Chinese entrepreneurs, workers, and students.</p>

Courses Taught

  • GEOG 402: World Regions II
  • GEOG 530: China
  • GEOG 582: Global Trade
  • GEOG 591: Making Maps: GIS Fundamentals
  • GEOG 695: Internship

Education

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

Research Interests

  • China
  • Italy
  • Social theory
  • Spatial data analysis
  • Transnational migration
  • Urban political economy
  • Innovation
  • United States
  • Economic Geography
  • International Trade

Selected Publications

  • Zhang, L., & Lan, T. (2025). INNOVATING URBAN CHINA: The Rise of the Local Venture State and the Making of New Entrepreneurial Spaces. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 49(1), 142-162. doi:10.1111/1468-2427.13279

  • Lan, T., Zhang, L., & Hu, Y. (2024). Desirable and disposable: Tracing the racialization of Chinese students in American higher education. Geoforum, 156, 104127. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104127

  • Lan, T., & Zhang, L. (2024). Made in Italy by Chinese: fashionability and transnational Chinese entrepreneurs. Chinese Journal of Communication, 1-19. doi:10.1080/17544750.2024.2311263

  • Zhang, L., & Lan, T. (2022). The new whole state system: Reinventing the chinese state to promote innovation. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE. doi:10.1177/0308518X221088294

  • Lan, T., & Zhang, L. (2021). The New Whole State System: State-led Financialization, State-Private Fusion, and China’s Innovation Policies after 2008.

  • Sellar, C., Lan, T., & Poli, U. (2018). The Geoeconomics/Politics of Italy's Investment Promotion Community. GEOPOLITICS, 23(3), 690-717. doi:10.1080/14650045.2017.1350171

  • Zhu, S., & Lan, T. (2016). New economic geographies of manufacturing in China. GEOGRAPHY COMPASS, 10(11), 470-481. doi:10.1111/gec3.12297

  • Lan, T., Pickles, J., & Zhu, S. (2015). State Regulation, Economic Reform and Worker Rights: The Contingent Effects of China's Labour Contract Law. JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ASIA, 45(2), 266-293. doi:10.1080/00472336.2014.940592

  • Lan, T. (2015). Industrial District and the Multiplication of Labour: The Chinese Apparel Industry in Prato, Italy. ANTIPODE, 47(1), 158-178. doi:10.1111/anti.12104

  • Lan, T., & Zhu, S. (2014). Chinese apparel value chains in Europe: low-end fast fashion, regionalization, and transnational entrepreneurship in Prato, Italy. EURASIAN GEOGRAPHY AND ECONOMICS, 55(2), 156-174. doi:10.1080/15387216.2014.948471

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