Academic Staff

Books and Edited Special Issues

• Chan, D. Y.-T. and Yang, C. (2025) Shifting Production to Southeast Asia: Electronics Transnational Corporations Moving to Vietnam since the 2000s. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, Bloomsbury. 280pp. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/shifting-production-to-southeast-asia-9781666931464/
• Garretsen, H., Kitson, M. and Yang, C. (2025) Global Forces and Local Impacts: Megatrends in Regional Development. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Vol. 18, No. 1. https://academic.oup.com/cjres/issue/18/1
• Butollo, F., Gereffi, G., Yang, C. and Krzywdzinski, M. (2022) Digital Transformation and Value Chains. Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs, Vol. 22, No. 4. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14710374/2022/22/4
• Hassink, R. and Yang, C. (2021) Creative Industries at the Intersection between Local Agglomeration, National Regulation and Global Networks. Tijdschrift voor Economische en  ociale Geografie (Journal of Economic and Human Geography), Vol. 112, No. 3. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679663/2021/112/3

Selected Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Yang, C. and Zhang, C. (2026) Digital platform-led cross-border healthcare services for Hong Kong older adults in the Greater Bay Area: Regional integration in the digital age. Cities, Vol. 170, 106634. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275125009370. Open Access.
• Chan, D. Y.-T., Du, H. and Yang, C. (2026) Cross-platform, cross-border: How Chinese Wanghuang create opportunity spaces. Geoforum, 168, 104482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104482.
• Chen, X., Yang, C. and Wang, Y. (2026) Constraint and place attachment in navigation: a hybrid sense of place of Chinese boat crew on the Lancang-Mekong River. Geoforum, 168, 104485. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104485. Open Access.
• Yang, C. and Hu, R. (2025) Evolving scales and spaces of mission-oriented innovation policy in the digital age: Digital transition of makerspace innovation in Shenzhen, China. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 18(3), doi. 10.1093/cjres/rsaf028, Open Access.
• Yang, C. and Liang, X. (2025) Digital transformation of wholesale incumbents in China’s regional markets of imported fresh fruits. Regional Studies, Vol. 59, No. 1. 2516095. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2025.2516095 (Open Access)
• Garretsen, H., Kitson, M. and Yang, C. (2025) Global forces and local impacts: megatrends in regional development. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 18 (1): 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsae047. Open Access.
• Guo, Y., Yang, C. and Pan, F. (2025) Strategic coupling in global financial networks: divergent trajectories of domestic and foreign venture capital investments in the Yangtze River Delta, China. Goefourm, 166, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104406. Open Access.
• Umar, I. A. and Yang, C. (2025) Geoeconomic Bridging Node in Global Production: Chinese Electric Vehicle Battery Investments in Morocco. Contemporary Social Science, 2571579, https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2025.2571579
• Ma, C.-Y. and Yang, C. (2024) The moderating effects of mobile applications on the use of urban green space and mental health of older people: A mixed-method investigation in Hong Kong. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 91: 128182. Doi: 10.1016/j.ufug.2023.128182
• Yang, C. and Chan, D. Y.-T. (2023) Geopolitical risks of strategic decoupling and recoupling in the mobile phone production shift from China to Vietnam: Evidence from the Sino-US trade war and COVID-19 pandemic. Applied Geography, Vol. 158, 103028. Doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.103028
• Yang, C., Ma, C.-Y., Wang, J. and Zhou, Y. Q. (2023) Cross-border ageing in China’s Greater Bay Area: A comparative study of mobile application adoption by Hong Kong older migrants and local older adults in Shenzhen. Transactions in Planning and Urban Research, doi: 10.1177/27541223221150653
• Yang, C. (2023) Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia, by Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Stanford University Press, 2022. Regional Studies, 57(2): 397-398. doi: 10.1080/00343404.2022.2141502
• Yang, C. (2022) Cross-border expansion of digital platforms and transformation of the trade and distribution networks of fresh fruit imports from Southeast Asia to China. Global Networks, 22 (4): 716-734. doi: 10.1111/glob.12352
• Yang, C., Lai, D.W.L., Sun, Y., Ma, C.-Y. and Chau, A.K.C. (2022) Mobile application use and loneliness among older adults in the digital age: Insights from a survey in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Environment Research and Public Health, 19, 7656. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137656
• Butollo, F., Gereffi, G., Yang, C. and Krzywdzinski, M. (2022) Digital transformation and value chains. Global Networks, 22 (4): 585-594. doi: 10.1111/glob.12388
• Chan, D. Y.-T. and Yang, C. (2022) Institutional escape and embeddedness in the cross-border production networks: Relocation of Chinese electronics small and medium-sized enterprises to Vietnam. Journal of Contemporary China, 31 (137): 675-692. doi:10.1080/10670564.2021.2010859
• Coe, N. M. and Yang, C. (2022) Mobile gaming production networks, platform business groups and the market power of China’s Tencent. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 112 (2): 307-330. doi: 10.1080/24694452.2021.1933887
• Yang, C. and Chan, D. Y-T. (2021) Market expansion of domestic gaming firms in Shenzhen, China: Dilemma of globalization and regionalization. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (Journal of Economic and Human Geography), 112 (3): 256-273. doi: 10.1111/tesg.12459
• Hassink, R. and Yang, C. (2021) Creative industries at the intersection between local agglomeration, national regulation and global networks. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (Journal of Economic and Human Geography), 112 (3): 217-219. doi: 10.1111/tesg.12474
• Sok, S. and Yang, C. (2021) Brawn drain from Cambodia: A comparative study of transnational labour migration to Malaysia and South Korea. Bandung: Journal of the Global South, 8(1): 22-44. doi: 10.1163/21983534-08010002
• Yang, C. (2020) The transformation of foreign investment-induced exo(genous)-urbanisation amidst industrial restructuring in the Pearl River Delta, China. Urban Studies, 57(3): 618-635. doi.org/10.1177/0042098019859266
• Fu, T., Yang, C. and Li, L. (2020) Market imperative and cluster evolution in China: evidence from Shunde. Regional Studies, 54(2): 244-255. doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1673329
• Pan, F., Yang, C., Wang, H. and Wójcik, D. (2020) Linking global financial networks with regional development: a case study of Linyi, China, Regional Studies, 54(2): 187-197. doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1599844
• Su, X., Agnew, J., Cox, K. R., Yang, C. and Lim, K. F. (2020) Reading Kean Fan Lim’s On Shifting Foundations: State Rescaling, Policy Experimentation and Economic Restructuring in Post-1949 China Political Geography, 83, 102244. doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102244
• Hu, X. and Yang, C. (2019) Institutional change and divergent economic resilience:  Path development of two resource-depleted cities in China. Urban Studies, 56(16):  3466-3485. doi.org/10.1177/0042098018817223
• Hu, X. and Yang, C. (2018) Building a role model for rust belt cities? Fuxin’s economic revitalization in question. Cities, 72: 245-251. doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2017.09.002
• Seamus, G. and Yang, C. (2018) From foreign technology dependence towards greater innovation autonomy: China’s integration into the information and communications technology (ICT) global value chain (GVC). Area Development and Policy, 3(1): 132-148. doi: 10.1080/23792949.2017.1305870
• Yang, C. (2017) The rise of strategic partner firms and reconfiguration of personal computer production networks in China: Insights from the emerging laptop cluster in Chongqing. Geoforum, 84: 21-31. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.05.010
• Yang, C. and Fu, T. (2017) From exports to sell in China: Transformation of the export-oriented furniture firms in the Pearl River Delta. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 99 (4): 380-398. doi:10.1080/04353684.2017.1365255
• Yang, C. and He, C. (2017) Transformation of China’s “World Factory”: Production relocation and export evolution of the electronics firms. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie. 108 (5): 571-591. doi: 10.1111/tesg.12222
• Yang, C., Fu, T. and Li, L. (2017) Emerging adaptation of local clusters in China in a shifting global economy: Evidence from furniture cluster in Houjie Town, Dongguan. Growth and Change, 48 (2): 214-232. doi: 10.1111/grow.12191
• Yang, C. (2016) Relocating the labour-intensive manufacturing firms from China to Southeast Asia: a preliminary investigation. Bandung: Journal of the Global South, 3 (3):1-13. doi: 10.1186/s40728-016-0031-4
• Yang, C. (2016) Evolution of regional innovation systems in China: Insights from emerging indigenous innovation in Shenzhen, in Shearmur, R., Carrincazeaux, C. and Doloreux, D. eds., Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 322-333. doi: 10.4337/9781784710774.00035
• Yang, C. (2015) Government policy change and evolution of regional innovation systems in China: Evidence from strategic emerging industries in Shenzhen. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 33 (3): 661-680. doi: 10.1068/C12162r
• Yang, C. (2014) State-led technological innovation of domestic firms in Shenzhen, China: Evidence from Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) industry. Cities, Vol. 38: 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2013.12.005
• Yang, C. (2014) Market rebalancing of Global Production Networks in the Post-Washington Consensus Globalizing Era: Transformation of Export-oriented Development in China. Review of International Political Economy, 21 (1): 130-156. doi: 10.1080/09692290.2013.776616
• Liu, Y. and Yang, C. (2014) Strategic Coupling of Local Firms in Global Production Networks: The Rise of the Home Appliance Industry in Shunde, China. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 54 (4): 444-463. doi: 10.1080/15387216.2014.883286
• Yang, C. (2013) From Strategic Coupling to Recoupling and Decoupling: Restructuring of Global Production Networks and Regional Evolution in China. European Planning Studies, 21 (7): 1046-1063. doi: 10.1080/09654313.2013.733852
• Yang, C. and Li, S.-M. (2013) Transformation of Cross-boundary Governance in the Greater Pearl River Delta, China: Contested Geopolitics and Emerging Conflicts. Habitat International, Vol. 40: 23-34. doi: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2013.02.001
• Yang, C. (2012) Restructuring the Export-oriented Industrialization in the Pearl River Delta, China: Institutional Evolution and Emerging Tension. Applied Geography, 32: 143-157. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.10.013
• Yang, C. (2011) Spatial Transformation of Cross-Border Production Networks of Taiwanese Investment in Mainland China: The Case of Personal Computer Industry. Acta Geographica Sinica, 66 (10): 1343-1354. China Geographical Society
• Yang, C. and Liao, F. H. (2010) Industrial Agglomeration of Hong Kong and Taiwanese Manufacturing Investment in China: A Town-level Analysis in Dongguan. The Annals of Regional Science, 45 (3): 487-517. doi: 10.1007/s00168-009-0305-8
• Yang, C. and Liao, F. H. (2010) Backward Linkages of Cross-border Production Networks of Taiwanese PC Investment in the Pearl River Delta, China. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 101 (1): 199-217. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2009.00540.x
• Yang, C. (2009) Strategic Coupling of Regional Development in Global Production Networks: Redistribution of Taiwanese Personal Computer Investment from the Pearl River Delta to the Yangtze River Delta. Regional Studies, 43 (3): 385-407. doi: 10.1080/00343400802508836.
• Yang, C. (2007) Divergent Hybrid Capitalisms in China: Hong Kong and Taiwanese Electronics Clusters in Dongguan. Economic Geography, 83 (4): 395-420. doi: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2007.tb00380.x
• Yang, C. (2006) The Geopolitics of Cross-boundary Governance in the Greater Pearl River Delta, China: A Case Study of the Proposed Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. Political Geography, 25 (7): 817-835. doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2006.08.006
• Yang, C. (2006) The Pearl River Delta and Hong Kong: An Evolving Cross-boundary Region under “One Country, Two Systems”. Habitat International, Vol. 30: 61-86. doi: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2004.06.004
• Yang, C. (2006) Overseas Chinese Investment in Transition: The Case of Dongguan. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 47 (5): 604-622. doi: 10.2747/1538-7216.47.5.604
• Yang, C. (2005) An Emerging Cross-boundary Metropolis in China: Hong Kong and Shenzhen under “Two Systems”. International Development Planning Review, 27 (2): 195-225. doi: 10.3828/idpr.27.2.3
• Yang, C. (2005) Multi-level Governance in the Cross-boundary Region of Hong Kong-Pearl River Delta, China. Environment and Planning A, 37 (12): 2147-2167. doi: 10.1068/a37230.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Chapters in Books

• Chan, D. Y-T. and Yang, C. (2022) The transformation of Asian electronics production networks: evidence from the participation of Vietnam, in Bryson, J., Billing, C., Graves, W. and Yeung, G. eds. A Research Agenda for Manufacturing Industries in the Global Economy, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 157-175
• Yang, C. (2021) The distribution of imported fresh fruits from Southeast Asia in China, in Pritchard, B. ed. Global production networks and rural development: Southeast Asia as a fruit supplier to China, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 156-177
• Yang, C. (2019) “Reterritorialization”, in Orum, T. ed. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 1699-1704. doi.org/10.1002/9781118568446.eurs0270.
• Fu, T. and Yang, C. (2018) Industrial upgrading and downgrading of the export-oriented furniture firms in the market reorientation towards China’s domestic market, in Capik, P. and Magdalena, D. eds. Relocation of Economic Activity: Contemporary Theory and Practice in Local, Regional and Global Perspectives, Springer, pp. 53-68
• Yang, C. (2017) Industrial Restructuring, in Richardson, D., Castree, N., Goodchild, M., Liu, W., Kobayashi, A. and Marston, R. (eds.) The Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology, Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0471
• Yang, C. (2017) Innovation and Regional Development, in Richardson, D., Castree, N., Goodchild, M., Liu, W., Kobayashi, A. and Marston, R. (eds.) The Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology, Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0886
• Yang, C. (2017) Manufacturing Industry, in Richardson, D., Castree, N., Goodchild, M., Liu, W., Kobayashi, A. and Marston, R. (eds.) The Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology, Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0103
• Yang, C. (2016) Evolution of Regional Innovation Systems in China: Insights from Emerging Indigenous Innovation in Shenzhen, in Shearmur, R., Carrincazeaux, C. and Doloreux, D. eds., Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 322-333
• Yang, C. (2015) Market rebalancing of global production networks in the Post-Washington Consensus globalizing era: Transformation of export-oriented development in China, in Neilson, J., Pritchard, B. and Yeung, H. W-c. eds. Global Value Chains and Global Production Networks: Changes in the International Political Economy, London: Routledge, pp. 123-155
• Yang, C. (2014) From Strategic Coupling to Recoupling and Decoupling: Restructuring of Global Production Networks and Regional Evolution in China, in Parrilli, M. D. ed. The Competitiveness of Clusters in Globalized Markets: Implications for Regional Development. Routledge, pp. 80-97
• Yang, C. (2014) Emerging Regional Innovation Systems in Shenzhen: Technological Evolution of Foreign-invested and Indigenous Firms, in Liefner, I. and Wei, Y. D. eds. Innovation and Regional Development in China, Routledge, pp.191-215
• Yang, C. (2011) A Cross-boundary Mega City-region in China Under ‘Two Systems’: Multi-level Governance in the Greater Pearl River Delta, in Wastl-Walter, D. ed. The Ashgate Research Companion to Border Studies, London: Ashgate (ISBN 978-0-7546-9047-4), pp. 439-456
• Yang, C. (2011) The Greater Pearl River Delta Cross-border Mega-city Region and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, in Mo, C. and Kim, Y. H. eds., The Emerging Cross-border Mega-City Region and Sustainable Transportation, Honolulu, Hawaii: East-West Centre, pp. 82-119.