economic geography, urban studies, regoinal studies, geographies of technologies and innovation, digital transformation and platforms, global production networks/value chains, geographies of transnational corporations and forieng investment, industrial restructuring, cross-border regions, China, Greater Bay Area, Southeast Asia, One Belt One Road initiatives.

Chun YANG is a Professor in the Department of Geography at Hong Kong Baptist University, where she serves as the Associate Dean (Research) at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Prior to joining HKBU in Sept. 2011, she held academic positions at the Institute of Pacific Asian Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2008-2011), Department of Geography at the University of Hong Kong (2003-2007), Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at Sun Yat-sen University (1990-1992), and engaged in public-policy research at the One Country Two Systems Research Institute, Hong Kong (1996-2003). She was a Visiting Scholar at Fairbank Centre for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, United States (2008) and Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, Newcastle University, United Kingdom (2019).

Prof. Yang’s research interests lie in the areas of economic geography; urban and regional development; global production networks/global value chains and local economic development; geographies of technologies and innovation, geographies of transnational corporations and foreign investment, digital transformation and platform ecosystems, industrial restructuring, cross-border regions and governance. These concerns have been explored through empirical research into various manufacturing industries such as electronics industry, garment and furniture industries, mobile games industry, fresh fruit industry as well as creative industries in China’s various regions such as the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Yangtze River Delta, West and Northeast China, as well as Southeast Asia (particularly Vietnam, Cambodia).

Prof. Yang is currently Associate Editor of Regional Studies, Regional Sciences (Jan. 2014- ), on the editorial board of Journal of Economic Geography (Dec. 2014- ), Bandung: Journal of Global South (Jan. 2015-), Editorial Advisory Board of Environment and Planning A: Space and Economy (July 2022- ), and International Advisory Board of Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (Jan. 2021-).