Kam Wing Chan is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, USA. He is a leading expert on China's urbanization, migration, and the household registration (hukou) system, and author of an important work on China's urbanization: Cities with Invisible Walls: Reinterpreting Urbanization in Post-1949 China (Oxford University Press, 1994).

Building on his three decades of careful research, Professor Kam Wing Chan expertly dissects the complexity of China's hukou system, migration, urbanization and their interrelationships in this set of journal articles published in the last ten years.

Introduction Definitions and Statistics 1.Misconceptions and Complexities in the Study of China's Cities: Definitions, Statistics, and Implications 2. Remapping China's Regional Inequalities, 1990-2006: A New Assessment of de Facto and de Jure Population Data The Hukou System and Migration 3. The Chinese Hukou System at 50 4. The Global Economic Crisis and Unemployment in China 5. A China Paradox: Migrant Labor Shortage amidst Rural Labor Supply Abundance 6. Migration and Development in China: Trends, Geography and Current Issues
Urbanization and China's Future 7. Crossing the 50 Percent Population Rubicon: Can China Urbanize to Prosperity 8. The Size Distribution and Growth Pattern of Cities in China, 1982-2010: Analysis and Policy Implications 9. China's Urbanization 2020: A New Blueprint and Direction