Youqin Huang

 

Professor, Department of Geography and Planning
Executive Director, Confucius Institute for China’s Culture and Economy

Director, Geography BA program

Research Associate, Center for Social and Demographic Analysis
University at Albany, SUNY
Albany, NY 12222
Email: yhuang@albany.edu

Phone: 518-442-4792

Google Scholar Profile

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

”China's Geography: Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic, and Social Change” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) 

 

EDUCATION

           

Ph. D., Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 2001

            M.A., Department of Geography, UCLA, 1997

            M.A. graduate study (no degree), Institute of Population Research, Peking University, 1993-1995

            B. S., Department of Urban and Environmental Studies, Peking University, China, 1992

TEACHING

GOG 160/ EAC 160: China: People and Place

           TGOG 244Y  Global Population Debates (Honors College)

GOG 324: The City on Computer
            GOG 344Y: World Population
            GOG 350/ EAC 350: Urban Development in Contemporary China

GOG502/ PLN504: Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences

 

RESEARCH

 

My research focuses on two areas: 1) housing, residential mobility and neighborhood change, and 2) migration, and urbanization.   I am interested in micro-level decision-making in migration/mobility and housing consumption, macro-level dynamics in neighborhood change and urban socio-spatial restructuring, and the interactions between them.  I also have a regional focus on China, where profound socioeconomic and spatial transformations are taking place.  I am interested in understanding the unprecedented market transition and its impact on Chinese people and places.  In particular, I am interested in migration and housing consumption as responses to new opportunities brought about by the reform.  Recently, I have focused on low-income housing, housing policy, and the impact of migration on migrants and their families in China.  My research contributes to three bodies of literature: housing and neighborhood change, migration and urbanization, market transition and China.

 

 

 

INVITED ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

Dream of Home Ownership Still Eludes Many Chinese, Nikkei Asian Review, Nov. 9, 2015

 

Bolstering Inclusionary Housing in Chinese Cities, Paulson Policy Memorandum, The Paulson Institute, March, 2015.

 

Lack of Affordable Housing Threatens China's Urban Dream, The China Dialogue. September 20, 2013. 

 

China’s Urban Dream Denied, The Diplomat, May 14th, 2013. 

 

 

MEDIA

 

Interviewed and quoted by Tanvi Misra of the CityLab, The Atlantic, on “Beijing’s Migrant Workers Are Still Living in Storage Basements and Bomb Shelters”.  Nov. 6th. 2015.

Interviewed and quoted by Hyun Seok Oh of China Economic Review on “No urban life in sight for many of China’s migrant workers”, May 19th, 2014.

Interviewed by Dallas Rogers, University of Western Sydney, for a radio documentary “Searching for the Mousetribe, in the Confucian City” for Radio National, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on the urbanization and basement rental in Beijing on April 7th, 2014.  The documentary was played at the 2015 Festival of Urbanism in Sydney, Australia.

Interviewed by Esther Teo of The Straits Times China Bureau on affordable housing in China, No Quick Fix for Beijing’s Housing Woe, Dec. 24, 2013.

Interviewed by Megha Rajagopalan of Foreign Policy magazine on second homes in China, China’s Wild West,  Nov. 23, 2011. 

Interviewed by Cara Anna of Associated Press on gated communities in Beijing, Beijing Starts Gating, Locking Migrants, July 14, 2010.

Discussant, WAMC Youth Media Project: Student Town Meetings.  Is China a Scapegoat for Problems within America's Manufacturing Industry? Taped on Nov. 8th, 2007

Interviewed, by Peter Harmsen of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation on urban life in modern China, Jan. 31, 2006.

Interviewed, by Alan Wechsler, Business Writer of the Times Union, Designers Find Poetry in a City of the Future:  Architectural Firm in Schenectady Wins Bid to Plan Community in China, Feb. 24, 2005.

 

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS FOR DOWNLOAD

 

 

Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals

 

Huang, Youqin, Zai Liang, Qian Song and Ran Tao, 2017.  Family Arrangement and Children’s Education among Migrants in China, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, accepted.

Liu, Lin*, Youqin Huang, and Wenhong Zhang, 2017. Residential Segregation and Perceptions of Social Integration in Shanghai, China, Urban Studies, First published online in Feb., 2017. DOI: 10.1177/0042098016689012

Yi, Chengdong, Zhihong Ding and Youqin Huang, 2017.  Zhongguo chengshi laonianren juzhu yiyuan he shenghuo mayidu (Residential Intention and Satisfaction of the Elderly in Urban China), Beijing Guihua Jianshe (Beijing Planning Review), Vol 176, Issue 5: 27-32 

Huang, Youqin, Qian Song*, Ran Tao, and Zai Liang, 2016.  Migration, Family Arrangement and Children’s Health in China, Child Development.  First published online in Dec. 2016. DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12699.

Yi, Chengdong, Zhihong Ding and Youqin Huang, 2016.  The Dynamic Changes and Spatial Differentiations in Seniors’ Housing Conditions in Chinese Cities – a Panel Study based on 2000, 2006 and 2010 Survey of Seniors in China.  Urban Development Research, Vol. 23, No. 12:117- 123 (in Chinese).

Huang, Youqin and Ran Tao, 2015.  Housing Migrants in Chinese Cities: Current Status and Policy Design, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy.  No. 33: 640-660.

Huang, Youqin and Chengdong Yi, 2015.  “Invisible Migrant Enclaves in Chinese Cities: Underground Living in Beijing, China”, Urban Studies, 52(15): 2948-2973.  Published online first in December, 2014.  DOI: 10.1177/0042098014564535

Yi, Chengdong, and Youqin Huang, 2014.  Housing Consumption and Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities during the First Decade of the 21st Century.  Housing Studies, 29 (2):1-22.

Yi, Chengdong, Boyang Gao, and Youqin Huang, 2014.  The Spatial Pattern and Dynamics of Population with Separated Registration and Residence in Large Cities:  An Empirical Analysis Using the 6th Census Data of Beijing (Da chengshi renhu fenli renkou de kongjian fenbu jiqi yingxiang yinsu), Chinese Journal of Population Science (zhongguo renkou kexue), Vol. 1: 28-38 (in Chinese).

Huang, Youqin, 2012.  Low-income Housing in Chinese Cities: Policies and Practices, The China Quarterly, 212: 941-964.

Yi, Chendong, and Youqin Huang, 2011. The Spatial Relationship of Multiple Homes in Beijing, Economic Geography, No. 3 (in Chinese).

Yi, Chengdong, and Youqin Huang, 2011. Residence Away from Home: The Spatial Relationship of Multiple Homes in Beijing, Economic Geography, 31(3):396-403 (in Chinese).

Huang, Youqin and Chengdong Yi, 2011.  Second Home Ownership in Transitional Urban China, Housing Studies, 26(3): 423-447.

Huang, Youqin and Chengdong Yi, 2010.  Consumption and Tenure Choice of Multiple Homes in Transitional Urban China.  International Journal of Housing Policy, 10(2): 105-131.

Yi, Chengdong and Youqin Huang, 2010.   An Empirical Analysis of the Spatial Pattern of Multiple Homes in Chinese Cities, Economic Geography, 30 (4): 585-591  (易成栋, 黄友琴，中国城市自有多套住宅家庭空间模式实证研究, 经济地理)

Huang, Youqin and Leiwen Jiang, 2009.  Housing Inequality in Transitional Beijing, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 33(4): 936-956.

Huang, Youqin and Chengdong Yi, 2009.  Hukou, Mobility, and Residential Differentiation: A Case Study of Wuhan, Urban Studies.  Vol. 16, No. 6: 36-46. （黄友琴， 易成栋, 2009， 户口、迁移与居住分异—以武汉为例的实证研究，城市发展研究。16卷6期: 36-46)

Huang, Youqin, 2006, Collectivism, Political Control and Gating in Chinese Cities. Urban Geography, 27(6): 507-525.

Huang, Youqin and F. Frederick Deng, 2006.  Residential Mobility in Urban China: A Longitudinal Analysis. Housing Studies. 21(5): 625-653.

Li, Si-ming and Youqin Huang, 2006.  Urban Housing in China: Market Transition, Housing Mobility, and Neighborhood Change.  Housing Studies. 21(5): 613-623.

Clark, William A. V., and Youqin Huang, 2006.  Balancing Move and Work: Women’s labor Market Exits and Entries after Family Migration, Population, Space and Place. 12: 31-44.

Huang, Youqin, 2004.  The Road to Homeownership: A Longitudinal Analysis of Tenure Transition in Urban China (1949-1994), International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 28(4): 774-95.

Deng, F. Frederick and Youqin Huang, 2004.  Uneven Land Reform and Urban Sprawl in China: The Case of Beijing.  Progress in Planning, 61(3): 211-236.

Huang, Youqin. 2004, “Housing Markets, Government Behaviors and Housing Choice:  A Case Study of Three Cities in China”, Environment and Planning A, 36 (1): 45-68.

Clark, William A.V. and Youqin Huang, 2004. “Linking Migration and Mobility: Individual and Contextual Effects in British Housing Markets”, Regional Studies, 38(6):617-628

Clark, William A. V. and Youqin Huang, 2004, “Black and White Commuting Behavior in a Large Southern City: Evidence from Atlanta”, Geographical Analysis, 36(1): 54-68.

 

Huang, Youqin, 2003, “A Room of One’s Own: Housing Consumption and Residential Crowding in Transitional Urban China”, Environment and Planning A, 35: 591-614.

 

Huang, Youqin, 2003.  “Renters’ Housing Behavior in Transitional Urban China”.  Housing Studies. 18(1): 103-126.

 

Clark, William A.V. and Youqin Huang, 2003, “The Life Course and Residential Mobility in British Housing Markets", Environment and Planning A. 35: 323-339

 

Clark, William A. V., Youqin Huang and Suzanne Withers, 2003. “Does Commuting Distance Matter? Commuting Tolerance and Residential Change”.  Regional Science and Urban Economics, 33: 199-221

 

Huang, Youqin and William A. V. Clark, 2002.  “Housing Tenure Choice in Transitional Urban China:  A Multilevel Analysis”.  Urban Studies, 39(1): 7-32

 

Huang, Youqin, 2001.  “Gender, hukou, and the Occupational Attainment of Female Migrants in China”.  Environment and Planning A, 33(2): 257-279

Fan, C. Cindy and Youqin Huang, 1998.  “Waves of Rural Brides: Female Marriage Migration in China”, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 88(2): 227-251

 

Book Chapters

Youqin Huang, 2017. “Farewell to Villages: Forced Urbanization in Rural China”, in “China’s Urbanization and Socioeconomic Impact”, edited by Zongli Tang, Springer: chapter 12, pp. 207-228

Liang, Zai, Steven F. Messner, Youqin Huang, and Cheng Chen.  2016. “Introduction”, in “Confronting Challenges of Urbanization in China: Insights from Social Science Perspectives” edited by Liang, Zai, Steven F. Messner, Youqin Huang, and Cheng Chen. Routledge. Pp. 1-8

Liu, Lin*, Youqin Huang and Wenhong Zhang, 2016.  Housing Consumption and Stratum Identification in Shanghai, China, in Confronting the Challenges of Urbanization in China:  Insights from Social Science Perspectives, edited by Zai Liang, Steve Messenger, Youqin Huang, and Chen Cheng.  Routledge.

Huang, Youqin, 2015.  Urban Development, in China’s Geography: Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic and Social Change, by Gregory Veeck, Clifton W. Pannell, Youqin Huang and Shuming Bao.  Boulder, CO: Roman & Littlefield Publishers: chapter 5.

Huang, Youqin, 2015.  Rising Inequality: Social, Economic, and Spatial Divide, in China’s Geography: Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic and Social Change, by Gregory Veeck, Clifton W. Pannell, Youqin Huang and Shuming Bao.  Boulder, CO: Roman & Littlefield Publishers: chapter 7.

 

Liu, Lin, Youqin Huang and Wenhong Zhang, 2015.  Housing Consumption and Stratum Identification in Shanghai, China, in Confronting the Challenges of Urbanization in China:  Insights from Social Science Perspectives, edited by Zai Liang, Steve Messenger, Youqin Huang, and Chen Cheng.  Routledge, in print.

 

Huang, Youqin and Siming Li, 2014. Housing Inequality, Residential Differentiation, and Socio-spatial Stratification: Chinese Cities in the Early 21st Century.  in Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities, edited by Youqin Huang and Si-ming Li, London and New York: Routledge: chapter 1

Huang, Youqin, Chengdong Yi, Yunyan Yang and Xiong He, 2014. Mobility, Housing Inequality and Residential Differentiation in Transitional Urban China: A Case Study of Wuhan, in Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities, edited by Youqin Huang and Si-ming Li, London and New York: Routledge: chapter 3

Yi, Chengdong and Youqin Huang, 2014.  Effectiveness, Efficiency and Equity – An Empirical Evaluation of the Cheap Rental Housing System in Beijing, China, in Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities, edited by Youqin Huang and Si-ming Li, London and New York: Routledge: chapter 7   

 

Li, Jing and Youqin Huang, 2012. “Housing Property Rights Disputes in Urban Chinese Families:  An Institutional and Sociological Perspective”, in The Emergence of New Urban China”: Insiders’ Perspectives, edited by Zai, Liang, Steve F. Messner, Cheng Chen and Youqin Huang.  New York: Lexington Books.  Chapter 9: 163-192.

 

Reprinted in Duzhi Zhongguo Xintai (A New Analysis of Urban China), Edited by Daming Zhou, Zai Liang, and Linping Liu. Beijing, China:  Social Sciences Press (in Chinese).

Ji, Guangxu and Youqin Huang, 2012.  “Mobile Phone Culture among the Information Have-less:  A Case Study of Laid-off Workers in Shenyang City, China”, in The Emergence of New Urban China”: Insiders’ Perspectives, edited by Zai, Liang, Steve F. Messner, Cheng Chen and Youqin Huang.  New York: Lexington Books. Chapter 8: 141-162.

Reprinted in Duzhi Zhongguo Xintai (A New Analysis of Urban China), Edited by Daming Zhou, Zai Liang, and Linping Liu. Beijing, China:  Social Sciences Press (in Chinese).

Huang, Youqin and Chengdong Yi, 2011.  Patterns of Second Home Ownership in Chinese Cities, in China’s Housing Reform and Outcomes, edited by Joyce Yanyun Man. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, (Chapter 6): 91-108.

Huang, Youqin and Setha Low, 2008.  Is Gating always Exclusive?  A Comparative Study of Gated Communities in American and Chinese Cities, in Urban China in Transition, edited by John R. Logan. Wiley-Blackwell (Chapter 8): 182-202. 

Huang, Youqin, 2007.  From Work-unit Compounds to Gated Communities – Housing and Residential Change in Transitional Beijing, in Transition and Restructuring: A Multidimensional Analysis on Urban Development in China, edited by Fulong Wu, Lunchao Ma, Jingxiang Zhang.  Southeast University Press.  Chapter 12, 199-215  (in Chinese)

 

Huang, Youqin, 2006.  Urban Development in Contemporary China, in China’s Geography: Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic and Social Change, by Gregory Veeck, Clifton W. Pannell, Christopher J. Smith and Youqin Huang.  Boulder, CO: Roman & Littlefield Publishers. Page 233-262 (Chapter 9).

Huang, Youqin, 2005.  “From Work-unit Compounds to Gated Communities: Housing Inequality and Residential Segregation in Transitional Beijing” in Restructuring the Chinese Cities: Changing Society, Economy and Space, edited by Laurence J.C. Ma and Fulong Wu.  London and New York: Routledge. Page 192-221

Fan, C. Cindy and Youqin Huang, 1999.  “Female Marriage Migration in China,” in Urban Growth and Development in Asia (Volume II): Living in the Cities, edited by Graham P. Chapman, Ashok K. Dutt and Robert W. Bradnock.  Aldershot, UK: Ashgate. Page 303-328 (Chapter 20)