Lanchih Po
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Lanchih Po is visiting associate
professor at the Institute of International and Area Studies at UC
Berkeley. She received her doctorate from the Department of City and
Regional Planning at UC Berkeley in 2001, and then she taught at Peking
University in Beijing from 2001 to 2006. Her research interests
encompass divergent developmental paths in China’s transitional
economies, including the influence of Taiwanese direct investment on
local institutional change, the globalization of producer services and
the formation of China’s city-regions, and the socio-economic
transformations associated with China’s (sub)urbanization process. She
has published “Repackaging Globalization: A Case Study of the
Advertising Industry in China,” Geoforum, 37 (2006). “Customizing a
Trans-border Space: Taiwanese Capital and the Formation of the ‘Export-
Processing Zone’ in Kunshan, Yangtze River Delta, China,” Critical
Asian Studies (2007).
Dr.
Po received her Ph.D. degree in Department of City and Regional
Planning, at University of California at Berkeley. Her dissertation
advisor was Professor Manuel Castells. She also received her M.A. in
Urban Planning at the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning at
National Taiwan University.
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