Yu Zhou

Professor of Geography

B.A., M.A., Geography and Urban and Regional Planning, Beijing University, P.R. China.
Ph.D., Geography, University of Minnesota, 1995

Yu Zhou's current research is on the development of information-technology region in Beijing. She was a world bank visiting fellow at China Center of Economic Research at Peking University between September 2000-June 2001. Her previous work and research interests include issues of immigration in American cities, gender and immigration experiences, the transnational investments and transnational networks in the Pacific Rim. She currently teaches Economic Geography, Population and Environment, East Asia, Asian diasporas, Ethnic geography in America, and Geographical research methods. She has been involved in Urban studies, Women Studies and other interdisciplinary program. She currently serves as a steering committee member in International Studies and Asian Studies.

Selected Publications

• Book manuscript, “The inside story of China’s high-tech industry: making “Silicon Valley” in Beijing. In production, expected publication on Jan. 2008. Rowman and Littlefield Publisher.

Refereed journals:

• Zhou, Yu and Yifei Sun, 2006: Introduction: Mediating state and market in China’s competitive high technology industry , Special issue of China review. Vol. 6(1): 1-8.
• Zhou, Yu 2006, State and Commercial Enterprises in China’s Technical Standard Strategies, special issue of China review, Vol. 6(1): 37-66.
• Zhou, Yu 2005. The making of an innovative region from a centrally planned economy: Institutional evolution in Zhongguancun Science Park in Beijing, Environmental and Planning A 37: 1113-1134.
• Zhou, Yu and Xin Tong, 2003, Interaction Between Multinational Corporations and Domestic Firms in a High-Tech Service Cluster in Beijing, Economic Geography 79(2): 129-152.
• Li,Wei Gary Dymski, Yu Zhou, Carolyn Aladaba and Maria Chee, 2002 Chinese American Banking and Community in Los Angeles County: The Financial Sector and Chinatown/Ethnoburb Development, Annals of American Geographers 92(4): 777-796
• Li,Wei Yu Zhou, Gary Dymski, and Maria Chee, 2001. Banking on Social Capital in the Era of Globalization: Chinese Ethnobanks in Los Angeles, Environment and Planning A Vol. 33: 1923-1948.
• Zhou, Yu and Yen-Fen Tseng, 2001, Regrounding the “Ungrounded Empires ”-Localization as the geographical catalyst for transnationalism. Global Network 1(2):131-154.
• Zhou, Yu 2000. The fall of “the other half of the sky?” -contemporary experiences of Mainland Chinese immigrant women in New York City. Women's Studies International Forum 23(4): 445-459.
• Zhou, Yu 1999. Beijing and the development of dual central business districts, Geographical Review (88)3: 429-436.
• Brian Godfrey and Yu Zhou, 1999. Ranking world cities: Multinational corporations and global urban hierarchy. Urban Geography 20(3): 268-281.
• Zhou, Yu 1998. How do places matter: A comparative study of Chinese communities in Los Angeles and New York City. Urban Geography, 19(6): 531-553.
• Zhou, Yu 1998. “Beyond Enclaves: Location strategies of Chinese producer service firms in Los Angeles.” Economic Geography, 74(3): 228-251.
• Zhou, Yu 1996. “Firm Linkages, Ethnic Networks and Territorial Agglomeration: Chinese computer firms in Los Angeles.” Papers in Regional Science, Vol. 75(3): 265-291.

Book chapters:

• Zhou, Yu: “high-tech industry” International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by Professor Rob Kitchin and Professor Nigel Thrift, and is being developed by Elsevier. Accepted.
• Zhou, Yu 2004, Chinese immigrants in the global economy. Chapter 3 in Migration: A global view. Edited by Maura I. Toro-Morn and Marixsa Alicea, Greenwood’s World View of Social Issues Series. pp.35-52.
• Zhou, Yu 2002. New York: Caught under the fashion runway—Immigrant enterprises in the garment industry of New York Book chapter in Unravelling the Rag Trade-Immigrant entrepreneurship in seven world cities, edited Jan Roth. Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers. P113-134.
• Jici Wang and Yu Zhou, 2001. 北京中关村电子信息产业的企业集群分析 (Analysis of Beijing Zhongguancun information technology firms regional cluster), Ch. 6-6 in 创新的空间：企业集群与区域发展 (Innovative spaces: enterprises clusters and regional development). Beijing: Peking University Press. P. 220-233.
• Tseng Yen-Fen and Yu Zhou. 2001. Immigrant Economy in a Pacific Rim Context: Chinese businesses in Los Angeles. Book chapter in The Chinese Triangle of Mainland-Taiwan-Hong Kong: Comparative Institutional Analyses. Edited by Alvion Y. So, Nan Lin, Dudley Poston, West port, CN: Greenwood.
• Zhou, Yu 2000 “Bridging the continents: the roles of Los Angeles Chinese producer services in the globalisation of Chinese business.” Book chapter in The Globalisation of Chinese Business Firms, edited by Henry Wai-Chung Yeung and Kris Olds, London: Macmillan Press Ltd. pp167-194.