Publications of Wanjing Chen

Chen, Wanjing. 2022. Harden the hardline, soften the softline: unravelling China's qiaoling-centred diaspora governance in Laos. China Quarterly 250: 397–416. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741022000455.

Chen, Wanjing. 2021. Harnessing the sending state: pragmatic improvisations and negotiated memberships of the Chinese diaspora in Laos. Political Geography 89: 102425. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102425.

Chen, Wanjing. 2021. Railroaded: the financial politics and the labour puzzle of global china. Made in China 6(1): 132–137. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22459/MIC.06.01.2021.17.

Chen, Wanjing. 2020. Sovereign debt in the making: financial entanglements and labor politics along the belt and road in Laos. Economic Geography 96(4): 295–314. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2020.1810011.

Chen, Wanjing and Jung Won Sonn. 2019. Contingent proletarianization of creative labor: deskilling in the Xianyou classical furniture cluster. Geoforum 99: 248–256. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.11.008.

Chen, Wanjing. 2019. Making possibilities out of the impossible: rural migrant workers' backdoor economies and the pitfall in Lao PDR. Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia 25.

Sonn, Jung Won, Wanjing Chen, He Wang, and Xiao Liu. 2017. A top-down creation of a cultural cluster for urban regeneration: the case of OCT Loft, Shenzhen. Land Use Policy 69: 307–316. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.09.024.

Zhu, Huasheng, Wanjing Chen, and Juncheng Dai. 2016. Beyond apprenticeship: knowledge brokers and sustainability of apprentice-based clusters. Sustainability 8(12): 1279. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su8121279.

Chen, Wanjing. 2020. The power of mirage: state, capital, and politics in the grounding of 'belt and road' in Laos. PhD Thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Chen, Wanjing. 2023. 在老挝追风口 [Chasing the wind in Laos]. 一席 [Yixi]. https://www.yixi.tv/h5/speech/1189/.

Chen, Wanjing and Jessica Dicarlo. 2021. Laos-China railway: Northern Laos, Laos and China. The people's map of global China. https://thepeoplesmap.net/project/laos-china-railway/.

Bosoni, Nicholas, Miles Kenney-Lazar, and Wanjing Chen. 2023. Laos farmers cling to a way of life that's vanishing as developer drains marsh they rely on for water. South China Morning Post, April 22, 2023.

Chen, Wanjing. 2017. Africa's information revolution: technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania. Journal of Economic Geography 17(1): 265–266. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbw038.

Chen, Wanjing. 2023. Deliver poison? The stigmatisation of return and the making of a brutal diaspora in pandemic China. MoLab Inventory of Mobilities and Socioeconomic Changes. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48509/MoLab.2880.

Lu, Juliet and Wanjing Chen. 2019. From pioneers to brokers: how a diverse Chinese diaspora facilitates the belt and road in Lao. Panda Paw Dragon Claw. https://pandapawdragonclaw.blog/2019/12/20/from-pioneers-to-brokers-how-a-diverse-chinese-diaspora-facilitates-the-belt-and-road-in-lao/.