Jun Zhang

PhD:

• University of Minnesota (2007)

Other Degrees:

• MS: Peking University (1998)
• BS: Peking University (1995)

Research Interests:

• Urban and regional economic development
• Geographic theorizing of markets, states, and institutions
• Geography of innovation and entrepreneurship
• Industrial globalization, localization, and restructuring
• Varieties and variegations of capitalism
• East Asia
• China

Selected Publications:

Refereed Articles

• Zhang, Jun and Peck, Jamie 2014. Variegated capitalism, Chinese-style: Polyscalar constructions, Regional Studies. DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2013.856514
• Zhang, Jun 2013. Marketization beyond neoliberalization: a neo-Polanyian perspective to China’s transition to a market economy, Environment and Planning A 45: 1605-1624.
• Peck, Jamie and Zhang, Jun 2013. A variety of capitalism… with Chinese characteristics, Journal of Economic Geography 13: 357-396.
• Zhang, Jun 2013. Related variety, global connectivity and institutional embeddedness: Internet development in Beijing and Shanghai compared. Regional Studies. DOI:10.1080/00343404.2011.622744
• Zhang, Jun 2012. From Hong Kong’s capitalist fundamentals to Singapore’s authoritarian governance: The policy mobility of neoliberalizing Shenzhen, China. Urban Studies 49: 2853-2871.
• Zhang, Jun 2011. The spatial dynamics of globalizing venture capital in China. Environment and Planning A 43: 1562-1580.
• Zhang, Jun 2009. Industry building as contested market building: knowledge, politics, and the rise of Beijing in China’s virtual economy. Environment and Planning C: Government & Policy 27: 632-646.
• Maringanti, Anant, Sheppard, Eric and Zhang, Jun (2009) Where is the Geography? World Bank’s WDR 2009. Economic and Political Weekly, XLIV, no. 29: 45-5
• Zhang, Jun 2008. China’s dynamic industrial sector: The Internet industry. Eurasian Geography and Economics 49: 549-568.
• Zhang, Jun 2006. Market transition, state connections and the Internet geography in China. China Review 6: 93-123.