Bios
   　Dr. Shiuh-shen CHIEN obtained his PhD in London School of Economics and Political Science and now is Assistant Professor in Human Geography at National Taiwan University. Piror to that he was visiting research fellow of East Asian Institute at National University of Singapore. His research interests cover human geography, development studies, geography of globalization, comparative institutional analysis, transnational innovation, and political economy of urban and regional development with empirical focuses on transitional and developing countries. His articles in print or in progress are able to be seen in Environment and Policy C: Government and Policy, Urban Studies, and Regional Studies.

Education
Ph.D. London School of Economics and Political Science (2006)
M.S. National Taiwan University (1997)
B.A. National Taiwan University (1994)

Research
Geography of Globalization
Development Studies
Politial Economy of Urban and Regiona Development
China Studies

Publications
Refereed Articles (2001-present):
Chien, Shiuh-Shen (forthcoming), Prefecture and Prefecture-level Cities- Political Economy of Administrative Restructuring, in China’s Local Administration- Traditions and Changes in the Sub-national Hierarchy, edited by Jae Ho Cheung and Tao-Chiu Lim. Routledge: London.

Chien, Shiuh-Shen (forthcoming), Globalization, Urbanization and Decentralization- An Experience of Asian Pacific Cities, in Handbook of Local and Regional Development, edited by Andy Pike, Andres Rodriguez-Pose and John Tomaney. Routledge: London.

Chien, Shiuh-Shen and Yilong WU (forthcoming), Urban Governances from Below- A Case Study of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in The Quest for Social Cohesion in Great China, edited by K. H. Mo and Y.W. Ko, World Scientific and Impress College Press: London.

Chien, Shiuh-Shen and Litao ZHAO (forthcoming), Local Economic Transition in China- A Perspective of Taiwan Investment, in China's Three Decades of Reform and Development in Global Perspective, edited by Z. Y. Bo and John Wang, World Scientific: Singapore.

Chien, Shiuh-Shen (2008) Local Responses to Globalization in China - a Territorial Restructuring Process Perspective, Pacific Economic Review, 13(4):492-517. (SSCI)[pdf]

Chien, Shiuh-Shen and Litao ZHAO (2008), Kunshan Model: Learning from Taiwanese Investors, Built Environment, 34(4):427-443. [pdf]

Chien, Shiuh-Shen and Ian Gordon (2008) Territorial Competition in China and the West, Regional Studies, 42 (1). pp. 1-18. (SSCI, 7/51 in Environmental Studies Category)[pdf]

Chien, Shiuh-Shen (2008) Isomorphism of Regional Development Policy in China- Case Study of National-Level Development Zones in Jiangsu, Urban Studies, 45(2), 273-294. (SSCI, 3/28 in Uran Studies Category)[pdf]

Chien, Shiuh-Shen and Litao ZHAO (2007) Cross-Regional Cadre Transfer and Local Economic Development: Evidence from Jiangsu, China. Singapore, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. EAI Working Paper No. 139.

Chien, Shiuh-Shen (2007) Institutional Innovation, Asymmetric Decentralization, and Local Economic Development-Case of post-Mao Kunshan, China, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 25(2): 269-290. (SSCI) [pdf]

Chien, Shiuh-Shen (2007) Kunshan as "Little Taiwan": China's Most Industrial Country-Level City, East Asian Institute Background Brief No. 345.

Chien, Shiuh-Shen and Yang Mu (2007), The Tianjin Binhai New Area as China' New Growth Pole , East Asian Institute Background Brief No. 331

Chien, Shiuh-Shen (2007) The Political Economy of Urban and Regional Development, in Interpreting China's Development, World Scientific Publishing, 134-138.

Chien, Shiuh-Shen and Yang Mu (2007), China Facing an Environmental Crisis' in Interpreting China's Development, World Scientific Publishing, 184-188.