Selected Publications for Download (SSCI Journals):


Sun, Y.F., Y. Zhou, G.C.S. Lin and Y.H.D. Wei. 2013. Subcontracting and Supplier Technology Upgrading: Evidence from China’s Information and Communication Technology Industry. Regional Studies 47(10): 1766-1784.

Wei, Y.H.D., F. Yuan and F.H. Liao. 2013. Spatial Mismatch and Determinants of Foreign and Domestic ICT Firms in China. Professional Geographer 65(2): 247-264.

Liao, F.H.F. and Y.H.D. Wei. 2012.  Dynamics, Space, and Regional Inequality in Provincial China: A Case Study of Guangdong Province Applied Geography 32(1-2): 71-83.

Wei, Y.H.D. 2012. Restructuring for Growth in Urban China: Transitional Institutions, Urban Development, and Spatial Transformation Habitat International 36(3):396-405.

Wei, Y.H.D., Y. Zhou, Y.F. Sun, and G.C.S. Lin. 2012. Production and R&D Networks of Foreign Ventures in China: Implications for Technological Dynamism and Regional Development. Applied Geography 32(1): 106-118.

Wei, Y.H.D. and I. Liefner. 2012. Globalization, Industrial Restructuring, and Regional Development in China. Applied Geography 32(1): 102-105.

Lin, G.C.S., C.C. Wang, Y. Zhou, Y.F. Sun and Y.H.D. Wei. 2011. Placing Technological Innovation in Globalising China: Production Linkage, Knowledge Exchange and Innovative Performance of the ICT Industry in a Developing Economy. Urban Studies 48(14): 2999–3018.

Wei, Y.H.D., I. Liefner, and C.H. Miao. 2011. Network Configurations and R&D Activities of the ICT Industry in Suzhou Municipality, China. Geoforum 42(4): 484-495.

Wei, Y.H.D., D.L. Yu and X.J. Chen. 2011. Scale, Agglomeration, and Regional Inequality in Provincial China. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 102(4): 406-425.

Hao, H. and Y.H.D. Wei. 2011. Spatial and Temporal Patterns and Determinants of Foreign Investment in China.  Erdkunde 65(1): 7-23.

Liefner, I. and Y.H.D. Wei. 2011. Geography and the Research on Contemporary China. Erdkunde 65(1): 3-5.

Zhou, Y., Y.F. Sun, Y.H.D. Wei and G.C.S. Lin. 2011. De-centering ‘Spatial Fix’—Patterns of Territorialization and Regional Technological Dynamism of ICT Hubs in China. Journal of Economic Geography 11(1): 119-150.

Li, Y.R. and Y.H.D. Wei. 2010. A Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Health Care and Mortality Inequalities in Transitional China. Eurasian Geography and Economics 51(6): 767-787.

Wei, Y.H.D., J. Li and Y.M. Ning. 2010. Corporate Networks, Value Chains, and Spatial Organization: A Study of the Computer Industry in China. Urban Geography 31(8): 1118-1140.

Li, Y.R. and Y.H.D. Wei. 2010. The Spatial-Temporal Hierarchy of Regional Inequality of China. Applied Geography 30(3): 303-316.

Wei, Y.H.D., J. Luo, and Q. Zhou. 2010. Location Decisions and Network Configurations of Foreign Investment in Urban China. Professional Geographer 62(2): 264-283.

Wei, Y.H.D. and C.L. Gu. 2010. A Study of Industrial Development and Spatial Structure in Changzhou City, China: The Restructuring of the Sunan Model. Urban Geography 31(3): 321-347.

Wei, Y.H.D. 2010. Beyond New Regionalism, Beyond Global Production Networks: Remaking the Sunan Model, China. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 28(1): 72-96.

Wei, Y.H.D. 2009. China’s Shoe Manufacturing and the Wenzhou Model: Perspectives on the World’s Leading Producer and Exporter of Footwear. Eurasian Geography and Economics 50(6): 720-739.

Luo, J. and Y.H.D. Wei. 2009. Modeling Spatial Variations of Urban Growth Patterns in Chinese Cities: The Case of Nanjing. Landscape and Urban Planning 91(2): 51-64.

Wei, Y. H. D. and X. Y. Ye. 2009. Beyond Convergence: Space, Scale, and Regional Inequality in China. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 100(1): 59-80.

He, C. F., Y. H. D. Wei. and X. Z. Xie 2008. Globalization, Institutional Change, and Industrial Location: Economic Transition and Industrial Concentration in China. Regional Studies 42(7): 923-945.

Y. H. D. Wei., C. K. Leung, W. M. Li and R. Pan 2008. Institutions, Location, and Networks of Multinational Enterprises in China: A Case Study of Hangzhou. Urban Geography 29(7): 639-661.

Yu, D. L. and Y. H. D. Wei. 2008. Spatial Data Analysis of Regional development in Greater Beijing, China, in a GIS Environment. Papers in Regional Science 87(1): 97-117.

Wei, Y. H. D., W. M. Li and C. B. Wang. 2007. Restructuring Industrial Districts, Scaling Up Regional Development: A Study of the Wenzhou Model, China. Economic Geography 83(4): 421-444.

Yu, D. L., Y.H.D. Wei. and C. S. Wu. 2007. Modeling Spatial Dimensions of Housing Prices in Milwaukee, WI. Environment and Planning B 34(6): 1085-1102.

Miao, C. H., Y.H.D. Wei. and H. T. Ma.2007. Technological Learning and Innovation in China in the Context of Globalization. Eurasian Geography and Economics 48(6): 713-732.

Lu, L. C. and Y.H.D. Wei.2007. Domesticating Globalization, New Economic Spaces, and Regional Polarization in Guangdong Province, China. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (Journal of Economic and Social Geography) 98(2): 225-244.

Wei, Y.H.D.2007. Regional Development in China: Transitional Institutions, Embedded Globalization, and Hybrid Economies. Eurasian Geography and Economics 48(1): 16-36.

Wei. Y.H.D. 2006. Geographers and Globalization: The Future of Regional Geography. Environment and Planning A 38(8): 1395-1400.

Wei, Y.H.D. 2005. Planning Chinese Cities: The Limits of Transitional Institutions. Urban Geography 26(3): 200-221.

Yu, D.L. and Y.H.D. Wei. 2003. Analyzing Regional Inequality in Post-Mao China in a GIS Environment. Eurasian Geography and Economics 44(7): 514-534

Wei, Y.H.D. 2002, Beyond the Sunan Model: Trajectory and Underlying Factors of Development in Kunshan, China. Environment and Planning A  34(10): 1725-1747.

Lin, G.C.S. and Y.H.D. Wei. 2002, China's Restless urban Landscapes 1: New Challenges for Theoretical Reconstruction. Environment and Planning A?34(9):1535-1544.

Wei, Y.H.D. and S. Kim. 2002, Widening Inter-County Inequality in Jiangsu Province, China, 1950-1995. Journal of Development Studies 38(6): 142-164.

Wei, Y.H.D. and C.C. Fan. 2000, Regional Inequality in China: A Case Study in Jiangsu Province. Professional Geographer 52(3): 455-69.

Wei, Y.H.D. 1999, Regional Inequality in China. Progress in Human Geography 23(1), 48-58.