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Han Cheng is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Max Weber Foundation research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge and was a visiting scholar at Yale University. His research examines spatial politics, non-Western geographies of knowledge, and China's evolving role in global development frameworks.
Research interests center on China's development studies and area studies, with focus on:
- Geopolitical implications of China's global scientific engagement
- Belt and Road Initiative's urban transformations
- Transboundary environmental governance
- Critical approaches to geographical methodology
Recent publications analyze China's development finance in Africa, environmental diplomacy with Mongolia, and critical geography methodologies, reflecting interdisciplinary engagement across human geography, political economy, and urban studies.
Currently participates in the China in the Global System of Science research group at the Max Planck Institute, examining knowledge production dynamics in China's scientific rise.
