Sun Yatsen University
School of Geography & Planning School of Tourism 
135 Xingang Xi Lu
Guangzhou 510275, China

Room D215
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Vorträge an Tagungen und Universitäten

▪ Hong Kong and Macau: Cross-border integration as a challenge for urban planning.
    International Master in Urban Management, Technical University of Berlin (Germany), 8th February 2008
▪ Living with gates: Functions, effects & psychology of walls and gates in Chinese commodity housing estates.*
    Inter'l Conference on China's Urban Land & Housing in the 21. Century, Hong Kong, 15th December 2007
▪ Analysis of governance modes in the Chinese context - on the adaptation of a western concept.* 
    Conference on Governance - Theories & Practices, Macau (China), 25th October 2007
▪ Sustainable tourism development in a Chinese border region. (in German)
    56. Deutscher Geographentag (AK Ostasien), Bayreuth (Germany), 4th October 2007
▪ The formation of a transborder metropolitan region.
    IGU Commission on Monitoring Cities of Tomorrow, Guangzhou (China), 6th August 2007
▪ Borders and identities - the Macau-China case. 
    International Conference on Cities and Borders, Macau (China), 4th August 2007
▪ The growth of cycling tourism in Europe - with some reflections on China.
    International Conference of Heritage and Tourism, Guangzhou (China), 10th July 2007
▪ Sustainable tourism development in China's north-western periphery.
    Japanese Society for Geographical Sciences (Chiri Kagaku Gakkai), Hiroshima (Japan), 28th May 2007
▪ World city people and the use of space in Hong Kong.
    Fudan University International Urban Forum, Shanghai (China), 4th November 2006
▪ The integration of Macau with the Pearl River Delta.
    First Sino-Japan-Korea Symposium of Young Geographers, Beijing (China), 16th September 2006
▪ The Pearl River Delta: On the function of boundaries and bounding in a mega city region. 
    IGU Commission on Monitoring Cities of Tomorrow, Santiago de Compostela (Spain), 1st August 2006
▪ International tourism to China's borderland: Lake Kanas in the Altai Mountains.
    Jinan University, Department of Business, Guangzhou (China), 7th June 2006
▪ Urban regeneration and globalisation. The case of SoHo, Hong Kong.
    Symposium Changing Geography in a Diversified World, Baptist University, Hong Kong (China), 2nd June 2006
▪ Formation of a transborder metropolitan region: Cross-border commuting in Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
    2006 Intern'l Forum on Metropolitan Regions Development, Shanghai (China), 12th April 2006
▪ Borders and border regions in transition - Hong Kong and Macau as Chinese border regions. (in German)
    55. Deutscher Geographentag (AK Ostasien), Trier (Germany), 6th October 2005 
▪ Working, living, partying – the global city takes local spaces. 
    IGU Commission on Monitoring Cities of Tomorrow, Tokyo (Japan), 22nd August 2005
▪ Mainland tourism to Hong Kong and Macau. International Conference on Border Tourism 
    and Community Development, Xishuangbanna (China), 7th July 2005
▪ The socio-spatial effects of globalisation in Hong Kong.
    Annual Meeting of the Geographical Society of China, Guangzhou (China), 5th Dec. 2004
▪ Mainland tourism to Hong Kong and Macau.
    Jinan University, Department of Business, Guangzhou (China), 29th Nov. 2004
▪ Border people – A study from Hong Kong and Macau.
    30th International Geographical Congress, Glasgow (UK), 18th Aug. 2004
▪ The perception of place – Macau in foreigner’s eyes. 
    Intern'l Conference on Event Tourism & Destination Management, Yichang (China), 28th Nov. 2003 
▪ Macau and the Pearl River Delta, cross-border activities and integration. 
    Hong Kong Geography Day 2003, Chinese University, Hong Kong (China), 10th November 2003
▪ Comparing Macau's and Hong Kong's integration with the Pearl River Delta Region. 
    International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 3) , Singapore, 22nd August 2003 
▪ Xinjiang - A borderland geography. 
    Department of Social Sciences, University of Macau, Macau (China), 14th May 2003
▪ Patterns of cross-boundary commuting in Hong Kong. Conference on socio-economic and infrastructure
    development for a competitive Pearl River Delta, Hong Kong (China), 19th December 2002 
▪ Social change in a global city - the Hong Kong case. (in German) 
    University of Cologne, Geography Department, Cologne (Germany), 18th June 2002
▪ "Asia's world city" or number three in Guangdong? (in German)
    3rd East Asia Forum of German Geographers, Duisburg (Germany), 14th June 2002
▪ Developing new planning policies for the “Land Between” Hong Kong and Shenzhen. 
    2nd East Asian Conference on Alternative Geography, Hong Kong (China), 8th December 2001
▪ The re-unification process of Hong Kong and mainland China. A geographer’s view. 
    Department of Geography, Kyunghee University, Seoul (South Korea), 23rd November 2001
▪ The global city and its consequences: A study on Hong Kong. 
    Department of Geography & Resource Management, Chinese University, Hong Kong (China), 1st November 2001
▪ Negotiating territorial development in Hong Kong’s border region with the mainland of China. 
    International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 2), Berlin (Germany), 9th August 2001
▪ The spatial integration of Hong Kong and Guangdong. 
    Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou (China), 24th May 2001
▪ New cross-boundary interactions between Hong Kong and mainland China. 
    97th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, New York (USA), 28th February 2001
▪ The Hong Kong - mainland China border: Transformation of a border regime. 
    29th International Geographical Congress, Seoul (South Korea), 16th August 2000
▪ Made in Hong Kong or Made by Hong Kong? (in German)
    52. Deutscher Geographentag, Hamburg (Germany), 7th October 1999
▪ Spatial and sectoral changes of the employment structure in Hong Kong. (in German)
    Geography Day of the Association Suisse de Géographie (ASG), Basel (Switzerland), 23rd April 1999
▪ Centralization or decentralization of employment within Hong Kong? 
    95th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Honolulu (USA), 27th March 1999
▪ From urban to regional development in Hong Kong: A view from outside. 
    Department of Geography and Geology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China), 10th December 1998
▪ Ebenezer Howard – Esperantist and founder of the garden city movement in Britain. (in Esperanto) 
    Seminar „Cities for living“, Int. Begegnungsstätte Jagdschloss Glienicke, Berlin (Germany), 21st July 1992
▪ Berlin's residential suburbs – developments in the divided city and future perspectives. (in German) 
    Conference „Berlin. Divided city, dual city, reunited city“, Berlin (Germany), 13rd April 1991
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* (joint paper)