Chen Xiangming
Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology, Trinity College, Connecticut
Chen Xiangming is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology at Trinity College in Connecticut, US. Chen is a comparative scholar of cities and their dwellers in all their local attributes and conditions and their global dimensions and connections. In doing local research on the relationship between the Belt and Road Initiative and cities, he has travelled through such ancient Silk Road cities as Xi'an, Dunhuang, Kashgar, Horgos, Tashkent, Kokand, Samarkand, and Bukhara, from east to west.