Ding Fei a development and economic geographer with areas of expertise in globalization and development, political economy, capital-labor relations, South-South migration, and China-Africa relations. Her research elucidates the structures, processes, agencies, and relationalities that shape Chinese overseas investment and development finance, and assesses Chinese impacts on achieving the three Sustainable Development Goals of promoting productive employment and decent work, facilitating inclusive industrialization, and reducing inequality in Africa.
Ph.D., Geography, University of Minnesota
M.A., Geography, University of Minnesota
B.S., Resource Science and Engineering, Beijing Normal Univesrity
B.A. (dual degree), English Language and Literature, Beijing Normal Univesrity
Economic Globalization
International Development
Political Economy
Capital-Labor Relations
South-South Migration
China-Africa Cooperation
Refereed Journal Articles
Fei, D. 2020. Networked Internationalization: Chinese Companies in Ethiopia’s Infrastructure Construction Sector. The Professional Geographer. Published online.
Fei, D. 2020. Employee Management Strategies of Chinese Telecommunication Companies in Ethiopia: Half-Way Localization and Internationalization. Journal of Contemporary China. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2020.1852740
Fei, D. 2020. The Compound Labor Regime of Chinese Construction Projects in Ethiopia. Geoforum. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.08.013
Liao, C. Fei, D. Huang, Q.X., Jiang, Lu., & Shi, P.J. 2020. Targeted Poverty Alleviation through Photovoltaic-Based Intervention: Rhetoric and Reality in Qinghai, China. World Development. Published online. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105117
Fei, D. 2020. Variegated Work Regimes of Chinese Investment in Ethiopia. World Development. Published online. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105049
Fei, D. 2020. Chinese Telecommunications Companies in Ethiopia: The Influences of Host Government Intervention and Inter-firm Competition. The China Quarterly. Published online: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741020000417.
Fei, D. 2020. Negotiating Chineseness: Incorporating Critical Reflection into Workplace Research on Chinese Companies in Ethiopia. Area. Published online: https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12607
Fei, D., Liao, C. 2019. China’s Eastern Industrial Zone in Ethiopia: Unpacking the Enclave. Third World Quarterly. Published online: https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2019.1694844.
Liao, C., Fei, D. 2019. Poverty Reduction through Photovoltaic-Based Development Intervention in China: Potentials and Constraints. World Development, 122: 1-10.
Liao, C., Brown, D., Fei, D., Long, X., Chen, D., Che, S. 2018. Data Biases Undermine Geospatial Inference Based on Location-Based Crowdsourced Data. Transactions in GIS. 22 (6): 1351-1371.
Fei, D., Samatar, A., Liao, C. 2018. Chinese-African Encounters in High-Tech Sectors: Comparative Investigation of Chinese Workplace Regimes in Ethiopia. Development Policy Review, 36 (S1): O455-O475. (Top 20 most read paper 2017-2018)
Fei, D. 2017. Worlding Developmentalism: Spatiality of China’s Special Zones within and beyond Border. Journal of International Development. 29 (6): 825-850.
Liao, C., Fei, D. 2017. Sedentarization as Constrained Adaptation: Evidence from Pastoral Regions in Far Northwestern China. Human Ecology. 45 (1), 23-35.
Liao, C., Fei, D. 2017. Pastoral Adaptations to Socio-Environmental Risks under NGO Interventions in Southern Ethiopia. The Rangeland Journal. 39 (2), 189-200.
Liao, C., Fei, D. 2016. Resilience of What to What: Evidence from Pastoral Contexts in East Africa and Central Asia. Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses, 4(1), 14-29.
Liao, C., Morreale, S. J., Kassam, K.-A. S., Sullivan, P. J., & Fei, D. 2014. Following the Green: Coupled pastoral migration and vegetation dynamics in the Altay and Tianshan Mountains of Xinjiang, China. Applied Geography, 46, 61–70.
Book Chapters and Working Papers
Fei, D. 2018. Work, Employment, and Training Through Africa-China Cooperation Zones: Evidence from the Eastern Industrial Zone in Ethiopia. Working Paper No. 2018/19. China Africa Research Initiative, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://www. sais-cari.org/publications.
Liao, C., Fei, D. 2017. Pastoral Resilience in East Africa and Central Asia. In Chandler, D., Coaffee J. (Ed) Routledge Handbook of International Resilience, 198-210.
Book Reviews
Fei, D. 2020. Book Review of China in Ethiopia: The long-term perspective. By Aaron Tesfaye. State University of New York Press. China Quarterly. Forthcoming.
Fei, D. 2016. Book Review of Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South. By Ananya Roy and Emma Shaw Crane. (Eds.). University of Georgia Press. Southeastern Geographer, 56 (3), 370-373.
Courses
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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GCU 432 | Geography of China |
GCU 432 | Geography of China |
GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
GCU 496 | Geographic Research Methods |
2021 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
GCU 496 | Geographic Research Methods |
GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
GCU 432 | Geography of China |
GCU 432 | Geography of China |
2020 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
GIS 270 | Stats for Geography & Planning |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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GCU 432 | Geography of China |
GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
GCU 432 | Geography of China |
2019 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
2019 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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GIS 341 | Cartography&Georepresentation |
GIS 270 | Stats for Geography & Planning |
2018 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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GCU 432 | Geography of China |
GCU 432 | Geography of China |