Prof. Karita KAN is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research explores urbanisation and rural transformation in post-socialist China, with a focus on the politics of land and property. She is also interested in state-society relations and grassroots governance in contemporary China. A comparative political scientist by training, she received her PhD and MPhil degrees in Politics from the University of Oxford. Her publications can be found in China Quarterly, China Journal, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Agrarian Change, Journal of Rural Studies, Geoforum and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, among others.

Prof. KAN currently serves as Programme Leader of the Master of Arts in Social Policy and Social Development. She is also Assistant Director (Research) of China and Global Development Network, an academic centre that partners with universities and social organisations in mainland China and Belt and Road countries to promote social policy research and practice. Prof. KAN is an editorial committee member of China Perspectives and a research associate at the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China.

Prof. KAN accepts PhD students and is interested in supervising research related to urbanisation, land politics, agri-food politics, rural and urban studies, and state-society relations.

• Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford
• Master of Philosophy, University of Oxford
• Bachelor of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong