CHEN Jingfu
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Master Supervisor
School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-sen University
Email: Chenjf75@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Research Interests

Tourism Mobilities and Planning
Tourism Destination Development and Management
Leisure and Resort.
Cities and Everyday Life
Ageing and Health

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
  • M.S., Management, School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-sen University
  • B. Admin., School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-sen University

Courses

  • Introduction to Urban Leisure (undergraduate course)
  • Cultural Tourism Product Planning and Design (undergraduate course).
  • Geography of Mobilities (undergraduate course).Global Human Geographies and Tourism (undergraduate course)
  • First-Year Seminar: Creating a Better Life (undergraduate course)
  • Globalisation and Tourism Mobilities (graduate course)
  • Selected Essays on Sociology Theories (graduate course)

Selected Research Papers

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  • Chen N., Ang S., Chen J*(2024) Negotiating Chineseness in an age of China s rise younger diaspora s engagement with Chinese voluntary associations in Singapore.Ethnic and Racial Studies. DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2024.2354956
  • Chen N., Chen J.* (2023) Diaspora governance and religion: The (re)production of the Guangze Zunwang cult in the Chinese diaspora. Global Networks, 23:583-598. DOI:10.1111/glob.12369
  • Wang B., Chen J.* (2022) Engaging in or retreating from cosmopolitanism? Times. temporalities and migration. Identities, 29(6): 813-831. DOI:10.1080/1070289X.2020.1863036
  • Xiao X., Fang C., Lin H., Chen J. (2022) A framework for quantitative analysis and differentiated marketing of tourism destination image based on visual content of photos.Tourism Management. 93: 104585. DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2022.104585
  • Chen N., Chen J. (2022) Diaspora governance and religion: The (re)production of the Guangze Zunwang cult in the Chinese diaspora. Global Networks, DOI:10.1111/glob.12369
  • Chen J., Chen N.*, Cai F. (2022) Sanya, China: Tropical climate and the rise of a small city. Cities, 123: 103589. DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2022.103589
  • Chen J., Wang B.* (2022) Mobilising therapeutic landscapes: Lifestyle migration of the Houniao and the spatio-temporal encounters with nature. Geoforum, 131: 206-214. DOI:10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.03.018
  • Wang B., Chen J.* (2021) Emotions and migration aspirations: western scholars in Chinaand the navigation of aspirational possibilities. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies,47(15):3437-3454.DOI:10.1080/1369183X.2020.1764841
  • Chen J.*, Bao J. (2021) Chinese 'snowbirds' in tropical Sanya: retirement migration and the production of translocal families. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(12):2760-2777.DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2020.1739377
  • Chen N., Chen J.*, Ko P. (2021) Active aging in the countryside: Space, place and the performance of leisure-work lifestyles in contemporary rural China. Population SpacePlace, 27(6): e2429. DOI: 10.1002/psp.
  • Chen J., Chang T. C. (2020) Touring as labour mobilities and reconsideration of tourguiding in everyday life. Tourism Geographies, 22(4-5): 813-831. DOI:10.1080/14616688.2019.1686769
  • Yan Y., Chen J.*, Wang Z. (2020) Mining public sentiments and perspectives from geotagged social media data for appraising the post-earthquake recovery of tourism destinations. Applied Geography, 123:102306. DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102306
  • Chen J., Wang B.* (2020) "Unattended" retirement: Lifestyle migration and precarity of the Houniao. Population Space Place. 26(8): e2369. DOI: 10.1002/psp.236912
  • Chen, J.*, Chen, N. (2018) Everyday knowledge on the move: the transfer and reproduction of Guangchang wu in Sanya, China. Mobilities, 13(6): 921-936. DOI:10.1080/17450101.2018.1500097
  • Chen, J.*, Chen, N. (2017) Beyond the everyday? Rethinking place meanings in tourism.Tourism Geographies, 19(1): 9-26. DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2016.1208677 (SSCI Q2)
  • Chen, J., Chang. T. C. (2015) Mobilising tourism research in emerging world regions:Contributions and advances. Current Issues in Tourism, 18(1), 57-61. DOI:10.1080/13683500.2014.932337

Encyclopedia/Book Chapters

  • Chen, J. (2020) Sense of Place. In: Kobayashi, A. (Ed.). International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (2nd edition). Elsevier, pp. 147-151.
  • Chen, J. (2018) Contested (Im)mobilities and rhythms of Chinese cities: Urban transformation and slow life in Sanya. In M. Jayne (Ed.), Chinese urbanism: Critical perspectives (pp.165-174). London: Routledge.
  • Chen, J., Chen, N. (2018) Beyond the everyday? Rethinking place meanings in tourism,In J. Jeuring & I. Diaz-Soria, (Eds.), Proximity and intraregional aspects of tourism.London: Routledge.

Selected Research Grants

  • Principal Investigator, "Research on influencing factors, process and mechanism of elderly health: study of tourism migration", Humanities and Social Sciences ResearchProject, the Ministry of Education of China.
  • Principal Investigator, "Mobility, practice and power: Exploring the reproduction of everyday space in tourist destinations under the influence of elderly tourism migration",National Natural Science Foundation of China
  • Principal investigator, "Mobilities of the Houniao and the reconstruction of everyday spaces of destinations in the age of post tourism", The 65th General program, Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation.
  • Principle Investigator, "Exploring the multiple tempo-spatiality of lifestyle migrants'everyday leisure: the case of northeastern 'snowbirds"", Fundamental Research Funds forthe Central Universities, Sun Yat-Sen University.
  • Group members, "Strategies, methods and measures for the cultivation of talents inculture and tourism industry", Major Project in Arts, National Social Science Foundation of China.
  • Group members, "Research on tourism consumption migrants' experience of happiness and management improvement", The General program, National Social Science Foundation of China.