Yu Zhou has a B.A. and M.A. in Geography and Urban and Regional Planning, from Beijing University, P.R. China. She earned her Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Minnesota in 1995.

Yu Zhou's current research is on the development of information-technology region in Beijing. She was a world bank visiting fellow at China Center of Economic Research at Peking University between September 2000-June 2001. Her previous work and research interests include issues of immigration in American cities, gender and immigration experiences, the transnational investments and transnational networks in the Pacific Rim. She currently teaches Economic Geography, Population and Environment, East Asia, Asian diasporas, Ethnic geography in America, and Geographical research methods. She has been involved in Urban studies, Women Studies and other interdisplinary program. She currently serves as a steering committee member in International Studies and Asian Studies.

Selected Publications:

Yu Zhou, Xin Tong, Innovative region in a developing country-Interaction between MNCs and domestic firms in a high-tech service cluster in Beijing, China, accepted publication in Economic Geography.

Wei Li, Gary Dymski, Yu Zhou, Carolyn Aladaba and Maria Chee, Chinese American Banking and Community in Los Angeles County: The Financial Sector and Chinatown/Ethnoburb Development, Annals of American Geographers, 92(4):777-796.

Wei Li, Yu Zhou, Gary Dymski, and Maria Chee, 2001. Banking on Social Capital in the Era of Globalization: Chinese Ethnobanks in Los Angeles, Environment and Planning A Vol. 33: 1923-1948.

Tseng Yen-Fen and Yu Zhou. Immigrant Economy in a Pacific Rim Context: Chinese busineses in Los Angeles. Book chapter in The Chinese Triangle of Mainland-Taiwan-Hong Hong: Comparative Institutional Analyses. Edited by Alvion Y. So, Nan Lin, Dudley Poston, forthcoming by Greenwood.

Yu Zhou, Caught below the fashion run-way in the Big Apple-Immigrant enterprises in the garment industry of New York. Book chapter in Unravelling the Rag Trade-Immigrant entrepreneurship in seven world cities, edited by Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES). Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers.

Yu Zhou and Yen-Fen Tseng, 2001, Regrounding the ungrounded Empires-Localization as the geographical catalyst for transnationalism. Global Network 1(2):131-154.

Yu Zhou. 2000. The fall of "the other half of the sky?"-Contemporary experiences of Mainland Chinese immigrant women in New York City. Women's Studies International Forum 23(4): 445-459.

Yu Zhou. 1999. Beijing and the development of dual central business districts, Geographical Review (88)3: 429-436.

Yu Zhou. Bridging the continents: The roles of Los Angeles Chinese producer services in the globalisation of Chinese businesses. Book chapter in The Globalisation of Chinese Business Firms, edited by Henry Wai-Chung Yeung and Kris Olds, London: Macmillan Press Ltd., pp. 167-194.

Brian Godfrey and Yu Zhou, 1999, Ranking world cities: Multinational corporations and the global urban hierarchy. Urban Geography 20, 3 (April 1-May 15): 268-281

Yu Zhou. 1998. How do places matters: A comparitive studies of Chinese communities in Los Angeles and New York City. Urban Geography, 19(6): 531-553.

Yu Zhou. 1998. Beyond Enclaves: -Location strategies of Chinese producer service firms in Los Angeles. Economic Geography, 74(3): 228-251.

Yu Zhou. 1996. Firm Linkages, Ethnic Networks and Territorial Agglomeration: Chinese computer firms in Los Angeles. Papers in Regional Science, Vol. 75(3): 265-291.

Ms. Zhou also teaches in Vassar's Department of Geology and Geography.