Jili Xu, Mengdi Wu, Xingjian Liu, Desheng Xue (2026). Urban technological catch-up in post-reform China amidst centralized resource constraints: The case of biotechnology in Guangzhou. Cities.DOI
Zi-Lang Cheng, Qinshan Li, Siyu Zhou, Qianyi Bei, Zhuoyang Lin, Hong-Zhan Lin, Jing Xie, Desheng Xue (2026). Gradient-explicit assessment of surface urban heat island intensity in subtropical megacities. Sustainable cities and society.DOI
Qing Liu, Desheng Xue, Chengxin Wang, Wei Li (2026). Spatial Agglomeration Identification and Agglomeration Zoning of Semiconductor Industry in China. Chinese Geographical Science.DOI
Quan Gao, Yan Zhou, Desheng Xue (2026). Network embeddedness of knowledge creation among international migrant academics in China’s Sino-Foreign Cooperative Universities. Higher Education.DOI
Hongzhang Lin, Desheng Xue, B Y Wang, Bo Wang, Bo Wang, Bo Wang (2026). Spatial Reconfiguration of the Metropolitan Fringe Areas Under Policy Evolution—Taking Guangming District of Shenzhen as an Example. Land.DOI
Yubin Ou, Gengzhi Huang, Desheng Xue (2025). Connecting world cities through sports events: Insights from international sports tours. Journal Of Urban Affairs, Vol. 470, No. 7.DOI
Yubin Ou, Xu Zhang, Gengzhi Huang, Mingjun Xu, Haokun Liu, Desheng Xue (2025). Identifying World Sports Cities based on the network analysis of global sports diffusion from 1984 to 2022. Cities, Vol. 1630.DOI
Bo Wang, Xin Feng, Becky P. Y. Loo, Desheng Xue, Jixiang Liu, Siyao Tong (2025). Hedonic price effects of homeworking under the COVID-19: evidence from housing markets in Guangzhou, China. Journal Of Housing And The Built Environment, Vol. 400, No. 20.DOI
Zhaoyuan Shi, Desheng Xue (2025). Measuring the international ocean economy trade: Method and application. Marine Policy, Vol. 175.DOI
Zhaoyuan Shi, Desheng Xue, Jili Xu (2025). Global Marine Product Space and Coastal Countries' Productive Capabilities, 1995-2021. Land, Vol. 14, No. 2.DOI
Zilang Cheng, Jiangmin Yang, Desheng Xue (2025). Conflicts at the Crossroads: Unpacking Land-Use Challenges in the Greater Bay Area with the Production-Living-Ecological Perspective. Land, Vol. 14, No. 2.DOI
Qing Liu, Desheng Xue, Wei Li (2024). A Sustainable Production Segment of Global Value Chain View on Semiconductors in China: Temporal and Spatial Evolution and Investment Network. Sustainability, Vol. 160, No. 190.DOI
Ruixia Chao, Desheng Xue, Benshuo Wang (2024). Evaluating Human Needs: A Study on the Spatial Justice of Medical Facility Services in Social Housing Communities in Guangzhou. Land, Vol. 13, No. 7.DOI
Gengzhi Huang, Bowei Cai, Shuyi Liu, Desheng Xue (2024). Analysing the heterogeneity in working conditions of migrant informal workers in China: a test of the WIEGO model of informal employment. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, Vol. 11, No. 1.DOI
Yubin Ou, Gengzhi Huang, Rui Chen, Hua Chen, Anan Xie, Desheng Xue (2024). From Western centralism to decentralization: Trends, breakthroughs and limitations in the world city network based on the winter olympic games. Applied Geography, Vol. 164.DOI
Jili Xu, Gengzhi Huang, Desheng Xue, Yuyao Ye (2024). Beyond regional endogenous and firm-centric accounts: Contextualizing multiple and multiscalar industrial branching mechanisms for the emergence of biotechnology industries in Guangzhou, China. Applied Geography, Vol. 163.DOI
Haolin Hong, Bo Wang, Desheng Xue (2024). Impact of Hinterland Manufacturing on the Development of Container Ports: Evidence from the Pearl River Delta, China. Chinese Geographical Science.DOI
Yubin Ou, Gengzhi Huang, Yixiao Xu, Anan Xie, Desheng Xue (2024). Growing dominance and soft power enhancement: Exploring Chinese cities’ continual efforts to promote international sports events from a city network perspective. PLoS ONE.DOI
Chen Liu, Jiayan Chen, Desheng Xue (2023). Daily mobilities with smartphone apps and their failures: A study in urban Guangzhou. Cities, Vol. 1430.DOI
Bo Liu, Desheng Xue, Sijun Zheng (2023). Evolution and Influencing Factors of Manufacturing Production Space in the Pearl River Delta-Based on the Perspective of Global City-Region. Land, Vol. 12, No. 2.DOI
Jiangmin Yang, Gengzhi Huang, Desheng Xue (2023). The Changing Roles of the Local Government in Environmental Governance in Guangzhou, China. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies.DOI
Yiming Tan, Desheng Xue, Bo Zhang (2022). Neighbor interactions and settlement intentions of African Migrants in urban China: A case study of Guangzhou. Population Space And Place, Vol. 280, No. 60.DOI
Qi Zhang, Bo Wang, Desheng Xue (2022). The Hub Competition in Delivering Air Connectivity between China and Oceania. Sustainability, Vol. 14, No. 11.DOI
Xiaowen Li, Yiming Tan, Desheng Xue (2022). From World Factory to Global City-Region: The Dynamics of Manufacturing in the Pearl River Delta and Its Spatial Pattern in the 21st Century. Land, Vol. 11, No. 5.DOI
Liying Lin, Desheng Xue, Yi Yu (2022). Reconfiguration of Cultural Resources for Tourism in Urban Villages-A Case Study of Huangpu Ancient Village in Guangzhou. Land, Vol. 11, No. 4.DOI
Xianfeng Xu, Desheng Xue, Gengzhi Huang (2022). The Effects of Residents' Sense of Place on Their Willingness to Support Urban Renewal: A Case Study of Century-Old East Street Renewal Project in Shaoguan, China. Sustainability, Vol. 14, No. 3.DOI
Gengzhi Huang, Zuge Xing, Chunzhu Wei, Desheng Xue (2022). The driving effect of informal economies on urbanization in China. Journal of Geographical Sciences.DOI
Bo Wang, Yaqin Lei, Desheng Xue, Jixiang Liu, Chunzhu Wei (2022). Elaborating Spatiotemporal Associations Between the Built Environment and Urban Vibrancy: A Case of Guangzhou City, China. Chinese Geographical Science.DOI
Chen Liu, Rong Yang, Desheng Xue, Yiming Tan (2021). Globalization and the Governance of Muslim Spaces in Contemporary Guangzhou. Professional Geographer, Vol. 730, No. 40.DOI
Chunzhu Wei, Wei Chen, Yang Lu, Thomas Blaschke, Jian Peng, Desheng Xue (2021). Synergies between Urban Heat Island and Urban Heat Wave Effects in 9 Global Mega-Regions from 2003 to 2020. Remote Sensing.DOI
Desheng Xue, Yubin Ou (2021). Intercity connections and a world city network based on international sport events: Empirical studies on the Beijing, London, and Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. Journal of Geographical Sciences.DOI
Weiwei Tan, Chunzhu Wei, Yang Lu, Desheng Xue (2021). Reconstruction of All-Weather Daytime and Nighttime MODIS Aqua-Terra Land Surface Temperature Products Using an XGBoost Approach. Remote Sensing.DOI
Jiangmin Yang, Yiming Tan, Desheng Xue, Gengzhi Huang, Zuge Xing (2021). The Environmental Impacts of Informal Economies in China: Inverted U-shaped Relationship and Regional Variances. Chinese Geographical Science.DOI
Chen Liu, Rong Yang, Desheng Xue (2020). Chinese Muslims' daily food practices and their geographies of encounter in urban Guangzhou. Social & Cultural Geography, Vol. 210, No. 9.DOI
Gengzhi Huang, Desheng Xue, Yan Guo, Changjian Wang (2020). Constrained voluntary informalisation: Analysing motivations of self-employed migrant workers in an urban village, Guangzhou. Cities, Vol. 1050.DOI
Rong Yang, Desheng Xue, Chen Liu (2020). Connections and disconnections between family and religion: A family geography of Guangzhou Muslim immigrants. Area, Vol. 520, No. 30.DOI
Xu Huang, Bo Zhao, Ye Liu, Desheng Xue (2020). Belonging to a Place: An Analysis of the Perceptions of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China. Geographical Review, Vol. 1100, No. 3.DOI
Gengzhi Huang, Desheng Xue, Bo Wang (2020). Integrating Theories on Informal Economies: An Examination of Causes of Urban Informal Economies in China. Sustainability, Vol. 12, No. 7.DOI
Rong Jun Yang, Chen LIU, Desheng Xue (2020). A review of the studies on globalization and urban spaces: From the perspective of geographies of religion. 《地理科学进展》.DOI
Jiangmin Yang, Desheng Xue, Gengzhi Huang (2020). The Changing Factors Affecting Local Environmental Governance in China: Evidence from a Study of Prefecture-Level Cities in Guangdong Province. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.DOI
Bo Liu, Desheng Xue, Yiming Tan (2019). Deciphering the Manufacturing Production Space in Global City-Regions of Developing Countries-a Case of Pearl River Delta, China. Sustainability, Vol. 11, No. 23.DOI
Jili Xu, Fiona Fan Yang, Desheng Xue (2019). The Geography of Knowledge Sourcing, Personal Networks, and Innovation Effects: Evidence from the Biomedical Firms in Guangzhou, China. Sustainability, Vol. 11, No. 12.DOI
Gengzhi Huang, Desheng Xue, Yang Wang (2019). Governmentality and Spatial Strategies: Towards Formalization of Street Vendors in Guangzhou, China. International Journal Of Urban And Regional Research, Vol. 430, No. 30.DOI
Jiangmin Yang, Yiming Tan, Desheng Xue (2019). The impacts of globalization on city environments in developing countries: A case study of 21 cities in Guangdong Province, China. Journal of Cleaner Production.DOI
Ruoyu Wang, Ye Liu, Desheng Xue, Marco Helbich (2019). Depressive symptoms among Chinese residents: how are the natural, built, and social environments correlated? BMC Public Health.DOI
Ruoyu Wang, Ye Liu, Desheng Xue, Yao Yao, Penghua Liu, Marco Helbich (2019). Cross-sectional associations between long-term exposure to particulate matter and depression in China: The mediating effects of sunlight, physical activity, and neighborly reciprocity. Journal of Affective Disorders.DOI
Desheng Xue, Huaikuan Liu, Wenjiong Guo, Ye Liu (2019). Comprehensiveness and Locality: Website Marketing of World City Governments in the Era of Globalisation. Chinese Geographical Science.DOI
Xu Huang, Ye Liu, Desheng Xue, Zhigang Li, Zhilei Shi (2018). The effects of social ties on rural-urban migrants' intention to settle in cities in China. Cities, Vol. 830.DOI
Wei Li, Desheng Xue, Xu Huang (2018). The Role of Manufacturing in Sustainable Economic Development: A Case of Guangzhou, China. Sustainability, Vol. 10, No. 9.DOI
Gengzhi Huang, Hong-ou Zhang, Desheng Xue (2018). Beyond unemployment: Informal employment and heterogeneous motivations for participating in street vending in present-day China. Urban Studies, Vol. 550, No. 12.DOI
Ruoyu Wang, Desheng Xue, Ye Liu, Hongsheng Chen, Yingzhi Qiu (2018). The relationship between urbanization and depression in China: the mediating role of neighborhood social capital. International Journal for Equity in Health.DOI
Ruoyu Wang, Desheng Xue, Ye Liu, Penghua Liu, Hongsheng Chen (2018). The Relationship between Air Pollution and Depression in China: Is Neighbourhood Social Capital Protective? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.DOI
Hongsheng Chen, Ye Liu, Zhigang Li, Desheng Xue (2017). Urbanization, economic development and health: evidence from China’s labor-force dynamic survey. International Journal for Equity in Health.DOI
Tabea Bork-Hueffer, Birte Rafflenbeul, Zhigang Li, Frauke Kraas, Desheng Xue (2016). Mobility and the Transiency of Social Spaces: African Merchant Entrepreneurs in China. Population Space And Place, Vol. 220, No. 20.DOI
Xue Desheng, Huang Gengzhi (2015). Informality and the state's ambivalence in the regulation of street vending in transforming Guangzhou, China. Geoforum, Vol. 62.DOI
Desheng Xue, Fulong Wu (2015). Failing entrepreneurial governance: From economic crisis to fiscal crisis in the city of Dongguan, China. Cities, Vol. 430.DOI
Gengzhi Huang, Desheng Xue, Zhigang Li (2014). From Revanchism to Ambivalence: The Changing Politics of Street Vending in Guangzhou. Antipode, Vol. 460, No. 10.DOI
Desheng Xue, Gengzhi Huang, Jingwen Guan, Jiarong Lin (2014). Changing concepts of city and urban planning practices in Guangzhou (1949–2010): An approach to sustainable urban development. Chinese Geographical Science.DOI
Nian Su, Desheng Xue, John A. Agnew (2014). World cities and international organizations: Political global-city status of Chinese cities. Chinese Geographical Science.DOI
Desheng Xue (2010). Overview of the Informal Sector Research Overseas. 《地理科学进展》.
Zhigang Li, Laurence J. C. Ma, Desheng Xue (2009). An African Enclave in China: The Making of a New Transnational Urban Space. Eurasian Geography And Economics, Vol. 500, No. 6.DOI