Yan Zhi-Jun is a post-doctoral fellow at the College of i, Feng Chia University. I graduated from the Department of Sociology at Tunghai University. I am an urban sociologist and economic geographer with a focus on land finance, urban politics, and global production networks. My research examine how land can be transformed into financial assets and integrated into financing networks. Specifically, I focus on how cost-equivalent lands in urban readjustment projects become financial assets and fiscal resources. These findings have been featured in journals such as the Taiwanese Journal of Sociology. Additionally, I explore various aspects of urban land politics, particularly the roles played by developers, local factions, and administrative collaborators in shaping land development. This work challenges traditional understandings of local politics and has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Geographical Science, and will be publish in the Journal of Social Sciences and Philosophy. Finally, I am a researcher member in Professor Cheng-shu Kao’s research teams, our research also delves into the restructuring of global production networks, with a focus on the spatial governance and production strategies of footwear industry clusters in Taiwan, China, Vietnam, and Indonesia.

Publications

Jerry Zhi-Jun Yan and Daniel You-Ren Yang, 2024, “Urban Land Readjustment and Informal Land Financing Networks: The Case Study of Taichung's Urban Land Readjustment Implemented by Private Sector.” Taiwanese Journal of Sociology (74): 1-58.

Daniel You-Ren Yang and Jerry Zhi-Jun Yan, 2023, “The Urban Land Re-adjustment, Monopoly Power and the Consensus Manufacturing: The Case of Taichung's Urban Land Readjustment Implemented by the Private Sector.” Journal of Geographical Science (105): 3-63. 

Jerry Zhi-Jun Yan, 2022, “Response and Dialogue. Book Review. Precarious Living: Homeless People and the Helping Networks in Taiwan.” Taiwanese Journal of Sociology (71): 137-149.