Professor Dr. Charlotte Goodburn

Biography

Charlotte Goodburn is a Reader in Chinese Politics at King's College London and Deputy Director of the Lau China Institute. She completed her PhD in the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge and has a BA in History and an MPhil in Contemporary Chinese Studies from the same institution. Charlotte has extensive experience in conducting fieldwork in China and has studied Mandarin at Peking University and National Taiwan University. Her research interests focus on Chinese politics and development, specifically rural-urban migration, urbanization, and comparative development issues in Asia, particularly in China and India. She also examines gender, household dynamics, child poverty, and intergenerational mobility in her work. Charlotte is dedicated to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses in International Development and supervises PhD students on topics related to identity registration systems and policy transfer. Her publications address various aspects of migration and development, including the impacts of special economic zones in China and India.

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