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Background

Shue Tuck Wong, B.A. (Augustana College); M.A. (Yale University); and Ph.D. (University of Chicago), is originally from Seremban, Malaysia. He has taught in the Department of Geography at 天美mv天美 since 1967. In 1976 he was seconded by the Canadian International Development Agency to the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok to teach quantitative analysis and human settlements planning in the Division of Human Settlements Development. He stayed at AIT teaching and supervising field research projects as a Canadian seconded faculty member till 1979. He returned to 天美mv天美 in the summer of 1979 and resumed his regular duties as a Professor of Geography.

At 天美mv天美 the courses he teaches include economic geography, population geography, political geography, resources development and urban transportation.

Professor Wong鈥檚 systematic research interests are in water resources management, statistical modeling, urban transportation issues and Third World regional development. His regional focus is China and Southeast Asia.

Publications

Publications since 1992 (*Asian interest)

Wong, S.T. 鈥淧hilip L. Wagner: An Appreciation.鈥� In Person, Place and Thing: Interpretative and Empirical Essays in Cultural Geography, ed., Shue Tuck Wong, 1992. Pp. 15-30, Geoscience and Man, Vol. 31. Baton Rouge, LA: Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University.

Wong, S.T. (ed.). In Person, Place and Thing: Interpretative and Empirical Essays in Cultural Geography, Geoscience and Man, Vol. 31. Baton Rouge, LA: Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, 1992. 425 pp.

*Wong, S.T. 鈥淩ural Water Quality Treatment: A Case Study of the Ban Bangloa Water Filtration Demonstration Plant, Singburi, Thailand.鈥� Aqua Fennica, Vol. 22, No. 2 (1992), 173-183.

Wong, S.T. 鈥淎n Integrated Framework for Sustainable Development.鈥� In Sustainable Resource management and Spatial Planning in Developing Counties, eds. Josefa S. Edralin and Tin Seong Kam. Nagoya, Japan: U.N. Centre for Regional Development, 1993, pp. 17-30.

Wong, S.T. 鈥淒imensions of the Great American Midwest Flood of 1993.鈥� Part I. Chiri (Journal of the Japanese Geographical Society), Vol. 38. No. 11 (November 1993), 66-74. (In Japanese).

Wong, S.T. 鈥淚mpact of the Great American Midwest Flood on the Levee System and the U.S. Flood Insurance Program.鈥� Part II. Chiri (Journal of the Japanese Geographical Society), Vol. 38. No. 12 (December 1993), 58-68. (In Japanese).

*Wong, S.T. with Han Sun Sheng. 鈥淐hinese Reform and Pre-Reform Policies on Urban Growth in the 1980s.鈥� Urban Geography, Vol. 15. No. 6 (1994), 537-564.

Wong, S.T. 鈥淐hoice of Schemes in Urban Transportation Planning.鈥� Foreign Urban Planning, No. 2 (1996), 11-16. (In Chinese).

Wong, S.T. 鈥淭he Foibles of Photo Radar.鈥� Simon Fraser News, Vol. 6, No. 5, (July 4, 1996), 5.

Wong, S.T. 鈥淧hoto Radar, A Comedy of Errors.鈥� Ming Pao Daily News, June 22, 1996, p. 6. (In Chinese).

*Wong, S.T. 鈥淭iger under the Rising Sun: The Japanese Occupation of Malaya, 1942-1945.鈥� Asian Profile, Vol. 25, No. 6 (December 1997), 455-47l.

*Wong, S.T. with Han Sun Sheng, 鈥淩evolution, Space and Urbanization: The Ideological Foundations of Chinese Urban Development.鈥� Asian Profile, Vol. 26, No. 2 (April 1998), 91-120.

*Wong, S.T. with Han Sun Sheng, 鈥淐hinese Urbanization Policies, 1949-1989.鈥� In Urban Growth and Development in Asia, Vol. 1, Making the Cities. Ed., Graham Chapman. London: Ashgate Press, 1999.

*Wong, S.T. and S.S. Han, 鈥淲hither China鈥檚 Market Economy? The Case of Lijin Zhen.鈥� Geographical Review, Vol. 88, No. 1 (January 1999).

Wong, S.T. 鈥淩eminiscences and Recollections of a Friend: A Tribute to Nobel Physics Laureate Dan Tsui.鈥� In The Joy in Search of Knowledge: A Tribute to Professor Daniel Tsui (New York: World Scientific Publishing Co., 1999.

Wong, S.T., 鈥淩ural Water Treatment: A Case Study of the Ban Thadindam Demonstration Project, Lop Buri, Thailand.鈥� Asian Profile, Vol. 28, No. 4 (August 2000), 287-302.

Wong, S.T., 鈥淧ollution Markets in A Green Country Town: Urban Enviromental Management in Transition.鈥� (An invited review). Natural Resources Forum, A United Nations Journal, Vol. 24, No. 4 (November 2000, 345-346).

*Wong, S.T. 鈥淪ource Choice Perception and Sustainable Rural Water Supply Development: A Case Study of the Ban Thadindam Demonstration Project, Lop Buri, Thailand.鈥� Water International, Vol., 25, No. 4 (December 2000), 586-594.

Idem. Reprinted in the Economic and Social Commission of the U.N. for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Environment and Natural Resources Development Division, Water and Mineral Resources Section, Water Resources Journal, ST/ESCAP/SER.C/210, September 2001, pp. 55-66.

Wong, S.T., 鈥淎sia鈥檚 Clean Revolution: Industry, Growth and Environment.鈥� (A Review). Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 92, No. 2 (June 2002), 379-381.

Wong, S.T. 鈥淐hanging China: A Geographical Appraisal.鈥� A book review essay in American Journal of Chinese Studies, vol. 11, No. 1 (April 2004), pp. 73-84

Wong, S.T., 鈥淭he Earthscan Reader in Environment, Development and Rural Livelihoods.鈥� (An Invited Review). Natural Resources Forum, A United Nations Journal, Vol. 29, No. 3 (August 2005), 266-267.

Wong, S.T.,鈥漈iger in the Shadow of the Red Star: The Malayan Emergency 1948- 1960 and Chin Peng.鈥� Asian Profile, Vol.34, No.6 (December 2006), 541-563.