Admissions direction

• Human Geography 04-Social Geography and Cultural Inheritance
• Human Geography 06 - Joint training of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Education background

• Institute of Urban Planning, Paris, France, Spatial Remediation and Urban Planning, Ph.D.
• Nanjing University, School of Geography and Marine Sciences, Urban Planning and Design, Master
• Nanjing University, Department of Urban and Resource Science, Urban Planning, Bachelor

Research experience

• Nanjing Normal University, School of Geographical Sciences, Professor
• Nanjing University, School of Geography and Marine Sciences, Associate Researcher
• Nanjing University, School of Geography and Oceanography, Assistant Researcher
• Nanjing University, Research Assistant, Sino-French Urban·Regional·Planning Science Research Center

Main research direction

• Population mobility and settlement, social integration
• Elderly population health
• Regional Planning in France and China

Major Social Part-time

• Member of the Committee on Population Geography of the Chinese Geographical Society
• Member of the Committee on Women Geographers of the Chinese Geographical Society
• Member of the Committee on Spatial Governance of the China Association for the Promotion of Administrative Zoning and Regional Development
• Member of the Committee on Development Strategy and Planning of the Jiangsu Macroeconomic Society
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Modern Urban Studies

Honors and Awards

• Young and middle-aged scientific and technological talents of Nanjing Normal University - Young and middle-aged outstanding talents (first level)
• Jiangsu Province Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award
• Nomination for the Qian Xuesen Gold Medal in Urbanism
• Jiangsu Province Urban and Rural Construction System Survey and Design Award

Recently published papers (*corresponding author)

• S Tang, J Zhou, O Druta, X Li, 2022, Settlement in Nanjing among Chinese rural migrant families: The role of changing and persistent family norms. Urban Studies, doi: 10.1177/00420980221130761. 
• S Tang, J Zhou, Y Liu, 2023, Emerging in-migration of urban young adults engaging in rural tourism in China. Population, Space and Place. doi: 10.1002/psp.2791.  
• S Tang, J Zhou, O Druta, X Li, 2023, Settlement in Nanjing among Chinese rural migrant families: The role of changing and persistent family norms. Urban Studies, 60 (6): 1083-1101. 
• S Tang, J Zhou, S Lin, X Li, 2022, Where is my home? Sense of home among rural migrant women in contemporary China. Geoforum, 129: 131-140. 
• S Tang, HF Lee, X Huang, J Zhou, 2022, Poverty stories of rural households in China: The case of North Jiangsu. Journal of Rural Studies, 91: 1-9. 
• S Tang, HF Lee, J Feng, 2022, Social capital, built environment and mental health: A comparison between the local elderly people and the laopiao in urban China. Ageing and Society, 42(1): 179-203.  
• S Tang, X Li, 2021, Responding to the pandemic as a family unit: Social impacts of COVID-19 on rural migrants in China and their coping strategies. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. (online)  
• S Tang, P Hao, J Feng, 2020, Consumer behaviour of rural migrant workers in urban China. Cities, 106: 102856.  
• S Tang. 2020, Determinants of migration and household member arrangement among poor rural households in China: The case of North Jiangsu. Population, Space and Place, 26 (1): e2279. 
• J Feng, S Tang*, X Chuai. 2018, The impact of neighborhood environment on quality of life of elderly people: Evidence from Nanjing, China. Urban Studies. 55 (9): 2020-2039. 
• P Hao, S Tang*. 2015, Floating or settling down: The effect of rural landholdings on the settlement intention of rural migrants in urban China. Environment and Planning A, 47: 1979-1999. 
• Jiachen Zhang, Shuangshang Tang*, Gengzhi Huang. 2024, Generation mechanism of decision-making for rural migrants returning to China under the perspective of collocation theory: a case study of Yangzhou area in Jiangsu Province. Geography Research, 43(7):1750-1768. 
• Tang, Shuangshang, Zhou, Jing, Deng, Yinghui, and Xu, Qiqi. 2022, Spatio-temporal differentiation and influencing factors of city-town-village distribution of migrant population in Jiangsu Province. Journal of Geography, 77(12):3055-3071. 

Recent publications

• Tang Shuangshuang. Territorial Consolidation in the Period of Rapid Urbanization in France (1945-1970s): Evolution, Effects and Enlightenment, Nanjing University Press, 2016.
• Huang Xianjin, Tang Shuangshuang. Three land reforms and the realization of rural land rights and interests, Nanjing University Press, 2018.

Main research projects hosted

• National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 42471251, The Return Mechanisms and Impacts of Rural Migrants in China from a Cross-Local Perspective, chairperson.
• National Natural Science Foundation of China, Facial Program, 42071179, Study on the Spatial Patterns and Mobility Mechanisms of Rural and Rural Migrant Population in Developed Regions of China, chairperson.
• National Natural Science Foundation of China, Youth Program, 41401175, Study on the Spatial and Temporal Differences of Rural Migrant Population Citizenship from the Perspective of Population Migration Flow, chairperson
• National Ministry of Human Resources and Social Affairs Overseas Scholarship Fund, 133221, Study on the Spatial Pattern and Citizenship of Agricultural Transfer Population Migration of Different Generations: Taking Nanjing as an Example, Chairperson
• Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation Top Project, BK20141325, Construction of Mobile Population Migration Simulation System Based on GIS and Multi-agent System, Chair
• Youth Program of Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of Ministry of Education, 19C10319056, Research on the Patterns, Mechanisms and Effects of Urban-Rural Population Mobility in Developed Regions of China, Chairperson
• Soft Science Research Program of Jiangsu Province, BR2019049, Research on Spatial Distribution and Innovative Development of Advanced Manufacturing Industry in Jiangsu Province, Chair
• Jiangsu Province Social Science Foundation Program, 23SHB003, Research on the Characteristics, Mechanisms and Impacts of Changes in Jiangsu's Mobile Population in the New Era, Chair
• Young Scholars Funding Program of “What to Govern - Research on Contemporary Social Governance in China”, Research on Mental Health and Social Support Paths of Migrant Women in Transitional China, Chairperson
• The Effect of Landholdings on the Mobility and Wellbeing of Rural Migrants in Urban China, Lincoln Center for Land Policy China Program, GST021916, co-chair
• Jiangsu Province Population Census Project, RPA001, Study on the Distribution Patterns and Influencing Mechanisms of Rural Population in Jiangsu Province, chairperson.
• Jiangsu Province Economic Census Key Project, JPA002, Research on Open Economy Development of Jiangsu Province in the Context of Belt and Road, Chair

Contact

• Email: sstang@njnu.edu.cn
• Office Address: Room 615, School of Geographical Sciences, Nanjing Normal University
• Mailing address: School of Geographical Sciences, No. 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing Normal University