Prior to his appointment at the City University of New York, he was on the faculty at the Berry College in Georgia (1976-1983), and Southeastern Louisiana University (1983-86). He was a visiting research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and University of California at Berkeley, a visiting scholar at the Institute of Social Science and Philosophy in Academia Sinica in Taiwan, and a visiting professor at the National Taiwan University in Taiwan and Nagoya National University in Japan. Chow was invited to lecture extensively at Tokyo University, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Meiji Gakuin University in Yokohama, and several universities in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Chow is specialized in trade and development, with a special interest in comparative developments in latecomers of industrialization Asia-Pacific region. His recent research focused on the economic transformation and integration in the Pacific Basin countries, technological transfers, and modernization in the late industrialized countries. He served as the Executive Director for the American Association for Chinese Studies, the economics editor of the American Journal for Chinese Studies, and a referee for several professional and academic journals in the world.

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B.A., National Taiwan Univ.; M.S., Southern Illinois Univ., Ph.D.

In addition to more than 40 articles published in leading academic journals, and more than 100 papers presented at the academic and professional meetings, Chow has authored, coauthored and edited several major books in trade and development including:

Books Authored

Growth and Stability in a Small Open Economy, Burgess Publishing Co., Minneapolis, MN. 1983.

Trade--The Engine of Growth in East Asia, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993 (co-author: Mitchell Kellman). Winner of the R.R. Hawkins Award of the Outstanding Professional and Scholarly Titles in Economics by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. in 1993.

China's Economy after Deng: A Long Term Perspective, Occasional Papers/ Reprints Series in Contemporary Asian Studies, University of Maryland School of Law, No.5, 1995 (130).

U.S.-Taiwan Free Trade Area Agreement: A Bridge for Economic Integration, Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies, Baltimore: School of Law University of Maryland. Number 4-2002 (171).

Social Expenditures in Taiwan( China), Washington, D.C.: The World Bank Institute, 2000.  

Trade and Industrial Development in East Asia: Catching up or Falling Behind.  Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 2012

Books Edited

Edited with an introductory essay, China's Modernization in Relation to the U.S., Burgess Publishing Co., Minneapolis, MN.1984. (Co-editor: Peter Lawyer).

Edited with an introductory Chapter, Weathering the Storm: Taiwan, Its Neighbors, and the Asian Financial Crisis, Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution. 2000 (co-editor: Bates Gill)

Edited with an introductory chapter, Taiwan's Modernization in Global Perspective. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. 2002.

Edited with an introductory chapter, Taiwan in Global Economy. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. 2002.

Edited with an introductory chapter, Economic Integration, Democratization and National Security. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Inc., 2007 

Edited with an introductory chapter, The ‘One China’ Dilemma, New York: Palgrave Macmillan Publishers, 2008.

Edited with an introductory chapter, National Identity and Economic Interest: Taiwan’s Competing Options and Their Implications for Regional Stability. New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2012

Edited with an introductory chapter, Economic Integration across the Taiwan Strait, Global Perspectives Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Inc., 2013.

Edited with an introductory chapter, The US Strategic Pivot to Asia and Cross-Strait Relations, New York : Palgrave MacMillan 2014

Edited “ The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement and the Pathway to Free Trade in Asia Pacific’. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Inc., 2016.

Edited with an introductory chapter, A Century of Development in Taiwan: From Colony to Modernity” Edward Elgar. 2021. forthcoming​