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View article: Urban state venturism as state entrepreneurialism: Conceptualizing the risk-taking dynamics of industrial upgrading in Hefei, China
Urban state venturism as state entrepreneurialism: Conceptualizing the risk-taking dynamics of industrial upgrading in Hefei, China Open
This article examines the rationale and emergent effects of state-led venture capital (SVC) investments as an urban developmental tool to pursue industrial upgrading. Building on the concept of urban state venturism, the article introduces…
View article: The firm as a geoeconomic actor
The firm as a geoeconomic actor Open
Cutting-edge research on geoeconomics has under-explored one core constituent – the firm. Presenting two empirical ‘snapshots’ from different historical-geographical conjunctures, this essay spotlights the continuities that underpin firms’…
View article: Urban state venturism: On state-led venture capital investments in the urban process of capital accumulation
Urban state venturism: On state-led venture capital investments in the urban process of capital accumulation Open
Research on the urban process of capital accumulation has typically examined the state and capital as separate actors. This distinction is problematized by a long-standing, increasingly prominent but largely overlooked attempt by state ins…
View article: <scp>PEASANT MOBILIZATION</scp>, <scp>THE</scp> ‘<scp>LAND QUESTION</scp>’ <scp>AND SPATIAL EGALITARIANISM IN AN URBANIZING CHINA</scp>: A Genealogical Assessment and a New Research Agenda
<span>PEASANT MOBILIZATION</span>, <span>THE</span> ‘<span>LAND QUESTION</span>’ <span>AND SPATIAL EGALITARIANISM IN AN URBANIZING CHINA</span>: A Genealogical Assessment and a New Research Agenda Open
Urbanization has become a core strategy for the Communist Party of China (CPC) to reinforce its authoritarian rule over China. Its roll‐out is replete with tensions, however, because the extent to which urbanization can replicate spatial e…
View article: The geographical preconditions of radical price reforms in post-Mao China: Critical reflections on <i>How China Escaped Shock Therapy</i>
The geographical preconditions of radical price reforms in post-Mao China: Critical reflections on <i>How China Escaped Shock Therapy</i> Open
This paper offers a critical engagement with Isabella Weber’s fascinating new book, How China Escaped Shock Therapy. It foregrounds the book’s contributions to knowledge on a hitherto under-explored topic – why shock therapy advocates were…
View article: On the rationale and implications of China’s RMB internationalization: A global historical perspective
On the rationale and implications of China’s RMB internationalization: A global historical perspective Open
This article addresses two interrelated questions pertaining to the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) attempt to internationalize the Chinese currency – the renminbi (RMB). First, what is the historical rationale of RMB internationalization…
View article: From the city of steel to Germany’s ‘China City’: economic restructuring, the EU–China transcontinental railway and infrastructure-led development in Duisburg
From the city of steel to Germany’s ‘China City’: economic restructuring, the EU–China transcontinental railway and infrastructure-led development in Duisburg Open
This paper critically evaluates the prevailing World Bank recommendation for city-regions to drive infrastructure-led development through targeted spatial plans. Introducing a novel analytical framework to conceptualize Duisburg's evolutio…
View article: Capital accumulation, territoriality, and the reproduction of state sovereignty in China: Is this “new” state capitalism?
Capital accumulation, territoriality, and the reproduction of state sovereignty in China: Is this “new” state capitalism? Open
The portrayals of “new state capitalism” in both the popular media and policy-making circles have become a potent geopolitical category. This politically realist categorization is understandably popular because of its simplicity—states pro…
View article: The Constitutive Role of State Structures in Strategic Coupling: On the Formation and Evolution of Sino-German Production Networks in Jieyang, China
The Constitutive Role of State Structures in Strategic Coupling: On the Formation and Evolution of Sino-German Production Networks in Jieyang, China Open
Research on the strategic coupling between regions and global lead firms has largely assumed that the regional assets for coupling are ready made and are largely unchanging throughout the coupling process. This article takes this assumptio…
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View article: Researching state rescaling in China: methodological reflections
Researching state rescaling in China: methodological reflections Open
This paper foregrounds and evaluates the research design associated with the study of Chinese state rescaling. It first synthesizes the existing gaps in the original, western-based state rescaling framework. The paper then explores how dif…
View article: State rescaling, policy experimentation and path dependency in post-Mao China: a dynamic analytical framework
State rescaling, policy experimentation and path dependency in post-Mao China: a dynamic analytical framework Open
This paper evaluates the applicability of the state rescaling framework for framing politico-economic evolution in China. It then presents an analytical framework that examines institutional change as driven by the dynamic entwinement of s…
View article: The Great Leveler: Capitalism and Competition in the Court of Law
The Great Leveler: Capitalism and Competition in the Court of Law Open
Brett Christophers. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. 360 pp., illustrations, graphs, tables, index, notes. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 9780674504912).What explains the recurring reproduction o...
View article: China: an East Asian alternative to neoliberalism?
China: an East Asian alternative to neoliberalism? Open
The political-economic evolution of post-Mao China has been portrayed as a historically inevitable embrace of neoliberalism; as an exemplification of the East Asian developmental state and as an extension of Soviet New Economic Policy-styl…
View article: The Chongqing vs. Guangdong developmental ‘models’ in post-Mao China: regional and historical perspectives on the dynamics of socioeconomic change
The Chongqing vs. Guangdong developmental ‘models’ in post-Mao China: regional and historical perspectives on the dynamics of socioeconomic change Open
The Chinese political economy is a dynamic entity constituted by multiple developmental trajectories. Recent debates on two seemingly divergent ‘models’ in the subnational regions of Chongqing and Guangdong has foregrounded the potential c…
View article: The “Singapore Fever” in China: Policy Mobility and Mutation
The “Singapore Fever” in China: Policy Mobility and Mutation Open
The “Singapore model” constitutes only the second explicit attempt by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to learn from a foreign country following Mao Zedong's pledge to contour “China's tomorrow” on the Soviet Union experience during the e…
View article: ‘Emptying the cage, changing the birds’: state rescaling, path-dependency and the politics of economic restructuring in post-crisis Guangdong
‘Emptying the cage, changing the birds’: state rescaling, path-dependency and the politics of economic restructuring in post-crisis Guangdong Open
This paper evaluates how economic restructuring in Guangdong is entwined with the politicization of state rescaling during and after the global financial crisis of 2008. It shows how a key industrial policy known as ‘double relocation’ gen…
View article: On the shifting spatial logics of socioeconomic regulation in post-1949 China
On the shifting spatial logics of socioeconomic regulation in post-1949 China Open
This paper argues that new rounds of socioeconomic reforms in post-1949 China, each with their distinct geographical expressions, constitute a complex palimpsest rather than a straightforward process of historical succession. Drawing on a …