This book introduces readers to the current social and economic state of China since its restructuring in 1949.
* Provides insights into the targeted institutional change that is occurring simultaneously across the entire country
* Presents context-rich accounts of how and why these changes connect to (if not contradict) regulatory logics established during the Mao-era
* A new analytical framework that explicitly considers the relationship between state rescaling, policy experimentation, and path dependency
* Prompts readers to think about how experimental initiatives reflect and contribute to the 'national strategy' of Chinese development
* An excellent extension of ongoing theoretical work examining the entwinement of subnational regulatory reconfiguration, place-specific policy experimentation, and the reproduction of national economic advantage
Autorentext
Kean Fan Lim is Lecturer in Economic Geography and Urban and Regional Development at Newcastle University, UK. He is primarily interested in the impact of city-regional policy experimentation on national-level regulatory pathways in China. Kean's research has been widely published in journals within and beyond geography.
Klappentext
On Shifting Foundations: State Rescaling, Policy Experimentation and Economic Restructuring in Post-1949 China reshapes the conceptualisation of socioeconomic regulation in China. It provides readers with insights into the targeted institutional change that is occurring simultaneously across the entire country. It also presents context-rich accounts of how and why these changes connect to (if not contradict) regulatory logics established during the Mao-era. This book provides readers with a new analytical framework that explicitly considers the relationship between state rescaling, policy experimentation, and path dependency. By doing so, it prompts readers to think about how experimental initiatives reflect and contribute to the 'national strategy' of Chinese development. This also helps make a clear geographical-historical contribution to studies of the Chinese state's engagement with the global system of capitalism.
On Shifting Foundations is presented in three parts: Connecting Mao and post-Mao logics of socioeconomic regulation; Conceptualising the (dis)integration of Chinese state spatiality; and Evaluating two 'Nationally strategic' sites of policy experimentation. It is an excellent extension of ongoing theoretical work examining the entwinement of subnational regulatory reconfiguration, place-specific policy experimentation, and the reproduction of national economic advantage.
Inhalt
Series Editor's Preface viii
Acknowledgements ix
1 Introduction 1
Part I A GeographicalHistorical Reappraisal 27
2 Chinese State Spatiality as a Complex Palimpsest 29
Part II Conceptual Parameters 63
3 State Rescaling, Policy Experimentation and Pathdependency in postMao China: A Dynamic Analytical Framework 65
Part III State Rescaling in the Pearl River Delta and Chongqing 83
4 Becoming 'More Special than Special' I: The Pressures and Opportunities for Change in Guangdong 85
5 Becoming 'More Special than Special' II: Hengqin and Qianhai New Areas as National Frontiers of Financial Reforms 112
6 State Rescaling in and Through Chongqing I: The State as Economic Driver 145
7 State Rescaling in and Through Chongqing II: The Politics of Pathdependency 174
8 Concluding Reflections 196
References 209
Index 230