On shifting foundations : state rescaling, policy experimentation and economic restructuring in post-1949 China / Kean Fan Lim.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Lim, Kean Fan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2019.
Series:RGS-IBG book series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter One Introduction; Recurring Spatial Reconfigurations and the Consolidation of a Unitary State; Approaching the 'Nationally Strategic New Areas'; The Chapters Ahead; Endnotes; Part I A Geographical-Historical Re-appraisal; Chapter Two Chinese State Spatiality as a Complex Palimpsest; Introduction; The Centralisation-Decentralisation Entwinement; Uneven Economic-Geographical Development: Undesirable Outcome or Developmental Precondition?; Conclusion; Endnotes; Part II Conceptual Parameters.
  • Chapter Three State Rescaling, Policy Experimentation and Path-dependency in post-Mao China: A Dynamic Analytical FrameworkIntroduction; State Rescaling and Socioeconomic Reforms in Post-Mao China: A Critical Overview; Framing State Rescaling, Policy Experimentation and Institutional Path-dependency in China: A Dynamic Analytical Framework; Conclusion; Part III State Rescaling in the Pearl River Delta and Chongqing; Chapter Four Becoming 'More Special than Special' I: The Pressures and Opportunities for Change in Guangdong; Introduction.
  • The Economic-Geographical Backdrop: 'Double Relocation' in Post-crisis GuangdongOn the (In)commensurability of Spatial Restructuring and Economic Growth; The Politics of Producing 'Nationally Strategic' Socioeconomic Spaces in Guangdong; Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter Five Becoming 'More Special than Special' II: Hengqin and Qianhai New Areas as National Frontiers of Financial Reforms; Introduction; Hong Kong's Emergent Functions as an 'Offshore RMB Center'; At Once Within and Without: The 'Extra Territorialisation' of Hengqin New Area and its Role in Cross-border Financial Integration.
  • Qianhai New Area as an Onshore 'Spatial Fix' for Offshore RMB FlowsConclusion: Change as the Precondition of Continuity?; Endnotes; Chapter Six State Rescaling in and Through Chongqing I: The State as Economic Driver; Introduction; The Evolving Positionality of Chongqing: A Geographical-Historical Overview; Chongqing as a New Platform for Policy Experimentation; Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter Seven State Rescaling in and Through Chongqing II: The Politics of Path-dependency; Introduction; Experimenting with Spatial Egalitarianism: Public Rental Housing Provision for Migrant Workers.
  • Market-based Maoism?Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter Eight Concluding Reflections; Introduction; Overview of Arguments and Conceptual Contributions; New Research Directions; References; Index; EULA.