On Shifting Foundations: State Rescaling, Policy Experimentation and Economic Restructuring in Post-1949 China [Hardcover]

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

Series Editors 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 IlcØ