Re-building Regulation and Re-inventing Governance in the Pearl River Delta, China

Re-building Regulation and Re-inventing Governance in the Pearl River Delta, China

Theorists often engage with arguments concerning restructuring post-reform Chinese cities and regions. Their works are quite persuasive about how the Chinese state has experienced an irreversible process of decentralisation and market reform. Nonetheless, these studies expose a number of domains in...

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Published in:Urban policy and research 2012-12, Vol.30 (4), p.385-401
Main Authors: Xu, Jiang, Yeh, Anthony G.O.
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
China
China (People's Republic)
China: Politics and government
China: Social conditions
Cities
Decentralization
Economic development
Economic reform
Governance
Government and politics
Markets
Pearl River Delta
Regional development
regional governance
Regional government
Regulation
Rivers
State restructuring
Sustainable development
Towns
Urbanisation
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Summary:Theorists often engage with arguments concerning restructuring post-reform Chinese cities and regions. Their works are quite persuasive about how the Chinese state has experienced an irreversible process of decentralisation and market reform. Nonetheless, these studies expose a number of domains in which such unidirectional analysis could conceivably be enhanced. Reflecting on two cases in the Pearl River Delta, the article has developed a new theoretical perspective to interpret China's state restructuring. Instead of treating the state simply as an internally coherent and unidirectionally transformed system, the state has become a contested terrain under dramatic re-configuration.
ISSN:0811-1146
1476-7244