Rethinking China’s urban governance: The role of the state in neighbourhoods, cities and regions

Wu, Fulong; Zhang, Fangzhu

doi:10.1177/03091325211062171

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“…While this study focuses on the thriving US listings of Chinese companies in the past decades, the most recent tensions between Chinese companies and the US regulators have created great uncertainties for this trend. Such developments remind us of the impacts of geopolitics and state power on GFNs (Töpfer, 2018; Lai, 2018), and the necessity of including the analysis of specific institutional contexts (Liu and Dicken, 2006; Wu, 2020; Wu and Zhang, 2022). Future research could draw on such issues to interrogate how GFNs are impacted by the state actors.…”

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Mapping global financial networks: a spatial analysis of Chinese companies’ overseas listings

Pan

Fang

2022

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research

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Drawing on the case of Chinese companies’ overseas listings on US stock exchanges, this study unpacks the geography and network structure of China’s integration into global financial networks (GFNs) by taking a city network approach based on inter-firm service and collaboration linkages. The results show that New York and Hong Kong are the dominant international financial centres facilitating this process. The Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands are the key offshore jurisdictions in which the Chinese companies are incorporated. Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen are more likely to be connected with GFNs than other cities in mainland China. The financial and business service firms involved in the overseas listings are mostly located in these cities. These strategic nodes have varied functions in GFNs. Several key city-dyads within the networks are identified, which further indicates the importance of those strategic nodes mentioned above. Despite the growing importance of Chinese firms and financial centres within GFNs, the continuing integration of China’s economy via overseas listings on US stock exchanges has strengthened rather than challenged the existing global financial order dominated by the west.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Mapping global financial networks: a spatial analysis of Chinese companies’ overseas listings

Pan

Fang

2022

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research

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“…However, what Smith (2020) failed to elaborate in his work is how these protests, sarcasms of government can exist in an ‘authoritarian’ state, preserved their dilapidated houses as a worthy place to live, and more importantly, why local residents wanted upper-level governments to discipline lower-level governments into action. What we can know from these studies is that China has a multi-scalar and hierarchical party-state (Wu and Zhang, 2021), may explain why local residents seek help and support from the upper-level governments. Therefore, social resistance, which is regarded as the ‘right to the city’ in China’s urban redevelopment contexts (Shin, 2013b; Qian and He, 2012), has attracted tremendous attention in unravelling the complex relationships between the government and local residents (e.g.…”

Section: Unravelling China’s Paradoxical Participatory Governancementioning

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“…To elaborate, the appropriation of government regulations to resist in fact relied on the inconsistency among different levels of governments. On the one hand, these resistant activities by using xinfang as the effective method for local residents to reflect their concerns, shows the contradictions and inconsistencies between different levels of governments in China; on the other, it is also an expression of China’s fragmented authoritarianism, a multi-scalar and hierarchical administrative system (Qian and He, 2012; Wu and Zhang, 2021).…”

Section: Reflections On Nanjing’s Paradoxical Participatory Governancementioning

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Participatory governance in China: ‘Informal public participation’ through neighbourhood mobilisation

Cao

2022

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Public participation is an emergent feature of urban governance in Nanjing, China. Though introduced to address social conflicts around urban redevelopment, the fact is that government-led public participation did not successfully soothe tensions, but resistance instead played a role like ‘public participation’ which influenced the governing processes. This Chinese case thus requires us to rethink the limitations of Western governance theories in explaining this Chinese story. With the purpose to research urban political studies beyond the West to have more plural and heterodox voices to depict a diversity of urban knowledge, this paper focuses on this heterodox phenomenon in China to understand how Chinese insurgent urbanism reconfigured and made a new form of urban governance. Through critical investigation of public participation in Nanjing, this paper argues that public participation is the buffer that mediates and ‘repairs’ the inconsistencies between different levels of governmental agencies, while also because of this disjointed and stratified administrative feature, resisting by appropriating government policies thus can influence the governing processes and become a way of ‘informal public participation’. By introducing the concept of ‘informal public participation’, this paper’s research findings shed light on governance studies about how participatory governance is made through both governmental approaches and bottom-up insurgent urbanism, and also illustrates how resistance can reshuffle power dominance in urban politics to make a new form of urban governance.

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“…The growth machine theory has also been employed, to a certain extent, to analyze the development of different cities in China [21][22][23]. When reflecting on the nature of the city in the context of China's urbanization, questions of definition, distinction, and integration have become the predominant issues pertaining to land [24].…”

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Community Bargaining with Urban Growth: The Case of J Village in Guangzhou

Ying-yan

Xiao-xing

2022

IJERPH

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The past several decades have seen China undergo a rapid urbanization process. During periods of economic prosperity, cities expropriate outlying lands, often villages, for economic development with the support of various local and national government programs designed to encourage urban expansion. However, the autonomy of the villages has not been paid enough attention. How does incorporation into an urban development zone affect the community identity and autonomy of a village? How does the village bargain with external urban institutions? This research is based on ethnographic research and interviews conducted in 2013, 2014, 2017, and 2021. The results reveal that villagers are generally willing to accept the loss of their collective land in exchange for a larger share of the promised prosperity of industrialization, but over time they tend to find that the immediate benefits of expropriation are outweighed by long-term costs. They lose the support of the state and are exposed to new vulnerabilities, such as pollution and economic instability. Indeed, they agree to undertake unknown future risks in exchange for short-term gains. They cannot gain the right to the city, but gradually lose control of the village.

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Rethinking China’s urban governance: The role of the state in neighbourhoods, cities and regions

Cited by 63 publications

References 194 publications

Mapping global financial networks: a spatial analysis of Chinese companies’ overseas listings

Mapping global financial networks: a spatial analysis of Chinese companies’ overseas listings

Participatory governance in China: ‘Informal public participation’ through neighbourhood mobilisation

Community Bargaining with Urban Growth: The Case of J Village in Guangzhou

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