“…Yet, the overwhelming majority of cases have focused on contemporary western polities, though the efforts of expanding the historical and geographical scope of the discussion are underway (Blok, 2012; Bunnell, 2015; Clarke, 2012a; Cook et al., 2015; Didier et al., 2012; Wood, 2015). China has been featured relatively prominently in the policy mobility literature as scholars analyze the roles of transnational experts in major urban development projects and eco-cities (Bok and Coe, 2017; Chang and Sheppard, 2013; de Jong et al., 2013; Joss and Molella, 2013; Olds, 1997; Pow and Neo, 2013), and the systematic efforts of the Chinese local official training program in Singapore (Lim and Horesh, 2016; Liu and Wang, 2018), among others. Yet, qujing as a routinized practice within the processes of Chinese policy making has not received any scrutiny.…”