… In this chapter I argue that the Chinese state is responding to the tensions generated by the
urban growth dilemma by attempting to develop a form of technocratic biopolitics I refer to as ‘…

… what we call biopolitical communities. In this book, we discuss how biopolitical investments
shape certain groups of population as belonging to specific biopolitical communities (national…

… Some studies focus on the neoliberal-biopolitical side of governing the subject at a distance;
others insist that the state remains an active participant in China’s neoliberal governance (…

… For all their importance to the reemergence of biopolitical governing in China, they are not
my principal interest here. My relatively narrow interest lies in how a provisional resolution of …

… to understand the biopolitics of HIV governance in China, we … They further signify a shift
away from Leninist biopolitics – … a form of neoliberal biopolitics, which stresses regulating and …

… Others have already used biopolitics in China in relation to the governance of the population
under the one-child policy. It has been acknowledged that ever since the foundation of the …

… China’s COVID-19-triggered spatial and social governance as an ad … China during the
COVID-19 pandemic express the long existing and well-established governance model of China: …

… Against this background, we argue that the new techniques and discourses of governing
mobility and citizenship in China embody a neoliberal-authoritarian rationality and share close …

… level required to maintain a stable population. The Party is experiencing the recoil effect of
… biopolitics. At the turn of the century, China’s population, according to UN World Population …

… neoliberal regulation does not pass through the return of the traditional role of the state. At
the same time, the Chinese … and irreversible novelty of neoliberal globalization, particularly …