Drawing up the missing link: State-society relations and the remaking of urban landscapes in Chinese cities

GCS Lin - Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Studies of China's urban transformation are characterized by diverse interpretations of the
relevance of the theory of neoliberalism and continuing tension of epistemology vis-à-vis …

Adding new narratives to the urban imagination: An introduction to 'New directions of urban studies in China'

F Wu - Urban Studies, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Rapid urban development in China provides rich cases for urban research. Current urban
studies in China are heavily influenced by an urban imagination embedded in the West …

China's metropolises in transformation: Neoliberalizing politics, land commodification, and uneven development in Beijing

GCS Lin, AY Zhang - Urban Geography, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Existing theory of urban transformation under neoliberalization describes cities as the
institutional arena in and through which neoliberal strategies of urbanism emanate and are …

Decoding urban land governance: state reconstruction in contemporary Chinese cities

J Xu, A Yeh - Urban Studies, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
In the rapidly growing literature on urban development in China, many authors have
emphasised the salient features of economic decentralisation and the increasingly …

Interrogating unequal rights to the Chinese city

S He, G Chen - Environment and Planning A, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
China's economic development and accompanying social changes are attracting
considerable research interest. The literature on China's sea change in this regard has …

New geography of land commodification in Chinese cities: Uneven landscape of urban land development under market reforms and globalization

T Liu, GCS Lin - Applied Geography, 2014 - Elsevier
This study examines the popular practice of land commodification as a means of local
revenue generation in Chinese cities and identifies the uneven landscape emerging as a …

Urban China through the lens of neoliberalism: Is a conceptual twist enough?

Y Zhou, GCS Lin, J Zhang - Urban Studies, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Neoliberalism as a hegemonic global ideology and framework of governance has been the
subject of extensive critical analyses in geography and urban studies. Despite the …

China's landed urbanization: neoliberalizing politics, land commodification, and municipal finance in the growth of metropolises

GCS Lin - Environment and Planning A, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Prevailing theories of uneven development see the growth of cities and regions as the
spatial outcome of either the functioning of intrinsic agglomeration economies or the …

Emerging Chinese cities: Implications for global urban studies

F Wu - The Professional Geographer, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Chinese cities are emerging in multiple senses: They have created new physical spaces to
accommodate the fast urbanization of the country but have also developed new properties …

Recasting the rural: State, society and environment in contemporary China

JC Chen, JA Zinda, ET Yeh - Geoforum, 2017 - Elsevier
Is rural China dying? To many observers, the recent redoubling of the Chinese state's efforts
to move people from the countryside into towns and cities confirms their sense that at the …