Following the notion of the entrepreneurial city, this paper examines recent scholarship
about China's urban governance. Despite prevailing marketisation, the role of the state is …

China's changing urban development processes and urban landscapes in the transition
towards a more market-oriented economy have received extensive research attention in …

Radically reoriented under market reform, Chinese cities present both the landscapes of the
First and Third World, and are increasingly playing a critical role in the country's economic …

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 new development wave since the mid-1990s is distinguishable by its strong
urbanism. Urban governments, particularly at municipal and county levels, rushed to build …

This commentary reflects on varieties of urban entrepreneurialism and rethinks its
application to China. I argue that the state is proactively using market instruments for more …

This article defines the key parameters of 'state entrepreneurialism'as a governance form
that combines planning centrality and market instruments, and interprets how these two …

Economic liberalisation has brought fascinating changes to China's urban development by
undermining state control and introducing market forces to economic decision-making …

Urban entrepreneurialism and intensive inter-city competition prevail in post-reform China,
which has been extensively documented in the literature. However, decentralization is not …

The extant literature on urban China is preoccupied by concerns over the production and
usage/consumption of urban space in relation to the dualistic state–market or state–society …