Cities and many kinds of urban resources are different from natural resources and more
traditional commons in ways that render necessary adjustments to some of Ostrom's …

Creating Chinese Urbanism describes the landscape of urbanisation in China, revealing the
profound impacts of marketisation on Chinese society and the consequential governance …

A compelling examination of China's engagement of nonstate actors as a counterintuitive
solution to coerce citizens while minimizing backlash against the state. How do states …

China's urbanization has avoided the expansion of slums despite the influx of rural migrants.
What might explain this phenomenon? We argue that Chinese urbanization is driven by two …

The reform era in China has been characterised by rapid territorial processes that have
advanced the reach of the urban for furthering capital accumulation. As borders were …

How China's expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of
rural life Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China has vastly expanded its …

Before the economic reforms, the Chinese state relied on mutually exclusive hierarchies
within and between rural and urban governance at the subnational level to structure …

China has experienced a rapid urbanization process, under which the urban population has
increased from 170 million to more than 900 million in the past four decades. This study …

Ecological States critically examines ecological policies in the People's Republic of China to
show how campaigns of scientifically based environmental protection transform nature and …

This paper argues that “the urban” has emerged as the most significant ideological realm in
contemporary China. In developing this argument, I suggest an alternative approach to how …