On Shifting Foundations : State Rescaling, Policy Experimentation and Economic Restructuring in Post-1949 China.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One Introduction -- Recurring Spatial Reconfigurations and the Consolidation of a Unitary State -- Approaching the 'Nationally Strategic New Areas' -- The Chapters Ahead -- Endnotes -- Part I A Geographical-Historical Re‐appraisal -- Chapter Two Chinese State Spatiality as a Complex Palimpsest -- Introduction -- The Centralisation-Decentralisation Entwinement -- Uneven Economic-Geographical Development: Undesirable Outcome or Developmental Precondition? -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Part II Conceptual Parameters -- Chapter Three State Rescaling, Policy Experimentation and Path-dependency in post‐Mao China: A Dynamic Analytical Framework -- Introduction -- State Rescaling and Socioeconomic Reforms in Post‐Mao China: A Critical Overview -- Framing State Rescaling, Policy Experimentation and Institutional Path‐dependency in China: A Dynamic Analytical Framework -- Conclusion -- Part III State Rescaling in the Pearl River Delta and Chongqing -- Chapter Four Becoming 'More Special than Special' I: The Pressures and Opportunities for Change in Guangdong -- Introduction -- The Economic-Geographical Backdrop: 'Double Relocation' in Post‐crisis Guangdong -- On the (In)commensurability of Spatial Restructuring and Economic Growth -- The Politics of Producing 'Nationally Strategic' Socioeconomic Spaces in Guangdong -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Chapter Five Becoming 'More Special than Special' II: Hengqin and Qianhai New Areas as National Frontiers of Financial Reforms -- Introduction -- Hong Kong's Emergent Functions as an 'Offshore RMB Center' -- At Once Within and Without: The 'Extra Territorialisation' of Hengqin New Area and its Role in Cross-border Financial Integration -- Qianhai New Area as an Onshore 'Spatial Fix' for Offshore RMB Flows.

Conclusion: Change as the Precondition of Continuity? -- Endnotes -- Chapter Six State Rescaling in and Through Chongqing I: The State as Economic Driver -- Introduction -- The Evolving Positionality of Chongqing: A Geographical-Historical Overview -- Chongqing as a New Platform for Policy Experimentation -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Chapter Seven State Rescaling in and Through Chongqing II: The Politics of Path-dependency -- Introduction -- Experimenting with Spatial Egalitarianism: Public Rental Housing Provision for Migrant Workers -- Market‐based Maoism? -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Chapter Eight Concluding Reflections -- Introduction -- Overview of Arguments and Conceptual Contributions -- New Research Directions -- References -- Index -- EULA.

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