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Territoriality and space production in China. Cross-currents: East Asian history and culture review

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Territoriality and space production in China. Cross-currents: East Asian history and culture review

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China, Chine, gouvernance, politique de la ville, urbanisation, territorialisation, aménagement urbain, espace urbain, Hsing You-tien

Description

Extract from the introduction by You-tien Hsing:
 
In this special issue, we have tried to bridge studies of the Chinese state and of the Chinese city by employing the concepts of space production and territoriality. Three sets of analytical tools frame our questions:

First, we use the concept of “urbanization of the local state” instead of “state-led urbanization” to capture the active role of urban processes as a formative force in social transformation and a definitive element in the making of the local state. Urban construction has become the key mechanism of local state building in the areas of public finance, territorial power consolidation, and local leaders’ political performance.

Second, we expand the concept of the city to encompass the notion of territoriality, defined as spatial strategies to consolidate power in a given place and time and to secure autonomy. Territorial contestation is unusually intense when the premises of state authority are under-defined and local state jurisdictional boundaries shift frequently, as has been the case in China over the past thirty years.

Third, we expand the analysis of territoriality from the realm of the state to that of society with the concept of “civic territoriality.” This concept refers to societal actors’ conscious cultivation and struggle to build territory for self protection and autonomy at the physical, socio-political, and discursive levels. Civic territoriality is central to societal actors’ cultivation of collective identities, to their framing of grievances and demands, and to their options and choice of collective actions.

This framework helped to organize the seven contributions of this issue into the following three themes: Territorial Order and State Power, Territorialization of Capital, and Civic Territoriality.
 
Contents:
 
Sungtaek Cho and Wen-hsin Yeh - Letter from the co-Editors: Our vision for Cross-currents
You-tien Hsing - Introduction: Territoriality and space production in China George C. S. Lin - Territorialization of state power through land development in Southern China Shiuh-Shen Chien and Fulong Wu - Transformation of China's urban entrepreneurialism: The case study of the city of Kunshan Jenn-hwan Wang and Tse-kang Leng - Production of space and space of production: High tech industrial parks in Beijing and Shanghai Max D. Woodworth - Frontier boomtown urbanism in Ordos, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Jingyuan Du and Max D. Woodworth - Irrigation society in China's northern frontier, 1860s-1920s Jin-Yung Wu - Amis aborigine migrants' territorialization in metropolitan Taipei   Book review essays: Helen F. Siu - History in China's urban post-modern Robert P. Weller - Chinese approaches to ethnic diversity   Photo essay: Shih-yang Kao (text) and Wang Jiuliang (photographs) - Beijing besieged by garbage   Readings from Asia: Sungtaek Cho - Recent scholarship from Korea   You-tien Hsing is a Professor and Graduate Advisor in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley.  

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Éditeur

Research Institute of Korean Studies, Korea University Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Date

December 2011

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Revue

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http://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/inaugural-issue