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The Urbanising Dynamics of Global China

Speculation, Articulation, and Translation in Global Capitalism

Author: Hyun Bang Shin, Yimin Zhao and Sin Yee Koh  

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The book focuses on the urban dimension of global China, especially regarding the impacts of its urbanising dynamics on the (re)imaginings and manifestations of global urban futures. This book was originally published as a special issue of Urban Geography.

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The book focuses on the urban dimension of global China, especially regarding the impacts of its urbanising dynamics on the (re)imaginings and manifestations of global urban futures. This book was originally published as a special issue of Urban Geography.

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The book focuses on the urban dimension of "global China", especially regarding the impacts of its urbanising dynamics on the (re)imaginings and manifestations of global urban futures. It situates China’s urban question in contemporary global change, and vice versa, by understanding the rise of global China as an urban process that weaves together compressed spaces, variegated times and trans- scalar power dynamics in the making of global capitalism.

The overseas expansion of China’s economic influence has long been foregrounded in media reports and policy debates, especially with the rise of the Belt and Road Initiative that has turned China into one of the key investors in the global South. The term global China has been widely adopted to depict the geopolitical dimension of this immense flow of capital. This edited volume explores the urban manifestation of global China at different scales and involving diverse actors, discussing the ways in which the urban has been reconfigured by China’s global expansion and uncovering the differentiated modes of speculative and spectacular urban production at present. Observing from Ghana, India, Malaysia and China, chapters in this book collectively make theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions to recognise the dynamics of speculation, articulation and translation in global capitalism, where China plays an increasingly significant role.

Three main themes have guided the book’s interrogation of what global China implies. These include: (a) transplanting models and urbanism; (b) multi- scalar construction of temporality; and (c) situating the urban China model in global capitalism.

These aspects mark the core of the book’s endeavour to extend the critique of our changing urban conditions at present. This book was originally published as a special issue of Urban Geography.

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About the Author

Hyun Bang Shin is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies and Head of the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His research centres on the critical analysis of the political economy of urbanisation with particular attention to Asian cities.

Yimin Zhao is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Durham University. His research mainly explores urban peripheries and the state in China and Asia through the analytical lenses of language, materiality and everyday life.

Sin Yee Koh is Senior Assistant Professor at the Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University Malaysia. Her work uses the lens of migration and mobility to understand the circulations of people, capital and aspirations in and through cities.

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd | Routledge
Published
2nd May 2025
Pages
115
ISBN
9781041029953

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