“There are no cities in China” and the paradox of urban theory

Cartier, C

“There are no cities in China” and the paradox of urban theory

Cartier, C

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Publisher:: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2022
Issue Date:: 2022-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Cartier, C https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4278-3256
dc.date.accessioned	2023-01-31T10:30:59Z
dc.date.available	2023-01-31T10:30:59Z
dc.date.issued	2022-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2022
dc.identifier.issn	1538-7216
dc.identifier.issn	1938-2863
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/165693
dc.description.abstract	In The Communist Postscript, Boris Groys identifies convictions in question when concepts assumed to be valid are revealed to contain a certain paradox. Among these in China, the concept of the city stands out. Since the imperial era, the Chinese state has organized subnational territory and governed society and space through the administrative divisions (xingzheng quhua 行政区划), but only in the 1980s, with economic reform, did cities become administrative divisions. Urban theory does not recognize the primary power of reterritorialization in China’s urban process. Framed by dialectical reason, this analysis plumbs the history of territorial transmutation and the redefinition of cities in the reform era. It gives attention to the establishment of cities as vast rural-urban territorial-administrative areas, the special economic zone, and the special administrative region. Through changes to the administrative divisions, party-state power to change the map propels urban-industrial development for national transformation.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
dc.relation	http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP170100871
dc.relation.ispartof	Eurasian Geography and Economics
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/15387216.2022.2047750
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess
dc.rights	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Eurasian Geography and Economicson on 03 Mar 2022, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15387216.2022.2047750
dc.subject	1402 Applied Economics, 1604 Human Geography
dc.subject.classification	Geography
dc.subject.classification	Political Science & Public Administration
dc.title	“There are no cities in China” and the paradox of urban theory
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.for	1402 Applied Economics
utslib.for	1604 Human Geography
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
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utslib.copyright.embargo	2023-03-03T00:00:00+1000Z
dc.date.updated	2023-01-31T10:30:58Z
pubs.publication-status	Published

Abstract:

In The Communist Postscript, Boris Groys identifies convictions in question when concepts assumed to be valid are revealed to contain a certain paradox. Among these in China, the concept of the city stands out. Since the imperial era, the Chinese state has organized subnational territory and governed society and space through the administrative divisions (xingzheng quhua 行政区划), but only in the 1980s, with economic reform, did cities become administrative divisions. Urban theory does not recognize the primary power of reterritorialization in China’s urban process. Framed by dialectical reason, this analysis plumbs the history of territorial transmutation and the redefinition of cities in the reform era. It gives attention to the establishment of cities as vast rural-urban territorial-administrative areas, the special economic zone, and the special administrative region. Through changes to the administrative divisions, party-state power to change the map propels urban-industrial development for national transformation.

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