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

This book introduces readers to the current social and economic state of China since its restructuring in 1949.

• Provides insights into the targeted institutional change that is occurring simultaneously across the entire country
• Presents context-rich accounts of how and why these changes connect to (if not contradict) regulatory logics established during the Mao-era
• A new analytical framework that explicitly considers the relationship between state rescaling, policy experimentation, and path dependency
• Prompts readers to think about how experimental initiatives reflect and contribute to the ‘national strategy’ of Chinese development
• An excellent extension of ongoing theoretical work examining the entwinement of subnational regulatory reconfiguration, place-specific policy experimentation, and the reproduction of national economic advantage

Keywords:

economic geography; China; China restructuring; political-economic transformation in China; economic restructuring; state rescaling; policy experimentation; policy making; history; Chinese history; Chinese policy; modern China; economics; political science; regional development; geography; China studies; East Asian studies; economic sociology; economic history; economic anthropology; On Shifting Foundations: State Rescaling, Policy Experimentation and Economic Restructuring in Post-1949 China