On Shifting Foundations

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 countryPresents context-rich accounts of how and why these changes connect to (if not contradict) regulatory logics established during the Mao-eraA new analytical framework that explicitly considers the relationship between state rescaling, policy experimentation, and path dependencyPrompts readers to think about how experimental initiatives reflect and contribute to the ‘national strategy’ of Chinese developmentAn excellent extension of ongoing theoretical work examining the entwinement of subnational regulatory reconfiguration, place-specific policy experimentation, and the reproduction of national economic advantage