The Weight of Small Cities: Development and the Rural–Urban Nexus in Jinghong, Southwest China

Autor: Choon-Piew Pow, Harvey Neo
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: The Professional Geographer. 67:555-563
ISSN: 1467-9272
0033-0124
DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2015.1053880
Popis: Research on small cities has begun to attract the attention of scholars who argue that contemporary urban scholarship, in its preoccupation with the largest and most advanced world-class cities, have largely ignored small to medium-sized cities. In China, although much attention has been paid to economically advanced urban centers, there actually has been a steady stream of work on small cities. This article profiles how a comparatively smaller city in western China attempts to market itself by selectively placing itself within various social–spatial and political–economic realities. Through Jinghong, we illustrate how local officials and planners attempt to center the city as a gateway to Southeast Asia. By activating, often discursively, multiscalar transborder strategies, local officials in Jinghong not only mobilize ethnic imaginaries, but they also adopt forms of entrepreneurial tactics to promote growth. Developmental strategies of Jinghong not only vacillate between (and draw on) both rural and urb...
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