Handuo Deng
Biographic Data
| ID | 3984992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Handuo Deng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Handuo |
| FAMILY NAME | Deng |
| SIGNATURE | DENG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Peking University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2177-1106 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Chinese climate statecraft
As the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, China has announced its push toward carbon neutrality. However, a more strategic design for low-carbon transition contrasts with dispersed policy implementation in cities. This article attributes the puzzle to an insufficient understanding of statecraft, which translates decarbonisation visions into urban practices. Engaging with the decentralisation–centralisation debate in authoritarian enviro…
Statist forms of entrepreneurialism
This paper proposes that in the dynamics of state-led financialisation and resurgent statism in global urban development, urban entrepreneurialism can mutate into statist forms. We examine this through an analysis of Chinese local governments, focusing on how they deploy financial and asset-making techniques of urban spaces in response to recentralised environmental regulations and declining land revenues. Drawing on the case of Chengdu’s mixed-u…
Environmental Statecraft and Changing Environmental Politics
This article develops the concept of environmental statecraft to study changing urban environmental politics in China and beyond. Our review of existing conceptions reveals a growing need to account for temporal and geographical complexity. Neoliberal conceptions of eco‐state restructuring are increasingly strained by contemporary geopolitical realignments, while authoritarian frameworks in the Chinese context have tended to overemphasize coerciv…
Beyond entrepreneurism
Amongst a global trend of rising state intervention, party-statecraft is used to explain national political mandates in Xi Jinping-era China. In rural areas, the predominant national mandate has been Rural Revitalization, remaining underexplored in urban-centred governance studies. Additionally, party-statecraft thinking has not sufficiently clarified the practical implementation methods, particularly market and financial approaches to rural deve…
From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft
The global financial crisis started a new context of late capitalism and austerity urbanism. Instead of a unidirectional governance transformation towards entrepreneurialism, rising finance and financialisation, pervasive state roles in state capitalism and post-growth municipal radicalism are competing trends. Previously, China witnessed private entrepreneurship, economic devolution, and housing commodification at the turn of the millennium. The…
Green Space Production as a State Project in Urban China
This study investigates the production of urban spaces shaped by political intentions that transcend capitalist imperatives. We examine the politics of developing Chengdu's greenway project by operationalising state entrepreneurialism—a perspective of territorial logic and capitalist logic in urban governance—through strategic embeddedness and tactical mobilisation. Strategic embeddedness refers to the institutional integration of the market into…
Statecraft at the frontier of capitalism
The death of urban entrepreneurialism is proclaimed surprisingly by opposite conceptualisations of austerity urbanism and radical municipalism. This paper argues that rather than seeing them as contrasting types, post-pandemic statecraft reflects the increasing tension and entanglement between capitalistic and territorial logic. From the ground of Chinese urban governance, we illustrate how Chinese statecraft maintains state strategic and extra-e…
Building a government-owned open data platform for connected and autonomous vehicles
Understanding the impact of city government relocation on local residential property prices in Hangzhou, China
Reproduction of consumer spaces and historic district touristification in Old Beijing City
With increasing globalization and consumerism, heritage tourism has contributed to local economic development, while over-tourism may have impeded experienced locality by residents and facilitated cultural alienation. To compensate for the dearth of cross-case comparisons and spatial quantifications using big data of existing research, this study constructed an enriched framework of space production theory integrating historic-sociological analys…
Compact or disperse? Evolution patterns and coupling of urban land expansion and population distribution evolution of major cities in China, 1998–2018
Statecraft at the frontier of capitalism
The death of urban entrepreneurialism is proclaimed surprisingly by opposite conceptualisations of austerity urbanism and radical municipalism. This paper argues that rather than seeing them as contrasting types, post-pandemic statecraft reflects the increasing tension and entanglement between capitalistic and territorial logic. From the ground of Chinese urban governance, we illustrate how Chinese statecraft maintains state strategic and extra-e…
Compact or disperse? Evolution patterns and coupling of urban land expansion and population distribution evolution of major cities in China, 1998–2018
Beyond entrepreneurism
Amongst a global trend of rising state intervention, party-statecraft is used to explain national political mandates in Xi Jinping-era China. In rural areas, the predominant national mandate has been Rural Revitalization, remaining underexplored in urban-centred governance studies. Additionally, party-statecraft thinking has not sufficiently clarified the practical implementation methods, particularly market and financial approaches to rural deve…
From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft
The global financial crisis started a new context of late capitalism and austerity urbanism. Instead of a unidirectional governance transformation towards entrepreneurialism, rising finance and financialisation, pervasive state roles in state capitalism and post-growth municipal radicalism are competing trends. Previously, China witnessed private entrepreneurship, economic devolution, and housing commodification at the turn of the millennium. The…
Reproduction of consumer spaces and historic district touristification in Old Beijing City
With increasing globalization and consumerism, heritage tourism has contributed to local economic development, while over-tourism may have impeded experienced locality by residents and facilitated cultural alienation. To compensate for the dearth of cross-case comparisons and spatial quantifications using big data of existing research, this study constructed an enriched framework of space production theory integrating historic-sociological analys…
Understanding the impact of city government relocation on local residential property prices in Hangzhou, China
Compact or disperse? Evolution patterns and coupling of urban land expansion and population distribution evolution of major cities in China, 1998–2018
Reproduction of consumer spaces and historic district touristification in Old Beijing City
With increasing globalization and consumerism, heritage tourism has contributed to local economic development, while over-tourism may have impeded experienced locality by residents and facilitated cultural alienation. To compensate for the dearth of cross-case comparisons and spatial quantifications using big data of existing research, this study constructed an enriched framework of space production theory integrating historic-sociological analys…
Statecraft at the frontier of capitalism
The death of urban entrepreneurialism is proclaimed surprisingly by opposite conceptualisations of austerity urbanism and radical municipalism. This paper argues that rather than seeing them as contrasting types, post-pandemic statecraft reflects the increasing tension and entanglement between capitalistic and territorial logic. From the ground of Chinese urban governance, we illustrate how Chinese statecraft maintains state strategic and extra-e…
Building a government-owned open data platform for connected and autonomous vehicles
Understanding the impact of city government relocation on local residential property prices in Hangzhou, China
Beyond entrepreneurism
Amongst a global trend of rising state intervention, party-statecraft is used to explain national political mandates in Xi Jinping-era China. In rural areas, the predominant national mandate has been Rural Revitalization, remaining underexplored in urban-centred governance studies. Additionally, party-statecraft thinking has not sufficiently clarified the practical implementation methods, particularly market and financial approaches to rural deve…
From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft
The global financial crisis started a new context of late capitalism and austerity urbanism. Instead of a unidirectional governance transformation towards entrepreneurialism, rising finance and financialisation, pervasive state roles in state capitalism and post-growth municipal radicalism are competing trends. Previously, China witnessed private entrepreneurship, economic devolution, and housing commodification at the turn of the millennium. The…
Green Space Production as a State Project in Urban China
This study investigates the production of urban spaces shaped by political intentions that transcend capitalist imperatives. We examine the politics of developing Chengdu's greenway project by operationalising state entrepreneurialism—a perspective of territorial logic and capitalist logic in urban governance—through strategic embeddedness and tactical mobilisation. Strategic embeddedness refers to the institutional integration of the market into…
Chinese climate statecraft
As the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, China has announced its push toward carbon neutrality. However, a more strategic design for low-carbon transition contrasts with dispersed policy implementation in cities. This article attributes the puzzle to an insufficient understanding of statecraft, which translates decarbonisation visions into urban practices. Engaging with the decentralisation–centralisation debate in authoritarian enviro…
Statist forms of entrepreneurialism
This paper proposes that in the dynamics of state-led financialisation and resurgent statism in global urban development, urban entrepreneurialism can mutate into statist forms. We examine this through an analysis of Chinese local governments, focusing on how they deploy financial and asset-making techniques of urban spaces in response to recentralised environmental regulations and declining land revenues. Drawing on the case of Chengdu’s mixed-u…
Environmental Statecraft and Changing Environmental Politics
This article develops the concept of environmental statecraft to study changing urban environmental politics in China and beyond. Our review of existing conceptions reveals a growing need to account for temporal and geographical complexity. Neoliberal conceptions of eco‐state restructuring are increasingly strained by contemporary geopolitical realignments, while authoritarian frameworks in the Chinese context have tended to overemphasize coerciv…
China (9 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Politics (3 works)