Jiang Xu
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3635753 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jiang Xu |
| PRENOMES | Jiang |
| SOBRENOME | Xu |
| ASSINATURA | XU J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2588-7085 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 373 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Opportunity with a threshold
Rural investment is a crucial trigger for mitigating rural decline. While existing research has identified multiple determinants of rural investment, systematic comparisons of their relative importance remain scarce, and potential nonlinear dynamics remain underexplored. This study integrates machine learning models with SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) to identify key drivers of rural investment across 689 villages, focusing on socio-economi…
The mixed blessing of person-team time urgency discrepancy
Wind fortunes
Many regions across the world are seeking to initiate the green transformation of their economies. Economic geographers have often explained this transformation as an outcome of firm-driven creation of new development paths distinguished by a green emphasis. However, this explanation tends to neglect two mediating factors of this green path development process. First, firms’ efforts in green path development are mediated by their interaction with…
An Analysis of Socially Shared Regulation and Performance on Co‐Creation Tasks in the Metaverse
Thinking Through the Materiality of Big Data
This review paper advances a typology for research involving big data, highlighting a niche yet expanding scholarship on the provision and consumption of data infrastructure. By elucidating the epistemological underpinnings and analytical gaze of this strand of work, we conceptualise an outward‐looking approach to understanding data infrastructure. This perspective is vital in thinking through the materiality of big data and acknowledging the sig…
Bodioid
Multi-omics investigation of metabolic dysregulation in depression
This study establishes a hierarchical metabolic framework for depression, prioritizing single-carbon metabolism and oxidative stress as central therapeutic targets. The findings emphasize methylation dysregulation and mitochondrial dysfunction in elderly depression, offering novel biomarkers for precision intervention
Exploring translanguaging in tertiary L3 French classrooms in China
The power of representation
China’s land development is commonly viewed as a state-led model, yet this paper seeks to deepen this understanding by examining it as a strategic discursive–material nexus, encompassing both material processes of land development and discursive processes of justification that reflect the diverse ways in which land can be utilized. To this end, two arguments are developed involving a cross-fertilization of the economic sociology of land and the c…
Batteries not included
Geographical scholarship has paid increasing attention to the rise of so-called green industries. To evolutionary economic geographers, the development of such green industries represents a distinctive, 'green' form of path creation. Although green industries can significantly reconfigure socio-ecological relations, studies of green path creation tend to shy away from examining what green means and how green matters for green industries to take o…
Lattice-sulfur-impregnated zero-valent iron crystals for long-term metal encapsulation
Reconceiving China's urban economic transition through symbiotic state-firm dynamics
China's urban economic transition since the 2000s has garnered considerable scholarly interest. Two distinct bodies of scholarship, namely urban governance and global production networks, have investigated this phenomenon, each offering unique insights either from an endogenous state-centric or exogenous firm-centric approach. The former has justifiably accentuated the centrality of the state in shaping Chinas urban-regional economic reconfigurat…
Central-local state strategic coupling towards making entrepreneurial cities in China
Mapping the Unmapped
Since the 2010s, big data has become a trendy term across government, business, and academia. There is a great deal of ambiguity in the definition of big data and the so-called big data sector it gives rise to. It is thus still debatable what companies can be considered big data firms. Studying such an emerging field and collecting firm-level data through surveys in understudied regions are particularly challenging due to the lack of an establish…
Geographies of green industries
The emergence of green industries has been considered from multiple social science perspectives. Economic geographers view green industries as unevenly distributed firms forging green development paths. Sustainability transitions scholars view green industries as niche sectors struggling to mainstream green technologies in existing socio-technical systems. Political ecologists view green industries as metabolic actors whose development shapes and…
Of scale and discourse
This paper elucidates an analytical framework of the material-discursive nature of scalar struggles by interrogating how the leaders of the Chinese city of Anshun responded to their central government's vision of building an ecological civilization. While they invoked some scales to articulate the city's environmental commitment and leadership, thereby unlocking political advantages associated with ecological civilization construction, they prior…
Drivers and Consequences of Short-Form Video (SFV) Addiction amongst Adolescents in China
As a hedonic technology, short-form videos (SFVs) have attracted numerous users. However, one related problem that merits research is SFV addiction, especially among adolescents due to their immature self-control abilities. Although recent research has discussed the formation process of SFV addiction from psychological needs and the SFV features perspective, scarce attention has been paid to investigating the relationship between stress and SFV a…
Can the Locked-In Be Unlocked? University Stratification in China Under State-Led Quest for World-Class Universities
Scalar politics of urban sustainability
Studies of urban politics have acknowledged the rescaling of state environmental regulation as a source of pressure for local growth regimes to balance their economic and environmental objectives. However, few inquiries have afforded equal attention to how these local regimes strategise their multi‐scalar context to manage urban economy–environment tensions. Informed by the cultural political economy approach to social transformation, this paper …
Natural deep eutectic characteristics of honey improve the bioactivity and safety of traditional medicines
Geographies of Covid-19
This paper contributes to a geographically-informed preliminary assessment of the diverse and uneven immediate impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, and outlines an agenda for geographical studies of its longer term effects. Intrigued by the apparent tendency of an inverse relationship between a country's health security capacities and Covid-19 mortalities, the paper explores the significance of a range of geographically situated contextual factors i…
The role of the state in China’s post-disaster reconstruction planning
Rooted in natural and engineering sciences, the concept of resilience has attracted growing attention in social science and public policy. The evolving resilience paradigm assumes the concept is at odds with state control, and instead emphasises the coping capacities of communities and individuals. This assumption might overlook the multifaceted and context-specific nature of resilience. Drawing on an empirical study of state-led reconstruction p…
The State as Both Regulator and Player
The conventional argument that the introduction of transfer of development rights (TDR) shifts the power of land use regulation from the state to the market is increasingly under challenge. In China, the state's grip on land is reinforced through TDR, in which the state is both regulator and player. This state-dominated form of TDR affects China in three ways. First, competing aspirations of different scales of government complicate how TDR is im…
Scalar Politics and Uneven Accessibility to Intercity Railway in the Pearl River Delta, China
Focusing on the state as a contradiction-ridden, multiscalar institutional ensemble, this article interrogates the relationships between scalar politics and uneven development through two interrelated arguments. First, uneven development reflects the historical layering of the scalar architecture of state regulation. It is produced by the interplay between contradictions of sociospatial interests among state agents owing to the prevailing scalar …
Pearl River Delta
At the forefront of China's economic reforms and open door policy in 1978, the Pearl River Delta (PRD) has been one of the most frequently studied Chinese economic regions. This entry examines the economic growth and transformation of the PRD from special economic zones to “world factory” in China through the influence of the “front shop, back factory” model with Hong Kong. It also discusses the impacts of the recent industrial restructuring, cha…
Land Commodification
This article examines the development of the land market in China since the late 1990s. It analyses new practices in which urban space is commodified through ad hoc market development, and argues that the structure of the land market is indeed becoming more complicated and that land sales are pervasive and rampant. Under such circumstances, the state has rearticulated its function in land governance in order to apply a more consolidated regulator…
City Repositioning and Competitiveness Building in Regional Development
Competition among cities for mobile capital in the twenty-first century has intensified. The urban hierarchy of regions is undergoing transformation, causing economic fortunes to vary markedly among different localities. In China, these global forces and regional restructuring have caused a relative economic decline in some historically powerful cities, and have also brought about the emergence of new economic centers. In response to these forces…
Decoding Urban Land Governance
In the rapidly growing literature on urban development in China, many authors have emphasised the salient features of economic decentralisation and the increasingly significant role of the local state. However, such arguments neglect a counter-trend in which the central state has deterritorialised and rehierarchised some key functions. Using the case of land governance, this paper argues that facing the complication of changing urban conditions, …
Guangzhou
Scalar politics of urban sustainability
Studies of urban politics have acknowledged the rescaling of state environmental regulation as a source of pressure for local growth regimes to balance their economic and environmental objectives. However, few inquiries have afforded equal attention to how these local regimes strategise their multi‐scalar context to manage urban economy–environment tensions. Informed by the cultural political economy approach to social transformation, this paper …
Development Control in Post-Reform China
Bargaining for nature
In much of the contemporary academic inquiry and political discourse on Chinese cities, urban entrepreneurialism and environmentalism often appear to be analyzed disjointedly and unreflectively. They are portrayed as two conflicting interests. Commentators also view urban planners as a homogenous group of professionals and/or state agents being forced to give up environmental goals to pursue economic value of space. Using the case of Tianjin Eco-…
Spatial Impacts of High-Speed Railways in China
In China the development of high-speed rail (HSR) is a national strategy for stimulating economic growth. Major decisions, such as determining which cities to connect and deciding the locations of stations, are made through a state-led planning process. Consequently, HSR stations are often located in urban edges. The connections of these stations with local transport infrastructure and services vary significantly. Passengers need to spend extra t…
Geographies of Covid-19
This paper contributes to a geographically-informed preliminary assessment of the diverse and uneven immediate impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, and outlines an agenda for geographical studies of its longer term effects. Intrigued by the apparent tendency of an inverse relationship between a country's health security capacities and Covid-19 mortalities, the paper explores the significance of a range of geographically situated contextual factors i…
The role of the state in China’s post-disaster reconstruction planning
Rooted in natural and engineering sciences, the concept of resilience has attracted growing attention in social science and public policy. The evolving resilience paradigm assumes the concept is at odds with state control, and instead emphasises the coping capacities of communities and individuals. This assumption might overlook the multifaceted and context-specific nature of resilience. Drawing on an empirical study of state-led reconstruction p…
Environment’ as an evolving concept in China's urban planning system
This paper provides an interpretation of the nature of ‘environment’ as a growing concept in China's urban planning system. It argues that environment takes on three properties in planning: (1) a policy area operating within a complex web of state bodies, regulated by acts of different sectoral actors, (2) an aggregate of scaled spaces, each with their own operational strategies and environmental understanding and (3) a concept in proliferation, …
Contentious space and scale politics
Over the past three decades, we have seen a flourishing of scholarship which explores the emerging political spaces and variegated scales of governance in China. This research draws on political economic tradition to argue that the way in which cities and regions are governed is indeed infused with socio‐political struggles which are proliferating at a range of spatial scales. Such theoretical interpretation is illuminating, but it has been subje…
Geographies of green industries
The emergence of green industries has been considered from multiple social science perspectives. Economic geographers view green industries as unevenly distributed firms forging green development paths. Sustainability transitions scholars view green industries as niche sectors struggling to mainstream green technologies in existing socio-technical systems. Political ecologists view green industries as metabolic actors whose development shapes and…
Scalar Politics and Uneven Accessibility to Intercity Railway in the Pearl River Delta, China
Focusing on the state as a contradiction-ridden, multiscalar institutional ensemble, this article interrogates the relationships between scalar politics and uneven development through two interrelated arguments. First, uneven development reflects the historical layering of the scalar architecture of state regulation. It is produced by the interplay between contradictions of sociospatial interests among state agents owing to the prevailing scalar …
Environmental discourses in China’s urban planning system
The past two decades have witnessed a growing body of research that draws on post-structuralist theory to interrogate environmental discourses in planning. Grounded in the interpretative tradition, this approach rejects essentialist ontology to assume environmental discourses being socially constructed and linked to different policy arenas at multiple geographical scales. Widely applied in the environmental politics and planning studies in advanc…
The State as Both Regulator and Player
The conventional argument that the introduction of transfer of development rights (TDR) shifts the power of land use regulation from the state to the market is increasingly under challenge. In China, the state's grip on land is reinforced through TDR, in which the state is both regulator and player. This state-dominated form of TDR affects China in three ways. First, competing aspirations of different scales of government complicate how TDR is im…
Regulating post-disaster reconstruction planning in China
There has been a growing tendency in recent years to use resilience theory when drawing up guidelines for formulating urban plans. However, restorative resilience analysis, which is the application of resilience thinking to introspect the planning system, has not yet been well addressed in existing academic inquiry. This article attempts to fill this gap by examining whether urban resilience features in China’s reconstruction planning regulation …
Reconceiving China's urban economic transition through symbiotic state-firm dynamics
China's urban economic transition since the 2000s has garnered considerable scholarly interest. Two distinct bodies of scholarship, namely urban governance and global production networks, have investigated this phenomenon, each offering unique insights either from an endogenous state-centric or exogenous firm-centric approach. The former has justifiably accentuated the centrality of the state in shaping Chinas urban-regional economic reconfigurat…
Central-local state strategic coupling towards making entrepreneurial cities in China
Can the Locked-In Be Unlocked? University Stratification in China Under State-Led Quest for World-Class Universities
Exploring translanguaging in tertiary L3 French classrooms in China
Batteries not included
Geographical scholarship has paid increasing attention to the rise of so-called green industries. To evolutionary economic geographers, the development of such green industries represents a distinctive, 'green' form of path creation. Although green industries can significantly reconfigure socio-ecological relations, studies of green path creation tend to shy away from examining what green means and how green matters for green industries to take o…
Of scale and discourse
This paper elucidates an analytical framework of the material-discursive nature of scalar struggles by interrogating how the leaders of the Chinese city of Anshun responded to their central government's vision of building an ecological civilization. While they invoked some scales to articulate the city's environmental commitment and leadership, thereby unlocking political advantages associated with ecological civilization construction, they prior…
Urban Planning and Spatial Development in a Reforming Socialist City
Urban planning has played a very important role in shaping the spatial changes in Guangzhou. Previously, planning used to serve industrial development aimed at transforming Guangzhou from a “consumer city” into a “socialist production city”. After the economic reform, comprehensive urban planning has been used in guiding spatial changes. This paper has shown that the planning system is successful in guiding the development of publicly initiated u…
Urban Planning and Spatial Development in a Reforming Socialist City
Urban planning has played a very important role in shaping the spatial changes in Guangzhou. Previously, planning used to serve industrial development aimed at transforming Guangzhou from a “consumer city” into a “socialist production city”. After the economic reform, comprehensive urban planning has been used in guiding spatial changes. This paper has shown that the planning system is successful in guiding the development of publicly initiated u…
Development Control in Post-Reform China
Guangzhou
Rich brothers’ and ‘poor cousins’
Rural reforms have resulted in great uneven development in rural China. The gap between the rich and the poor has been widened due to the diversity in the conditions for production and social life in the countryside. This paper probes into an interesting yet complex question: what causes the great economic divergences among villages that are geographically so close sharing similar physical settings and natural endowment? Answering this question i…
City Repositioning and Competitiveness Building in Regional Development
Competition among cities for mobile capital in the twenty-first century has intensified. The urban hierarchy of regions is undergoing transformation, causing economic fortunes to vary markedly among different localities. In China, these global forces and regional restructuring have caused a relative economic decline in some historically powerful cities, and have also brought about the emergence of new economic centers. In response to these forces…
Decoding Urban Land Governance
In the rapidly growing literature on urban development in China, many authors have emphasised the salient features of economic decentralisation and the increasingly significant role of the local state. However, such arguments neglect a counter-trend in which the central state has deterritorialised and rehierarchised some key functions. Using the case of land governance, this paper argues that facing the complication of changing urban conditions, …
Land Commodification
This article examines the development of the land market in China since the late 1990s. It analyses new practices in which urban space is commodified through ad hoc market development, and argues that the structure of the land market is indeed becoming more complicated and that land sales are pervasive and rampant. Under such circumstances, the state has rearticulated its function in land governance in order to apply a more consolidated regulator…
Infrasture Investment in China
This study attempts to understand the post-reform decentralization of infrastructure investment and transfer of responsibility in China. Changes in the institutional configuration of infrastructure investment are a reflection of the ongoing process of state restructuring. Since the economic reform, infrastructure investment has transformed from being an exclusive central state-controlled operation to a central-local bargaining regime. The functio…
Spatial Impacts of High-Speed Railways in China
In China the development of high-speed rail (HSR) is a national strategy for stimulating economic growth. Major decisions, such as determining which cities to connect and deciding the locations of stations, are made through a state-led planning process. Consequently, HSR stations are often located in urban edges. The connections of these stations with local transport infrastructure and services vary significantly. Passengers need to spend extra t…
State Rescaling and the Making of City-Regions in the Pearl River Delta, China
This study empirically tests the theory of state rescaling with a study of recent city-region making in China. The implementation of two interjurisdictional projects, the Pearl River Delta Intercity Railway and the Guangzhou–Foshan Metro, are critically investigated to probe the restructuring states in the transitional Pearl River Delta. We argue that the principle of scale theory is relevant to China, where scalar reconfiguration of states has b…
Environment’ as an evolving concept in China's urban planning system
This paper provides an interpretation of the nature of ‘environment’ as a growing concept in China's urban planning system. It argues that environment takes on three properties in planning: (1) a policy area operating within a complex web of state bodies, regulated by acts of different sectoral actors, (2) an aggregate of scaled spaces, each with their own operational strategies and environmental understanding and (3) a concept in proliferation, …
The difference of collectivism between north and south China and its cultural dynamics
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Contentious space and scale politics
Over the past three decades, we have seen a flourishing of scholarship which explores the emerging political spaces and variegated scales of governance in China. This research draws on political economic tradition to argue that the way in which cities and regions are governed is indeed infused with socio‐political struggles which are proliferating at a range of spatial scales. Such theoretical interpretation is illuminating, but it has been subje…
Bargaining for nature
In much of the contemporary academic inquiry and political discourse on Chinese cities, urban entrepreneurialism and environmentalism often appear to be analyzed disjointedly and unreflectively. They are portrayed as two conflicting interests. Commentators also view urban planners as a homogenous group of professionals and/or state agents being forced to give up environmental goals to pursue economic value of space. Using the case of Tianjin Eco-…
Environmental discourses in China’s urban planning system
The past two decades have witnessed a growing body of research that draws on post-structuralist theory to interrogate environmental discourses in planning. Grounded in the interpretative tradition, this approach rejects essentialist ontology to assume environmental discourses being socially constructed and linked to different policy arenas at multiple geographical scales. Widely applied in the environmental politics and planning studies in advanc…
Regulating post-disaster reconstruction planning in China
There has been a growing tendency in recent years to use resilience theory when drawing up guidelines for formulating urban plans. However, restorative resilience analysis, which is the application of resilience thinking to introspect the planning system, has not yet been well addressed in existing academic inquiry. This article attempts to fill this gap by examining whether urban resilience features in China’s reconstruction planning regulation …
Pearl River Delta
At the forefront of China's economic reforms and open door policy in 1978, the Pearl River Delta (PRD) has been one of the most frequently studied Chinese economic regions. This entry examines the economic growth and transformation of the PRD from special economic zones to “world factory” in China through the influence of the “front shop, back factory” model with Hong Kong. It also discusses the impacts of the recent industrial restructuring, cha…
Natural deep eutectic characteristics of honey improve the bioactivity and safety of traditional medicines
Geographies of Covid-19
This paper contributes to a geographically-informed preliminary assessment of the diverse and uneven immediate impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, and outlines an agenda for geographical studies of its longer term effects. Intrigued by the apparent tendency of an inverse relationship between a country's health security capacities and Covid-19 mortalities, the paper explores the significance of a range of geographically situated contextual factors i…
The role of the state in China’s post-disaster reconstruction planning
Rooted in natural and engineering sciences, the concept of resilience has attracted growing attention in social science and public policy. The evolving resilience paradigm assumes the concept is at odds with state control, and instead emphasises the coping capacities of communities and individuals. This assumption might overlook the multifaceted and context-specific nature of resilience. Drawing on an empirical study of state-led reconstruction p…
The State as Both Regulator and Player
The conventional argument that the introduction of transfer of development rights (TDR) shifts the power of land use regulation from the state to the market is increasingly under challenge. In China, the state's grip on land is reinforced through TDR, in which the state is both regulator and player. This state-dominated form of TDR affects China in three ways. First, competing aspirations of different scales of government complicate how TDR is im…
Scalar Politics and Uneven Accessibility to Intercity Railway in the Pearl River Delta, China
Focusing on the state as a contradiction-ridden, multiscalar institutional ensemble, this article interrogates the relationships between scalar politics and uneven development through two interrelated arguments. First, uneven development reflects the historical layering of the scalar architecture of state regulation. It is produced by the interplay between contradictions of sociospatial interests among state agents owing to the prevailing scalar …
Scalar politics of urban sustainability
Studies of urban politics have acknowledged the rescaling of state environmental regulation as a source of pressure for local growth regimes to balance their economic and environmental objectives. However, few inquiries have afforded equal attention to how these local regimes strategise their multi‐scalar context to manage urban economy–environment tensions. Informed by the cultural political economy approach to social transformation, this paper …
Drivers and Consequences of Short-Form Video (SFV) Addiction amongst Adolescents in China
As a hedonic technology, short-form videos (SFVs) have attracted numerous users. However, one related problem that merits research is SFV addiction, especially among adolescents due to their immature self-control abilities. Although recent research has discussed the formation process of SFV addiction from psychological needs and the SFV features perspective, scarce attention has been paid to investigating the relationship between stress and SFV a…
Can the Locked-In Be Unlocked? University Stratification in China Under State-Led Quest for World-Class Universities
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