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The Place of the Central City in China's Economic Reform: From Hierarchy to Network

The Place of the Central City in China's Economic Reform: From Hierarchy to Network Literature in Political Anthropology suggests that cities can be into two alternative models in accord with their chief functions: (1) industrially geared, production‐oriented municipalities that rest within vertically constructed, administratively demarcated, and managed hierarchies of power; and (2) urban places that are focused on commercial interchange aimed at filling consumption needs, and mat find their spheres of activity best articulated within what are principally horizontally interconnected webs populated by similar localities or supralocal institutions governed by market relations. Since 1980, China has been attempting to reorient large, centrally located cities away from their exclusive concern with production and to free mem from hierarchical relations. Despite reforms granting financial authority to cities, expanding their ability to form ties with their hinterlands and within their greater economic regions, the continuing power of the provinces has sharply limited ability of cities to break free of the vertically structured power relationships that have bound them for decades, (hierarchy, network, economic region, hinterland, administrative relationships) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

The Place of the Central City in China's Economic Reform: From Hierarchy to Network

Sounger, Dorothy J.
City & Society , Volume 5 (1) – Jun 1, 1991
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Wiley
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Copyright © 1991 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0893-0465
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1548-744X
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10.1525/city.1991.5.1.23
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Abstract

Literature in Political Anthropology suggests that cities can be into two alternative models in accord with their chief functions: (1) industrially geared, production‐oriented municipalities that rest within vertically constructed, administratively demarcated, and managed hierarchies of power; and (2) urban places that are focused on commercial interchange aimed at filling consumption needs, and mat find their spheres of activity best articulated within what are principally horizontally interconnected webs populated by similar localities or supralocal institutions governed by market relations. Since 1980, China has been attempting to reorient large, centrally located cities away from their exclusive concern with production and to free mem from hierarchical relations. Despite reforms granting financial authority to cities, expanding their ability to form ties with their hinterlands and within their greater economic regions, the continuing power of the provinces has sharply limited ability of cities to break free of the vertically structured power relationships that have bound them for decades, (hierarchy, network, economic region, hinterland, administrative relationships)

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City & Society – Wiley

Published: Jun 1, 1991

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