China Regions and Their Global Interactions

China is a continent-sized economy and society with substantial diversity across its different regions. As the country’s economic and social transformations continue, the dynamics within and relationships between China’s regions are changing too. These changes are partly the result of and responses to changes at a global level, which in turn have impacts beyond China’s borders. The global interactions – economic, political and social – of China's regions need to be understood in order to evaluate a changing China.

This book responds to this challenge by looking at the development of China’s regions in global context. It demonstrates how China’s regional policy and political economy reflect global developments as much as those domestic to China. In particular, it argues that the changing spatial relations of global political economy (‘globalization’) are both reflected in and influenced by the evolution of China’s regions and their global interactions, thus demonstrating China’s ongoing integration into the global economy.

The book also has a strong emphasis on tracing the evolution of regional policy in China and its implications, and includes a thorough discussion of policy. It will therefore also be of value in understanding policy-making processes in China and how they have changed.

Tim Summers?works on the politics, political economy, and international relations of contemporary China. He is a (non-resident) Senior Consulting Fellow on the Asia Programme at Chatham House, an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and consults commercially on China. He is the author of Yunnan - A Chinese Bridgehead to Asia (2013), which brings together his interests in China's regional political economy and international interactions.