There is strong provincial and national agency in these imaginings, but this study argues that they have also been structured at global and regional levels by new approaches to regions, evolving understandings of the meaning and agency of borders, and the increasing influence of neoliberal views on trade, investment, and transborder and regional interactions, embraced by many in the PRC since the 1990s. The approach is also historical in the importance it attaches to the legacies of the past in understanding the present, and through its dynamic analysis of the changing constructions of Yunnan's positioning over time and across space. This informs the way that the thesis speaks to wider questions of the spatial structures and scales of political economy, the theoretical and empirical problems to which this study aims to make a contribution. / This is a study of the political economy of the production of spatial relations of the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan. It identifies a dynamic process of imaginings since the early 1990s involving the repositioning of Yunnan from periphery of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the centre of various regional constructs, yet without compromising its national belonging. These imaginings have found expression in policy statements and provincial narratives, Yunnan's participation in transborder regional institutions, the development of infrastructure networks through the province, and growth in transborder trade and investment. They have been accompanied by social and cultural change across and around borders, and experienced differently at various localities within the province. In the 1990s these imaginings were dominated by economic conceptions of development, looking to regional integration and engagement beyond the PRC's borders. These have remained strong drivers since. However, especially during the 2000s, other social, political and non-traditional security concerns have increasingly come to the fore, in turn strengthening Yunnan's national belonging. / Summers, Timothy Andrew. / "December 2010." / Adviser: Shaogang Wang. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-04, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 354-377). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_344811 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Contributors | Summers, Timothy Andrew., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Chinese Studies. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, theses |
| Format | electronic resource, microform, microfiche, 1 online resource (iv, 377 leaves : maps.) |
| Coverage | Yunnan Sheng (China), Economic conditions, Yunnan Sheng (China), Politics and government |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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