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{"title":"Is prefecture-level city a “city” in China: a critical review","authors":"Zifeng Chen, Anthony Gar-On Yeh","doi":"10.1080/15387216.2023.2267064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2023.2267064","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe definition and boundaries of cities often determine how research is undertaken due to the areal units used to provide geo-located data and thus affect the research findings. Prefecture-level cities are popular city-equivalent statistical units in China, particularly in studies of inter-city mobility. Most prefecture-level cities in China have been delineated as meso-scale administrative divisions for territorial governance through various approaches of administrative annexation. This study takes a critical look at the city definition in China and summarizes two critical challenges that emerge when prefecture-level cities are adopted as city-equivalent statistical units. The first challenge is that the population and other socioeconomic statistics of different prefecture-level cities are incomparable since a large amount of land administered by such cities is functionally rural. The second challenge is that, because prefecture-level cities cannot represent the real functional areas that are based on a daily labor-shed concept, the estimation of inter-city mobility could be largely erroneous by conflating the real inter-city travel with the de facto intra-metropolitan travel such as daily commuting. While the first challenge has long been addressed by scholars and eventually by the national government of China in 2008, the second challenge remains to be solved. These two challenges demand rigorous attempts to delineate cities in China considering integrated economic and social units. This study sheds light on how delineation of administrative boundaries affects our understanding of city hierarchy and spatial interactions. Its implications are not limited to China but applicable to other countries and regions.KEYWORDS: City definitionprefecture-level cityinter-city mobilityfunctional areaurban China Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. As for county-level cities, they were once important city-equivalent administrative units in China before the city-administer-county system was implemented in a nationwide manner in the early 1980s. Since then, many county-level cities have been annexed into their affiliated prefecture-level (or above) cities as urban districts. As a result, not all the prefecture-level cities contain county-level cities. Only a limited number of urban settlements are located in county-level cities. This is the reason why county-level cities are much less widely used as city-equivalent administrative units in China than the prefecture-level cities.2. Since the early 1990s, local governments of Chinese cities have planned and built many development zones and parks (e.g. “industrial parks”) in suburban areas to attract investments. These developments led to considerably rapid employment growth in the manufacturing sector in suburban areas. Such growth resulted in numerous self-contained industrial new towns within the prefecture-level cities, with workers residing in wor","PeriodicalId":47508,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Geography and Economics","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136097278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Coexistence or competition for resources? Transboundary transformations of natural resource use in China’s neighborhood","authors":"Henryk Alff, Michael Spies","doi":"10.1080/15387216.2023.2258150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2023.2258150","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past three decades, rural places along China’s land borders have faced interconnected processes of socio-political, economic, and ecological change. These changes, along with an increase in transboundary investment by actors from China in infrastructure on the one hand, and in agriculture and resource extraction on the other, are locally met with a combination of suspicion, fear, and desire for future prosperity. This special issue scrutinizes these dynamics in extractive sectors, particularly agriculture, the plantation industry, and mining, in the context of transboundary processes that can be conceptualized as “neighboring”. With an array of qualitative and ethnographic methods and case studies from borderlands in North, Central, South and Southeast Asia that are rarely thought of together, the six articles of this special issue provide a unique perspective on “China’s rise” in Asia that goes beyond schematical geopolitical and macro-economic accounts of the ‘Belt and Road Initiative.‘ This introduction to the special issue discusses the key insights and arguments it brings forward and calls for (a) more comparative research on transboundary natural resource use in China’s neighborhood and (b) more holistic and multi-scalar research perspectives to make sense of the complex dynamics on the ground.","PeriodicalId":47508,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Geography and Economics","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136314464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Where are Russia–China energy relations headed? A regime analysis","authors":"Dawei Liu","doi":"10.1080/15387216.2023.2247405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2023.2247405","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47508,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Geography and Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45739371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A research agenda for environmental geopolitics","authors":"T. Hastings","doi":"10.1080/15387216.2021.2009354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2021.2009354","url":null,"abstract":"A research agenda for environmental geopolitics, by Shannon O’Lear, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, Edward Elgar Publishing, Elgar Research Agendas Series, 2020, 192 pp., £80.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 78897 123 2; £21.95 (paperback), ISBN 978 1 80220 506 0; £17.56 (eBook), ISBN 978 1 78897 124 9. The eBook version is priced from £22/$31 from Google Play, ebooks.com and other eBook vendors, while in the print the book can be ordered from the Edward Elgar Publishing online bookshop.","PeriodicalId":47508,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Geography and Economics","volume":"64 1","pages":"791 - 793"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47333784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"China and the Indo-Pacific: Maneuvers and manifestations","authors":"Tia Panca Rahmadhani, Muhammad Husein Heikal","doi":"10.1080/15387216.2023.2247419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2023.2247419","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47508,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Geography and Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41781219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nature’s evil: a cultural history of natural resources","authors":"Lauren A. H. Crabb","doi":"10.1080/15387216.2023.2237060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2023.2237060","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47508,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Geography and Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45299342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Building urban lives: female migrant workers emotional counter-topographies in China","authors":"M. Jayne, Siying Wu, Chenhui Wu","doi":"10.1080/15387216.2023.2239846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2023.2239846","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47508,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Geography and Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47122396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The poverty of territorialism: a neo-medieval view of Europe and European planning","authors":"E. Gualini","doi":"10.1080/15387216.2023.2238743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2023.2238743","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47508,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Geography and Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41386227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Postsocialist shrinking cities","authors":"Gabriel Camară","doi":"10.1080/15387216.2023.2237029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2023.2237029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47508,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Geography and Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45449893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The future of the Soviet past: The politics of history in Putin’s Russia","authors":"Mariusz Czepczynski","doi":"10.1080/15387216.2023.2237055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2023.2237055","url":null,"abstract":"© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. doi: 10.1017/slr.2023.17 ______________________________________________________________REVIEW ESSAY","PeriodicalId":47508,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Geography and Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44866448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}