TY - JOUR
T1 - Variegated capitalism, Chinese style : regional models, multi-scalar constructions
AU - Zhang, Jun
AU - Peck, Jamie
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The paper explores tensions between the varieties of capitalism framework and the heterogeneous particularities of the Chinese case. Rather than forcing the Chinese model into analytical boxes derived, primarily, from analyses of European and North American capitalism, this complex formation more appropriately can be understood to exist in a ‘triangular’ relationship with the two conventional poles of varieties scholarship, the US-style ‘liberal market’ economy and the German-style ‘coordinated market’ economy. Furthermore, the substantial degree of internal (regional) heterogeneity evident in the Chinese case calls into question those models of capitalism that focus narrowly on institutional coherence at the national scale. Illustrating this point, a range of ‘sub-models’ of Chinese capitalism is examined: regional styles of capitalist development that remain distinct from one another, and deeply networked into a range of global production networks, and ‘offshore’ economies, just as they remain, to some degree, distinctively Chinese.
AB - The paper explores tensions between the varieties of capitalism framework and the heterogeneous particularities of the Chinese case. Rather than forcing the Chinese model into analytical boxes derived, primarily, from analyses of European and North American capitalism, this complex formation more appropriately can be understood to exist in a ‘triangular’ relationship with the two conventional poles of varieties scholarship, the US-style ‘liberal market’ economy and the German-style ‘coordinated market’ economy. Furthermore, the substantial degree of internal (regional) heterogeneity evident in the Chinese case calls into question those models of capitalism that focus narrowly on institutional coherence at the national scale. Illustrating this point, a range of ‘sub-models’ of Chinese capitalism is examined: regional styles of capitalist development that remain distinct from one another, and deeply networked into a range of global production networks, and ‘offshore’ economies, just as they remain, to some degree, distinctively Chinese.
KW - China
KW - capitalism
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:58090
U2 - 10.1080/00343404.2013.856514
DO - 10.1080/00343404.2013.856514
M3 - Article
SN - 1360-0591
SN - 0034-3404
VL - 50
SP - 52
EP - 78
JO - Regional Studies
JF - Regional Studies
IS - 1
ER -