Beyond the Sunan Model: Trajectory and Underlying Factors of Development in Kunshan, China

By Y. Dennis Wei. 2002

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Regional Development in China: Transitional Institutions, Embedded Globalization, and Hybrid Economies (2007, unknown): “This view is broader than the recent call for theorization among geographers working on China/Asia (Lin and Wei, 2002; Yeung and Lin, 2003).”
Geospatial Analysis of Regional Development in China: The Case of Zhejiang Province and the Wenzhou Model (2005, methodology): “…of key regions in the observed regional inequality, research has also addressed the trajectories and mechanisms underlying the rise of “winning” regions by investigating the effects of globalization, the state, and local agents (e.g., Shen, 2002; Wei, 2002; Xu and Tan, 2002; Wei, 2004).”
Simulating Emergent Urban Form Using Agent-Based Modeling: Desakota in the Suzhou-Wuxian Region in China (2007, background): “These new developments are initiated by local enterprises adjacent to large cities with foreign investment, often appearing like ‘‘flying intruders’’ in what was once farming land (Wei 2002).”
Institutional Innovations, Asymmetric Decentralization, and Local Economic Development: A Case Study of Kunshan, in Post-Mao China (2007, background): “Despite its impressive performance in terms of economic globalization, Kunshan itself has not developed equally well (Po and Pun, 2003; Wei, 2002 ).”
Socio-economic driving forces of arable land conversion: A case study of Wuxian City, China (2005, background): “Moreover, an increasing portion of rural town and village industries is for export, but this activity was not included in GDPV and the data were not collected until the late 1990s (Wei, 2002).”
E-Commerce, Taobao Villages and Regional Development in China* (2020, background): “With deeper globalization and intensified competition, the Sunan model has embraced globalization and influx of global capital (Wei 2002).”
Restructuring Industrial Districts, Scaling Up Regional Development: A Study of the Wenzhou Model, China (2007, background): “However, Sunan has moved beyond the Sunan model with the infusion of global capital (Wei 2002), and the PRD has attempted to “domesticate globalization” by embedding global firms and developing endogenous innovation capacities (Lu and Wei 2007).”
Development Zones, Foreign Investment, and Global City Formation in Shanghai (2005, background): “The state, however, does not act in a vacuum (Wei 2002), but has to mobilize local resources to attract or even bargain with MNEs (Yeung and Li 1999).”
Dilemmas of Local Governance under the Development Zone Fever in China: A Case Study of the Suzhou Region (2008, background): “…have noted that, in addition to the city- and countylevel governments concentrating on enticing foreign capital through providing cheap land and infrastructure services, many town-level governments have also been quick to enter this race for foreign capital (Wei, 2002; Yang and Hsia, 2007).”