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Chinese City System Formation and Globalization Xiulian Ma Sociology Department, The University of Utah Xiulian.ma@soc.utah.edu

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China: The Context

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Research Questions How has the Chinese city system changed since 1978? What is the impact of globalization on the Chinese city system change?

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Outline 1. The World System Theory and My Contesting Argument 2. Three Hypotheses 3. Research Design 4. Results 5 Conclusion/Discussion

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1. The World System Theory Third World Urban Pattern International factors: (World-system position, transnational corporate penetration) Intranational Factors ( Class structure, state policy) + + +

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1. My Argument Third World Urban Pattern International factors: (transnational corporate penetration, world-system position) Intranational Factors (state policy and national context) -+ +

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Disarticulation Slope 1 Line Primacy

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2. Three Hypotheses

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3. Research Design Data Air passengers flow among 43 largest cities in China (1992, 1995, 2000, and 2003)

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Results_H 1 : Global Centrality/Primacy Figure 1. A Star Network

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4. Results_H 1 : Global Centrality/Primacy

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4. Results_H 2 : Blockmodeling/Disarticulation

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4. Results_H 3 : Longitudinal Modeling/Globalization The utility function The rate function

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5 Conclusion/ Discussion 1. The Chinese City System further deviates from one- city primacy. 2. The Chinese city system became better structurally connected and articulated. 3. Globalization has limited effect on city network change in China. These provide evidence to support our argument that-- The national Context, esp. the state, is much more important than international forces. This prevent Chinas emergence as a Third World city-system pattern.

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Thank You! Xiulian.ma@soc.utah.edu