Understanding city-regionalism in China: regional cooperation in the Yangtze River Delta
以长三角为例，分析中国自上而下的国家指令与自下而上的地方推动两种机制如何影响城市区域合作，并指出行政区划的历史配置是理解区域构建成败的关键。
Understanding city-regionalism in China: regional cooperation in the Yangtze River Delta. Regional Studies. China has witnessed the orchestration of city-regionalism and two different regional-scale mechanisms have influenced this integration and cooperation: the top-down state-mandated process and the bottom-up process initiated by local governments. However, this has not been a smooth process and it is shaped by the internal politics generated by China’s state configurations. Using the Yangtze River Delta as a case study, this paper argues that China’s territorial administrative divisions are a historical configuration that is essential to understand the efforts to construct city-regions as well as to understand the failure to create a new sub-national state space.