This book offers the first detailed account of the complex geographical dynamics currently restructuring China's export-oriented industries. The topics covered are relevant to post-socialist geography, development studies, economics, economic sociology and international studies. It offers academics, international researchers, postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students in these fields an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically sophisticated account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional development in developing countries and emerging economies. It is of particular interest to economic geographers and economic sociologists involved in the growing debates over local clusters, embeddedness, global sourcing and global production, and over the global value chain/global production network. It also appeals to national policymakers, since it directly addresses economic and industrial policy issues, such as industrial competitiveness, regional and national development, industrial and employment restructuring and trade regulation.

Autorentext

(1) Shengjun Zhu

College of Urban and Environmental Sciences

Peking University

Beijing 100871, China

Email: zhus@pku.edu.cn

Shengjun Zhu joins the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Peking University (China) from Swansea University (UK), where he worked as a lecturer for two years. He received a Ph.D. in Geography at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA). Before coming to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he earned a Bachelor and Master Degree in Geography and a Bachelor Degree in Economics from Peking University, China. His major interests lie in globalization; regional development; global production networks; global value chains; industrial relocation and delocalization; industrial, social and environmental upgrading/downgrading. With his inter-disciplinary research and education background, Dr. Zhu is able to thoroughly investigate research questions and offer unique insights and perspectives. His papers have been published in some high-quality academic journals, including Journal of Contemporary Asia, Geoforum, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Geojournal and Post-communist Economies. At the same time, Dr. Zhu has accumulated abundant industrial experience from various consulting projects.

Selected Recent Publications:

Zhu, S., C. He and Y. Liu. 2014. Going Green or Going Away: EnvironmentalRegulation, Economic Geography and Firms' Strategies in China's Pollution-intensive Industries. Geoforum, 55: 53-65.

Lan, T. and S. Zhu (corresponding author). 2014. Chinese Apparel Value Chains in Europe: Low-end Fast Fashion, Regionalization, and Transnational Entrepreneurship in Prato, Italy. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 55(2): 156-174.

Zhu, S. and C. He. 2014. Global, Regional and Local: New Firm Formation and Spatial Restructuring in China's Apparel Industry. GeoJournal, 79(2): 237-253.

Zhu, S. and J. Pickles. 2014. Bring in, Go up, Go West, Go Out: Upgrading, Regionalisation and Delocalisation in China's Apparel Production Networks. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 44(1): 36-63.

Zhu, S. and C. He. 2013. Geographical Dynamics and Industrial Relocation: Spatial Strategies of Apparel Firms in

Ningbo, China. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 54(3): 342-362.

(2) John Pickles

Earl N. Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies

Department of Geography

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Saunders Hall, Campus Box 3220

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3220

Phone: (919)962-3919

Email:jpickles@unc.edu

John Pickles is an economic geographer trained in political economy and development studies, cultural and social theory, and continental philosophy. His research currently focuses on global production networks, European economic and social spaces particularly post-socialist transformations in Central Europe and Euro-Med Neighborhood Policies in Southern Europe. He also works on the cultural economies of maps and mapping, counter-mapping, and the use of maps in social movements.

He holds BA and MA degrees from Oxford University and Ph.D. degrees form the University of Natal and the Pennsylvania State University. He joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001 as the Earl N Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies and served as the Chair of the Department of Geography between 2007-2013 . He is a Fellow of the Institute for Arts and Humanities and of the Center for Urban and Regions Studies. He serves on the Advisory Boards for the Center for European Studies, the Carolina Asia Center, the Center for Muslim and Middle Eastern Civilizations, the Office of Study Abroad, and the University Program in Cultural Studies. He directs the University Supply Chain Program and served as an appointed member of the Chancellor's Labor and Licensing Advisory Committee until July 2012.

His research and teaching focus primarily on issues of geographical and social change, particularly in regions that are undergoing major ruptures in socio-economic life and under conditio...

Inhalt
Introduction.- Bring In, Go Up, Go West, Go Out: Upgrading, Regionalization and Delocalization in China's Apparel Production Networks.- Geographical Dynamics and Industrial Relocation: Spatial Strategies of Apparel Firms in Ningbo, China.- Global, Regional and Local: New Firm Formation and Spatial Restructuring in China's Apparel Industry.- Turkishization of a Chinese Apparel Firm: Fast Fashion, Regionalization, and the Shift from Global Supplier to New End Markets.- Institutional embeddedness and regional adaptability and rigidity in a Chinese apparel cluster.- Global and local governance, industrial and geographical dynamics: a tale of two clusters.- Going Green or Going Away: Environmental Regulation, Economic Geography and Firms' Strategies in China's Pollution-intensive Industries.- Summary and Conclusion.