Tu Lan

Will be presenting this article at AAG Detroit this Tuesday at 10:10 in Rm 330B. Welcome to come of you're around! @linzhang.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social

The new whole state system: Reinventing the Chinese state to promote innovation - Lin Zhang, Tu Lan, 2023 This article joins interdisciplinary efforts to problematize dichotomous thinking (i.e. state vs. market, East vs. West, and new vs. old) in existing discourses...

Local govs aren’t alone. Universities, like Zhejiang U (alma mater of DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng), play a major role. We explored this in an article published two years ago. www.doi.org/10.1177/0308... 7/7 #HigherEd

As nations look to China for policy insights, the LVS model offers key lessons—both in its successes & ongoing challenges. 6/7 #PolicyMobility

Our work joins a growing turn in econ geography (Xiaobo Su & @keanfanlim.bsky.social), contextualizing China’s urban entrepreneurialism globally. We analyze contrasts with Western cities through governance, financialization, & developmental stage. 5/7

The LVS model has seen success, but tensions remain. Innovation often clashes with equity. Can local states sustain this balance? Our study digs into these contradictions. 4/7 #Innovation

To boost innovation & equity, LVSs retooled financing platforms (城投) to fund high-tech startups—offsetting real estate losses & aiding grassroots entrepreneurs. While this model has driven notable successes, we also expose its limitations & contradictions. 3/7 #UrbanStudies

Western takes often spotlight the central gov or solo entrepreneurs. We highlight another key player: China’s municipal govs—Local Venture States (LVS). Entrepreneurial since the ’80s, they’ve operated more like VCs since 2008. 2/7

INNOVATING URBAN CHINA: The Rise of the Local Venture State and the Making of New Entrepreneurial Spaces In this article we centralize the analytic of the local venture state (LVS) to offer a novel framework for investigating China's new urban entrepreneurialism, which emerged after the 2008 global fina...

While we don’t agree with all its arguments, this article econ.st/4k5G5Ns captures key changes in China—now grabbing eyes through DeepSeek. Our new @ijurresearch.bsky.social article (with @linzhang.bsky.social) takes a deeper look China’s tech boom. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/7

Local govs aren’t alone. Universities, like Zhejiang U (alma mater of DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng), play a major role. We explored this in an article published two years ago. doi.org/10.1177/030851…… 7/7 #HigherEd

As nations look to China for policy insights, the LVS model offers key lessons—both in its successes & ongoing challenges. 6/7 #PolicyMobility

To boost innovation & equity, LVSs retooled financing platforms (城投) to fund high-tech startups—offsetting real estate losses & aiding grassroots entrepreneurs. While this model has driven notable successes, we also expose its limitations & contradictions. 3/7 #UrbanStudies

Western takes often spotlight the central gov or solo entrepreneurs. We highlight another key player: China’s municipal govs—Local Venture States. Entrepreneurial since the ’80s, they’ve operated more like VCs since 2008. 2/7 #ChinaTech #UrbanFinance

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Desirable and disposable: Tracing the racialization of Chinese students in American higher education This article dissects the current conjuncture facing Chinese international students in the U.S. higher education, situating their experiences within t…

Might have pasted a wrong link to our article... Here's the correct one:
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International education policies must go beyond neoliberal multiculturalism. We need to challenge racialized narratives about Chinese students, embed global perspectives into race-related curricula, and push for progressive policy addressing structural inequities at global scale.

Inspired by the works of Day and Gerstle, we analyze three critical periods (1949–1959, 2006–2017, and 2018–present), connecting domestic racial politics, US-China relations, and global higher ed industry to reveal the paradoxical racialization of Chinese students.

Excited to share my latest article with @linzhang.bsky.social in Geoforum that explores how Chinese students are seen as both desirable and disposable under racial capitalism.
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#HigherEd #CriticalRaceStudies #Geography #RacialCapitalism