Journal articles and book chapters

Journal articles

2025

• Deng, H., Wu, F., & Zhang, F. 2025. Green Space Production as a State Project in Urban China. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (full-text)
• Feng, Y., Li, Z., Zhang, F., & Wu, F. 2025. Upscaled state entrepreneurialism: Centrally controlled state-owned enterprises in post-pandemic urban development. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space (full-text)
• Feng, Y., Zhang, F., & Wu, F. 2025. Waterfront regeneration as a political mission: Megaprojects under state entrepreneurialism. Journal of Urban Affairs (full-text)
• Li, Z., Wu, F., & Zhang, F. 2025. Power dynamics and spatiality in the financialisation of the city: financial intermediation in local government bonds in China. New Political Economy (full-text)
• Wu, F., Deng, H., Feng, Y., Wang, W., Wang, Y., & Zhang, F.. 2025. From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft: New trends of urban governance transformation in post-pandemic China. Urban Studies (full-text)
• Wang, Y., & Wu, F. 2025. Micro-regeneration and participatory governance: a local social governance experiment in China. Journal of Chinese Governance (full-text)
• Li, Z., Wu, F., & Zhang, F. 2025. Risks in the financialization of Chinese cities. Competition & Change (full-text)
• Liu, S., Li, R., A, R., Du, H., & Wu, F. 2025. Migrant economic integration in the ethnic minority region: A case study of Sanggendalai, Inner Mongolia, China. Cities (full-text)
• Wang, Y., Wu, F., & Zhang, F. 2025. STATE BUILDING IN CRISIS MANAGEMENT: Reflections on Statecraft from the Shanghai Lockdown. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (full-text)
• Wang, Y., Lu, T., Ouyang, C., & Wu, F. 2025. Mobilising the Entrepreneurial Self to Manage the Crisis: Community Group-Buying during the Shanghai Lockdown. Antipode (full-text)

2024

• Feng, Y., Wu, F., & Zhang, F. 2024. Turning land into assets: local government borrowing through land assetization in China. Urban Geography (full-text)
• Robinson, J., Wu, F., & Wang, Z. 2024. Comparison and community engagement: post-politics meets post-colony and state entrepreneurialism. Introduction to the special feature. City (full-text)
• Feng, Y., Wu, F., & Zhang, F. 2024. Environmental statecraft and changing spatial politics: Erhai Lake protection in China. Political Geography (full-text)
• Xu, M., Wu, F., & Li, Z. 2024. Unrealised aspiration: Migrants’ intergroup relations in China. Applied Geography (full-text)
• Wu, F., Deng, H., Feng, Y., Wang, W., Wang, Y., & Zhang, F.. 2024. Statecraft at the frontier of capitalism: A grounded view from China. Progress in Human Geography (full-text)
• Feng, Y., Wu, F., & Zhang, F.. 2024. New land reserve institution and changing entrepreneurial urban governance in China. Cities (full-text)
• Zhu, K., Zhang, F., Wu, F., & Feng, Y. 2024. Governing innovation-driven development under state entrepreneurialism in China. Cities (full-text)
• Zhang, F., & Wu, F. 2024. Green state entrepreneurialism: Building the park city in Chengdu, China. Transactions in Planning and Urban Research (full-text)
• Wang, Y., Wu, F., & Zhang, F. 2024. Participatory micro-regeneration: governing urban redevelopment in Qinghe, Beijing. Urban Geography (full-text)
• Wang, W., Wu, F., & Zhang, F. 2024. Assembling state power through rescaling: Inter-jurisdictional development in the Beijing-Tianjin Zhongguancun Tech Town. Political Geography (full-text)
• Liu, Z., Fan, C. C., & Zhang, F. 2024. Women-led research in urban China studies: Introduction to a special issue. Transactions in Planning and Urban Research (full-text)
• Zou, J., Wu, F., Zhang, F., Xu, M., & Liu, S. 2024. The social integration of rural migrants in urban China: The effect of hometown land tenure. Population, Space and Place (full-text)
• Li, Z., Wu, F., & Zhang, F. 2024. A Geographical Approach to China’s Local Government Debt. The Professional Geographer (full-text)
• Wang, W., Wu, F., & Zhang, F. 2024. Metropolitanization through making ‘new metropolitan plans’ in China. Habitat International (full-text)

2023

2022

• Zhang, F., Wu, F., & Lin, Y. 2022. The socio-ecological fix by multi-scalar states: The development of ‘Greenways of Paradise’ in Chengdu. Political Geography (full-text)
• Wu, F., Pan, F., & Chen, J. 2022. Financialization under state entrepreneurialism in China. Regional Studies (full-text)
• Li, Z., Wu, F., & Zhang, F. 2022. A multi-scalar view of urban financialization: urban development and local government bonds in China. Regional Studies (full-text)
• Zhang, F., & Wu, F. 2022. Financialised urban development: Chinese and (South-)East Asian observations. Land Use Policy (full-text)
• Feng, Y., Wu, F., & Zhang, F. 2022. The development of local government financial vehicles in China: A case study of Jiaxing Chengtou. Land Use Policy (full-text)
• Wu, F. 2022. Land financialisation and the financing of urban development in China. Land Use Policy (full-text)
• Ye, Z., Zhang, F., Coffman, D., Xia, S., Wang, Z., & Zhu, Z. 2022. China’s urban construction investment bond: Contextualising a financial tool for local government. Land Use Policy (full-text)
• Xu, M., Wu, F., & Li, Z. 2022. Understanding the intergroup relations of migrants in China. Population, Space and Place (full-text)
• Zhang, F., & Wu, F. 2022. Performing the ecological fix under state entrepreneurialism: A case study of Taihu New Town, China. Urban Studies (full-text)
• Lu, T., Zhang, F., & Wu, F. 2022. The Sense of Community in Homeowner Association Neighborhoods in Urban China: A Study of Wenzhou. Housing Policy Debate (full-text)
• Liu, S., Zhang, F., & Wu., F. 2022. Contrasting migrants’ sense of belonging to the city in selected peri-urban neighbourhoods in Beijing. Cities (full-text)
• Wang, M., Zhang, F., & Wu, F. 2022. Governing urban redevelopment: A case study of Yongqingfang in Guangzhou, China. Cities (full-text)
• Zhang, F., Li, Z., Hamnett, C., Xiao, Y., & Wang, Z. (2022). From China to the world–Urban China studies for a global community. Transactions in Planning and Urban Research (full-text)
• Ye, Z., Zhang, F., Coffman, D. M., Xia, S., Wang, Z., & Zhu, Z. (2022). China’s urban construction investment bond: Contextualising a financial tool for local government. Land Use Policy (full-text)

2021

• Wu, F., Zhang, F., & Liu, Y. 2021. Beyond Growth Machine Politics: Understanding State Politics and National Political Mandates in China’s Urban Redevelopment. Antipode (full-text)
• Pan, F., Zhang, F., & Wu, F. 2021. State-led Financialization in China: The Case of the Government-guided Investment Fund. The China Quarterly (full-text)
• Feng, Y., Wu, F., & Zhang, F. 2021. Changing roles of the state in the financialization of urban development through chengtou in China. Regional Studies (full-text)
• Zhang, F., Chung, C. K. L., Lu, T., & Wu, F. 2021. The role of the local government in China’s urban sustainability transition: A case study of Wuxi’s solar development. Cities (full-text)

2020

• Wu, F. 2020. The state acts through the market: ‘State entrepreneurialism’ beyond varieties of urban entrepreneurialism. Dialogues in Human Geography (full-text)
• Wu, F. 2020. Scripting Indian and Chinese urban spatial transformation: Adding new narratives to gentrification and suburbanisation research. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space (full-text)
• Wu, F. 2020. Adding new narratives to the urban imagination: An introduction to ‘New directions of urban studies in China’. Urban Studies. (full-text)
• Castán Broto, V., Mah, D., Zhang, F., Huang, P., Lo, K. & Westman, L. 2020. Spatiotemporal perspectives on urban energy transitions: a comparative study of three cities in China. Urban Transformations (full-text)
• Wu, F., Chen, J., Pan, F., Gallent, N., & Zhang, F. 2020. Assetization: The Chinese Path to Housing Financialization. Annals of the American Association of Geographers (full-text)
• Zhang, F., Chung, C.K.L., & Yin, Z. 2020. Green infrastructure for China’s new urbanisation: A case study of greenway development in Maanshan. Urban Studies (full-text)
• Lu, T., Zhang, F., & Wu, F. 2020. The variegated role of the state in different gated neighbourhoods in China. Urban Studies (full-text)
• Wang, Z., Zhang, F., & Wu, F. 2020. The contribution of intergroup neighbouring to community participation: Evidence from Shanghai. Urban Studies (full-text)

2019

• Wang, Z., & Wu, F. 2019. In‐situ marginalisation: Social impact of Chinese mega‐projects. Antipode (full-text)
• Lu, T., Zhang, F., & Wu, F. 2019. The meaning of “private governance” in urban China: Researching residents’ preferences and satisfaction. Urban Policy and Research (full-text)
• Liu, Y., Zhang, F., Liu, Y., Li, Z., & Wu, F. 2019. Economic disadvantages and migrants’ subjective well‐being in China: The mediating effects of relative deprivation and neighbourhood deprivation. Population, Space and Place (full-text)
  
• Zhang, F., & Wu, F. 2019. Rethinking the city and innovation: A political economic view from China’s biotech. Cities (full-text)

2018

• Wu, F. 2018. Housing privatization and the return of the state: changing governance in China. Urban geography (full-text)
• Chung, C. K. L., Zhang, F., & Wu, F. 2018. Negotiating green space with landed interests: The urban political ecology of greenway in the Pearl River Delta, China. Antipode (full-text)
• Lu, T., Zhang, F., & Wu, F. 2018. Place attachment in gated neighbourhoods in China: Evidence from Wenzhou. Geoforum (full-text)
• Wu, F. 2018. Planning centrality, market instruments: Governing Chinese urban transformation under state entrepreneurialism. Urban studies (full-text)
• Li, Y., & Wu, F. 2018. Understanding city-regionalism in China: Regional cooperation in the Yangtze River Delta. Regional Studies (full-text)

2017

• Wang, Z., Zhang, F., & Wu, F. 2017. Affective neighbourly relations between migrant and local residents in Shanghai. Urban Geography (full-text)
• Liu, Y., Zhang, F., Liu, Y., Li, Z., & Wu, F. 2017. The effect of neighbourhood social ties on migrants’ subjective wellbeing in Chinese cities. Habitat International (full-text)
• Shen, J., & Wu, F. 2017. The suburb as a space of capital accumulation: The development of new towns in Shanghai, China. Antipode (full-text)
• Liu, Y., Wu, F., Liu, Y., & Li, Z. 2017. Changing neighbourhood cohesion under the impact of urban redevelopment: A case study of Guangzhou, China. Urban Geography (full-text)
• Liu, Y., Zhang, F., Wu, F., Liu, Y., & Li, Z. 2017. The subjective wellbeing of migrants in Guangzhou, China: The impacts of the social and physical environment. Cities (full-text)
• Wang, Z., Zhang, F., & Wu, F. 2017. Neighbourhood cohesion under the influx of migrants in Shanghai. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space (full-text)
  
• Wang, Z., Zhang, F., & Wu, F. 2017. Social trust between rural migrants and urban locals in China–Exploring the effects of residential diversity and neighbourhood deprivation. Population, Space and Place (full-text)

2016

• Webster, C., Wu, F., Zhang, F., & Sarkar, C. (2016). Informality, property rights, and poverty in China’s “favelas”. World Development, 78, 461-476.
• Wu, F. (2016). China’s emergent city‐region governance: a new form of state spatial selectivity through state‐orchestrated rescaling. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 40(6), 1134-1151.
• Wu, F., & Logan, J. (2016). Do rural migrants ‘float’in urban China? Neighbouring and neighbourhood sentiment in Beijing. Urban Studies, 53(14), 2973-2990.
• Wu, F. (2016). Housing in Chinese urban villages: The dwellers, conditions and tenancy informality. Housing Studies, 31(7), 852-870.
• Wu, F. (2016). State dominance in urban redevelopment: Beyond gentrification in urban China. Urban Affairs Review, 52(5), 631-658.
• Wu, F. (2016). Emerging Chinese cities: Implications for global urban studies. The Professional Geographer, 68(2), 338-348.
• Wang, Z., Zhang, F., & Wu, F. (2016). Intergroup neighbouring in urban China: Implications for the social integration of migrants. Urban Studies, 53(4), 651-668.

2015

• Li, Y., Wu, F., & Hay, I. (2015). City-region integration policies and their incongruous outcomes: The case of Shantou-Chaozhou-Jieyang city-region in east Guangdong Province, China. Habitat International, 46, 214-222.
• Wu, F. (2015). Commodification and housing market cycles in Chinese cities. International Journal of Housing Policy. 15(1), 6-26.
• Wu, F. (2015). Emerging Chinese Cities: Implications for Global Urban Studies. Professional Geographer.
• Xue, D., & Wu, F. (2015). Failing entrepreneurial governance: From economic crisis to fiscal crisis in the city of Dongguan, China. Cities, 43, 10-17.
• Zhang, F. (2015). Building biotech in Shanghai: A perspective of regional innovation system. European Planning Studies (full-text)

2014

• Li, Y., & Wu, F. (2014). Reconstructing Urban Scale: New Experiments with the” Provincial Administration of Counties” Reform in China. The China Review, 14(1), 147-173.
• Yuan, Y., & Wu, F. (2014). The development of the index of multiple deprivations from small-area population census in the city of Guangzhou, PRC. Habitat International, 41, 142-149.

2013

• Wu, F., Zhang, F., & Webster, C. (2013). Informality and the Development and Demolition of Urban Villages in the Chinese Peri-urban Area. Urban Studies, 50(10), 1919-193.
• Shen, J., & Wu, F. (2013). Moving to the suburbs: Demand-side driving forces of suburban growth in China.Environment and Planning A, 45(8), 1823-1844.
• Yuan, Y., & Wu, F. (2013). Regional Social Inequalities and Social Deprivation in Guangdong Province, China. Growth and Change, 44(1), 149-167.
• Li, Z., & Wu, F. (2013). Residential satisfaction in China’s informal settlements: A case study of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. Urban Geography, 34(7), 923-949.
• Li, Y., & Wu, F. (2013). The emergence of centrally initiated regional plan in China: A case study of Yangtze River Delta Regional Plan. Habitat International, 39, 137-147.

2012

• Zhang, F., & Wu, F. (2012). “fostering indigenous innovation capacities”: The development of biotechnology in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang high-tech park. Urban Geography, 33(5), 728-755.
• Liu, Y., He, S., & Wu, F. (2012). Housing Differentiation Under Market Transition in Nanjing, China. Professional Geographer, 64(4), 554-571.
• Wu, F. (2012). Neighborhood Attachment, Social Participation, and Willingness to Stay in China’s Low-Income Communities. Urban Affairs Review, 48(4), 547-570.
• Shen, J., & Wu, F. (2012). Restless urban landscapes in China: A case study of three projects in Shanghai. Journal of Urban Affairs, 34(3), 255-277.
• Shen, J., & Wu, F. (2012). The development of master-planned communities in Chinese suburbs: A case study of Shanghai’s Thames town. Urban Geography, 33(2), 183-203.
• Li, Y., & Wu, F. (2012). The transformation of regional governance in China: The rescaling of statehood. Progress in Planning, 78(2), 55-99
• Li, Y., & Wu, F. (2012). Towards new regionalism? Case study of changing regional governance in the Yangtze River Delta.Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 53(2), 178-195.

2011

• Wu, F., & Phelps, N. A. (2011). (Post)suburban development and state entrepreneurialism in Beijing’s outer suburbs. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 43(2), 410-430.
• Yuan, Y., Wu, F., & Xu, X. (2011). Multiple deprivations in transitional chinese cities: A case study of guangzhou. Urban Affairs Review, 47(5), 721-736
• Zhang, F., Cooke, P., & Wu, F. (2011). State-sponsored research and development: A case study of China’s biotechnology.Regional Studies, 45(5), 575-595.
• Cooke, P., Porter, J., Pinto, H., Cruz, A. R., & Zhang, F. (2011). Notes from the Iberian algae belt. European Planning Studies (full-text)
  

2010

• Zhang, F., Wu, F., & Cooke, P. (2010). China’s changing national and regional innovation systems and regional distribution of R&D. Geography Compass, 4(6), 532-544.
• Wu, F. (2010). Gated and packaged suburbia: Packaging and branding Chinese suburban residential development. Cities, 27(5), 385-396.
• Vogel, R. K., Savitch, H. V., Xu, J., Yeh, A. G. O., Wu, W., Sancton, A., Kantor, P., Newman, P., Tsukamoto, T., Cheung, P. T. Y., Shen, J., Wu, F., & Zhang, F. (2010). Governing global city regions in China and the West. Progress in Planning, 73(1), 1-75.
• Wu, F. (2010). How neoliberal is China’s reform? the origins of change during transition. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 51(5), 619-631.
• Wu, F., He, S., & Webster, C. (2010). Path dependency and the neighbourhood effect: Urban poverty in impoverished neighbourhoods in chinese cities. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 42(1), 134-152.
• He, S., Wu, F., Webster, C., & Liu, Y. (2010). Poverty concentration and determinants in China’s Urban low-income neighbourhoods and social groups. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 34(2), 328-349.
• He, S., Liu, Y., Wu, F., & Webster, C. (2010). Poverty concentration and determinants in low-income neighbourhoods and social groups in Chinese large cities. Acta Geographica Sinica, 65(12), 1464-1475.
• He, S., Liu, Y., Wu, F., & Webster, C. (2010). Social groups and housing differentiation in China’s urban villages: An institutional interpretation. Housing Studies, 25(5), 671-691.
• Liu, Y., He, S., Wu, F., & Webster, C. (2010). Urban villages under China’s rapid urbanization: Unregulated assets and transitional neighbourhoods. Habitat International, 34(2), 135-144.
• Gu, C., & Wu, F. (2010). Urbanization in China: Processes and policies. China Review, 10(1), 1-10.
• Zhang, F., & Cooke, P. (2010). Hydrogen and fuel cell development in China: A review. European Planning Studies (full-text)

2009

• Phelps, N. A., & Wu, F. (2009). Capital’s search for order: Foreign direct investment in Singapore’s overseas parks in Southeast and East Asia. Political Geography, 28(1), 44-54.
• He, S., & Wu, F. (2009). China’s emerging neoliberal urbanism: Perspectives from urban redevelopment. Antipode, 41(2), 282-304.
• Wu, F. (2009). Guest editorial. Urban Design International, 14(2), 63-64.
• Xu, J., Yeh, A., & Wu, F. (2009). Land commodification: New land development and politics in China since the late 1990s. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 33(4), 890-913.
• Wu, F. (2009). Land development, inequality and Urban villages in China. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 33(4), 885-889
• Wu, F. (2009). Neo-urbanism in the making under China’s market transition. City, 13(4), 418-432.
• Wu, F. (2009). The state and marginality: Reflections on Urban outcasts from China’s Urban transition. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 33(3), 841-847.

2008

• Wu, F. (2008). China’s great transformation: Neoliberalization as establishing a market society. Geoforum, 39(3), 1093-1096.
• Zhang, J., & Wu, F. (2008). Mega-event marketing and urban growth coalitions: A case study of Nanjing Olympic New Town. Town Planning Review, 79(2-3), 209-226.
• Feng, J., Zhou, Y., & Wu, F. (2008). New trends of suburbanization in Beijing since 1990: From government-led to market-oriented. Regional Studies, 42(1), 83-99.
• Wu, F., & Zhang, F. (2008). Planning the Chinese city: Governance and development in the midst of transition. Town Planning Review, 79(2-3), 149-156.
• He, S., Liu, Y., Wu, F., & Webster, C. (2008). Poverty incidence and concentration in different social groups in urban China, a case study of Nanjing. Cities, 25(3), 121-132.
• Li, Z., & Wu, F. (2008). Tenure-based residential segregation in post-reform Chinese cities: A case study of Shanghai. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 33(3), 404-419.

Liu, Y., Wu, F., & He, S. (2008). The making of the new urban poor in transitional China: Market versus institutionally based exclusion. Urban Geography, 29(8), 811-834.

2007

• Wu, F., & Huang, N. (2007). New urban poverty in China: Economic restructuring and transformation of welfare provision. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 48(2), 168-185.
• Wu, F., & Zhang, J. (2007). Planning the competitive city-region: The emergence of strategic development plan in China. Urban Affairs Review, 42(5), 714-740.
• Wu, F. (2007). Re-orientation of the city plan: Strategic planning and design competition in China. Geoforum, 38(2), 379-392.
• Feng, J., Zhou, Y., Logan, J., & Wu, F. (2007). Restructuring of Beijing’s social space. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 48(5), 509-542.
• He, S., & Wu, F. (2007). Socio-spatial impacts of property-led redevelopment on China’s urban neighbourhoods. Cities, 24(3), 194-208.

Wu, F. (2007). The poverty of transition: From industrial district to poor neighbourhood in the city of Nanjing, China. Urban Studies, 44(13), 2673-2694.

2006

• Zhang, J., & Wu, F. (2006). China’s changing economic governance: Administrative annexation and the reorganization of local governments in the Yangtze River Delta. Regional Studies, 40(1), 3-21.
• Li, Z., & Wu, F. (2006). Socio-spatial differentiation and residential inequalities in Shanghai: A case study of three neighbourhoods. Housing Studies, 21(5), 695-717.
• Li, Z., & Wu, F. (2006). Socioeconomic transformations in Shanghai (1990-2000): Policy impacts in global-national-local contexts. Cities, 23(4), 250-268.
• Li, Z., & Wu, F. (2006). Sociospatial differentiation in transitional Shanghai. Acta Geographica Sinica, 61(2), 199-211.
• Liu, Y., & Wu, F. (2006). The state, institutional transition and the creation of new urban poverty in China. Social Policy and Administration, 40(2), 121-137.
• Wu, F., & Ma, L. J. C. (2006). Transforming China’s globalizing cities. Habitat International, 30(2), 191-198.
• Chen, G., Gu, C., & Wu, F. (2006). Urban poverty in the transitional economy: A case of Nanjing, China. Habitat International, 30(1), 1-26.