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100	1		_aMEULBROEK Chris
700			_aPECK Jamie
700			_aZHANG Jun
245			_aBayspeak: _bnarrating China's greater bay area/ _cChris Meulbroek, Jamie Peck & Jun Zhang
260			_c2023
520			_aChina's Greater Bay Area (GBA) initiative is the latest and most ambitious attempt to "regionalise" the development process in the Pearl River Delta, promising to accelerate political-economic integration via an innovation-intensive model of growth. Drawing on the techniques of critical discourse analysis, this article presents a deconstruction of the GBA's emergent spatial imaginary - "bayspeak" - and the rescaled mode of governance that it portends. By way of an interrogation of texts and contexts relating to the GBA initiative, it is suggested that the plan should be taken seriously, if not literally, in its projection of an encompassing and assimilative, if somewhat intransitive, mode of governance. An effort to constitute a mega-region "for itself," rather than simply "in itself," the GBA programme has opened a new space (and scale) for co-ordinated development and growth-coalition building under the auspices of the decentralised party-state. As an emergent discourse, bayspeak can be read as hyperbolic, aspirational and symbolic, but as the benign and developmentalist face of the Communist Party line in this economically important but politically stressed region, it may yet prove to be significant.
650			_aECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
650			_aREGIONAL GOVERNANCE
650			_aCRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
650			_aGREATER BAY AREA
650			_aCHINA
773			_aJournal of Contemporary Asia: _gVol.53, No. 1, March 2023, pp.95-123 (107)
598			_aCHINA, ECONOMICS
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00472336.2021.1998579 _zClick here for full text
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