A New Book on Border Regions and Globalization in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond with a Central Focus on China   

"A brilliant deciphering of the meaning and agency of borders. Chen shows us how the decentering of state power enables border regions to emerge from the shadow of capital city regions. This in turn produces a whole new research agenda on the increasingly complexity of the interaction among borders, transnationality, and the scattering of state functions."

-Saskia Sassen, author of Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization

"A highly original enquiry into the formation and evolution of transborder regions in the global economy. Xiangming Chen has developed a valuable analytical framework that integrates both the political economy perspective and the social capital approach to transborder development. Accessibly written, the book contains important new data from fieldwork and obscure sources that greatly enhance our understanding of a much-neglected-subject. A significant contribution to the literature on urban and regional development, international political economy, economic geography, and global studies."

-Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore