![]() ![]() However, the Chinese documentation of world cities has been overwhelmingly concerned with what qualify a city to be a “world city” and hence what should be done to promote a Chinese city to the world city rank. ![]() In China, one of the largest developing countries recently re-integrated itself with the globalizing world, there is a large body of Chinese literature on the emergence of “world cities” ( shijie chengshi) or “international cities” ( guoji chengshi) in the country as a result of the intrusion of global forces. ![]() Although many cities outside of Anglo-America have been included in the hierarchical formulation of the “world city system”, they are often treated in a selective and superficial manner without any in-depth elaboration on either their internal growth dynamics or external linkages. This burgeoning corpus of literature has thus far been derived predominantly from the experiences of a handful of cases in Europe and North America. Much scholarly attention has been devoted to identify the special characteristics of “world cities” or “global cities”, describe their processes of formation and reformation, and pinpoint the new challenges posed by these cities for research, planning, and policy making. One of the most influential bodies of literature generated in recent decades has concerned the growth and transformation of “world cities”, “global cities”, and “global city-regions” as both the integral part and direct outcome of globalization. ![]()
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