Statecraft at the frontier of capitalism: A grounded view from China.

The death of urban entrepreneurialism is proclaimed surprisingly by opposite conceptualisations of austerity urbanism and radical municipalism. This paper argues that rather than seeing them as contrasting types, post-pandemic statecraft reflects the increasing tension and entanglement between capitalistic and territorial logic. From the ground of Chinese urban governance, we illustrate how Chinese statecraft maintains state strategic and extra-economic intention through deploying and mobilising market and society - to create its own agents and to co-opt those that are already existent or emerging.

A Geographical Approach to China's Local Government Debt.

Since the 2010s local government debt has boomed in China because the government relies on debt financing for infrastructure investment. The debt mainly consists of the issuance of bonds and later local government bonds. Using data from more than 300 cities from 2009 to 2020, this article maps its spatial dynamics to further the understanding of intergovernmental relations in the studies on local government debt.

Experimental study and kinetic model analysis on photothermal catalysis of formaldehyde by manganese and cerium based catalytic materials.

Modern people spend more and more time in cars in their daily lives, and the pollution of formaldehyde in the car may directly affect people's health. Thermal catalytic oxidation technology by solar light is a potential way to purify formaldehyde in cars. MnO-CeO was prepared by the modified co-precipitation method as the main catalyst, and the basic characteristic (SEM, N adsorption, H-TPR, UV-visible absorbance) were also analyzed in detail.

"Micro-regeneration": Toward small-scale, heritage-oriented, and participatory redevelopment in China.

An extensive body of literature documents large-scale property-led redevelopment in the world and in China. However, in recent years China has seen the policy shift toward small-scale redevelopment, heritage preservation, and public participation in the regeneration process. Using the pilot project of "micro-regeneration" () in Guangzhou, this paper critically examines these aspects of change.

Modification of cell wall properties in lettuce improves shelf life.

It is proposed that post-harvest longevity and appearance of salad crops is closely linked to pre-harvest leaf morphology (cell and leaf size) and biophysical structure (leaf strength). Transgenic lettuce plants (Lactuca sativa cv. Valeria) were produced in which the production of the cell wall-modifying enzyme xyloglucan endotransglucosylase/hydrolase (XTH) was down-regulated by antisense inhibition.