'Socialism with Chinese characteristics': Uneven development, variegated neoliberalization and the dialectical differentiation of state spatiality

While neoliberalization' is increasingly used to conceptualize concrete realities of China's economic development, it is not employed in dialectical relation with China's prevailing developmental ideology - socialism with Chinese characteristics'. This paper offers a fresh framework and research agenda from which to examine this relation. It argues that neoliberalization across China is a variegated process, formed and fractured by actually existing uneven state spatiality and the Communist Party of China's (CPC) ostensibly contradictory historicization of a Marxian socialist end-state. How neoliberalization works simultaneously in/through multiple sites in China and consequently reproduces the CPC's ideological legitimacy has become a theoretically significant question for research on geographical political economy.