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Publications

Book

Su, Xiaobo and Teo, Peggy (2009) The Politics of Heritage Tourism in China: A View from Lijiang. London and New York: Routledge. ix+208 pp.

Cai, Xiaomei and Su, Xiaobo (2020) Introduction to New Cultural Geography Literature (新文化地理学文献导读). Beijing: China Social Science Press (北京:中国社会科学出版社)

Selected Peer-reviewed Articles in English since 2015

1.        Su, Xiaobo; Lim, Kean Fan (2024) Urban state venturism: On state-led venture capital investments in the urban process of capital accumulation. Dialogues in Human Geographyhttps://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231220724

2.        Liu, Peilin; Yang, Liguo, Su, Xiaobo (2023) Tourism, Feelings, and the Consumption of Heritage, Tourism Geographies, 25(2): 1483-1503. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2023.2235573

3.        Lim, Kean Fan; Su, Xiaobo (2023) Making markets ‘decisive’: A firm-level evaluation of state-led development in the China-Myanmar border region. Journal of Economic Geography, 23(2): 397-418, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbac022 

4.        Li, Cansong; Su, Xiaobo (2022) Cross-border division of labor and China’s border control upon Myanmar migrants, Environment and Planning C, 40(8): 1717-1744, https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544221106015

5.        Su, Xiaobo; Lim, Kean Fan (2023) Capital accumulation, territoriality, and the reproduction of state sovereignty in China: Is this "new" state capitalism? Environment and Planning A, 55(3): 697-715, https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X221093643

6.        Su, Xiaobo; Miao, Yi (2022) Border Control and the Territorial Politics of Policy Experimentation in Chinese Border Cities, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 46(4): 522-541 https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13079

7.        Yu, Yi; Su, Xiaobo (2023) Governing through the NGO—community eldercare in Beijing and Shanghai, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 63(2): 199-219, DOI: 10.1080/15387216.2021.1990101

8.        Su, Xiaobo (2022) Unpacking Administrative Rank: Interurban Competition and the Remaking of Local State Space in China, Political Geography, 92: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102518

9.        Lim, Kean Fan; Su, Xiaobo (2021) Cross-border market building for narcotics control: A Polanyian analysis of the China-Myanmar border region, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 46(4): 834-849 https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12447

10.     Su, Xiaobo; Li, Cansong (2021) Bordering Dynamics and the Geopolitics of Cross-border Tourism Between China and Myanmar, Political Geographyhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102372

11.     Cai, Xiaomei and Su, Xiaobo (2021) Dwelling-in-Traveling: Western Expats and the Making of Temporary Home in Guangzhou, China, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 47(12): 2815-2823. doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1739392

12.     Su, Xiaobo (2022) Smuggling and the Exercise of Effective Sovereignty at the China-Myanmar Border, Review of International Political Economy, 29(4): 1135-1158, https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2020.1859400

13.     Su, Xiaobo (2020) Geopolitical Imagination and the U.S. War on Drugs against China, Territory, Politics, Governance. 8(2): 204-221. DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2018.1554503.

14.     Su, Xiaobo and Cai, Xiaomei (2020) Spaces of Compromise: Border Control and the Limited Inclusion of Burmese Migrants in China, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110 (3), 847-863.

15.     Su, Xiaobo and Lim, Kean Fan (2019) Opium substitution, reciprocal Control and the tensions of geoeconomic integration in the China-Myanmar Border, Environment and Planning A, 51(8): 1665-1683.

16.     Zhong, Yun; Su, Xiaobo (2019) Spatial Selectivity and Intercity Cooperation between Guangdong and Hong Kong, Urban Studies. 56(14): 3011-3023. 

17.     Su, Xiaobo; Cai, Xiaomei and Liu, Meixin (2019) Prostitution, Variegated Homes, and the Practice of Unhomely Life in China, Social and Cultural Geography, 20(3): 407-426.

18.     Su, Xiaobo (2018) Fragmented sovereignty and the geopolitics of illicit drugs in northern Burma, Political Geography, 63:20-30. 

19.     Su, Xiaobo and Chen, Zhigang (2017) Embeddedness and Migrant Tourism Entrepreneurs: A Polanyian Perspective, Environment and Planning A, 49(3): 652-669.

20.     Su, Xiaobo (2016) Repositioning Yunnan: security and China’s geoeconomic engagement with MyanmarArea Development and Policy, 1 (2): 178-194.

21.     Su, Xiaobo (2016) Development Intervention and Transnational Narcotics Control in Northern Myanmar, Geoforum, 68:10-20. 

22.     Su, Xiaobo (2015) Nontraditional Security and China’s Transnational Narcotics Control in Northern Laos and Myanmar, Political Geography, 48: 72-82. 

Su, Xiaobo (2015) Urban Entrepreneurialism and the Commodification of Heritage in China, Urban Studies, 52: 2874-2889. 

 

Updated on 12 January 2024