From Revanchism to Ambivalence: The Changing Politics of Street Vending in Guangzhou.Antipode

By Huang Gengzhi, Desheng Xue, Zhigang Li on January 01, 2014

By focusing on Guangzhou's street-vending policy transformation, this article explores how exclusionary practices of urban politics in China are undermined by those who it seeks to exclude and the progressive political climate that questions the exclusionary framework. The exclusion of street vendors in Guangzhou has been led by the National Sanitary City campaign as a revanchist project.

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Gengzhi, Huang, Xue, Desheng, and Li, Zhigang. From Revanchism to Ambivalence: The Changing Politics of Street Vending in Guangzhou.Antipode. , , . , 2014. Gengzhi, H., Xue, D., and Li, Z. (2014). From Revanchism to Ambivalence: The Changing Politics of Street Vending in Guangzhou.Antipode. , , . Gengzhi, Huang, Xue, Desheng, and Li, Zhigang. "From Revanchism to Ambivalence: The Changing Politics of Street Vending in Guangzhou.Antipode." 2014, .Gengzhi Huang, Xue Desheng, and Li Zhigang. "From Revanchism to Ambivalence: The Changing Politics of Street Vending in Guangzhou.Antipode." (2014). Gengzhi, H, Xue, D, and Li, Z 2014, 'From Revanchism to Ambivalence: The Changing Politics of Street Vending in Guangzhou.Antipode', , , . Huang Gengzhi, Desheng Xue, and Zhigang Li, 'From Revanchism to Ambivalence: The Changing Politics of Street Vending in Guangzhou.Antipode' (2014). Gengzhi H., Xue D., and Li Z. From Revanchism to Ambivalence: The Changing Politics of Street Vending in Guangzhou.Antipode. . 2014. Gengzhi, Huang, Xue, Desheng, and Li, Zhigang. From Revanchism to Ambivalence: The Changing Politics of Street Vending in Guangzhou.Antipode. . 2014. , .

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