1、022VOLUME 10/ISSUE 4/AUGUST 2022The Production of Global Space Under the Transnational Entrepreneurship:Empirical Study on Yiwu,Zhejiang Province,Chinahttps:/doi.org/10.15302/J-LAF-1-020067*CORRESPONDING AUTHORSAddress:School of Architecture,Huaqiao University,Xiamen,Fujian Province,361021,ChinaEmai
2、ls:(XIE Shuyi),(YI Hai)XIE Shuyi1,2,3,*,JIANG Yingle1,YI Hai1,4,*1 School of Architecture,Huaqiao University,Xiamen 361021,China2 Xiamen Key Laboratory of Ecological Building Construction,Xiamen 361021,China3 Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Urban and Rural Architectural Heritage Conservation Tec
3、hnology,Xiamen 361021,China4 Hunan Baoxin Cloud Architecture Comprehensive Service Platform Co.,Ltd.,Changsha 410221,ChinaHIGHLIGHTS Introducing“spatial ternary theory”in the case of Yiwu and filling the gap of global space study of small-and medium-sized citiesGlobal space in Yiwu is the interactio
4、n result of top-down government power and bottom-up social strengthProduction of global space in Yiwu goes through a process from delocalization,globalization to relocalizationTrade and service chains in Yiwu allow interactions among different societal groups and generate globalized economic,social,
5、and living spacesGenerating a new social relationship featuring in transnational traders apparent integration and invisible isolation with local residents and domestic migrants in YiwuRECEIVED DATE 2022-08-29KEYWORDS Production of Global Space;Spatial Ternary Theory;Transnational Entrepreneurship;Go
6、vernmental Entrepreneurialism;Social Relationships;Landscape;YiwuGRAPHICAL ABSTRACTEconomic relationsSocial relationsLiving relationsMarket(whole)Si-Ceng-BanReligious sites and schools admitting foreign studentsMultiple stakeholdersPhenomenological Conceived spacePerceived spaceLived spaceSpatial ty
7、peSymbolic spacePhysical spaceSocial spaceLinguisticRepresentations of spaceSpatial practiceRepresentationalspacesSpatial ternary theory Process,impact,and mechanism of the production of global space in YiwuInteractions between power and capitalEvolution of global spaceCharacteristics and formation
8、mechanism of new social relationshipsEconomic spaceSocial spaceLiving spaceLANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FRONTIERS/PAPERS023ABSTRACT This research probes into the process,impact,and mechanism of the production of global space in Yiwu under the transnational entrepreneurship,utilizing the“spatial ternary th
9、eory”and methods of field investigation and in-depth interview.It focuses on analyzing how the local government,state-owned enterprises,transnational traders,local residents,and domestic migrants act and interact in the production of global space since the 1980s.Results showed that the production of
10、 global space in Yiwu goes through a process from delocalization,globalization to relocalization,indicating the local construction and reconstruction of economic,social,and living relationships in small-and medium-sized cities influenced by transnational entrepreneurship.The production of global spa
11、ce in Yiwu is jointly promoted by top-down government power and bottom-up social strength,and local governmental entrepreneurialism EDITED BY WANG Ying,Tina TIANTRANSLATED BY XIE Shuyi,WANG Ying,Tina TIAN,XIAO Jie,Victor JIthat has been directly influenced by globalization is a key engine.Field inve
12、stigation also discovered that there is a phenomenon of transnational traders apparent integration and invisible isolation with local residents and domestic migrants in the new social relationships in Yiwu.These findings will enrich the empirical research on the global space in small-and medium-size
13、d cities in the context of China,and on the dialectical and interchangable relationship of the trinity of ternary elements in the spatial ternary theory;and help deepen the understanding on urbanization and globalization of small-and medium-sized Chinese cities,and optimize the governance of transna
14、tional migrants and the ethnic enclaves they live.1 IntroductionInevitably,intensifying globalization will make profound impact on urban spaces1.Some scholars coined the term of“glocalization”2 by combining“globalization”with“localization”to describe“the negotiating interaction between global networ
15、ks and local social forces,i.e.the mutual adaptive and interconnecting process between globality and locality”3.Meanwhile,transnational entrepreneurship is restructuring the physical,economic,and social spatial structures of many cities in China45.As there have not been a widely-accepted definition
16、of“transnational entrepreneurship”in academia,referring to arguments by some scholars46,this research understands it as the process where transnational traders initiate and sustain trade and commercial activities across national boundaries,which then facilitates the production of global space and the reconstruction of local space.The“global space”here refers not only to the physical environment accommodating transnational economy,society,and life,but also to the vinculum that connects“locality”a