PT Journal AU Christiansen, F TI Crossing Borders: Urban-Rural Integration and Labour Migration SO Social Sciences: Comparative, International, Transnational SE UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre PY 2011 BP 60 EP 69 IS 40 DI 10.17185/duepublico/73903 LA en AB The Chinese nation-state facilitates the globalisation process and uses its dynamics to further its own (national) interests. The point is not that globalisation is “wrenching China open”, but that Chinese people and authorities alike make claims on global processes and institutions, thus helping to frame them. ER