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27-49 (2008) 27 JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE (54) : 27-49 (2008) Convergence and Divergence World City Paradigm and the Word City Hypothesis * Bo-Xiu Titan Jian Abstract “World City” has dominated at the urban and spatial research in the West for a couple of decades, Friedmann (1995) grouped this empirical research into two groups: one is “world city paradigm”; and the other is “world city hypothesis”. Based on Friedmann’s argument of these two theoretical frameworks, this paper tries to denominate and accentuate the two different research themes: one is so-called “world city-ness”, mainly analyzing the condition of world city and evaluating the position of global urban system for each candidate city; and the other is “globalizing city”, providing a research framework for urban study from different aspects, such as economy, politic, society, and culture etc.. The former delivers a result of convergence under globalization effectively, which embodies the qualified city an identity of world city, according to different global urban hierarchies, and different aspects, but same term; and the latter, starting from each city’s policy dynamic, gives an account of complexities and logic between city and globalism, and a divergent process of going to global, thus introducing “rescaling” as a sample. Beyond this comparison between these two divisions, this paper concludes by empha