Urban China in transition /
Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China's major cities. It deals with a diversity of trends and analyzes their sources.:.; Offers a multi-dimensional analysis of urban life in China.; Highlights a diversity of trends in the areas...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Malden, MA ; Oxford :
Blackwell Pub.,
2008.
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| Series: | Studies in urban and social change.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: urban China in comparative perspective / John R. Logan and Susan Fainstein
- Market transition in work units and the labor market
- Two decades of reform: the changing organization dynamics of Chinese industrial firms / Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima
- The myth of the new urban poverty: trends in urban poverty in China, 1988-2002 / Simon Appleton and Lina Song
- Class structure and class inequality in urban China and Russia: effects of institutional change or economic performance / Yanjie Bian and Ted Gerber
- Gender and the labor market in China and Poland / C. Cindy Fan and Joanna Regulska
- Changing places
- Urbanization, institutional change, and spatial inequality in China: 1990-2001 / Michael White, Fulong Wu, and Vincent Chen
- Growth on the edge: the new Chinese metropolis / Zhou Yixing and John R. Logan
- Place identity formation in Taipei and Shanghai / Jennifer Rudolph and Lu Hanchao
- Is gating always exclusionary? : a comparative analysis of gated communities in American and Chinese cities / Youqin Huang and Setha Low
- Impacts of migration
- Urbanization in China in the 1990s: patterns and regional variations / Zai Liang and Hy Van Luong
- Trapped in neglected corners of a booming metropolis: residential patterns and marginalization of migrant workers in Guangzhou / Min Zhou and Guoxuan Cai
- Migration and housing: comparing China with the United States / Weiping Wu and Emily Rosenbaum
- Social control in the new Chinese city
- Economic reform and crime in contemporary China: paradoxes of a planned transition / Steven F. Messner, Jianhong Liu, and Susanne Karstedt
- Migration, urbanization, and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases: empirical and theoretical observations in China and Indonesia / Chris Smith and Graeme Hugo
- The state's evolving relationship with urban society: China's neighborhood organizations in comparative perspective / Ben Read and Chun-Ming Chen.