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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Logan, John R., 1946-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
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.