Title & Author:

Urban China in transition / edited by John R. Logan.

Publication:

Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2008.

Description:

xv, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Studies in urban and social change

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction: urban China in comparative perspective / John R. Logan and Susan Fainstein -- Part I. 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 Theodore P. Gerber -- Gender and the labor market in China and Poland / C. Cindy Fan and Joanna Regulska -- Part II. Changing places : Urbanization, institutional change, and sociospatial inequality in China: 1990-2001 / Michael J. White, Fulong Wu, and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen -- Growth on the edge: the new Chinese metropolis / Yixing Zhou and John R. Logan -- Mirrored reflections: place identity formation in Taipei and Shanghai / Jennifer Rudolph and Hanchao Lu -- Is gating always exclusionary?: a comparative analysis of gated communities in American and Chinese cities / Youqin Huang and Setha M. Low -- Part III. Impacts of migration : Urbanization in China in the 1990s: patterns and regional variations / Zai Liang, Hy Van Luong and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen -- 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 -- Part IV. Social control in the new Chinese city : Economic reform and crime in contemporary urban 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 / Christopher J. Smith and Graeme Hugo -- The state's evolving relationship with urban society: China's neighborhood organizations in comparative perspective / Benjamin L. Read and Chun-Ming Chen.

Summary:

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. Every chapter is co-authored by an urban China expert and an "outside" expert on the wider topic. Together they offer a broad historical and theoretical comparison : Offers a multi-dimensional analysis of urban life in China and highlights a diversity of trends in the areas of migration, criminal victimization, gated communities, and the status of women, suburbanization, and neighbourhood associations. Each chapter includes input from both an expert on urban life in China and an "outside" expert from the fields of sociology, geography, economics, planning, political science, history, demography, architecture, or anthropology. This is an alternative theoretical perspective comparing the Chinese experience with other urban settings in the United States, Poland, Russia, Vietnam, East and South East Asia, and South America.

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ISBN:

9781405161459 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1405161450 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781405161466 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1405161469 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Landflucht
Urbanization China.
Rural-urban migration China.
Sociology, Urban China.
Urbanisation Chine.
Exode rural Chine.
Sociologie urbaine Chine.
Rural-urban migration.
Sociology, Urban.
Urbanization.
Stadtentwicklung
Wirtschaftsreform
Steden.
Sociale verandering.
Stadssociologi Kina.
Urbanisering Kina.
China.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Logan, John R., 1946-
Studies in urban and social change.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258674
Call No.: BIB 189465
Status: Available