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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Logan, John R., 1946-

Series:

Studies in urban and social change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--China.

Urbanization.

China.

Rural-urban migration--China.

Rural-urban migration.

Sociology, Urban--China.

Sociology, Urban.

Physical Description:

xv, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

China is rapidly becoming a world power. No longer a developing country, China's cities are undergoing transformations of historic proportions. This book, in the Studies in Urban and Social Change series, evaluates these multi-dimensional changes. With input from professionals in a variety of fields, including Sociology, Geography, Economics, Demography, Planning, Architecture, and Anthropology, Urban China in Transition analyzes Chinese trends in diverse topics including: migration, crime, gated communities, neighborhood associations, suburbanization, women's status.

Chapters are co-authored by experts on urban Chinese life together with others whose expertise is on the particular topic. Comparisons to urban areas in the United States, Eastern Europe, Asia, and South America pose thoughtful questions about the possible trajectory of Chinese urban development, while underscoring its uniqueness. The result is a broad theoretical and historical perspective that sharply focuses the Chinese experience through alternative prisms, thus enriching theoretical discussion and debate.

Contents:

Series Editors' Preface xiii

Introduction: Urban China in Comparative Perspective / John R. Logan, Susan S. Fainstein 1

Part I Market Transition in Work Units and the Labor Market 25

1 Two Decades of Reform: The Changing Organization Dynamics of Chinese Industrial Firms / Shahid Yusuf, Kaoru Nabeshima 27

2 The Myth of the "New Urban Poverty"? Trends in Urban Poverty in China, 1988-2002 / Simon Appleton, Lina Song 48

3 Class Structure and Class Inequality in Urban China and Russia: Effects of Institutional Change or Economic Performance? / Yanjie Bian, Theodore P. Gerber 66

4 Gender and the Labor Market in China and Poland / C. Cindy, Joanna Regulska 89

Part II Changing Places 113

5 Urbanization, Institutional Change, and Sociospatial Inequality in China, 1990-2001 / Michael J. White, Fulong Wu, Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen 115

6 Growth on the Edge: The New Chinese Metropolis / Yixing Zhou, John R. Logan 140

7 Mirrored Reflections: Place Identity Formation in Taipei and Shanghai / Jennifer Rudolph, Hanchao Lu 161

8 Is Gating Always Exclusionary? A Comparative Analysis of Gated Communities in American and Chinese Cities / Youqin Huang, Setha M. Low 182

Part III Impacts of Migration 203

9 Urbanization in China in the 1990s: Patterns and Regional Variations / Zai Liang, Hy Van Luong, Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen 205

10 Trapped in Neglected Corners of a Booming Metropolis: Residential Patterns and Marginalization of Migrant Workers in Guangzhou / Min Zhou, Guoxuan Cai 226

11 Migration and Housing: Comparing China with the United States / Weiping Wu, Emily Rosenbaum 250

Part IV Social Control in the New Chinese City 269

12 Economic Reform and Crime in Contemporary Urban China: Paradoxes of a Planned Transition / Steven F. Messner, Jianhong Liu, Susanne Karstedt 271

13 Migration, Urbanization, and the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Empirical and Theoretical Observations in China and Indonesia / Christopher J. Smith, Graeme Hugo 294

14 The State's Evolving Relationship with Urban Society: China's Neighborhood Organizations in Comparative Perspective / Benjamin L. Read, Chun-Ming Chen 315.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781405161459

1405161450

9781405161466

1405161469

OCLC:

85691580

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