The emergence of a new urban China : insiders' perspectives / edited by Zai Liang ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Liang, Zai.

Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--China.

City planning.

China.

China--Social conditions--2000-.

Social conditions.

Rural development--China.

Rural development.

Urbanization--China.

Urbanization.

Physical Description:

xvi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2012]

Summary:

This book provides first-hand, insiders' perspectives on urban issues in China, aiming to provide a theoretically informed and empirically rich discussion of the new social landscape of contemporary urban, China, Focusing on (but not limiting its scope to) southern China, this volume's rich ethnographic research and advanced survey-based quantitative analysis will appeal to students of urban issues in contemporary China, as well as the broader scholarly communities of area studies, urban studies, and urban sociology. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Zai Liang, Steven F. Messner, Cheng Chen, and Youqin Huang

Migrant workers and community reaction

Job mobility of rural migrants in China's urban labor market : the case of Pearl River Delta region / Zhen Li and Zai Liang

Economic deprivation, social networks, and unprotected rights : a study on peasant workers' collective action in the Pearl River Delta / Xiaojuan Chen and Cheng Chen

Institutional segmentation and psychosocial repellence : urban residents' attitude toward migrants / Jiashun Wang and Steven F. Messner

New patterns of urbanization

Resistance to becoming urban : Hukou politics in a Pearl River Delta community, China / Cuiling Li and Josephine Smart

The structural transition and reproduction of rural society in the urbanization of China : a case research of life, organization, and institution in a new urban community / Fuping Chen and Eric Fong

Changing economy and urbanization in a Chinese ethnic minority village : the case of Bai people in Xizhou, Yunnan Province / Xiongduan Yang and Alan Smart

Impacts of globalization, technology, and markets on urban China

The reconstruction of social support systems for African merchants in Guangzhou, China / Tao Xu and Zai Liang

Mobile phone culture among the information have-less : a case study of laid-off workers in Shenyang City, China / Guangxu Ji and Youqin Huang

Housing property rights disputes in urban Chinese families : an institutional and sociological perspective / Jing Li and Youqin Huang.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

ISBN:

0739170112

9780739170113

9780739170120

0739170120

OCLC:

756592505

Publisher Number:

99954041453