Urban Anthropology in China / edited by Greg Guldin and Aidan Southall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guldin, Gregory Eliyu, editor.

Southall, Aidan, editor.

Series:

Asian Studies - Book Archive pre-2000.

Studies in human society ; 6.

Asian Studies - Book Archive pre-2000

Studies in Human Society ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--China.

Cities and towns.

Sociology, Urban--China.

Sociology, Urban.

Urban anthropology--China.

Urban anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is based on the papers that were presented at the First International Urban Anthropology Conference, which was opened in Beijing on December 28, 1989. It contains twenty-two papers and six introductory contributions, dealing with the following subjects: 'Comparative Urbanism: Socialist and Asian Cities'; 'Chinese Urbanization'; 'Chinese Urban Ethnicity'; 'Chinese Urban Culture and Life Cycle'. These papers are written by Chinese and non-Chinese authors. The conference of 1989/1990 marked the beginning of urban anthropology in China. Before this, the objects of ethnological, sociological and anthropological research in China were rural, rather than urban. Besides, the attention of scholars was mostly directed towards the ethnic minorities in China. In the late 1970's however, contacts with Western anthropologists helped in redirecting part of Chinese anthropology towards the study of urban conglomerations. The congress of 1989/90 marked the acceptance of this new approach in China.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Greg Guldin and Aidan Southall

List of Tables / Greg Guldin and Aidan Southall

List of Figures and Maps / Greg Guldin and Aidan Southall

List of Photographs / Greg Guldin and Aidan Southall

Acknowledgements / Greg Guldin and Aidan Southall

Of Disciplinary Births / Gregory Eliyu Guldin

Present Tasks of Urban Anthropology in China / Ruan Xihu

Introduction: Transcending the Urban-Rural Dichotomy / Aidan Southall

Urban Theory and the Chinese City / Aidan Southall

East European Cities: How Different Are They? / Ivan Szelenyi

Soviet Urbanization Paradoxes / Ovsey Shkaratan

Transitional Urbanism Reconsidered: Post-Colonial Development of Calcutta and Shanghai / Tridib Banerjee

Western Planning Concepts and Response to the Metropolitan Transformation Process: Hong Kong's Specific Adaptation / R. Yin-Wang Kwok

Urbanization and Urban Policies in Tokyo from 1945 to 1985 / Kiyotaka Aoyagi

Introduction: Small Towns and Urbanization / Aidan Southall

The Development of China's Small Towns / Wang Xiaoyi

The Political Economy of Chinese Urbanization: Guangdong and the Pearl River Delta Region / Graham E. Johnson

An Approach to the Problems of Population Movement and Cultural Adaptation in the Urbanizing Pearl River Delta / Zhou Daming

Ideology and Pragmatism in China's Urban Land Reform during the 1980s / Vesna Vucinic

Introduction: Urban Ethnicity / Aidan Southall

The Impact of Cities on the Development and Prosperity of Minority Nationalities / Zhang Conggen

Analysis of the Changes in Fertility Culture of the Minority Nationalities in Beijing / Xiong Yu

Residential Patterns and their Impact on Han-Tibetan Relations in Lhasa City, the Tibet Autonomous Region / Ma Rong

Hui Urban Entrepreneurialism in Beijing: State Policy, Ethnoreligious Identity and the Chinese City / Dru C. Gladney

Cities, Urbanization and Cultural Change: The Tumote Region of Inner Mongolia / Ma Guoqing

Urban Mongols: The Search for Dignity and Gain / William Jankowiak

Introduction: Social, Economic, and Institutional Life in City Hierarchies and Networks / Aidan Southall

Danwei Culture as Urban Culture in Modern China: The Case of Beijing from 1949 to 1979 / Li Bin

Urban Development and Crime in China / Tan Shen and Li Dun

Adaptation of Rural Family Patterns to Urban Life in Chengdu / Martin King Whyte

How Marriage Customs Differ within and without Chongwu Town, Huian County / Chen Guoqiang

The Family and Economic Life of the Aged in Chinese Cities / Liu Bingfu

No Place to Live, no Place to Love: Coping in Shanghai / Deborah Pellow

Glossary / Greg Guldin and Aidan Southall.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Urban Anthropology in China.

ISBN:

9789004618039

OCLC:

647079372

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004618039 DOI

Access Restriction:

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