Urban China in Transition

Urban China in Transition By
2007 | 369 Pages | ISBN: 1405161450 | PDF | 6 MB
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 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 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 Content: Chapter 1 Two Decades of Reform: The Changing Organization Dynamics of Chinese Industrial Firms (pages 27-47): Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru NabeshimaChapter 2 The Myth of the "New Urban Poverty"? Trends in Urban Poverty in China, 1988-2002 (pages 48-65): Simon Appleton and Lina SongChapter 3 Class Structure and Class Inequality in Urban China and Russia: Effects of Institutional Change or Economic Performance? (pages 66-88): Yanjie Bian and Theodore P GerberChapter 4 Gender and the Labor Market in China and Poland (pages 89-111): C. Cindy Fan and Joanna RegulskaChapter 5 Urbanization, Institutional Change, and Sociospatial Inequality in China, 1990-2001 (pages 115-139): Michael J. White, Fulong Wu and Yiu Por (Vincent) ChenChapter 6 Growth on the Edge: The New Chinese Metropolis (pages 140-160): Yixing Zhou and John R. LoganChapter 7 Mirrored Reflections: Place Identity Formation in Taipei and Shanghai (pages 161-181): Jennifer Rudolph and Hanchao LuChapter 8 Is Gating Always Exclusionary? A Comparative Analysis of Gated Communities in American and Chinese Cities (pages 182-202): Youqin Huang and Setha M. LowChapter 9 Urbanization in China in the 1990s: Patterns and Regional Variations (pages 205-225): Zai Liang, Hy Van Luong and Yiu Por (Vincent) ChenChapter 10 Trapped in Neglected Corners of a Booming Metropolis: Residential Patterns and Marginalization of Migrant Workers in Guangzhou (pages 226-249): Min Zhou and Guoxuan CaiChapter 11 Migration and Housing: Comparing China with the United States (pages 250-267): Weiping Wu and Emily RosenbaumChapter 12 Economic Reform and Crime in Contemporary Urban China: Paradoxes of a Planned Transition (pages 271-293): Steven F. Messner, Jianhong Liu and Susanne KarstedtChapter 13 Migration, Urbanization, and the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Empirical and Theoretical Observations in China and Indonesia (pages 294-341): Christopher J. Smith and Graeme HugoChapter 14 The State's Evolving Relationship with Urban Society: China's Neighborhood Organizations in Comparative Perspective (pages 315-335): Benjamin L. Read and Chun?Ming Chen