Urban China in Transition

Copyright © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Urban China in Transition

Editor(s): John R. Logan

Published Online: 27 MAY 2008

Print ISBN: 9781405161459

Online ISBN: 9780470712870

DOI: 10.1002/9780470712870

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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

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xiv)

    1. Introduction: Urban China in Comparative Perspective (pages 1–23)

      John R. Logan and Susan S. Fainstein

  3. Part I: Market Transition in Work Units and the Labor Market

    1. Chapter 1

      Two Decades of Reform: The Changing Organization Dynamics of Chinese Industrial Firms (pages 27–47)

      Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima

    2. Chapter 2

      The Myth of the “New Urban Poverty”? Trends in Urban Poverty in China, 1988–2002 (pages 48–65)

      Simon Appleton and Lina Song

    3. Chapter 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 Gerber

    4. Chapter 4

      Gender and the Labor Market in China and Poland (pages 89–111)

      C. Cindy Fan and Joanna Regulska

  4. Part II: Changing Places

    1. Chapter 5

      Urbanization, Institutional Change, and Sociospatial Inequality in China, 1990–2001 (pages 115–139)

      Michael J. White, Fulong Wu and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen

    2. Chapter 6

      Growth on the Edge: The New Chinese Metropolis (pages 140–160)

      Yixing Zhou and John R. Logan

    3. Chapter 7

      Mirrored Reflections: Place Identity Formation in Taipei and Shanghai (pages 161–181)

      Jennifer Rudolph and Hanchao Lu

    4. Chapter 8

      Is Gating Always Exclusionary? A Comparative Analysis of Gated Communities in American and Chinese Cities (pages 182–202)

      Youqin Huang and Setha M. Low

  5. Part III: Impacts of Migration

    1. Chapter 9

      Urbanization in China in the 1990s: Patterns and Regional Variations (pages 205–225)

      Zai Liang, Hy Van Luong and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen

    2. Chapter 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 Cai

    3. Chapter 11

      Migration and Housing: Comparing China with the United States (pages 250–267)

      Weiping Wu and Emily Rosenbaum

  6. Part IV: Social Control in the New Chinese City

    1. Chapter 12

      Economic Reform and Crime in Contemporary Urban China: Paradoxes of a Planned Transition (pages 271–293)

      Steven F. Messner, Jianhong Liu and Susanne Karstedt

    2. Chapter 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 Hugo

    3. Chapter 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

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      Subject Index (pages 336–354)

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      Author Index (pages 355–361)

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