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 ChinaHighlights a diversity of trends in the areas of migration, criminal victimization, gated communities, and the status of women, suburbanization, and neighbourhood associationsEach 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 anthropologyAn 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
Author(s): John Logan
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 384
URBAN CHINA IN TRANSITION......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Notes on the Contributors......Page 11
Series Editors’ Preface......Page 16
Acknowledgments......Page 17
Introduction: Urban China in Comparative Perspective......Page 20
Part I: Market Transition in Work Units and the Labor Market......Page 44
1 Two Decades of Reform: The Changing Organization Dynamics of Chinese Industrial Firms......Page 46
2 The Myth of the “New Urban Poverty”? Trends in Urban Poverty in China, 1988–2002......Page 67
3 Class Structure and Class Inequality in Urban China and Russia: Effects of Institutional Change or Economic Performance?......Page 85
4 Gender and the Labor Market in China and Poland......Page 108
Part II: Changing Places......Page 132
5 Urbanization, Institutional Change, and Sociospatial Inequality in China, 1990–2001......Page 134
6 Growth on the Edge: The New Chinese Metropolis......Page 159
7 Mirrored Reflections: Place Identity Formation in Taipei and Shanghai......Page 180
8 Is Gating Always Exclusionary? A Comparative Analysis of Gated Communities in American and Chinese Cities......Page 201
Part III: Impacts of Migration......Page 222
9 Urbanization in China in the 1990s: Patterns and Regional Variations......Page 224
10 Trapped in Neglected Corners of a Booming Metropolis: Residential Patterns and Marginalization of Migrant Workers in Guangzhou......Page 245
11 Migration and Housing: Comparing China with the United States......Page 269
Part IV: Social Control in the New Chinese City......Page 288
12 Economic Reform and Crime in Contemporary Urban China: Paradoxes of a Planned Transition......Page 290
13 Migration, Urbanization, and the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Empirical and Theoretical Observations in China and Indonesia......Page 313
14 The State’s Evolving Relationship with Urban Society: China’s Neighborhood Organizations in Comparative Perspective......Page 334
Subject index......Page 355
Author index......Page 374
