Urban China in transition /
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| Imprint: | Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub. Ltd., 2008. |
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| Description: | xv, 361 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in urban and social change |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6674787 |
Table of Contents:
- Notes on the Contributors
- Series Editors' Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Urban China in Comparative Perspective
- Part I. Market Transition in Work Units and the Labor Market
- 1. Two Decades of Reform: The Changing Organization Dynamics of Chinese Industrial Firms
- 2. The Myth of the "New Urban Poverty"? Trends in Urban Poverty in China, 1988-2002
- 3. Class Structure and Class Inequality in Urban China and Russia: Effects of Institutional Change or Economic Performance?
- 4. Gender and the Labor Market in China and Poland
- Part II. Changing Places
- 5. Urbanization, Institutional Change, and Sociospatial Inequality in China, 1990-2001
- 6. Growth on the Edge: The New Chinese Metropolis
- 7. Mirrored Reflections: Place Identity Formation in Taipei and Shanghai
- 8. Is Gating Always Exclusionary? A Comparative Analysis of Gated Communities in American and Chinese Cities
- Part III. Impacts of Migration
- 9. Urbanization in China in the 1990s: Patterns and Regional Variations
- 10. Trapped in Neglected Corners of a Booming Metropolis: Residential Patterns and Marginalization of Migrant Workers in Guangzhou
- 11. Migration and Housing: Comparing China with the United States
- Part IV. Social Control in the New Chinese City
- 12. Economic Reform and Crime in Contemporary Urban China: Paradoxes of a Planned Transition
- 13. Migration, Urbanization, and the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Empirical and Theoretical Observations in China and Indonesia
- 14. The State's Evolving Relationship with Urban Society: China's Neighborhood Organizations in Comparative Perspective
- Subject index
- Author index
