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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

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Author:   John Logan (Brown University)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.562kg
ISBN:  

9781405161466

ISBN 10:   1405161469
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   18 December 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors viii Series Editors’ Preface xiii Acknowledgments xiv Introduction: Urban China in Comparative Perspective 1 John R. Logan and Susan S. Fainstein Part I: Market Transition in Work Units and the Labor Market 25 1 Two Decades of Reform: The Changing Organization Dynamics of Chinese Industrial Firms 27 Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima 2 The Myth of the “New Urban Poverty”? Trends in Urban Poverty in China, 1988–2002 48 Simon Appleton and Lina Song 3 Class Structure and Class Inequality in Urban China and Russia: Effects of Institutional Change or Economic Performance? 66 Yanjie Bian and Theodore P. Gerber 4 Gender and the Labor Market in China and Poland 89 C. Cindy Fan and Joanna Regulska Part II: Changing Places 113 5 Urbanization, Institutional Change, and Sociospatial Inequality in China, 1990–2001 115 Michael J. White, Fulong Wu, and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen 6 Growth on the Edge: The New Chinese Metropolis 140 Yixing Zhou and John R. Logan 7 Mirrored Reflections: Place Identity Formation in Taipei and Shanghai 161 Jennifer Rudolph and Hanchao Lu 8 Is Gating Always Exclusionary? A Comparative Analysis of Gated Communities in American and Chinese Cities 182 Youqin Huang and Setha M. Low Part III: Impacts of Migration 203 9 Urbanization in China in the 1990s: Patterns and Regional Variations 205 Zai Liang, Hy Van Luong, and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen 10 Trapped in Neglected Corners of a Booming Metropolis: Residential Patterns and Marginalization of Migrant  Workers in Guangzhou 226 Min Zhou and Guoxuan Cai 11 Migration and Housing: Comparing China with the United States 250 Weiping Wu and Emily Rosenbaum Part IV: Social Control in the New Chinese City 269 12 Economic Reform and Crime in Contemporary Urban China: Paradoxes of a Planned Transition 271 Steven F. Messner, Jianhong Liu, and Susanne Karstedt 13 Migration, Urbanization, and the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Empirical and Theoretical Observations in China and Indonesia 294 Christopher J. Smith and Graeme Hugo 14 The State’s Evolving Relationship with Urban Society: China’s Neighborhood Organizations in Comparative Perspective 315 Benjamin L. Read and Chun-Ming Chen Subject index 336 Author index 355

Reviews

These essays on recent Chinese urban developments--particularly trends in migration, labor economics, housing, economic and sociospatial inequality, and governance--offer macro and micro perspectives through analysis of nationwide patterns or developments in specific cities, thus capturing the regional diversity and types of cities in China. Editor Logan is careful not to present the Chinese instance as exceptional, but to situate it within a wider context through comparative analysis. He pairs up scholars from different disciplines and areas for each essay in order to set up comparison between Chinese urban developments and those in the US, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Logan asked the contributors to view their data through four theoretical lenses: modernization (Simon Kuznet's model), dependency/world system, developmental state, and market transition. By doing so, contributors discover meaningful differences that reveal trends unique to the Chinese context. On the whole, this collection offers undergraduates an accessible introduction to contemporary urban developments in China and to a wide range of qualitative and quantitative analyses commonly used in the social sciences. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries. -- L. Teh, University of Chicago (Choice, February 2009)

These essays on recent Chinese urban developments--particularly trends in migration, labor economics, housing, economic and sociospatial inequality, and governance--offer macro and micro perspectives through analysis of nationwide patterns or developments in specific cities, thus capturing the regional diversity and types of cities in China. Editor Logan is careful not to present the Chinese instance as exceptional, but to situate it within a wider context through comparative analysis. He pairs up scholars from different disciplines and areas for each essay in order to set up comparison between Chinese urban developments and those in the US, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Logan asked the contributors to view their data through four theoretical lenses: modernization (Simon Kuznet's model), dependency/world system, developmental state, and market transition. By doing so, contributors discover meaningful differences that reveal trends unique to the Chinese context. On the whole, this collection offers undergraduates an accessible introduction to contemporary urban developments in China and to a wide range of qualitative and quantitative analyses commonly used in the social sciences. Summing Up : Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries. -- L. Teh, University of Chicago (Choice, February 2009)

Chinese cities are changing in incredibly complex and fascinating ways, and this volume presents a very impressive set of research studies of a wide range of aspects of such changes, written by first rate scholars. Anyone interested in changing urban social patterns in the world's most dynamic and populous society will want to consult this volume. Martin K. Whyte, Harvard University John Logan's kaleidoscopic collection offers diverse perspectives on urban dynamics in China, while simultaneously setting China's cities in a comparative context that ranges from Russia to the United States. Globally oriented urbanists and China specialists alike will find it a valuable new resource. Peter Evans, University of California, Berkeley

Author Information

John R. Logan is Professor of Sociology and Director of the initiative on Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences at Brown University. Founder of the Urban China Research Network, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dr. Logan is also a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Urban Affairs and City and Community. He was chosen Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, SUNY, as well as Director of the Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research. In April 2003 he was selected by American Demographics magazine as one of five social demographers whose work has most influenced his field in the last 25 years.

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