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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Xuefei Ren (Michigan State University)Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Polity Press Dimensions: Width: 14.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.80cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780745653587ISBN 10: 0745653588 Pages: 218 Publication Date: 15 March 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsFigures and Tables viii Map ix Chronology x Preface xiii 1 China Urbanized 1 2 Governance 32 3 Landscape 86 4 Migration 116 5 Inequality 145 6 Cultural Economy 170 Conclusion 191 Notes 197 Bibliography 203 Index 215ReviewsA must-read book for those who want a critical and multifaceted examination of Chinese urbanization. The author is clearly at home in China and shares insights we rarely read about. Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Cities in a World Economy 2012 A significant contribution to introducing the process of China's urbanization. The China Journal The world is fascinated by the fundamental changes in China's cities and how they link to larger projects of national development and globalization. Few scholars have examined these questions with such a broad-ranging focus as Xuefei Ren does here, offering new insight into growing inequality, how shifting landscapes are transforming lives, and the implications of these dynamics for citizen protest, human rights, and new cultural practices. Diane E. Davis, Harvard University By far the most comprehensive account of the changing Chinese urban society. Ren's critical reading of the current urban China research begins to reveal a new horizon of urban studies in a non-Western context -- sweeping through specific configurations of hukou and 'villages in the city' to more general changes in social and spatial inequalities. Fulong Wu, University College London A must-read book for those who want a critical and multifaceted examination of Chinese urbanization. The author is clearly at home in China and shares insights we rarely read about. Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Cities in a World Economy 2012 The world is fascinated by the fundamental changes in China's cities and how they link to larger projects of national development and globalization. Few scholars have examined these questions with such a broad-ranging focus as Xuefei Ren does here, offering new insight into growing inequality, how shifting landscapes are transforming lives, and the implications of these dynamics for citizen protest, human rights, and new cultural practices. Diane E. Davis, Harvard University By far the most comprehensive account of the changing Chinese urban society. Ren's critical reading of the current urban China research begins to reveal a new horizon of urban studies in a non-Western context - sweeping through specific configurations of hukou and 'villages in the city' to more general changes in social and spatial inequalities. Fulong Wu, University College London A must-read book for those who want a critical and multifaceted examination of Chinese urbanization. The author is clearly at home in China and shares insights we rarely read about. Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Cities in a World Economy 2012 The world is fascinated by the fundamental changes in China's cities and how they link to larger projects of national development and globalization. Few scholars have examined these questions with such a broad-ranging focus as Xuefei Ren does here, offering new insight into growing inequality, how shifting landscapes are transforming lives, and the implications of these dynamics for citizen protest, human rights, and new cultural practices. Diane E. Davis, Harvard University By far the most comprehensive account of the changing Chinese urban society. Ren's critical reading of the current urban China research begins to reveal a new horizon of urban studies in a non-Western context -- sweeping through specific configurations of hukou and 'villages in the city' to more general changes in social and spatial inequalities. Fulong Wu, University College London Author InformationXuefei Ren is assistant professor of sociology and global urban studies at Michigan State University and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |