[PDF] Urbanization And Its Impact In Contemporary China eBook

Author : Peilin Li
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811323429

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This book addresses a wide range of social issues in connection with urbanization, which is providing new momentum for China’s economic restructuring and social progress, including the educational gap; the middle class in urbanization; consumption; division of labor; and social integration. All chapters are based on updated nation-wide sampling survey data. Taken together, they provide a lens for understanding various aspects of urbanization and its impacts on China’s economy and society.

Author : Zheng Yongnian
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 39,50 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317373480

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China’s extraordinary economic boom since the late 1970s has been accompanied by massive urbanization, with the proportion of the population living in cities rising from 18% in 1978 to 54% in 2014. Currently the Chinese government has amongst its objectives the target to increase this to 60% by 2020, and also to improve the quality of China’s cities. This book examines a wide range of issues connected to China’s urbanization. It considers the many problems which have come with rapid urbanization, including urban housing problems, difficulties affecting rural migrants in urban areas, and a lack of social protection. It examines areas of current reform, including land reform, shanty town renewal and moves to address environmental problems. It explores governance issues, and throughout assesses how urbanization in China is likely to develop in future.

Author : Ray Yep
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
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ISBN : 1786431637

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The trajectory and logic of urban development in post-Mao China have been shaped and defined by the contention between domestic and global capital, central and local state and social actors of different class status and endowment. This urban transformation process of historic proportion entails new rules for distribution and negotiation, novel perceptions of citizenship, as well as room for unprecedented spontaneity and creativity. Based on original research by leading experts, this book offers an updated and nuanced analysis of the new logic of urban governance and its implications.

Author : Lisheng Dong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,91 MB
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317003691

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Popular protests are on the rise in China. However, since protesters rely on existing channels of participation and on patronage by elite backers, the state has been able to stymie attempts to generalize resistance and no large scale political movements have significantly challenged party rule. Yet the Chinese state is not monolithic. Decentralization has increased the power of local authorities, creating space for policy innovations and opening up the political opportunity structure. Popular protest in China - particularly in urban realm- not only benefits from the political fragmentation of the state, but also from the political communications revolution. The question of how and to what extent the internet can be used for mobilizing popular resistance in China is hotly debated. The government, virtual social organizations, and individual netizens both cooperate and compete with each other on the web. New media both increases the scope of the mobilizers and the mobilized (thereby creating new social capital), and provides the government with new means of social control (thereby limiting the political impact of the growing social capital). This volume is the first of its kind to assess the ways new media influence the mobilization of popular resistance and its possible effects in China today.

Author : Forrest, Ray
Publisher : Bristol University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,57 MB
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1529205522

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In 1915 Robert Park penned his seminal paper “The City: Suggestions for the investigation of human behaviour in the city environment”. This essay provided an agenda for the Chicago School of Urban Sociology, which formed the basis of urban research for decades. Given that China’s urban centres now occupy the spotlight that once belonged to American cities, Park’s essay is a platform and point of departure for this volume, which gathers together reflections from a broad range of urban China specialists to consider Park’s (ir)relevance today – for cities in China, for questions about the social life of the city and for urban research more generally. Essential for a broad range of urban studies scholars, this book is an invaluable teaching resource and a useful tool for policy-makers and planners.

Author : Kyle A. Jaros
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 36,16 MB
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691190739

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1. Introduction: Picking Winners in Space --2. Spatial Policy in China --3. The Multilevel Politics of Development --4. Hunan: The Making of an Urban Champion --5. Jiangxi: The Politics of Dispersed Development --6. Shaanxi: Uneven Development Redux --7. Jiangsu: Shifting Tides of Spatial Policy --8. Rethinking Development Politics in China and Beyond --Appendix A. Analyzing Outcomes across China --Appendix B. Cross-National Extensions to Brazil and India.

Author : Ding Lu
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 17,31 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9814287806

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As China rises to become the world's largest economy, it is expected to alleviate half-a-billion people from being rural villagers to urban residents in the coming decades. The great urbanization of the world's most populated country is sure to be one of the most remarkable social-economic events in the 21st century. This book aims to give the reader a clear and comprehensive review of this unfolding event. It not only presents a historical review of the evolution of public policies and institutional reforms regarding urban development, but also an up-to-date survey and in-depth analysis of various social-economic forces that define and contribute to the process of urbanization. The target audiences include students of modern China and professionals interested in China's urban development. The general public as well as scholars may also find the book informative and fascinating.

Author : Jeremy L. Wallace
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 32,19 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199378983

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China's management of urbanization is an under-appreciated factor in the regime's longevity. The Chinese Communist Party fears "Latin Americanization" -- the emergence of highly unequal megacities with their attendant slums and social unrest. Such cities threaten the survival of nondemocratic regimes. To combat the threat, many regimes, including China's, favor cities in policymaking. Cities and Stability shows this "urban bias" to be a Faustian Bargain: cities may be stabilized for a time, but the massive in-migration from the countryside that results can generate the conditions for political upheaval. Through its hukou system of internal migration restrictions, China has avoided this dilemma, simultaneously aiding urbanites and keeping farmers in the countryside. The system helped prevent social upheaval even during the Great Recession, when tens of millions of laid-off migrant workers dispersed from coastal cities. Jeremy Wallace's powerful account forces us to rethink the relationship between cities and political stability throughout the developing world.

Author : Deborah Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 1995-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521479431

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Explores the impact of post-Mao reforms on the economic, social and cultural dimensions of China's cities.

Author : Gregory Eliyu Guldin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,58 MB
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1315293439

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Chinese urbanization, including the daily life, migration strategies, and life choices of villagers and townspeople, is the focus of this study by Chinese and North American scholars. The study looks at the urbanization process and the vitality of post-reform Chinese society.