Urban China in transition
By: edited by John R. Logan
Series: Studies in urban and social change
Publisher: Blackwell Pub. Ltd.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Malden, MA; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9781405161459; 9781405161466
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: urban China in comparative perspective / John R. Logan and Susan Fainstein; title: Part I. Market transition in work units and the labor market : Two decades of reform: the changing organization dynamics of Chinese industrial firms / Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima; title: The myth of the "new urban poverty"?: trends in urban poverty in China, 1988-2002 / Simon Appleton and Lina Song; title: Class structure and class inequality in urban China and Russia: effects of institutional change or economic performance? / Yanjie Bian and Theodore P. Gerber; title: Gender and the labor market in China and Poland / C. Cindy Fan and Joanna Regulska; title: Part II. Changing places : Urbanization, institutional change, and sociospatial inequality in China: 1990-2001 / Michael J. White, Fulong Wu, and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen; title: Growth on the edge: the new Chinese metropolis / Yixing Zhou and John R. Logan; title: Mirrored reflections: place identity formation in Taipei and Shanghai / Jennifer Rudolph and Hanchao Lu; title: Is gating always exclusionary?: a comparative analysis of gated communities in American and Chinese cities / Youqin Huang and Setha M. Low; title: Part III. Impacts of migration : Urbanization in China in the 1990s: patterns and regional variations / Zai Liang, Hy Van Luong and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen; title: Trapped in neglected corners of a booming metropolis: residential patterns and marginalization of migrant workers in Guangzhou / Min Zhou and Guoxuan Cai; title: Migration and housing: comparing China with the United States / Weiping Wu and Emily Rosenbaum; title: Part IV. Social control in the new Chinese city : Economic reform and crime in contemporary urban China: paradoxes of a planned transition / Steven F. Messner, Jianhong Liu, and Susanne Karstedt; title: Migration, urbanization, and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases: empirical and theoretical observations in China and Indonesia / Christopher J. Smith and Graeme Hugo; title: The state's evolving relationship with urban society: China's neighborhood organizations in comparative perspective / Benjamin L. Read and Chun-Ming Chen.