Urban China in transition
By: edited by John Logan.
Contributors: Logan, John.
Series: Studies in urban and social change
Publisher: Blackwell Pub. Ltd.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405161459; 9781405161466
Subjects: Urbanization -- China; Rural-urban migration -- China; Sociology, Urban -- China
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: urban China in comparative perspective / John R. Logan and Susan Fainstein; title: Market transition in work units and the labor market; title: 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 Ted Gerber; title: Gender and the labor market in China and Poland / C. Cindy Fan and Joanna Regulska; title: Changing places; title: Urbanization, institutional change, and spatial inequality in China: 1990-2001 / Michael White, Fulong Wu, and Vincent Chen; title: Growth on the edge: the new Chinese metropolis / Zhou Yixing and John R. Logan; title: Place identity formation in Taipei and Shanghai / Jennifer Rudolph and Lu Hanchao; title: Is gating always exclusionary? : a comparative analysis of gated communities in American and Chinese cities / Youqin Huang and Setha Low; title: Impacts of migration; title: Urbanization in China in the 1990s: patterns and regional variations / Zai Liang and Hy Van Luong; 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: Social control in the new Chinese city; title: Economic reform and crime in contemporary 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 / Chris Smith and Graeme Hugo; title: The state's evolving relationship with urban society: China's neighborhood organizations in comparative perspective / Ben Read and Chun-Ming Chen.