The emergence of a new urban China
Subtitle: insiders' perspectives
By: Zai Liang ... [et al.].
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780739170113; 9780739170120
Subjects: Social conditions; City planning; Rural development
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Zai Liang, Steven F. Messner, Cheng Chen, and Youqin Huang; title: Migrant workers and community reaction; title: Job mobility of rural migrants in China's urban labor market : the case of Pearl river delta region / Zhen Li and Zai Liang; title: Economic deprivation, social networks, and unprotected right : a study on peasant workers' collective action in the Pearl river delta / Xiaojuan Chen and Cheng Chen; title: Institutionnel segmentation and psychosocial repellence : urban residents' attitude toward migrants / Jiashun Wang and Steven F. Messner; title: New patterns of urbanization; title: On not wanting to become urban : ethnographic perspectives from a Pearl River delta urban community transited from rural village / Cuiling Li and Josephine Smart; title: The development of rural village in Chinese city : a case study of Zhu village in Guangzhou / Fuping Chen and Eric Fong; title: Changing economy and urbanization in a Chinese ethnic minority village : the case of Bai peasants in Xizhou, Yunnan province / Xiongduan Yang and Alan Smart; title: Impacts of globalization, technology, and markets on urban China; title: The reconstruction of social support system for African merchants in Guangzhou, china / Tao Xu and Zai Liang; title: Mobile phone culture among the information have-less : a case study of laid-off workers in Shenyang city, China / Guangxu Ji and Youqin Huang; title: Housing property rights disputes in urban Chinese families : an institutional and sociological perspective / Jing Li and Youqin Huang.