Urban China [electronic resource] Xuefei Ren.
Ren, Xuefei.
2013
HT384.C6 .R46 2013eb
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Title Urban China [electronic resource] Xuefei Ren.
Author Ren, Xuefei.
ISBN 9780745676661 (electronic book)
9780745665450 (electronic book)
9780745653594
9780745653587
Publication Details Cambridge, England ; Malden, Mass. : Polity, c2013.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xx, 218 p.) : ill., maps
Call Number HT384.C6 .R46 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 307.760951
Summary "Currently there are more than 125 Chinese cities with a population exceeding one million. The unprecedented urban growth in China presents a crucial development for studies on globalization and urban transformation. This concise and engaging book examines the past trajectories, present conditions, and future prospects of Chinese urbanization, by investigating five key themes - governance, migration, landscape, inequality, and cultural economy. Based on a comprehensive evaluation of the literature and original research materials, Ren offers a critical account of the Chinese urban condition after the first decade of the twenty-first century. She argues that the urban-rural dichotomy that was artificially constructed under socialism is no longer a meaningful lens for analyses and that Chinese cities have become strategic sites for reassembling citizenship rights for both urban residents and rural migrants. The book is essential reading for students and scholars of urban and development studies with a focus on China, and all interested in understanding the relationship between state, capitalism, and urbanization in the global context." -- Publisher's description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series China today.
Available in Other Form Urban China.
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China Urbanized
Governance
Landscape
Migration
Inequality
Cultural Economy.

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