Urban China in transition
- ISBN: 9781405161466
- Editorial: Blackwell Publishing
- Fecha de la edición: 2008
- Lugar de la edición: Oxford. Reino Unido
- Colección: Studies in Urban and Social Change
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 23 cm
- Nº Pág.: 361
- Idiomas: Inglés
Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China's major cities. It deals with a diversity of trends and analyzes their sources. Every chapter is co-authored by an urban China expert and an "outside" expert on the wider topic. Together they offer a broad historical and theoretical comparison. Offers a multi-dimensional analysis of urban life in China Highlights a diversity of trends in the areas of migration, criminal victimization, gated communities, and the status of women, suburbanization, and neighbourhood associations Each chapter includes input from both an expert on urban life in China and an "outside" expert from the fields of sociology, geography, economics, planning, political science, history, demography, architecture, or anthropology An alternative theoretical perspective comparing the Chinese experience with other urban settings in the United States, Poland, Russia, Vietnam, East and South East Asia, and South America.
Ed. John R. Logan