Urban China in transition / / edited by John R. Logan

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA ; ; Oxford : , : Blackwell Publishing Limited, , 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (386 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.760951
• Soggetto topico: Urbanization - China; Rural-urban migration - China; Sociology, Urban - China
• Classificazione: 74.21
• Persona (resp. second.): LoganJohn R. <1946->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: urban China in comparative perspective / John R. Logan and Susan Fainstein -- 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 -- The myth of the "new urban poverty"?: trends in urban poverty in China, 1988-2002 / Simon Appleton and Lina Song -- Class structure and class inequality in urban China and Russia: effects of institutional change or economic performance? / Yanjie Bian and Theodore P. Gerber -- Gender and the labor market in China and Poland / C. Cindy Fan and Joanna Regulska -- Part II. Changing places : Urbanization, institutional change, and sociospatial inequality in China: 1990-2001 / Michael J. White, Fulong Wu, and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen -- Growth on the edge: the new Chinese metropolis / Yixing Zhou and John R. Logan -- Mirrored reflections: place identity formation in Taipei and Shanghai / Jennifer Rudolph and Hanchao Lu -- Is gating always exclusionary?: a comparative analysis of gated communities in American and Chinese cities / Youqin Huang and Setha M. Low -- 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 -- Trapped in neglected corners of a booming metropolis: residential patterns and marginalization of migrant workers in Guangzhou / Min Zhou and Guoxuan Cai -- Migration and housing: comparing China with the United States / Weiping Wu and Emily Rosenbaum -- 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 -- Migration, urbanization, and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases: empirical and theoretical observations in China and Indonesia / Christopher J. Smith and Graeme Hugo -- The state's evolving relationship with urban society: China's neighborhood organizations in comparative perspective / Benjamin L. Read and Chun-Ming Chen.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.:.; 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 scien
• Titolo autorizzato: Urban China in transition
• ISBN: 1-4443-9955-1; 1-281-84066-1; 9786611840662; 0-470-71287-2; 0-470-71262-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910830713103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in urban and social change.