Learning from Shenzhen : China's Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City / / Mary Ann O'Donnell, Jonathan Bach, Winnie Wong

• Pubblicazione: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 pages)
• Disciplina: 307.3/416095127
• Soggetto topico: Urban renewal - China - Shenzhen Shi; Free ports and zones - China; Municipal government - China - Shenzhen Shi
• Soggetto geografico: Shenzhen Shi (China) Congresses; Shenzhen Jingji Tequ (Shenzhen Shi, China) Congresses
• Soggetto non controllato: China; Post-socialism; Shenzhen; space; urban planning; urban villages
• Classificazione: LB 72440
• Persona (resp. second.): BachJonathan; O'DonnellMary Ann; WongWinnie
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Experiments, Exceptions, and Extensions -- Part I. Experiments (1979-92) -- 1. Shenzhen: From Exception to Rule -- 2. Heroes of the Special Zone: Modeling Reform and Its Limits -- 3. The Tripartite Origins of Shenzhen: Beijing, Hong Kong, and Bao'an -- 4. How to Be a Shenzhener: Representations of Migrant Labor in Shenzhen's Second Decade -- Part II. Exceptions (1992-2004) -- 5. Laying Siege to the Villages: The Vernacular Geography of Shenzhen -- 6. The Political Architecture of the First and Second Lines -- 7. "They Come in Peasants and Leave Citizens": Urban Villages and the Making of Shenzhen -- 8. Sex Work, Migration, and Mental Health in Shenzhen -- 9. Shenzhen's Model Bohemia and the Creative China Dream -- 10. Preparedness and the Shenzhen Model of Public Health -- 11. Simulating Global Mobility at Shenzhen "International" Airport -- Conclusion: Learning from Shenzhen -- A Shenzen Glossary -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China's contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transformed from an experimental site for economic reform into a dominant city at the crossroads of the global economy. The first of China's special economic zones, Shenzhen is today a UNESCO City of Design and the hub of China's emerging technology industries. Bringing China studies into dialogue with urban studies, the contributors explore how the post-Mao Chinese appropriation of capitalist logic led to a dramatic remodeling of the Chinese city and collective life in China today. These essays show how urban villages and informal institutions enabled social transformation through cases of public health, labor, architecture, gender, politics, education, and more. Offering scholars and general readers alike an unprecedented look at one of the world's most dynamic metropolises, this collective history uses the urban case study to explore critical problems and possibilities relevant for modern-day China and beyond.
• Titolo autorizzato: Learning from Shenzhen
• ISBN: 0-226-40112-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910159026503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II