Autore	Jacka Tamara <1965-, >
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Armonk, N.Y. : , : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., , 2005
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xii, 329 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	307.2/4/0820951
Collana	Gale eBooks
Soggetto topico	Migrant labor - China Migration, Internal - China Rural women - China - Economic conditions Rural women - China - Social conditions Rural-urban migration - China
ISBN	1-317-46060-X 1-315-70102-2 1-317-46061-8 1-280-91216-2 9786610912162 0-7656-2160-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction: From the "margins" to the "center" -- The subject -- Between "rural idiocy" and "urban modernity" -- Assembling working sisters -- Place -- In and out of place -- The place of desire -- People -- Relationships -- Identifications -- Time -- Narrative, time, and agency -- Appendix 1. List of interlocutors named in the text -- Appendix 2. Map 1. the People's Republic of China -- Map 2. Beijing municipality.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910784468703321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Malden, MA ; ; Oxford : , : Blackwell Publishing Limited, , 2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (386 p.)
Disciplina	307.760951
Collana	Studies in urban and social change
Soggetto topico	Urbanization - China Rural-urban migration - China Sociology, Urban - China
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4443-9955-1 1-281-84066-1 9786611840662 0-470-71287-2 0-470-71262-7
Classificazione	74.21
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
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.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910144252503321