Urban China in Transition
- ISBN-10
- 1405161450
- ISBN-13
- 9781405161459
- Category
- Science / Earth Sciences / Geography
- Pages
- 361
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-01-14
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Author
- John Logan
Description
Introduction:urban China in comparative perspective /John R. Logan and Susan Fainstein --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 Ted Gerber --Gender and the labor market in China and Poland /C. Cindy Fan and Joanna Regulska --Changing places --Urbanization, institutional change, and spatial inequality in China: 1990-2001 /Michael White, Fulong Wu, and Vincent Chen --Growth on the edge: the new Chinese metropolis /Zhou Yixing and John R. Logan --Place identity formation in Taipei and Shanghai /Jennifer Rudolph and Lu Hanchao --Is gating always exclusionary? : a comparative analysis of gated communities in American and Chinese cities /Youqin Huang and Setha Low --Impacts of migration --Urbanization in China in the 1990s: patterns and regional variations /Zai Liang and Hy Van Luong --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 --Social control in the new Chinese city --Economic reform and crime in contemporary 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 /Chris Smith and Graeme Hugo --The state's evolving relationship with urban society: China's neighborhood organizations in comparative perspective /Ben Read and Chun-Ming Chen.
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