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  • Changing China: Migration, Communities and Governance in Cities

    Edited by Li Si-Ming, Shenjing He, Kam Wing Chan ...
    China’s unprecedented urbanization is underpinned by not only massive rural-urban migration but also a household registration system embedded in a territorial hierarchy that produces lingering urban-rural duality. The mid-1990s onwards witnessed increasing reliance on land revenues by municipal governments, causing repeated redrawing of city boundaries to incorporate surrounding countryside. The ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities

    Edited by Youqin Huang, Si-ming Li ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    In recent decades, Chinese cities have experienced profound social, economic and spatial transformations. In particular, Chinese cities have witnessed the largest housing boom in history and unprecedented housing privatization. China now is a country of homeowners, with more than 70 per cent of urban residents owning homes, higher than many developed countries.This book shows how China’s ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • In Search of Paradise

    Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis

    by Li Zhang ...
    A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated by consumerism. No longer seeking happiness and fulfillment through collective sacrifice and ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Understanding China's Urbanization

    The Great Demographic, Spatial, Economic, and Social Transformation

    by Li Zhang, Richard LeGates, Min Zhao ...
    China's urbanization is one of the great earth-changing phenomena of recent times. The way in which China continues to urbanize will have a critical impact on the world economy, global climate change, international relations and a host of other critical issues. Understanding and responding to China's urbanization is of paramount importance to everyone. This book represents a unique exploration of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Urban Poverty, Housing and Social Change in China

    by Ya Ping Wang ...
    Series series Housing and Society Series
    Economic reform in China has resulted in a widening gap between the rich and the poor, and urban poverty has emerged as a key factor which may affect future development. This new book examines the poverty problem in relation to housing and social changes in large inland cities, and assesses the effectiveness of recent government anti-poverty policies. The book also puts the Chinese experience in ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • China's Housing Middle Class

    Changing Urban Life in Gated Communities

    by Beibei Tang ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    Home ownership plays a significant role in locating the middle class in most western societies, associated with market, consumerism, democracy and “people like us”, the significant features of the middle class for any society. In China, private home ownership was not the norm from 1949, when the Chinese Communist Party took power, until the 1990s. In the past three decades, however, there has been ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Restructuring the Chinese City

    Changing Society, Economy and Space

    by Laurence J.C. Ma, Fulong Wu ...
    A sea of change has occurred in China since the 1978 economic reforms. Bringing together the work of leading scholars specializing in urban China, this book examines what has happened to the Chinese city undergoing multiple transformations during the reform era, with an emphasis on new processes of urban formation and the consequent reconstituted urban spaces. With arguments against the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Small Works

    Poverty and Economic Development in Southwestern China

    by John A. Donaldson ...
    How can policymakers effectively reduce poverty? Most mainstream economists advocate promoting economic growth, on the grounds that it generally reduces poverty while bringing other economic benefits. However, this dominant hypothesis offers few alternatives for economies that are unable to grow, or in places where economic growth fails to reduce or actually exacerbates poverty. In Small Works, ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China

    Edited by Feng Wang, Deborah S. Davis ...
    Series series Studies in Social Inequality
    The Chinese economy's return to commodification and privatization has greatly diversified China's institutional landscape. With the migration of more than 140 million villagers to cities and rapid urbanization of rural settlements, it is no longer possible to presume that the nation can be divided into strictly urban or rural classifications.Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China draws ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • China's Social Development and Policy

    Into the next stage?

    Edited by Litao Zhao ...
    Series series China Policy Series
    In China, social development has fallen far behind economic development. This book looks at why this is the case, and poses the question of whether the conditions, structures and institutions that have locked China into unbalanced development are changing to pave the way for the next stage of development. Based on an empirical examination of ideological, structural and institutional ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Paying for Progress in China

    Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality

    Edited by Vivienne Shue, Christine Wong ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    China’s stunning record of economic development since the 1970s has been marred by an increasingly obvious gap between the country’s ‘haves’ and its ‘have-nots’. While people living in some parts of the country have enjoyed dramatically improved conditions of life, those in other districts and regions have slipped ever further behind in terms of access to health, wealth, education, security and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China

    Edited by Shenggen Fan, Ravi Kanbur, Shang-Jin Wei, Xiaobo Zhang ...
    China's rise as an economic powerhouse raises a number of questions that are the subject of lively debate. How did the country do it? How applicable are the lessons of China's economic reform of the past thirty years to the challenges it faces in the next three decades? What does the detailed pattern of China's success and challenges look like at the sub-sectoral and sub-national levels, and what ... Read more

    $52.19 USD