China's urban future and the quest for stability

by Clothey, Rebecca A. Dilworth, Richardson

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Title Statements

Full title :China's urban future and the quest for stability / edited by Rebecca Clothey and Richardson Dilworth.

Summary

"In recent decades, China has used urbanization as an economic development tool to reconstruct the country's traditional institutions, culture, and society. The downside of these many changes is that they have presented the country's government with a massive challenge: how can it maintain basic stability? China's Urban Future and the Quest for Stability examines the complexities of Chinese cities. Together, the essays in this book explore how the relatively recent onset of urbanization has altered the country, and how that experience is similar to and distinct from developments in other times and places. Each chapter analyzes one facet of China's transformation, focusing on three main themes: urbanization and the rapid growth of Chinese cities; mobility, in both the abstract and the literal sense; and marginalization, evidenced by growing residential segregation in cities and diminishing access to education, health care, and jobs. Underlying these themes is the issue of governance--the systems by which a state attempts to maintain control and achieve its ends, often in ways that differ significantly from what one might expect. An up-to-date, concise, and multidisciplinary collection, China's Urban Future and the Quest for Stability discusses the social, economic, and political forces at work in the urbanization of a modern superpower."--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Mcgill-Queen's University Press
Place of Publication:Montreal
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 196 pages : illustrations, map : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780773559424, 0773559426, 9780773559431, 0773559434
oclc:on1191249682
LC Classification:HT384.C6
Dewey Decimal:307.760951

Introduction: Urbanization, Mobility, and Marginalization / Rebecca Clothey, Richardson Dilworth, and Jennifer Adams -- Globalization, and China Urbanization / Jerome Hodos and Richardson Dilworth -- Chinese Cities: Liberalization, Development, and Social Dislocation / William Hurst -- Rapid Urbanization and Rural Displacement in China / Joel Andreas -- Urban Management through Para-policing and the Exclusion of the Urban Poor / Yimin Li -- China's Urban Public Space in Comparative Perspective: Grand Squares and Everyday Life in Dalian / Piper Gaubatz -- Childhood Inequality and Schooling in China's Cities / Natalie Young and Emily Hannum -- Education Policy Appropriation, Ethnic Segregation, and Cultural Transmission in Urumqi / Rebecca Clothey -- Conclusion: Echoes of the Past in China's Contemporary Urbanization / James Carter.

Subjects

China China -- Economic conditions China -- Social conditions Chine -- Conditions économiques Chine -- Conditions sociales City and town life City and town life -- China Economic history Politique urbaine -- Chine Social conditions Urban policy Urban policy -- China Urbanisation -- Chine Urbanization Urbanization -- China Vie urbaine -- Chine