Urban China in Transition

Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China's major cities. It deals with a diversity of trends and analyzes their sources.ulliOffers a multi-dimensional analysis of urban life in ChinaliHighlights a diversity of trends in the areas of migration, criminal victimization, gated communities, and the status of women, suburbanization, and neighbourhood associationsliEach chapter includes input from both an expert on urban life in China and an 'outside' expert from the fields of sociology, geography, economics, planning, political science, history, demography, architecture, or anthropologyliAn alternative theoretical perspective comparing the Chinese experience with other urban settings in the United States, Poland, Russia, Vietnam, East and South East Asia, and South America/ulNotes on Contributors.pSeries Editors' Preface.pAcknowledgments.pIntroduction: Urban China in Comparative Perspective (John R. Logan, Brown University and Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard University).pbPart I: Market Transition in Work Units and the Labor Market:/b.p1. Two Decades of Reform: The Changing Organization Dynamics of Chinese Industrial Firms (Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima, World Bank).p2. The Myth of the 'New Urban Poverty'? Trends in Urban Poverty in China, 1988--2002 (Simon Appleton and Lina Song, Nottingham University).p3. Class Structure and Class Inequality in Urban China and Russia: Effects of Institutional Change or Economic Performance? (Yanjie Bian, University of Minnesota and Theodore P. Gerber, University of Wisconsin-Madison).p4. Gender and the Labor Market in China and Poland (C. Cindy Fan, UCLA and Joanna Regulska, Rutgers University).pbPart II: Changing Places:/b.p5. Urbanization, Institutional Change, and Spatial Inequality in China: 1990-2001 (Michael J. White, University of Cardiff; Fulong Wu, Brown University; and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen, De