Urban China in TransitionISBN: 978-1-4051-6146-6
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384 pages
January 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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Notes on the Contributors viii
Series Editors’ Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction: Urban China in Comparative Perspective 1
John R. Logan and Susan S. Fainstein
Part I: Market Transition in Work Units and the Labor Market 25
1 Two Decades of Reform: The Changing Organization Dynamics of Chinese Industrial Firms 27
Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima
2 The Myth of the “New Urban Poverty”? Trends in Urban Poverty in China, 1988–2002 48
Simon Appleton and Lina Song
3 Class Structure and Class Inequality in Urban China and Russia: Effects of Institutional Change or Economic Performance? 66
Yanjie Bian and Theodore P. Gerber
4 Gender and the Labor Market in China and Poland 89
C. Cindy Fan and Joanna Regulska
Part II: Changing Places 113
5 Urbanization, Institutional Change, and Sociospatial Inequality in China, 1990–2001 115
Michael J. White, Fulong Wu, and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen
6 Growth on the Edge: The New Chinese Metropolis 140
Yixing Zhou and John R. Logan
7 Mirrored Reflections: Place Identity Formation in Taipei and Shanghai 161
Jennifer Rudolph and Hanchao Lu
8 Is Gating Always Exclusionary? A Comparative Analysis of Gated Communities in American and Chinese Cities 182
Youqin Huang and Setha M. Low
Part III: Impacts of Migration 203
9 Urbanization in China in the 1990s: Patterns and Regional Variations 205
Zai Liang, Hy Van Luong, and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen
10 Trapped in Neglected Corners of a Booming Metropolis: Residential Patterns and Marginalization of Migrant Workers in Guangzhou 226
Min Zhou and Guoxuan Cai
11 Migration and Housing: Comparing China with the United States 250
Weiping Wu and Emily Rosenbaum
Part IV: Social Control in the New Chinese City 269
12 Economic Reform and Crime in Contemporary Urban China: Paradoxes of a Planned Transition 271
Steven F. Messner, Jianhong Liu, and Susanne Karstedt
13 Migration, Urbanization, and the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Empirical and Theoretical Observations in China and Indonesia 294
Christopher J. Smith and Graeme Hugo
14 The State’s Evolving Relationship with Urban Society: China’s Neighborhood Organizations in Comparative Perspective 315
Benjamin L. Read and Chun-Ming Chen
Subject index 336
Author index 355