China's Poor Regions: Rural-Urban Migration, Poverty, Economic Reform and Urbanisation

ISBN-13: 9781138362031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str.

Mei Zhang

Opis

Investigates the problem of poverty in China's regions, discussing rural-urban migration and anti-poverty initiatives by the Chinese government as well as the results of original research.

Recenzje

review in The China Quarterly - 2005

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Poverty and Migration: a theoretical overview  2. Poverty and international migration in China  3. Case study region and methodology  4. Case study analysis: sending areas  5. Case study analysis: destinations  6. To what extent can rural-urban migration resolve rural poverty?

O autorze

Mei Zhang holds a PhD Degree from the University of Cambridge. Her main areas of work are women labour, rural-urban migration and poverty, urbanisation and quantitative analyses of urban environments.