Urban China Reframed: A Critical Appreciation

ISBN-13: 9780367706456 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 174 str.

Wing-Shing Tang; Kam Wing Chan

Opis

Given China’s rapid economic growth and massive urbanization, no one in the world can ignore what is happening in urban China. This book is a critical review of existing urban China research, which is found wanting due to the decontextualized use of theories and concepts developed in the West.

Spis treści

Reframing urban China research: a critical introduction  1. Exemplary cities in China: the capitalist aesthetic and the loss of space  2. Uncorking the neoliberal bottle: neoliberal critique and urban change in China  3. China’s urban ideology: new towns, creation cities, and contested landscapes of memory  4. Two systems in one country: the origin, functions, and mechanisms of the rural-urban dual system in China  5. Town-country relations in China: back to basics  6. Territorially-nested urbanization in China - the case of Dongguan