Urban Villages in the New China

Case of Shenzhen

Da Wei David Wang (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

203 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-50425-8 (ISBN)

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Focusing on Shenzhen as a representation of the general urban village phenomenon in China, this book considers the impact of China’s economic reform on urbanization and urban villages over the past three decades. Shenzhen’s urban villages are some of the first of their kind in China, unique in their diversity and organizational capacity, but most notably in their ability to protect village culture whilst coexisting with Shenzhen, one of the fastest urbanizing cities on earth. Providing a study of regional contrast of urban villages in China with newly collected fieldwork materials from Guangzhou, Beijing, and Xi’an, this book also considers recent developments within urban villages, including attempts at marketization of the so-called xiao chanquanfang (the quintessential urban village apartment units). It also addresses the corruption scandals that engulfed some urban villages in late 2013. Through cutting edge fieldwork, the author offers a cross-disciplinary study ofthe history, culture, socio-economic changes, and migration of the villages which arguably embody Chinese social mobility in an urban form.

Da Wei David Wang is Associate Professor at the Centre of Contemporary Chinese Politics, Shenzhen University, China.His main research focus is on Shenzhen-related topics and Chinese cities.

Urban Villages in Words and Senses.- The Origin of Shenzhen’s Urban Village: Policies and Backgrounds.- The Villages and Shenzhen City: History, Transition, and Co-Existence.- Migrant City and Migrant Villages.- Urban Village Inc..- Urban Renewal and The Rise of Shenzhen’s Real Estate Developers.- Stereotypes and Self-government.-

Erscheinungsdatum	26.11.2016
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 203 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft
Schlagworte	China’s economic reform and urban villages • Chinese social mobility and Urbanization • Guangzhou, Beijing, and Xi’an • Migration and urbanization in China • Protect village culture • Shenzhen and China's urbanization • Urban Villages in China
ISBN-10	1-137-50425-0 / 1137504250
ISBN-13	978-1-137-50425-8 / 9781137504258
Zustand	Neuware