Urban China in the New Era

Market Reforms, Current State, and the Road Forward

Zhiming Cheng, Mark Wang, Junhua Chen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

XIII, 183 Seiten

2016 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-662-52552-4 (ISBN)

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This book aims to provide a scholarly account of recent understandings and reflections on some of the prevalent and emerging issues in urban and regional China, such as urbanization, inequality, hukou (household registration) reforms, labor relations, not-in-my-backyard protests and environmental governance. Presenting rich data analysis and case studies, these book chapters together utilize multidisciplinary approaches and contribute to the empirical and theoretical literature in development studies.

Introduction.- The Impact of Outward-Oriented Economic Reform on Income Inequality in China: 1978 - 2007.- The continuity and changes of the hukou system since the 1990s: a critical review.- Land Reform, urban development and Migrant Housing in Contemporary China.- The Urban Village of Huanggang: A Successful Communal Model?.- China's Not-in-My-Backyard Protest in the Process of Urbanization.- China's Urban Environmental Governance in Transition: A Tale of Two Cities.- The New Generation of Migrant Workers in Urban China.- The Ethnic Minority Experience in the Urban Labour Market.- Returns to Education in China's Urban Labour Market: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data for Shanghai.- List of Contributors.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.09.2016
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 183 p. 17 illus., 6 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
Schlagworte	economic reforms • Economics and finance • Environment • ethnic minority • Hukou • income inequality • Labor Economics • Labour Economics • Migrant worker • Migration • Migration, immigration and emigration • Urban China • Urban environmental governance • urbanization • Urban labour market
ISBN-10	3-662-52552-6 / 3662525526
ISBN-13	978-3-662-52552-4 / 9783662525524
Zustand	Neuware