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  • Settlement Spaces: Urban Survival Prospects of China’s Special Communities

    Empirical Study of Four Types of Representative Community Samples

    by Xiao Wu, Lingjin Wang ...
    Series series Springer Geography
    This book examines the settlement space of special communities in China on the community scale from an interdisciplinary approach that combines perspectives from urban planning and sociology. Using the framework of integration response, it theoretically and empirically explores the approaches these communities adopt to survive and evolve. Empirically, this discussion centers on four particular ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • In Search of Paradise

    Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis

    by Li Zhang ...
    A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated by consumerism. No longer seeking happiness and fulfillment through collective sacrifice and ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Rural Migrants in Urban China

    Enclaves and Transient Urbanism

    Edited by Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang, Chris Webster ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    After millions of migrants moved from China’s countryside into its sprawling cities a unique kind of ‘informal’ urban enclave was born – ‘villages in the city’. Like the shanties and favelas before them elsewhere, there has been huge pressure to redevelop these blemishes to the urban face of China’s economic vision. Unlike most developing countries, however, these are not squatter settlements but ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Creative Industries and Urban Spatial Structure

    Agent-based Modelling of the Dynamics in Nanjing

    by Helin Liu, Qian Wang, Elisabete A. Silva ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book explores the dynamics of the interaction between the development of creative industries and urban land use in Nanjing, a metropolis and a growth pole in the Yangtze River Delta. In the last two decades, China's economy has been undergoing dramatic growth.Yet, accompanying with China's economic success is the disturbing environmental deterioration and energy concerns. These issues ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Chinese Ethnic Business

    Global and Local Perspectives

    Edited by Eric Fong, Chiu Luk ...
    Series series Chinese Worlds
    Providing a crucial understanding of how globalization impacts on the development of Chinese businesses, this book analyzes the unprecedented changes in Chinese ethnic business due to the process of globalization, specifically economic globalization, in the key receiving countries of the US, Australia and Canada. Focusing on the main themes of economic globalization and Chinese community ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • China's Development and Harmonization

    Towards a Balance with Nature, Society and the International Community

    Edited by Bin Wu, Shujie Yao, Jian Chen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    The concept of ‘harmonization’ has become very popular in China, with the Chinese government increasingly applying the term ‘harmonious society’ to internal affairs and the term ‘harmonious world’ to international relationships. Harmonization as both an end and a means of China’s development is deeply rooted in China’s cultural tradition, which emphasizes moderation, balance and harmony between ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Localized Bargaining

    The Political Economy of China's High-Speed Railway Program

    by Xiao Ma ...
    Looks at the rollout of one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history to show how local governments play a complex role. China's high-speed railway network is one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history. Despite global media coverage, we know very little about the political process that led the government to invest in the railway program and the reasons for the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Recent Developments in Chinese Urban Planning

    Selected Papers from the 8th International Association for China Planning Conference, Guangzhou, China, June 21 - 22, 2014

    Edited by Qisheng Pan, Jason Cao ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent development of Chinese cities. It discusses a broad range of subjects of urban planning, including environmental planning, transportation planning, historical preservation, economic development, geographic information systems (GIS) and other technological applications. China, the most populous country in the world, has experienced ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China

    Edited by Deborah S. Davis, Feng Wang ...
    Series series Studies in Social Inequality
    The Chinese economy's return to commodification and privatization has greatly diversified China's institutional landscape. With the migration of more than 140 million villagers to cities and rapid urbanization of rural settlements, it is no longer possible to presume that the nation can be divided into strictly urban or rural classifications.Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China draws ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Emergence of a New Urban China

    Insiders' Perspectives

    Edited by Zai Liang, Steven Messner, Cheng Chen, Youqin Huang ...
    This book provides first-hand, insiders’ perspectives on urban issues in China, aiming to provide a theoretically informed and empirically rich discussion of the new social landscape of urban China in the 21st century. The research reported encompasses both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, with the latter based on extensive and in-depth fieldwork. The authors, most of them being native ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Global Asian City

    Migration, Desire and the Politics of Encounter in 21st Century Seoul

    by Francis L. Collins ...
    Series series RGS-IBG Book Series
    Global Asian City provides a unique theoretical framework for studying the growth of cities and migration focused on the notion of desire as a major driver of international migration to Asian cities.Draws on more than 120 interviews of emigrants to Seoul—including migrant workers from Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, English teachers from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • Urban Crime and Social Disorganization in China

    A Case Study of Three Communities in Guangzhou

    by Haiyan Xiong ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The book selects Guangzhou, which has the highest crime rate in China, as a research site to study patterns of crime and social disorganization. It combines methods of content analyses with ethnographic fieldwork. The research first selected 1422 crime cases reported by the influential Southern Metropolis Daily in 2013 to identify the general crime-distribution pattern. The findings suggest that ... Read more

    $49.49 USD