Overview
Provides cutting edge field research on current developments within key representative urban villages in China
Offers a cross disciplinary perspective on the interaction between urban villages and their neighboring cities
Considers the impact of China’s economic reforms on urbanization and internal migration
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About this book
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 of the history, culture, socio-economic changes, and migration of the villages which arguably embody Chinese social mobility in an urban form.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Villages in the New China
Book Subtitle: Case of Shenzhen
Authors: Da Wei David Wang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50426-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50425-8Published: 29 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70017-2Published: 17 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50426-5Published: 27 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 203
Topics: Migration