Urban China in Transition [Paperback]

• Offers a multi-dimensional analysis of urban life in China
• Highlights a diversity of trends in the areas of migration, criminal victimization, gated communities, and the status of women, suburbanization, and neighbourhood associations
• Each chapter includes input from both an expert on urban life in China and an 'outside' expert from the fields of sociology, geography, economics, planning, political science, history, demography, architecture, or anthropology
• An alternative theoretical perspective comparing the Chinese experience with other urban settings in the United States, Poland, Russia, Vietnam, East and South East Asia, and South America

Notes on the Contributors viii

Series Editors’ Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xiv

Introduction: Urban China in Comparative Perspective 1
John R. Logan and Susan S. Fainstein

Part I: Market Transition in Work Units and the Labor Market 25

1 Two Decades of Reform: The Changing Organization Dynamics of Chinese Industrial Firms 27
Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima

2 The Myth of the “New Urban Poverty”? Trends in Urban Poverty in China, 1988–2002 48
Simon Appleton and Lina Song

3 Class Structure and Class Inequality in Urban China and Russia: Effects of Institutional Change or Economic Performance? 66
Yanjie Bian and Theodore P. Gerber

4 Gender and the Labor Market in China and Poland 89