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The Emergence of a New Urban China: Insiders' Perspectives
Author(s): Zai Liang (Editor), Steven Messner (Editor), Cheng Chen (Editor), Youqin Huang (Editor)
- Publisher: Lexington Books (UK)
- Publication Date: 16 Feb. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 228 pages
- ISBN-10: 0739170112
- ISBN-13: 9780739170113
Book Description
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 Chinese, had distinctive advantages in gaining access to study subjects, and had intimate knowledge of the locations and people they studied. The book’s primary geographical focus is on southern China, especially Guangdong province. This region is in the forefront of China’s transition to a market economy, and therefore constitutes an ideal social laboratory to study the key urban issues that have emerged in the last two decades. Combining ethnographic research along with survey-based quantitative analysis, this volume will appeal to students of urban issues in contemporary China, and it will generate important and fresh empirical and theoretical insights for the broader scholarly communities of area studies, urban studies, and urban sociology. It will also serve as a useful text for graduate courses and advanced undergraduate courses on China and urban sociology.
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About the Author
Youqin Huang is professor of geography and planning and a research associate of the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis at the University at Albany, SUNY.
