Urban China in the New Era Market Reforms, Current State, and the Road Forward

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Zhiming Cheng (Editor), Junhua Chen (Editor), Mar Wang (Editor), Mark Wang (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.01.2016
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics
• EAN: 9783662525524
• ISBN: 978-3-662-52552-4
• Pages: 183
• Illustrations: XIII, 183 p. 17 illus., 6 illus. in color.
• Dimensions (packing): 15.5 x 1.1 x 23.5 cm
• Weight (packing): 312 g
• Subjects: Migration, B, Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung, Bevölkerung und Migrationsgeographie, Migration, immigration & emigration, Economics and Finance, Management science, Emigration and immigration, Labor Economics, Human Migration, Urbanization, Urban labour market