1st Edition

Transforming Modern Grassroots Governance in Urban China

By SUN Baiying Copyright 2026
212 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Against the backdrop of China’s rapid urbanisation over the past 30 years, this book examines social governance at the grassroots level, drawing on fieldwork conducted in a selection of representative Chinese megacities. This unprecedented urban transformation has rendered traditional social governance models obsolete. This has pushed grassroots governance to evolve amid the tension between... Read more

1. Structure and Features of Urban Grassroots Social Governance  2. Literature Review on Social Governance and Urban Grassroots Governance in China in Recent Years  3. Disorder and Order: Practical Challenges in Urban Grassroots Social Governance  4. Governance Innovation and Path Dependence: Demands for Social Governance Reform  5. Paradoxes of Urban Grassroots Social Governance and Its Reform Dilemmas  6. Innovative Ways towards Collaborative Governance

Biography

SUN Baiying is Professor at the School of Public Administration and Policy, Renmin University of China. Her research focuses on citizen participation, local governance, and grassroots governance in China’s megacities.