1st Edition

Urban China Reframed A Critical Appreciation

Edited By Wing-Shing Tang, Kam Wing Chan Copyright 2021
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

Given China’s rapid economic growth and massive urbanization, no one in the world can ignore what is happening in urban China. This book is a critical review of existing urban China research, which is found wanting due to the decontextualized use of theories and concepts developed in the West. Urban China Reframed: A Critical Appreciation consists of epistemological, theoretical and... Read more

Reframing urban China research: a critical introduction

Wing-Shing Tang

1. Exemplary cities in China: the capitalist aesthetic and the loss of space

Carolyn Cartier

2. Uncorking the neoliberal bottle: neoliberal critique and urban change in China

Will Buckingham

3. China’s urban ideology: new towns, creation cities, and contested landscapes of memory

Tim Oakes

4. Two systems in one country: the origin, functions, and mechanisms of the rural-urban dual system in China

Kam Wing Chan and Yanning Wei

5. Town-country relations in China: back to basics

Wing-Shing Tang

6. Territorially-nested urbanization in China - the case of Dongguan

Kit Ping Wong

Biography

Wing-Shing Tang was formerly Professor at the Department of Geography and Research Fellow at Advanced Institute for Contemporary China Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, China. His research interrogates urban theories in China, with special emphasis on town-country relations.

Kam Wing Chan is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He specializes on China's urbanization, migration, and the household registration (hukou) system.