1st Edition
Urbanization with Chinese Characteristics: The Hukou System and Migration
Introduction
Definitions and Statistics
1.Misconceptions and Complexities in the Study of China’s Cities: Definitions, Statistics, and Implications
Kam Wing Chan
2. Remapping China’s Regional Inequalities, 1990-2006: A New Assessment of de Facto and de Jure Population Data
Kam Wing Chan and Man Wang
The Hukou System and Migration
3. The Chinese Hukou System at 50
Kam Wing Chan
4. The Global Economic Crisis and Unemployment in China
Fang Cai and Kam Wing Chan
5. A China Paradox: Migrant Labor Shortage amidst Rural Labor Supply Abundance
Kam Wing Chan
6. Migration and Development in China: Trends, Geography and Current Issues
Kam Wing Chan
Urbanization and China’s Future
7. Crossing the 50 Percent Population Rubicon: Can China Urbanize to Prosperity?
Kam Wing Chan
8. The Size Distribution and Growth Pattern of Cities in China, 1982-2010: Analysis and Policy Implications
Kam Wing Chan and Guanghua Wan
9. China’s Urbanization 2020: A New Blueprint and Direction
Kam Wing Chan
Biography
Kam Wing Chan is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, USA. He is a leading expert on China's urbanization, migration, and the household registration (hukou) system, and author of an important work on China’s urbanization: Cities with Invisible Walls: Reinterpreting Urbanization in Post-1949 China (Oxford University Press, 1994).
