1st Edition
Village Transformation and New-Type Urbanization in China Trends and Prospects
1. Introduction 2. Reflection on the Methodology of Research on Chinese Village 3. Chinese Lineage-Based Villages: Research Traditions and Problems 4. Chinese Rural Social Research in the Past Three Decades: A Content Analysis of 305 Articles in Sociological Studies 5. Structural Transformation of Urban-Rural Development and the Issue of Rural Development 6. Investment and Transformation in the Village by a Tobacco Enterprise: The “Non-Tobacco Ecological Village” Project 7. Types of Village Mergers and Trends in Rural Social Development 8. Village Mergers and the Development of Rural Communities 9. The Development of New-type Rural Communities: Dilemmas and Prospects 10. Citizenization of the “New Urban Residents” and the “Institutional Valve” Effect 11. Goals for the New-type Urban-Rural Relationship and Pathways Toward New-type Urbanization 12. From a “Dualistic View” to a “Unified View”
Biography
Lin Juren is Professor of Sociology and Department Head at Shandong University, China. His research lies at the intersection of sociological theory and rural sociology, with a particular focus on China’s rural-to-urban transition. He is the author of A Century of Change in a Chinese Village (2018).
