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Urban China in the New Era

Market Reforms, Current State, and the Road Forward

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Editors:
  1. Zhiming Cheng

    1. School of Economics, The University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

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  2. Mark Wang

    1. Department of Resource Management and Geograph, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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  3. Junhua Chen

    1. School of Management Science and Engineering, Central University of Finance and Economics, China

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  • A number of contemporary issues in China

  • Rich statistical analysis and case studies in multidisciplinary frameworks

  • Studies at both micro and macro levels

  • Strong policy implications and recommendations

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Impact of Outward-Oriented Economic Reform on Income Inequality in China: 1978–2007

    • Shao-Wei Lee
    Pages 1-23

  3. The Continuity and Changes of the Hukou System Since the 1990s: A Critical Review

    • Yeqing Huang
    Pages 25-43

  4. Land Reform, Urban Development and Migrant Housing in Contemporary China

    • Junhua Chen
    Pages 45-61

  5. The Urban Village of Huanggang: A Successful Communal Model?

    • Da Wei David Wang
    Pages 63-83

  6. China’s Not-in-My-Backyard Protest in the Process of Urbanization

    • Ying Wu, Xuezhen Dai
    Pages 85-101

  7. China’s Urban Environmental Governance in Transition: A Tale of Two Cities

    • Wei Li
    Pages 103-124

  8. The New Generation of Migrant Workers in Urban China

    • Zhiming Cheng
    Pages 125-153

  9. The Ethnic Minority Experience in the Urban Labour Market

    • Reza Hasmath
    Pages 155-167

  10. Returns to Education in China’s Urban Labour Market: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data for Shanghai

    • Vinod Mishra, Russell Smyth
    Pages 169-183
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Economics, The University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

    Zhiming Cheng

  • Department of Resource Management and Geograph, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Mark Wang

  • School of Management Science and Engineering, Central University of Finance and Economics, China

    Junhua Chen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Urban China in the New Era

  • Book Subtitle: Market Reforms, Current State, and the Road Forward

  • Editors: Zhiming Cheng, Mark Wang, Junhua Chen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54227-5

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-54226-8Published: 18 March 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52552-4Published: 03 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-54227-5Published: 08 July 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 183

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Labor Economics, Migration

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