Beneath the China Boom: Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market

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Julia Chuang

Beneath the China Boom

Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market

Julia Chuang

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English

University of California Press
14 January 2020

Poverty & unemployment; Homelessness; Rural communities; Black & Asian studies; Development economics

For nearly four decades, China’s manufacturing boom has been powered by the labor of 287 million rural migrant workers, who travel seasonally between villages where they farm for subsistence and cities where they work. Yet recently local governments have moved away from manufacturing and toward urban expansion and construction as a development strategy. As a result, at least 88 million rural people to date have lost rights to village land. In Beneath the China Boom, Julia Chuang follows the trajectories of rural workers, who were once supported by a village welfare state and are now landless. This book provides a view of the undertow of China’s economic success, and the periodic crises—a rural fiscal crisis, a runaway urbanization—that it first created and now must resolve.

By: Julia Chuang
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780520305458
ISBN 10: 0520305450
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 14 January 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Index of Characters 1. China’s Rise 2. A Tale of Two Villages 3. Into the World of Chinese Labor 4. Rural/Urban Dualism 5. Urbanization and the New Rural Economy 6. Paradoxes of Urbanization 7. The Future of Chinese Development Appendix Notes References Index

Julia Chuang is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston College.

Reviews for Beneath the China Boom: Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market

"""This book is an outstanding new contribution to the literature on China’s urbanization as well as on socioeconomic development more broadly. Moreover, it is a very engaging read. I would highly recommend it to experts, scholars, as well as students from related disciplinary backgrounds."" * Asien: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia * ""Chuang’s book is a tour de force in revealing the complexities and interconnections of China’s economic boom, especially the more recent developments occurring in the country’s interior provinces."" * Exertions * ""Beneath the China Boom is an excellent example of unlocking large-scale social processes through multisited ethnography."" * American Journal of Sociology *"