Urban China Reframed: A Critical Appreciation

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Wing-Shing Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) Kam Wing Chan (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)

Urban China Reframed

A Critical Appreciation

Wing-Shing Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong), Kam Wing Chan (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)

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Routledge
25 September 2023

Development studies; Urban communities; Human geography; Urban & municipal planning

"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 methodological contributions to remedy these limitations by focusing on a number of relevant topics. First, models are widely employed in any study, and China nowadays has invoked models like city system, zones and global city in socio-economic development. How to interpret them in terms of knowledge production in a strong party-state? Second, given the global prevalence of neoliberalism, it is an important debate whether neoliberalism is applicable to China. Third, what is urban ideology in China? How to contextualize it? Are debates about the differentiation between the city and urbanization relevant to China? Fourth, massive rural-urban migration in China has taken place within its mega rural-urban dual system, an institution that has persisted since the 1950s. How does it manifest nowadays? Fifth, has the town-country divide in China, like in the West, disappeared? If not, how can one interpret China’s town-country relations, within the politics and administration of the Chinese state? Sixth, how to decipher the territorial development in the Pearl River Delta, the ""world’s factory,"" under the auspices of the state? The collection of essays in this volume contributes to the theoretical understanding of urban China.

The chapters in this book were originally published in the Eurasian Geography and Economics."

Edited by: Wing-Shing Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong), Kam Wing Chan (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367706470
ISBN 10: 0367706474
Pages: 174
Publication Date: 25 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.