Urban China in Transition

Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China’s major cities. It deals with a diversity of trends and analyzes their sources. Offers a multi-dimensional analysis of urban life in China Highlights a diversity of trends in the areas of migration, criminal victimization, gated communities, and the status of women, suburbanization, and neighbourhood associations Each chapter includes input from both an expert on urban life in China and an 'outside' expert from the fields of sociology, geography, economics, planning, political science, history, demography, architecture, or anthropology An alternative theoretical perspective comparing the Chinese experience with other urban settings in the United States, Poland, Russia, Vietnam, East and South East Asia, and South America

Notes on the Contributors viii Series Editors’ Preface xiii Acknowledgments xiv Introduction: Urban China in Comparative Perspective 1 John R. Logan and Susan S. Fainstein Part I: Market Transition in Work Units and the Labor Market 25 1 Two Decades of Reform: The Changing Organization Dynamics of Chinese Industrial Firms 27 Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima 2 The Myth of the “New Urban Poverty”? Trends in Urban Poverty in China, 1988–2002 48 Simon Appleton and Lina Song 3 Class Structure and Class Inequality in Urban China and Russia: Effects of Institutional Change or Economic Performance? 66 Yanjie Bian and Theodore P. Gerber 4 Gender and the Labor Market in China and Poland 89 C. Cindy Fan and Joanna Regulska Part II: Changing Places 113 5 Urbanization, Institutional Change, and Sociospatial Inequality in China, 1990–2001 115 Michael J. White, Fulong Wu, and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen 6 Growth on the Edge: The New Chinese Metropolis 140 Yixing Zhou and John R. Logan 7 Mirrored Reflections: Place Identity Formation in Taipei and Shanghai 161 Jennifer Rudolph and Hanchao Lu 8 Is Gating Always Exclusionary? A Comparative Analysis of Gated Communities in American and Chinese Cities 182 Youqin Huang and Setha M. Low Part III: Impacts of Migration 203 9 Urbanization in China in the 1990s: Patterns and Regional Variations 205 Zai Liang, Hy Van Luong, and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen 10 Trapped in Neglected Corners of a Booming Metropolis: Residential Patterns and Marginalization of Migrant  Workers in Guangzhou 226 Min Zhou and Guoxuan Cai 11 Migration and Housing: Comparing China with the United States 250 Weiping Wu and Emily Rosenbaum Part IV: Social Control in the New Chinese City 269 12 Economic Reform and Crime in Contemporary Urban China: Paradoxes of a Planned Transition 271 Steven F. Messner, Jianhong Liu, and Susanne Karstedt 13 Migration, Urbanization, and the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Empirical and Theoretical Observations in China and Indonesia 294 Christopher J. Smith and Graeme Hugo 14 The State’s Evolving Relationship with Urban Society: China’s Neighborhood Organizations in Comparative Perspective 315 Benjamin L. Read and Chun-Ming Chen Subject index 336 Author index 355