This book offers a comprehensive evaluation of the development of China's key cities from the unique perspective of scientific development. The book includes all Chinese urban conurbations, from prefecture level upwards, to ensure the results, observations, and analysis is comprehensive and balanced. It draws a clear picture of the relationships between the city and its dwellers. China's cities have evolved and grown radically in recent years, and the book examines these changes with a clear focus on the wellbeing of those who now reside in them. *** Librarians: ebook available on ProQuest and EBSCO (Series: Urban Development in China) [Subject: Sociology, Chinese Studies, Asian Studies, Urban Studies, Development Studies]

This new book from China specialists Paths International is aimed at both academics and students studying or interested in development studies, urban studies or Chinese studies. City and Citizen in Modern China: Towards A Scientific Approach to Urban Development offers a comprehensive evaluation of the development of China's key cities from the unique perspective of scientific development. The authors have included all Chinese urban conurbations from prefecture level upwards to ensure the results, observations and analysis is comprehensive and balanced. The authors (experts from the extremely prestigious Institute of Urban Development of China) have managed to draw a clear picture of the relationships between the city and its dwellers. China's cities have evolved and grown radically in recent years, this book examines these changes with a clear focus on the wellbeing of those who now reside in them.

This book examines citizenship as practiced in China today from a variety of angles. Citizenship in China—and elsewhere in the Global South—has often been perceived as either a distorted echo of the ‘real’ democratic version in Europe and North America, or an orientalized ‘other’ that defines what citizenship is not. By contrast, this book sees Chinese citizenship as an aspect of a connected modernity that is still unfolding. The book focuses on three key tensions: a state preference for sedentarism and governing citizens in place vs. growing mobility, sometimes facilitated by the state; a perception that state-building and development requires a strong state vs. ideas and practices of participatory citizenship; and submission of the individual to the ‘collective’ (state, community, village, family, etc.) vs. the rising salience of conceptions of self-development and self-making projects. Examining manifestations of these tensions can contribute to thinking about citizenship beyond China, including the role of the local in forming citizenship orders; how individualization works in the absence of liberal individualism; and how ‘social citizenship’ is increasingly becoming a reward to ‘good citizens’, rather than a mechanism for achieving citizen equality. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of the journal Citizenship Studies.

Today 700 million Chinese citizens -- more than fifty-four percent of the population -- live in cities. The mass migration of rural populations to urban centers increased rapidly following economic reforms of the 1990s, and serious problems such as overcrowding, lack of health services, and substandard housing have arisen in these areas since. China's urban citizens have taken to the courts for redress and fought battles over failed urban renewal projects, denial of civil rights, corruption, and abuse of power.In Power versus Law in Modern China, Qiang Fang and Xiaobing Li examine four important legal cases that took place from 1995 to 2013 in the major cities of Wuhan, Xuzhou, Shanghai, and Chongqing. In these cases, citizens protested demolition of property, as well as corruption among city officials, developers, and landlords; but were repeatedly denied protection or compensation from the courts. Fang and Li explore how new interest groups comprised of entrepreneurs and Chinese graduates of Western universities have collaborated with the CCP-controlled local governments to create new power bases in cities. Drawing on newly available official sources, private collections, and interviews with Chinese administrators, judges, litigants, petitioners, and legal experts, this interdisciplinary analysis reveals the powerful and privileged will most likely continue to exploit the legal asymmetry that exists between the courts and citizens.

Post-Mao market reforms in China have led to a massive migration of rural peasants toward the cities. Denied urban residency, this "floating population" provides labour but loses out on government benefits. This study challenges the notion that markets promote rights and legal equality.

Through interviews with city residents, Martin King Whyte and William L. Parish provide a unique survey of urban life in the last decade of Mao Zedong's rule. They conclude that changes in society produced under communism were truly revolutionary and that, in the decade under scrutiny, the Chinese avoided ostensibly universal evils of urbanism with considerable success. At the same time, however, they find that this successful effort spawned new and equally serious urban problems—bureaucratic rigidity, low production, and more.

This book examines how urban China is experiencing the shift from a planned to a market economy.