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The Sage Handbook of Urbanization in China
About this book
The Sage Handbook of Urbanization in China is a pioneering handbook that reframes our understanding of China?s extraordinary urban transformation—a demographic shift of unprecedented scale and speed that has seen two-thirds of its population becoming urban dwellers. Moving beyond conventional narratives, editors Hoffman, Hubbert, and Liu develop an innovative conceptual approach that emphasizes distinctiveness without exceptionalism, global connections without universalism, and complex interrelationships beyond binary oppositions.
Through twenty-eight meticulously researched chapters of critical literature reviews, leading scholars explore China?s cities and urbanism not simply through top-down state directives but also through intricate negotiations among diverse actors, interests, and histories. Deploying the concept of "accompaniment," the editors argue the chapters reveal how state socialism and market mechanisms, rural traditions and urban aspirations coexist in dynamic tension rather than stark opposition.
From historic preservation to smart city technologies, from migrant experiences to environmental initiatives, from land use and architecture to housing and labor, this volume demonstrates how urbanization in China is simultaneously localized and worlded—connected to global currents while producing distinctive outcomes. By focusing on human experiences alongside institutional arrangements, the contributors illuminate how diverse actors actively shape urban spaces through their everyday decisions, creative adaptations, and sometimes resistance.
The Sage Handbook of Urbanization in China is essential reading for urban studies scholars, development practitioners, policy makers, and China specialists, this volume provides both literature reviews by scholarly experts and conceptual and analytical tools applicable far beyond China?s borders, contributing to global urban theory while respecting local specificity.
Part One: Setting the Stage
Part Two: Land Matters
Part Three: Configuring Belonging
Part Four: The Creative and the Disruptive
Part Five: Negotiating Identities
Part Six: Generating New Geographies
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Acknowledgements
- Series
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Illustration List
- Notes on Editors and Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Worlding, Accompaniment, and Distinctiveness: A Framework for Understanding Urbanization in China
- 1 Chinese Imperial Cities
- 2 The Semi-Colonial Urban
- 3 The Republican Urban Modern
- 4 Socialist (Anti-)Urbanism in China, 1949–1978
- 5 Land, Land Reform, and Land as Means of Reform
- 6 Urban Governance
- 7 Financialization of Urban Development
- 8 China’s Economic Zones: Remaking Rural and Urban in the Era of Reform
- 9 Infrastructure and Territory
- 10 The Practice of Urban Planning
- 11 China’s Hukou: Reforms, Mismatch, and Household Strategies
- 12 Internal Migration in China
- 13 Housing as an Engine for Urban Transformation in China: What Do We Know and What It Means to Urban and Housing Studies?
- 14 Spatialisation of Class
- 15 Consuming the City
- 16 Subcultures and the Indigenization of Creative Cities in China
- 17 Public Space in Contemporary China: Between Contestation and Socialisation
- 18 Heritage-led Urbanization in China: Architecture and Design, Projecting the Past into the Future
- 19 Citizen Mobilization and Activism: The Search for Civil Society in Urban China
- 20 Urban Family Life in China1
- 21 Work and Labor in Post-Socialist China
- 22 Gender and the Urban in China
- 23 Diversification, Commercialization, and Politicization: Sexuality in China’s Cities since the 1990s
- 24 The Urban in China’s Environmental Governance: Policies, Practices, and Imaginaries
- 25 Technology and Chinese Cities: Ambivalent Urbanism
- 26 “Closely United Like Seeds of a Pomegranate”: Urbanization, Ethnic Expression, and Authoritarian Governance in China’s Ethnic Minority Communities
- 27 Surveillance and Policing
- 28 China’s Urban Abroad: Mapping New City Spaces and Relations on a Changing Global Landscape
- Conclusion Future Research Directions
- Index