Using an innovative approach, this book interprets theunprecedented transformation of contemporary China's majorcities. It deals with a diversity of trends and analyzes theirsources.
* 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 lifein 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 Chineseexperience with other urban settings in the United States, Poland,Russia, Vietnam, East and South East Asia, and South America