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From Village to City : Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat /

"Between 1988 and 2013, the Chinese city of Zouping transformed from an impoverished village of 30,000 people to a bustling city of over 300,000, complete with factories, high rises, parks, shopping malls, and all the infrastructure of a wealthy East Asian city. From Village to City paints a vi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kipnis, Andrew B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Recombinant urbanization
  • Recombinant planning
  • Recombinant production
  • Recombinant consumption
  • Recombinant phantasmagoria
  • Between farm and factory: migrant workers from nearby
  • Distant homes or a new life: migrant workers from afar
  • Villagers-in-the-city: time for community
  • The middle classes in a manufacturing center
  • Youth between factories and services
  • Recombination reconsidered.