| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-257) and index. |
| Summary |
"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 vivid portrait of the rapid change of Zouping, its environs, and the lives of the once-rural people who live there. Despite its modernization and higher standards of living, Zouping is far from a utopia; its inhabitants face new challenges and problems such as alienation, class formation and exclusion, patriarchy, and pollution. To understand this transformation, Andrew B. Kipnis has developed a theory of urbanization, demonstrated in his compelling portrayal of an emerging metropolis and the hopes, fears, joys, and sorrows of the people who call it home"--Provided by publisher. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Urbanization -- China -- Zouping Xian.
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Urbanization. |
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China -- Zouping Xian. |
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Zouping Xian (China)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kipnis, Andrew B. From village to city. First edition 9780520289703 9780520289710 (DLC) 2015033647 (OCoLC)920672223 |
| ISBN |
9780520964273 (ebook) |
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0520964276 (ebook) |
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9780520289703 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520289706 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520289710 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520289714 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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