The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land and Property in China
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (592 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199644594 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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No one captures this better than Professor Hsing. The Great Urban Transformation is essential reading for every student of Chinese development and global cities."--Richard A. It is an epic story told with analytical clarity, theoretical insights and deeply engaging human dramas."--Ching Kwan Lee, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles"In this landmark book, Hsing captures the complex and contingent nature of property-making and property-ownership in rapidly-urbanizing China. Resistance
systematic view about land conflict in China kantandme This book provides quite a systematic view about the conflicts over land in China, involving citizens, local government and other institutions. Though the actual form of conflicts is constantly changing (the government has updated different schemes since when the materials of this book are collected), the book still effectively provides a clear clue regarding the entangled political, economic, and social factors contributing to the land and property conflicts.
She is the author of Making Capitalism in China: The Taiwan Connection (1998, Oxford University Press) and co-editor (with Ching Kwan Lee) of Reclaiming Chinese Society: The New Social Activism (2009, Routledge). . You-tien Hsing is Associate Professor of Geography at University of California at Berkeley
As China is transformed, relations between society, the state, and the city have become central. In the inner city of major metropolitan centers, municipal governments battle high-ranking state agencies to secure land rents from redevelopment projects, while residents mobilize to assert property and residential rights. The Great Urban Transformation explores these issues, and provides an integrated analysis of the city and the countryside, elite politics and grassroots activism, legal-economic and socio-political issues of property rights, and the role of the state and the market in the property market.. At the urban edge, as metropolitan governments seek to extend control over their rural hinterland through massive-scale development projects, villagers strategize to profit from the encroaching property market. At the rural fringe, township leaders become brokers of power and property between the state bureaucracy and villages, while large numbers of peasants are dispossessed, dispersed, and deterritorialized, and their mobilizational capacity is consequently undermined. The Grea