The post-Mao urban reforms of the last decade have physically and psychologically transformed China's cities. These essays explore how the character of city life shifted after the political-economic restructuring intensified in 1984, and how this shift affected the creation of new physical, economic and cultural space in urban China. The authors draw on a wide range of backgrounds, including anthropology, comparative literature, economics, art history, law, political science and sociology, as well as their own experiences ...
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The post-Mao urban reforms of the last decade have physically and psychologically transformed China's cities. These essays explore how the character of city life shifted after the political-economic restructuring intensified in 1984, and how this shift affected the creation of new physical, economic and cultural space in urban China. The authors draw on a wide range of backgrounds, including anthropology, comparative literature, economics, art history, law, political science and sociology, as well as their own experiences of living and working in Chinese cities to provide insight into lesser known dimensions of urban Chinese life: China's large 'floating populations', avant-garde art, labor movements, and leisure.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
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Textual photos, maps, tables. Some rubbing. A rubberstamp to reverse of title-page. VG. 23x15cm, ix, 449 pp. Contains 15 papers. Includes: Urban China: Introduction [Deborah S. Davis]; Urban Time and Space [Barry Naughton]; Urban transformations in post-Mao China: impacts of the reform era on China's urban form [Piper Rae Gaubatz]; Cities and the Chinese economic system: changing roles and conditions for autonomy [Barry Naughton]; State sprawl: the regulatory state and social life in a small Chinese city [Vivienne Shue]; The floating population in the cities: chances for assimilation [Dorothy J. Solinger]; Urban Culture and Identities [Richard Kraus]; The politics of private time: changing leisure patterns in urban China [Shaoguang Wang]; China's artists between plan and market [Richard Kraus]; Velvet prisons and the political economy of Chinese filmmaking [Paul Pickowitz]; The avantgarde's challenge to official art [Julia F. Andrews and Gao Minglu]; The disintegration of the poetic 'Berlin Wall' [Su Wei and Wendy Larson]; Urban Associations [ Elizabeth J. Perry]; Labor's battle for political space: the role of worker associations in contemporary China [Elizabeth J. Perry]; Dissident and liberal legal scholars and organizations in Beijing and the Chinese state in the 1980s [Mark Sidel]; Urban spaces and experiences of qigong [ Nancy N. Chen]; Student associations and mass movements [Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Liu Xinyong]; Conclusion: Historical perspectives [David Strand].
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.