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China’s Urbanization and Socioeconomic Impact

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Editors:
  1. Zongli Tang

    1. College of Public Policy and Justice, Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, USA

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  • Provides up-to-date information, reports, and analyses based on the latest recent events

  • Explores urban impacts on economic development in poor and “backward” regions, clan culture, rural clan societies, urban planning, the environment, women and children, minorities, and public policy reforms

  • Examines China’s urbanization from a cross-disciplinary perspective, covering diverse topics

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. New Urbanization, Industrialization, and Impact on Policies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Transformation and Healthy Development of Urbanization in China’s 13th Five-Year National Development Period (2016–2020)

      • Shengzu Gu
      Pages 3-19

    3. Urbanization and Industrial Development in China

      • Kevin H. Zhang
      Pages 21-35

    4. Urban Real Estate Tax Reforms in China

      • Huiyu Cui
      Pages 37-53

  3. Urbanization and Impact on Regional Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. Regional Differences in Urbanization: A Case Study of Urban Agglomerations in Northwestern China

      • Lili Wei, Peng Wang, Jing Zhang
      Pages 57-73

    3. Urbanization in Ethnic Minority Areas of Western China: Is It Special?

      • Lijuan Si
      Pages 75-88

  4. Urban Development and Impact on Women and Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Infrastructure Development and Urbanization in China

      • Chaosu Li, Yan Song, Yan Chen
      Pages 91-107

    3. Women, Work, and Marriage: Challenges of Gendered Mobility in Urban China

      • Arianne M. Gaetano
      Pages 109-124

    4. Understanding Chinese Environmental Risk Perceptions from 1995–2015

      • Wanyun Shao
      Pages 125-144

    5. Urbanization, Industrialization, and Sustainable Development in China: Converging Paths?

      • Jonathan Harrington
      Pages 145-157

  5. Urbanization and Impact on Rural Clans, Rural Clan Culture, and Villages

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. Changes with Chinese Characteristics: Rural Clan Culture, Clan Communities, and Kinship Relations During Urbanization

      • Zongli Tang
      Pages 161-198

    3. Local Clan Societies and Migrants to Cities in the Qin and Han Dynasties

      • Shijing Qiu
      Pages 199-206

    4. Farewell to Villages: Forced Urbanization in Rural China

      • Youqin Huang
      Pages 207-227
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About this book

This book examines the impacts of China’s urbanization on the country’s economic development, clan culture, rural societies, minority resident areas, natural environment, women, and public policy reforms, drawing on official statistics, independent survey data, archives, and fieldwork research to do so. Adopting a cross-disciplinary perspective, the book places special emphasis on issues that have been neglected in prior studies, and provides up-to-date information, reports, and analyses based on the latest events. Further, it considers future directions and strategies regarding urban development, discusses regional urbanization in selected poor and “backward” western provinces, analyzes changes in traditional clan culture brought on by urbanization, and explores evolutions in local clan societies in the Qin and Han Dynasties when cities expanded and business flourished. Lastly, the book examines the effects of infrastructure-related determinants on urban expansion rates and urban land prices, demonstrates the ebbs and flows of public opinion regarding various environmental issues, discusses planned real estate tax reform, and assesses the impact of demographic and socioeconomic changes on young unmarried women.

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Public Policy and Justice, Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, USA

    Zongli Tang

About the editor

Zongli Tang is a Professor at the College of Public Policy and Justice, Auburn University at Montgomery, USA. His research areas include urban sociology, cultural studies, political economy, and population studies. His research works include Rural Investigations in Southern Anhui, published by Wuhan University Press in 2012, and Maoism and Chinese Culture, and China’s Foreign Economic Policy in Post-Mao Time, published by Nova Science in 1996.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: China’s Urbanization and Socioeconomic Impact

  • Editors: Zongli Tang

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4831-9

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4830-2Published: 07 July 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5242-3Published: 12 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4831-9Published: 26 June 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 227

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Anthropology, Demography, Human Geography

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