Suzhou in Transition (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Tang, Beibei; Cheung, Paul

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Through the lens of the city of Suzhou, this edited volume presents views on the complex interaction between the central state, market agents, local governments and individuals who have shaped the development of Chinese cities and urban life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000217650
• Artikelnr.: 60135112

Autorenporträt

Beibei Tang is a Senior Associate Professor in the Department of China Studies at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She has undertaken extensive ethnographic research across different localities in China, with particular focuses on local governance, social stratification and state-society relations in urban China. She has published her research in high-impact journals such as The China Quarterly, The China Journal and Journal of Contemporary China. She is the author of China's Housing Middle Class (2018) and the winner of the 2015 Gordon White Prize. Paul Cheung is a sociolinguist based at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. His research is focused on the representation of internal migration in public discourses and cultural factors associated with the flow of population across borders both salient and hidden. He is a principal investigator for the project "Governance in Light of the 'New Citizenship' Campaign in China."

Inhaltsangabe

1. Suzhou in Transition: An Introduction Part 1. Historical and Cultural
Transformation 2. Beautiful Su: A History of Transformations 3. Historic
Landscape and Water Heritage of Suzhou Beyond the Tourist Gaze 4. Bridal
Fashion and Suzhou: The Development of the Tiger Hill Wedding Market Part
2. Urban Development and Social Life 5. Suzhou's Modernity within Space and
Spatial Relations 6. Urban-Rural Relations in the Context of New
Urbanization: The Case of Suzhou Sheng Zhong and Shengxi Xin 7. Social
Fabric in the Wujiang District of Suzhou Part 3. Administration and
Governance 8. Suzhou and the City-Region: The Administrative Divisions in
Historical Perspective and Rural-Urban Transition 9. Wujiang in Transition:
Urban Development and Changing Grassroots Governance Mechanisms