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Book Type: Global/Environment

Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary Chinas major cities. It deals with a diversity of trends and analyzes their sources.

• Offers a multi-dimensional analysis of urban life in China
• Highlights a diversity of trends in the areas of migration, criminal victimization, gated communities, and the status of women, suburbanization, and neighbourhood associations
• Each chapter includes input from both an expert on urban life in China and an 'outside' expert from the fields of sociology, geography, economics, planning, political science, history, demography, architecture, or anthropology
• An alternative theoretical perspective comparing the Chinese experience with other urban settings in the United States, Poland, Russia, Vietnam, East and South East Asia, and South America