Farewell to Peasant China: Rural Urbanization and Social Change in the Late Twentieth Century: Rural Urbanization and Social Change in the Late Twentieth Century

by Guldin,Gregory Eliyu

• ISBN13: 9780765601834
• ISBN10: 0765601834
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-06-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Chinese urbanization, including the daily life, migration strategies, and life choices of villagers and townspeople, is the focus of this study by Chinese and North American scholars. From Tianjin in the north, to Tibet in the West, and to Guangdong and Fujian on the southeast coast, a tale is told of transforming countrysides, regional disparities, and the prospects of a fully urbanized China as the twenty-first century dawns. This first broad-scale anthropological investigation of Chinese urbanization captures both the dynamic essence of the urbanizations process and the remarkable vitality of post-reform Chinese society.

Table of Contents

Foreword: The End of Peasantry	vii	(10)
Walter Goldschmidt
Acknowledgments	xvii	(2)
Tables and Figures	xix	(4)
Contributors	xxiii
Photographs follow page 122
Part I. Introduction	3	(10)
1. The Anthropology of Rural Urbanization in China	3	(10)
Gregory Eliyu Guldin
Part II. Urbanizing China	13	(58)
2. On Rural Urbanization in China	13	(34)
Zhou Daming
3. Desakotas and Beyond: Urbanization in Southern China	47	(24)
Gregory Eliyu Guldin
Part III. Regional Patterns	71	(138)
4. Rural Urbanization in Guangdong's Pearl River Delta	71	(52)
Zhou Daming
Zhang Yingqiang
5. One Model of Chinese Urbanization: The Urbanization Process in Xiamen City's Caitang Village	123	(28)
Shi Yilong
6. Rural Urbanization on the Liaodong Peninsula: A Village, a Town, and a Nongmin Cheng	151	(32)
Lisa Hoffman
Liu Zhongquan
7. Rural Urbanization in China's Tibetan Region: Duilongdeqing County as a Typical Example	183	(26)
Gelek
Li Tao
Part IV. Social Dimensions of Rural Urbanization	209	(56)
8. An Investigative Report on the Migrant Population of Caitang Village, Xiamen Special Economic Zone	209	(18)
Lan Daju
9. Investigation and Analysis of "Migrant Odd-Job Workers" in Guangzhou	227	(21)
Zhou Daming
10. Rural Development and Social Security	248	(17)
Guo Zhenglin
Zhou Daming
Part V. Conclusion	265	(10)
11. Urbanization with Chinese Characteristics	265	(10)
Gregory Eliyu Guldin
Glossary	275	(6)
Index	281