The Great Urban Transformation Politics of Land and Property in China

by Hsing, You-tien

• ISBN13: 9780199644599
• ISBN10: 0199644594
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

As China is transformed, relations between society, the state, and the city have become central. The Great Urban Transformation investigates what is happening in cities, the urban edges, and the rural fringe in order to explain these relations. In the inner city of major metropolitan centers,municipal governments battle high-ranking state agencies to secure land rents from redevelopment projects, while residents mobilize to assert property and residential rights. At the urban edge, as metropolitan governments seek to extend control over their rural hinterland through massive-scaledevelopment projects, villagers strategize to profit from the encroaching property market. At the rural fringe, township leaders become brokers of power and property between the state bureaucracy and villages, while large numbers of peasants are dispossessed, dispersed, and deterritorialized, andtheir mobilizational capacity is consequently undermined. The Great Urban Transformation explores these issues, and provides an integrated analysis of the city and the countryside, elite politics and grassroots activism, legal-economic and socio-political issues of property rights, and the role of the state and the market in the property market.

Author Biography

You-tien Hsing is Professor of Geography at the University of California at Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. x
List of Figures	p. xii
Table	p. xiii
List of Chinese Terms	p. xiv
Prologue	p. 1
Land and Urban Politics	p. 5
Redevelopment of the Urban Core
Municipal Governments, Socialist Land Masters, and Urban Land Battles	p. 33
Grassroots Resistance: Property Rights and Residents' Rights	p. 60
Expansion of the Metropolitan Region
Metropolitan Governance, Real Estate Projects and Capital Accumulation	p. 93
Village Corporatism, Real Estate Projects, and Territorial Autonomy	p. 122
Urbanization of the Rural Fringe
Township Governments as Brokers of Power and Property	p. 155
Peasant Relocation and Deterritorialization	p. 181
A New Territorial Order	p. 211
Bibliography	p. 228
Index	p. 249
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