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The Politics of Community Building in Urban China
This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China. It builds on the observation that the late 1990s saw a comeback of the state in urban China after the increased economization of life in the 1980s had initially forced it to withdraw. Based on several months of fieldwork in locations ranging from poor and dilapidated neighbourhoods in Shenyang City to middle class gated communities in Shenzhen, the authors analyze recent attempts by the central government to enhance stability in China's increasingly volatile cities.
In particular, they argue that the central government has begun to restructure urban neighbourhoods, and has encouraged residents to govern themselves by means of democratic procedures. Heberer and Göbel also contend that whilst on the one hand, the central government has managed to bring the Party-state back into urban society, especially by tapping into a range of social groups that depend on it, it has not, however, managed to establish a broad base for participation. In testing this hypothesis, the book examines the rationales, strategies and impacts of this comeback by systematically analyzing how the reorganization of neighbourhood committees was actually conducted and find that opportunities for participation were far more limited than initially promised.
The book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese Studies, Development Studies, Urban Studies and Asian Studies in general.
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Community Participation in China
This important volume provides a source of information on the key issues, including constraints and capacity building, necessary to implement participatory approaches in China today. A wealth of case studies are provided by principal Chinese academics and practitioners in forestry, natural resource management, rural development, irrigation and poverty alleviation.
At the core, the book is about strengthening local government as a key player in the development of participatory initiatives. It is an invaluable text for development practitioners, donors, researchers and students seeking to understand the opportunities and constraints for participation in China, and for those working to institutionalize participatory processes in a complex rural context.
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The city after Chinese new towns : spaces and imaginaries from contemporary urban China
By 2020, some 400 Chinese new towns will have been built, representing an unprecedented urban growth. While some of these massive developments are still empty today, others have been rather successful. The substantial effort on the part of the Chinese government is to absorb up to 250 million people, chiefly migrants from the rural parts of the country. Unlike in Europe and North America, where new towns grew in accordance to the local industries, these new Chinese cities are mostly built to the point of near completion before introducing people. The interdisciplinary publication, written by architects, planners and geographers, explores the new urbanistic phenomenon of the \"Chinese New Town\". Especially commissioned photographs and maps illustrate these new settlements in Tonfzhou, Zhaoqing, and Zheng-dong.
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City and citizens in modern China
City and Citizens in Modern China: Towards A Scientific Approach to Urban Development offers a comprehensive evaluation of the development of China's key cities from the unique perspective of scientific development.
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Rural Development in China
Fresh Perspectives on China's Rural Developments and Innovative InstitutionsSince the 1950s rural China has experienced several reforms with both varying degrees of success and failure. Rural Development in China: The Rise of Innovative Institutions and Markets (3-Volume Set) explores China's rural development path from two angles: institutional innovations and the market. Looking at China's pace of socio-economic development as a key factor in modernization, author Lu Yilong discusses the institutional drawbacks and demands to determine the specific issues of China's rural market. Using China's unique \"3-rurals\" concept as the basis, Rural Development in China: The Rise of Innovative Institutions and Markets (3-Volume Set) gives suggestions of how to stimulate rural socio-economic growth and lead China down a path to future economic success.Content HighlightsPatterns in New Rural Communities and Institutional DemandReforming the Dual-Sector Structure and Developing Rural CommunitiesTransfer of Land under the Household Responsibility SystemGovernment Imposed Institutional InnovationsInstitutional Innovations and Emerging Factor MarketsNon-Farm Business Activities and Social Network of Rural HouseholdsPeasants' Market PreferencesTraditional and Modern Rural MarketsInstitutional conditions for Nurturing Entrepreneurial Talents in the RuralRural Development in 1949-1979, and 1979-2009Market Transition and Rural StratificationDual Structure and Dual Institution in China's Rural SocietyNew Rural Communities and UrbanizationInstitutional Innovations in the Market and Recent Rural Developments.
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Rebuilding sustainable communities after disasters in China, Japan and beyond
This volume examines lessons learned in reducing the impact of disasters on communities in China, Japan and other countries world-wide. Asia is the most disaster-prone continent. The 2012 data on natural disasters in 28 Asian countries, released by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Belgian-based Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters on December 11th, 2012 showed that, from 1950 to 2011, nine out of ten people affected by disasters globally were in A.
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Social engineering of community building: Examination of policy process and characteristics of community construction in China
This article briefly introduces the history and major policies of a massive community construction project launched by the People's Republic of China in the mid-1980s. Based on a literature review and field observations, the authors highlight four characteristics of this project: muddling through chaos, top-down control, regulated participation, and community as functional establishment. It is argued that the goal of the project is not to recreate, in China, a Western model of civil society, but to restructure the existing urban administrative structure so that it can adapt to new social demands. By transforming the grassroots neighbourhood organization – the residents' committee – into a welfare provider, this project is expected to ease the state's welfare burden while maintaining its political control.
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