Understanding China's Urbanization: The Great Demographic, Spatial, Economic, and Social Transformation

摘要

Publications on Chinese urbanization have flourished in recent years and one might legitimately ask which element of novelty another book on this topic could bring. After pioneer attempts to unveil the urban features and contradictions of the opening-up of China towards a market economy,12 scholars from different fields have provided insights into one of the most complex, yet fascinating, processes of social, economic, and therefore urban, transformation of the history.