Urban China in Transition

<p>Notes on the Contributors viii</p>
<p>Series Editors Preface xiii</p>
<p>Acknowledgments xiv</p>
<p>Introduction: Urban China in Comparative Perspective 1<br />John R. Logan and Susan S. Fainstein</p>
<p>Part I: Market Transition in Work Units and the Labor Market 25</p>
<p>1 Two Decades of Reform: The Changing Organization Dynamics of Chinese Industrial Firms 27<br />Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima</p>
<p>2 The Myth of the New Urban Poverty ? Trends in Urban Poverty in China, 1988 2002 48<br />Simon Appleton and Lina Song</p>
<p>3 Class Structure and Class Inequality in Urban China and Russia: Effects of Institutional Change or Economic Performance? 66<br />Yanjie Bian and Theodore P. Gerber</p>
<p>4 Gender and the Labor Market in China and Poland 89<br />C. Cindy Fan and Joanna Regulska</p>
<p>Part II: Changing Places 113</p>
<p>5 Urbanization, Institutional Change, and Sociospatial Inequality in China, 1990 2001 115<br />Michael J. White, Fulong Wu, and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen</p>
<p>6 Growth on the Edge: The New Chinese Metropolis 140<br />Yixing Zhou and John R. Logan</p>
<p>7 Mirrored Reflections: Place Identity Formation in Taipei and Shanghai 161<br />Jennifer Rudolph and Hanchao Lu</p>
<p>8 Is Gating Always Exclusionary? A Comparative Analysis of Gated Communities in American and Chinese Cities 182<br />Youqin Huang and Setha M. Low</p>
<p>Part III: Impacts of Migration 203<br /><br />9 Urbanization in China in the 1990s: Patterns and Regional Variations 205<br />Zai Liang, Hy Van Luong, and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen</p>
<p>10 Trapped in Neglected Corners of a Booming Metropolis: Residential Patterns and Marginalization of Migrant&nbsp; Workers in Guangzhou 226<br />Min Zhou and Guoxuan Cai</p>
<p>11 Migration and Housing: Comparing China with the United States 250<br />Weiping Wu and Emily Rosenbaum</p>
<p>Part IV: Social Control in the New Chinese City 269</p>
<p>12 Economic Reform and Crime in Contemporary Urban China: Paradoxes of a Planned Transition 271<br />Steven F. Messner, Jianhong Liu, and Susanne Karstedt</p>
<p>13 Migration, Urbanization, and the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Empirical and Theoretical Observations in China and Indonesia 294<br />Christopher J. Smith and Graeme Hugo</p>
<p>14 The State s Evolving Relationship with Urban Society: China s Neighborhood Organizations in Comparative Perspective 315<br />Benjamin L. Read and Chun–Ming Chen</p>
<p>Subject index 336</p>
<p>Author index 355</p>