This book provides first-hand, insiders' perspectives on urban issues in China, aiming to provide a theoretically informed and empirically rich discussion of the new social landscape of contemporary urban China. Focusing on, but not limiting its scope to southern China, this v...

Edited by Zai Liang; Steven Messner; Cheng Chen and Youqin Huang

Section I. Migrant Workers and Community Reaction
1. Job Mobility of Rural Migrants in China's Urban Labor Market: the Case of Pearl River Delta Region, Zhen Li and Zai Liang
2. Economic Deprivation, Social Networks and Unprotected Rights- A Study on Peasant Workers' Collective Action in the Pearl River Delta, Xiaojuan Chen and Cheng Chen
3. Institutionnel Segmentation and Psychosocial Repellence: Urban Residents' Attitude toward Migrants, Jiashun Wang and Steven F. Messner
Section II. New Patterns of Urbanization
4. On Not Wanting to Become Urban- Ethnographic Perspectives from a Pearl River Delta Urban Community Transited from Rural Village, Cuiling Li and Josephine Smart
5. The Development of Rural Village in Chinese City - A Case study of Zhu Village in Guangzhou, Fuping Chen and Eric Fong
6. Changing Economy and Urbanization in a Chinese Ethnic Minority Village: The Case of Bai Peasants in Xizhou, Yunnan Province, Xiongduan Yang and Alan Smart
Section III. Impacts of Globalization, Technology, and Markets on Urban China
7. The Reconstruction of Social Support System for African Merchants in Guangzhou, China, Tao Xu and Zai Liang
8. Mobile Phone Culture among the Information Have-less: A Case Study of Laid-off Workers in Shenyang City, China, Guangxu Ji and Youqin Huang
9. Housing Property Rights Disputes in Urban Chinese Families: An Institutional and Sociological Perspective, Jing Li and Youqin Huang