Cities and stability : urbanization, redistribution, and regime survival in China

Cities and stability : urbanization, redistribution, and regime survival in China /

China's management of urbanization is an under-appreciated factor in the regime's longevity. The Chinese Communist Party fears ""Latin Americanization""--The emergence of highly unequal megacities with their attendant slums and social unrest. Such cities threaten the su...

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Main Author: Wallace, Jeremy L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014
Subjects:
Cities and towns > China.
Recording and registration > Government policy > China.
Rural-urban migration > Government policy > China.
Urbanization > China.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Urban bias : a faustian bargain
  • Cities, redistribution, and regime survival
  • China's loophole to the faustian bargain of urban bias
  • The fiscal shift : migration, instability, & redistribution
  • Return to sender : hukou, stimulus, & the great recession
  • Under pressure : urban bias and external forces
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix.

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