Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China s major cities. It deals with a diversity of trends and analyzes their sources. Offers a multi-dimensional analysis of urban life in China Highlights a diversity of trends in the areas of migration, criminal victimization, gated communities, and the status of women, suburbanization, and neighbourhood associations Each chapter includes input from both an expert on urban life in China and an 'outside' expert from the fields of sociology, geography, economics, planning, political science, history, demography, architecture, or anthropology An alternative theoretical perspective comparing the Chinese experience with other urban settings in the United States, Poland, Russia, Vietnam, East and South East Asia, and South America

Using an innovative approach, this book interprets theunprecedented transformation of contemporary China's majorcities. It deals with a diversity of trends and analyzes theirsources.* Offers a multi-dimensional analysis of urban life in China* Highlights a diversity of trends in the areas of migrationcriminal victimization, gated communities, and the status of womensuburbanization, and neighbourhood associations* Each chapter includes input from both an expert on urban lifein China and an 'outside' expert from the fields of sociologygeography, economics, planning, political science, historydemography, architecture, or anthropology* An alternative theoretical perspective comparing the Chineseexperience with other urban settings in the United States, PolandRussia, Vietnam, East and South East Asia, and South America

Notes on the Contributors viiiSeries Editors' Preface xiiiAcknowledgments xivIntroduction: Urban China in Comparative Perspective 1John R. Logan and Susan S. FainsteinPart I: Market Transition in Work Units and the Labor Market 251 Two Decades of Reform: The Changing Organization Dynamics of Chinese Industrial Firms 27Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima2 The Myth of the "New Urban Poverty"? Trends in Urban Poverty in China, 1988-2002 48Simon Appleton and Lina Song3 Class Structure and Class Inequality in Urban China and Russia: Effects of Institutional Change or Economic Performance? 66Yanjie Bian and Theodore P. Gerber4 Gender and the Labor Market in China and Poland 89C. Cindy Fan and Joanna RegulskaPart II: Changing Places 1135 Urbanization, Institutional Change, and Sociospatial Inequality in China, 1990-2001 115Michael J. White, Fulong Wu, and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen6 Growth on the Edge: The New Chinese Metropolis 140Yixing Zhou and John R. Logan7 Mirrored Reflections: Place Identity Formation in Taipei and Shanghai 161Jennifer Rudolph and Hanchao Lu8 Is Gating Always Exclusionary? A Comparative Analysis of Gated Communities in American and Chinese Cities 182Youqin Huang and Setha M. LowPart III: Impacts of Migration 2039 Urbanization in China in the 1990s: Patterns and Regional Variations 205Zai Liang, Hy Van Luong, and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen10 Trapped in Neglected Corners of a Booming Metropolis: Residential Patterns and Marginalization of Migrant Workers in Guangzhou 226Min Zhou and Guoxuan Cai11 Migration and Housing: Comparing China with the United States 250Weiping Wu and Emily RosenbaumPart IV: Social Control in the New Chinese City 26912 Economic Reform and Crime in Contemporary Urban China: Paradoxes of a Planned Transition 271Steven F. Messner, Jianhong Liu, and Susanne Karstedt13 Migration, Urbanization, and the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Empirical and Theoretical Observations in China and Indonesia 294Christopher J. Smith and Graeme Hugo14 The State's Evolving Relationship with Urban Society: China's Neighborhood Organizations in Comparative Perspective 315Benjamin L. Read and Chun-Ming ChenSubject index 336Author index 355