Urban China Ren Hardback Polity Press 9780745653587

Urban China\n\nXuefei Ren (Author)\n\n9780745653587, Polity Press\n\nHardback, published 15 March 2013\n\n218 pages\n21.8 x 14.2 x 2 cm, 0.431 kg\n\n\""A must-read book for those who want a critical and multifaceted examination of Chinese urbanization. The author is clearly at home in China and shares insights we rarely read about.\""\n Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Cities in a World Economy 2012\n \""A significant contribution to introducing the process of China\u2019s urbanization.\""\n The China Journal\n \""The world is fascinated by the fundamental changes in China's cities and how they link to larger projects of national development and globalization. Few scholars have examined these questions with such a broad-ranging focus as Xuefei Ren does here, offering new insight into growing inequality, how shifting landscapes are transforming lives, and the implications of these dynamics for citizen protest, human rights, and new cultural practices.\""\n Diane E. Davis, Harva]