A01=Andrew B. Kipnis
Author_Andrew B. Kipnis
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china
chinese growth
chinese infrastructure
chinese towns
chinese urbanization
class formation in new urban spaces in china
development boom chinese village
economic growth in zouping
emerging metropolis in china
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global development
modernization in china
rapid growth in china
rural to urban development
urban planning china
urban theory
urbanization
urbanization of chinese cities
wealth in china
zouping
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- ISBN 9780520289703
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 29 Mar 2016
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Between 1988 and 2013, the Chinese city of Zouping transformed from an impoverished town of 30,000 people to a bustling city of over 300,000, complete with factories, high rises, parks, shopping malls, and all the infrastructure of a wealthy East Asian city. From Village to City paints a vivid portrait of the rapid changes in Zouping and its environs and in the lives of the once-rural people who live there. Despite the benefits of modernization and an improved standard of living for many of its residents, Zouping is far from a utopia; its inhabitants face new challenges and problems such as alienation, class formation and exclusion, and pollution. As he explores the city's transformation, Andrew B. Kipnis develops a new theory of urbanization in this compelling portrayal of an emerging metropolis and its people.
Andrew B. Kipnis is Professor of Anthropology in the School of Culture, History and Language of the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University.
