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Urban China’s Rural Fringe: Actors, Dimensions and Management Challenges

Urban China’s rural fringe : actors, dimensions and management challenges. Edited by Giulio Verdini, Wang Yiwen and Zhang Xiaonan. Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2016. 208 p. ISBN : 978-1-4724-4355-7 (hardback)

Bringing together scholars from China and the West, this study offers an innovative overview of the urbanization of China by focusing on the rural fringe and the centrality of its management in an attempt to ensure more sustainable paths of development. Challenging the current discourse on modernization in China that focuses solely on the urban rather than the rural, this book provides insights into the current massive urbanization that is taking place from a different angle. What is happening beyond the urban areas reveals the conflictive nature of the fast-changing Chinese society, still marked by a dual institutional urban-rural system, a growing income gap, a diverse life style and social status. However, the dense rural fringe of Chinese mega-city region can also be conceived as an extraordinary laboratory where one can observe how the legacy of the old agricultural society coexists, in an original and rather unique way, with new forms of urbanity. Besides examining the evident urban-rural conflicts generated, this book looks at the prospective synergies of this linkage. A re-conceptualization of the rural dimensions of cities in a fast urbanizing context equips practitioners, scholars and students with new analytical tools to observe an unprecedented and complex great urban transition.

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  • Verdini, Giulio. The costs of urban growth at the fringe of a Chinese city : evidence from Jinshi Village in Suzhou. International Development Planning Review, 2014, 36:4, p. 413-43. Published online October 08, 2014. DOI : 10.3828/idpr.2014.27. URL : https://urbachina.hypotheses.org/11125

Monique Abud

Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine, EHESS, Paris, France

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OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Monique Abud (7 avril 2016). Urban China’s Rural Fringe: Actors, Dimensions and Management Challenges. Carnets du Centre Chine (CNRS/EHESS). Consulté le 25 avril 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/mfju


Monique Abud

Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine, EHESS, Paris, France

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