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Urban Spaces in Contemporary China

The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China

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Paperback | 4 December 1995

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The post-Mao urban reforms of the past decade have physically and psychologically transformed China''s cities. Urban Spaces in Contemporary China explores how the character of city life changed after political and economic restructuring intensified in 1984, and how this change affected the creation of new physical, economic, and cultural spaces in urban China. The book focuses on the impact of increased commercialization and reduced state power on associations, economics, government, and creativity in urban areas. The authors draw from a wide range of backgrounds, including anthropology, economics, comparative literature, art history, law, political science, and sociology, and all have lived and worked in a Chinese city for an extended time in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Each brings personal insights to dimensions of Chinese urban life that are often misunderstood: China''s large "floating populations", avant-garde art, labor movements, and leisure.

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"...the diversity of subjects and approaches make this book an informative and interesting read...It contributes to the literature on the state-society divide in Deng Xiaoping's China by providing detailed discussions on various subjects. Readers of this volume, regardless of their interests, will not be disappointed, and, like conference attendees, will certainly find fascinating material in at least some of the offerings here. For those who are concerned with the process of China's socialist transformation, this will be a welcome addition to their libraries. I am grateful to retain my to retain my review copy." Reginald Yin-Wang Kwok, China Review International

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Urban China	p. 1
Urban Space
Introduction	p. 23
Urban transformation in post-Mao China: impacts of the reform era on China's urban form	p. 28
Cities in the Chinese economic system: changing roles and conditions for autonomy	p. 61
State sprawl: the regulatory state and social life in a small Chinese city	p. 90
The floating population in the cities: chances for assimilation?	p. 113
Urban Culture and Identities
Introduction	p. 143
The politics of private time: changing leisure patterns in urban China	p. 149
China's artists between plan and market	p. 173
Velvet prisons and the political economy of Chinese filmmaking	p. 193
The avant-garde's challenge to official art	p. 221
The disintegration of the poetic "Berlin Wall"	p. 279
Urban Associations
Introduction	p. 297
Labor's battle for political space: the role of worker associations in contemporary China	p. 302
Dissident and liberal legal scholars and organizations in Beijing and the Chinese state in the 1980s	p. 326
Urban spaces and experiences of qigong	p. 347
Student associations and mass movements	p. 362
Conclusion: Historical perspectives	p. 394
List of editors and contributors	p. 427
Index	p. 429
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Urban Spaces in Contemporary China

The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China

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