Retreat from a Totalitarian Society: China's Urbanism in the Making

The New Blackwell Companion to the City

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 701-712

  Wu, Fulong ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fei Xiaotong, renowned Chinese sociologist foundations of Chinese society as "earth bounded"; Imperial period, China predominantly rural an administrative center; Influx of migrants, and state socialism rural populations, not entitled to public housing; Market reform and residential diversity commodity economy, transforming urban spaces; Property based interests and the private sphere; Socialist totalitarianism, features of rural society strengthened by "communist neo traditionalism"; State, a dominant role in production and reproduction; Totalitarian society strengthened by state housing provision; Totalitarian society, and retreat from China's urbanism in the making; Urbanism in the making, new social mentality market oriented reform, and social changes in China

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885492754     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395105.ch61     Document Type: Chapter

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