Urbanization in China

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 973-979

  Shin, Hyun Bang ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China; Housing; Industrial production; Land politics; Land based accumulation; Local citizenship; Local state building; Middle class; Migrants; Rights awareness; Socialist market economy; State entrepreneurialism; Urban accumulation; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988289075     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.72095-2     Document Type: Chapter

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