Urban spaces in contemporary China : the potential for autonomy and community in post-Mao China

IX, 449 S. : Ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Inhalt: Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: Urban China / Deborah S. Davis, p. 1. Pt. I. Urban Space. Introduction / Barry Naughton, p. 23. 2. Urban transformation in post-Mao China: impacts of the reform era on China's urban form / Piper Rae Gaubatz, p. 28. 3. Cities in the Chinese economic system: changing roles and conditions for autonomy / Barry Naughton, p. 61. 4. State sprawl: the regulatory state and social life in a small Chinese city / Vivienne Shue, p. 90. 5. The floating population in the cities: chances for assimilation? / Dorothy J. Solmger, p. 113. Pt. II. Urban Culture and Identities. Introduction / Richard Kraus, p. 143. 6. The politics of private time: changing leisure patterns in urban China / Shaoguang Wang, p. 149. 7. China's artists between plan and market / Richard Kraus, p. 173. 8. Velvet prisons and the political economy of Chinese filmmaking / Paul G. Pickowicz, p. 193. 9. The avant-garde's challenge to official art / Julia F. Andrews, Gao Minglu, p. 221. 10. The disintegration of the poetic "Berlin Wall" / Su Wei, Wendy Larson, p. 279. Pt. III. Urban Associations. Introduction / Elizabeth J. Perry, p. 297. 11. Labor's battle for political space: the role of worker associations in contemporary China / Elizabeth J. Perry, p. 302. 12. Dissident and liberal legal scholars and organizations in Beijing and the Chinese state in the 1980s / Mark Sidel, p. 326. 13. Urban spaces and experiences of qigong / Nancy N. Chen, p. 347. 14. Student associations and mass movements / Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Liu Xinyong, p. 362. 15. Conclusion: Historical perspectives / David Strand, p. 394. List of editors and contributors, p. 427. Index, p. 429.