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PROCESSES OF MEGA-URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA: THE LOWER YANGZI DELTA AND KUNSHAN

PROCESSES OF MEGA-URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA: THE LOWER YANGZI DELTA AND KUNSHAN Abstract China's distinctive experience of socialist transition in a partially marketizing economy serves as a unique rubric for examining the critical processes and mechanisms of rural-urban transformation in Asia. Perhaps the most important reason for paying attention to the socialist transition in China, however, is the truly intriguing and unique patterns and processes of growth and development which have emerged during the reform period since 1978. Chief among these, was the apparent capacity to rapidly industrialize without transferring large numbers of people into big cities. One of the most striking elements of this transition has been the phenomenal growth and spatial proliferation of industries in the Chinese countryside. The opening up of markets and the increasing autonomy of enterprises with reforms has entailed an erosion of the divisions between rural and urban, reflected in the emergence of particular patterns of settlement and economic activity, which conform clearly to neither. This paper will use Kunshan, a county level municipality (xianji shi) located in southern Jiangsu Province, to explore the relationships between the changing structure of community administration, the development of rural nonagricultural enterprises, and the emergence of institutional structures which managed local economic activity. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Geographer Taylor & Francis

PROCESSES OF MEGA-URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA: THE LOWER YANGZI DELTA AND KUNSHAN

Marton, A. M.; McGee, T. G.
Asian Geographer , Volume 15 (1-2): 22 – Jan 1, 1996
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PROCESSES OF MEGA-URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA: THE LOWER YANGZI DELTA AND KUNSHAN

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Abstract China's distinctive experience of socialist transition in a partially marketizing economy serves as a unique rubric for examining the critical processes and mechanisms of rural-urban transformation in Asia. Perhaps the most important reason for paying attention to the socialist transition in China, however, is the truly intriguing and unique patterns and processes of growth and development which have emerged during the reform period since 1978. Chief among these, was the...
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Abstract

Abstract China's distinctive experience of socialist transition in a partially marketizing economy serves as a unique rubric for examining the critical processes and mechanisms of rural-urban transformation in Asia. Perhaps the most important reason for paying attention to the socialist transition in China, however, is the truly intriguing and unique patterns and processes of growth and development which have emerged during the reform period since 1978. Chief among these, was the apparent capacity to rapidly industrialize without transferring large numbers of people into big cities. One of the most striking elements of this transition has been the phenomenal growth and spatial proliferation of industries in the Chinese countryside. The opening up of markets and the increasing autonomy of enterprises with reforms has entailed an erosion of the divisions between rural and urban, reflected in the emergence of particular patterns of settlement and economic activity, which conform clearly to neither. This paper will use Kunshan, a county level municipality (xianji shi) located in southern Jiangsu Province, to explore the relationships between the changing structure of community administration, the development of rural nonagricultural enterprises, and the emergence of institutional structures which managed local economic activity.

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Published: Jan 1, 1996

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