Author: Davis, Deborah S.; Kraus, Richard; Naughton, Barry & Perry, RElizabeth J.; editors:
Title: Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in post-Mao China /
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (1995). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, ix,449 pp. Textual photos,maps,tables.. Some rubbing. A rubberstamp to reverse of title-page. VG. ¶ Contains 15 papers. Includes: Urban China: Introduction [Deborah S. Davis];Urban Time and Space [Barry Naughton]; Urban transformations in post-Mao China: impacts of the reform era on China's urban form [Piper Rae Gaubatz];Cities and the Chinese economic system: changing roles and conditions for autonomy [Barry Naughton]; State sprawl: the regulatory state and social life in a small Chinese city [Vivienne Shue]; The floating population in the cities: chances for assimilation [Dorothy J. Solinger]; Urban Culture and Identities [Richard Kraus]; The politics of private time: changing leisure patterns in urban China [Shaoguang Wang]; China's artists between plan and market [Richard Kraus]; Velvet prisons and the political economy of Chinese filmmaking [Paul Pickowitz]; The avantgarde's challenge to official art [Julia F. Andrews and Gao Minglu]; The disintegration of the poetic 'Berlin Wall' [Su Wei and Wendy Larson]; Urban Associations [ Elizabeth J. Perry]; Labor's battle for political space: the role of worker associations in contemporary China [Elizabeth J. Perry]; Dissident and liberal legal scholars and organizations in Beijing and the Chinese state in the 1980s [Mark Sidel]; Urban spaces and experiences of qigong [ Nancy N. Chen]; Student associations and mass movements [Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Liu Xinyong]; Conclusion: Historical perspectives [David Strand].

Keywords: Chinese Urban Sociology, Communist China, Urbanization, Political Social, History, City Cities Towns, East Asia, ,