Strangers in the city :
reconfigurations of space, power, and social networks within China's floating population /
Li Zhang.

Description

Main Author

Zhang, Li, 1965 May-

Language(s)

English ; Chinese

Published

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.

Subjects

Social change > Social change / China > Social change / China / Beijing.
Urban policy > Urban policy / China > Urban policy / China / Beijing.
Migrant labor > Migrant labor / China > Migrant labor / China / Beijing.
Rural-urban migration > Rural-urban migration / China > Rural-urban migration / China / Beijing.
Soziales Netzwerk
Sozialer Wandel
Soziale Situation
Migration
Landflucht
Urban policy
Social change
Rural-urban migration
Migrant labor
Changement social > Changement social / Chine > Changement social / Chine / Pékin.
Politique urbaine > Politique urbaine / Chine > Politique urbaine / Chine / Pékin.
Travailleurs migrants > Travailleurs migrants / Chine > Travailleurs migrants / Chine / Pékin.
Exode rural > Exode rural / Chine > Exode rural / Chine / Pékin.
Social change > Social change / China > Social change / China / Beijing.
Urban policy > Urban policy / China > Urban policy / China / Beijing.
Migrant labor > Migrant labor / China > Migrant labor / China / Beijing.
Rural-urban migration > Rural-urban migration / China > Rural-urban migration / China / Beijing.
Zhejiang
Peking
China
China > China / Beijing

Summary

With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migration policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China's 'floating population, ' have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life. This massive flow of rural migrants directly challenges Chinese socialist modes of state control. This book traces the profound transformations of space, power relations, and social networks within a mobile population that has broken through the constraints of the government's household registration system. The author explores this important social change through a detailed ethnographic account of the construction, destruction, and eventual reconstruction of the largest migrant community in Beijing. She focuses on the informal privatization of space and power in this community through analyzing the ways migrant leaders build their power base by controlling housing and market spaces and mobilizing social networks.

Physical Description

xiv, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

ISBN

9780804742061
0804742065
9780804740302
0804740305

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