SUZHOU IN TRANSITION
Through the lens of the city of Suzhou, this edited volume presents views on the complex interaction between the central state, market agents, local governments and individuals who have shaped the development of Chinese cities and urban life.
Featuring a range of disciplinary perspectives, contributors to this volume have all undertaken research in one municipality Suzhou to consider how history and culture have evolved during the modernisation of Chinese cities and the transformation of urban space, as well as shifting ruralurban relations and urban life during the reform era. The volume is underscored by a complex dynamic system consisting of three interlocked mechanisms through which the central and local state interact: history and culture, social and economic life, and administration and governance. As such, chapters analyse responses both from the state and society as driving forces of local development, with an interplay between tradition and heritage on the one hand and Chinas economic and social development on the other.
Suzhou in Transition will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese and urban studies, as well as urban sociology and geography.
Beibei Tang is a Senior Associate Professor in the Department of China Studies at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She has undertaken extensive ethnographic research across different localities in China, with particular focuses on local governance, social stratification and statesociety relations in urban China. She has published her research in high-impact journals such as The China Quarterly, The China Journal and Journal of Contemporary China. She is the author of Chinas Housing Middle Class (2018) and the winner of the 2015 Gordon White Prize.
Paul Cheung is a sociolinguist based at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University. His research is focused on the representation of internal migration in public discourses and cultural factors associated with the flow of population across borders both salient and hidden. He is a principal investigator for the project Governance in Light of the New Citizenship Campaign in China.
ROUTLEDGE STUDIES ON CHINA IN TRANSITION
Series Editor: David S. G. Goodman
53GOVERNING HIV IN CHINA
Commercial Sex, Homosexuality and Rural-to-Urban Migration
Elaine Jeffreys and SU Gang
54CHINAS HOUSING MIDDLE CLASS
Changing Urban Life in Gated Communities
Beibei Tang
55CHINAS ARCHITECTURE IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD
Between Socialism and the Market
Jiawen Han
56LOCAL ELITES IN POST-MAO CHINA
Yingjie Guo
57PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND STATE BUILDING IN CHINA
Case Studies from Zhejiang
Dragan Pavlievi
58SOCIAL RELATIONS AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA
Change and Continuity in the New Era
Dragan Pavlievi and Zhengxu Wang
59SUZHOU IN TRANSITION
Edited by Beibei Tang and Paul Cheung
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SUZHOU IN TRANSITION
Edited by Beibei Tang and Paul Cheung
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Names: Tang, Beibei, editor. | Cheung, Paul (Sociolinguist), editor.
Title: Suzhou in transition / Beibei Tang and Paul Cheung.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. |
Series: Routledge studies on China in transition | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020031589 | ISBN 9780367439903 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367617738 (paperback) | ISBN 9781000217650 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781000217698 (epub) | ISBN 9781000217674 (mobi)
Subjects: LCSH: UrbanizationChinaSuzhou Shi (Anhui Sheng) | Economic developmentChinaSuzhou Shi (Anhui Sheng) | Suzhou Shi (Anhui Sheng, China)Social conditions. | Suzhou Shi (Anhui Sheng, China)History.
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CONTENTS
Carolyn Cartier is a Professor of Geography and China Studies at the University of Technology Sydney where she teaches in the Global Studies programme. Prof. Cartier is chief investigator of the Australian Research Council Discovery Project Governing the City in China: The Territorial Imperative in collaboration with East China Normal University and Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Her research programme focuses on the administrative divisions in China and current issues in comparative urban studies.
Paul Cheung is a sociolinguist based at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University. His research is focused on the representation of internal migration in public discourses and cultural factors associated with the flow of population across borders both salient and hidden. He is a principal investigator for the project Governance in Light of the New Citizenship Campaign in China.
Hu De teaches in the Department of Urban and Regional Economics at East China Normal University in Shanghai. He is Associate Director of the Center for Research on the Administrative Divisions in China, and partner investigator in the Australian Research Council Discovery Project Governing the City in China: The Territorial Imperative. He is the author of (2014).
Jiawen Han is a Lecturer in the Department of Architecture at the Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, where she teaches multiple levels of design studio, as well as architectural theory. She holds a PhD in architecture from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, and is the author of Chinas Architecture in a Globalizing World: Between Socialism and the Market (2018). Her multicultural experience allows her to see architecture through multiple lenses, balance what may seem like irreconcilable values and detect the potential innovations emerging from the new architectures and urban conditions in Asian cities. Her research interests range from new architecture and architects in China to spatial development in relation to modernity and the production of modern space.
