This book examines how urban China is experiencing the shift from a planned to a market economy.

In the last 30 years, China’s record economic growth lifted half a billion people out of poverty, with rapid urbanization providing abundant labor, cheap land

Through interviews with city residents, Martin King Whyte and William L. Parish provide a unique survey of urban life in the last decade of Mao Zedong's rule. T

This in-depth volume explains China's residential construction boom and reviews how some established trends are likely to challenge its housing market in coming

The danwei (workunit) has been the fundamental social and spatial unit of urban China under socialism. With particular focus on the link between spatial forms a