search for books and compare prices
Tables of Contents for China's Limited Urbanization
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xi
Part I: China's Urbanization: Characteristics and an Analytical Framework
1
36
Urbanization and Economic Development in China
3
10
A Bewildering Picture of China's Urbanization Pattern
3
5
Empirical Assessment of China's Urbanization-Economy Relationship
8
4
Concluding Remarks
12
1
A Review of Extant Interpretations on China's Under-Urbanization
13
10
``Rural-Bias'' and ``Urban-Bias''. Two Orthodoxies
13
2
The Limitations of Extant Interpretations
15
3
The Important Issues of Theorizing China's Under-Urbanization
18
3
Concluding Remarks
21
2
Chinese Economic System and Urbanization: An Analytical Framework
23
14
The Chinese Economic System
23
3
Socialist Ownership Relations and State Control over Urbanization
26
1
Socialist Ownership Relations, State-Biased Development, and Under-Urbanization
27
4
Transition of the Economic System and Urbanization
31
4
Concluding Remarks
35
2
Part II: State Control and Urbanization
37
60
The Logic of State Control over Urbanization
39
18
Ownership Relations and State Control in Pre-Reform China
39
5
A Regulatory Network for Urbanization
44
3
Dilemmas of the Regulatory Mechanisms and the Necessity of State Control
47
7
Concluding Remarks
54
3
Implementation of State Control over Urbanization
57
40
Administrative Essence of State Control over Rural-to-Urban Migration Prior to the Economic Reforms
57
8
Rural-to-Urban Migration Governance Between 1979 and 1997
65
12
The Latest Changes in Rural-to-Urban Migration Control
77
9
Reforms of Ownership Relations and Rural-to-Urban Migration Control
86
8
Concluding Remarks
94
3
Part III: State-Biased Development and Urbanization
97
68
State Interests and the Official Counting of the Urban Population
99
18
The Official Criteria of Urban Designation
100
8
The Official Indicators of Urban Population
108
4
State Interests and the Size of Urban Population
112
3
Concluding Remarks
115
2
The Intersectoral Terms of Trade and Urbanization
117
22
Debates on Agricultural Contribution to Industrialization
117
4
The Under-Pricing of Agricultural Products
121
8
The Effects on Structural Change of the Under-Pricing of Agricultural Products
129
7
Concluding Remarks
136
3
Resource Allocation and Urbanization
139
18
The Pattern of State Expenditures
139
10
The Impact of State Expenditure on Urbanization
149
6
Concluding Remarks
155
2
Conclusion
157
8
Central Themes and Unanswered Questions
157
2
A Comparative Perspective on the Chinese Case
159
5
Areas for Further Research
164
1
Appendix A: Conceptualization of China's Urban Population
165
6
Bibliography
171
18
Abbreviations of Chinese Government Departments and Institutes
171
1
In English
171
10
In Chinese
181
8
Index
189