The aim of this paper is to exam rural transformation and the persistence of rurality in China.
Recent discussions on the “end of village” in China and policy suggestions that aligned to …

The aim of this paper is to exam rural transformation and the persistence of rurality in China.
Recent discussions on the “end of village” in China and policy suggestions that aligned to …

In The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China, Nick Smith examines
the last two decades of China's fraught and imbalanced rural-urban relationship. Focusing …

The reform era in China has been characterised by rapid territorial processes that have
advanced the reach of the urban for furthering capital accumulation. As borders were …

China has undergone rapid urbanization in the last two decades as part of the economic
reform that began in the 1970s (Davis et al., 1995; Lu et al., 2011). As housing demand …

The rapid marketization of rural labor, agricultural products, and land has dramatically
reshaped village life and its structures of governance. This volume, edited by Alexander F …

Based on an in-depth investigation of different regions of China's vast countryside,
Improving Village Governance in Contemporary China vividly describes rural governance …

Since the mid-2000s, the Chinese government has promoted village modernization under
the banner of “building a new socialist countryside.” To explain the origins and outcomes of …

Urbanizing villages are erstwhile rural villages that are spatially enveloped and are
characterized by their dual relation to the state, which expresses itself as an issue of …

China's land ownership system is basically twofold: state-owned urban land and collective
ownership of rural land. Due to the rapid urbanization process over the last three decades …