| ID | 122937 |
| Title Proper | Urbanising the rural |
| Other Title Information | local strategies for creating new style communities in China |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Rosenberg, Lior |
| Publication | 2013. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The transition from traditional rural residences to urban-like multi-storey buildings and from traditional villages to rural residential communities (shequ) is one of rural China's most profound developments of the early twenty-first century. Official discourse highlights the potential benefits for villagers, portraying the new residential communities as gateways to modernity and significant steps toward reducing inequality and disparity between the rural and the urban. Based on extensive research in two counties in Shandong and Anhui provinces, this article concludes that while imposing urban-like models of residence may coincide with prosperous communities' circumstances, it may easily become a statist venture of predation and a source of tension and rural discontent in less prosperous communities. |
| `In' analytical Note | China Perspectives Vol. 2013, No.3; 2013: p.63-71 |
| Journal Source | China Perspectives Vol. 2013, No.3; 2013: p.63-71 |
| Key Words | Inequality ; Urbanisation ; Rural China ; Communities ; State - Society Relations |