John R. Logan is Professor of Sociology and Director of the initiative on Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences at Brown University. Founder of the Urban China Research Network, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dr. Logan is also a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Urban Affairs and City and Community. He was chosen Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, SUNY, as well as Director of the Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research. In April 2003 he was selected by American Demographics magazine as one of five social demographers whose work has most influenced his field in the last 25 years.

“On the whole, this collection offers undergraduates an accessible introduction to contemporary urban developments in China and to a wide range of qualitative and quantitative analyses commonly used in the social sciences. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” (CHOICE, February 2009) These essays on recent Chinese urban developments--particularly trends in migration, labor economics, housing, economic and sociospatial inequality, and governance--offer macro and micro perspectives through analysis of nationwide patterns or developments in specific cities, thus capturing the regional diversity and types of cities in China. Editor Logan is careful not to present the Chinese instance as exceptional, but to situate it within a wider context through comparative analysis. He pairs up scholars from different disciplines and areas for each essay in order to set up comparison between Chinese urban developments and those in the US, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Logan asked the contributors to view their data through four theoretical lenses: modernization (Simon Kuznet's model), dependency/world system, developmental state, and market transition. By doing so, contributors discover meaningful differences that reveal trends unique to the Chinese context. On the whole, this collection offers undergraduates an accessible introduction to contemporary urban developments in China and to a wide range of qualitative and quantitative analyses commonly used in the social sciences. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries. -- L. Teh, University of Chicago (Choice, February 2009)

• Notes on the Contributors viiiSeries Editors’ Preface xiiiAcknowledgments xivIntroduction: Urban China in Comparative Perspective 1John R. Logan and Susan S. FainsteinPart I: Market Transition in Work Units and the Labor Market 251 Two Decades of Reform: The Changing Organization Dynamics of Chinese Industrial Firms 27Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima2 The Myth of the “New Urban Poverty”? Trends in Urban Poverty in China, 1988–2002 48Simon Appleton and Lina Song3 Class Structure and Class Inequality in Urban China and Russia: Effects of Institutional Change or Economic Performance? 66Yanjie Bian and Theodore P. Gerber4 Gender and the Labor Market in China and Poland 89C. Cindy Fan and Joanna RegulskaPart II: Changing Places 1135 Urbanization, Institutional Change, and Sociospatial Inequality in China, 1990–2001 115Michael J. White, Fulong Wu, and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen6 Growth on the Edge: The New Chinese Metropolis 140Yixing Zhou and John R. Logan7 Mirrored Reflections: Place Identity Formation in Taipei and Shanghai 161Jennifer Rudolph and Hanchao Lu8 Is Gating Always Exclusionary? A Comparative Analysis of Gated Communities in American and Chinese Cities 182Youqin Huang and Setha M. LowPart III: Impacts of Migration 2039 Urbanization in China in the 1990s: Patterns and Regional Variations 205Zai Liang, Hy Van Luong, and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen10 Trapped in Neglected Corners of a Booming Metropolis: Residential Patterns and Marginalization of Migrant  Workers in Guangzhou 226Min Zhou and Guoxuan Cai11 Migration and Housing: Comparing China with the United States 250Weiping Wu and Emily RosenbaumPart IV: Social Control in the New Chinese City 26912 Economic Reform and Crime in Contemporary Urban China: Paradoxes of a Planned Transition 271Steven F. Messner, Jianhong Liu, and Susanne Karstedt13 Migration, Urbanization, and the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Empirical and Theoretical Observations in China and Indonesia 294Christopher J. Smith and Graeme Hugo14 The State’s Evolving Relationship with Urban Society: China’s Neighborhood Organizations in Comparative Perspective 315Benjamin L. Read and Chun-Ming ChenSubject index 336Author index 355