TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chuang,Julia
TI  - Beneath the China Boom: Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market
SN  - 9780520973428
AV  - HT384 .B464 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - China
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Migrant labor
KW  - Migration, Internal
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Index of Characters; 1.   China's Rise; 2.   A Tale of Two Villages; 3.   Into the World of Chinese Labor; 4.   Rural/Urban Dualism; 5.   Urbanization and the New Rural Economy; 6.   Paradoxes of Urbanization; 7.   The Future of Chinese Development; Appendix; Notes; References; Index; 2; b
N2  - For nearly four decades, China's manufacturing boom has been powered by the labor of 287 million rural migrant workers, who travel seasonally between villages where they farm for subsistence and cities where they work. Yet recently local governments have moved away from manufacturing and toward urban expansion and construction as a development strategy. As a result, at least 88 million rural people to date have lost rights to village land. In Beneath the China Boom, Julia Chuang follows the trajectories of rural workers, who were once supported by a village welfare state and are now landless
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