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This book offers an essential introduction to the phenomenon of shrinking cities in China, highlighting several case studies, qualitative and quantitative methods, and planning responses. As an emerging topic in urbanizing China, cities experiencing population loss have begun attracting increasing attention. All chapters of the book were contributed by leading researchers on the subject in China. Richly illustrated with photographs for a better visual understanding of the topic, the book will benefit a broad readership, ranging from researchers and students of urban planning, urban geography, urban economics, urban sociology and urban design, to practitioners in the areas of urban planning and design.

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China has an estimated 120-150 million internal migrants from the countryside living in its cities. These people are the engine that has been driving China's high rate of economic growth. However, until recently, little or no attention has been given to the establishment of a social protection regime for migrant workers. This volume examines the key issues involved in establishing social protection for them, including a critical examination of deficiencies in existing arrangements and an in-depth study of proposals that have been offered for extending social security coverage. Featuring contri

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« Mao les avait glorifiés. La Chine moderne leur doit son miracle économique. La première puissance mondiale en devenir s'est hissée sur les épaules de ces millions de paysans transformés en ouvriers. S'inscrivant dans la plus grande migration humaine de l'histoire, cette masse laborieuse a quitté les campagnes. A Pékin, ils sont plus d'un million à peupler les sous-sols insalubres de la capitale. Enchaînant les petits boulots en attendant de trouver mieux, les Mingong - les ouvriers migrants - sont forcés de vivre sous terre. Venu des quatre coins du pays, issu de minorités ethniques diverses, ce peuple avance sans états d'âme à la recherche d'une vie meilleure. Il a fini par adopter le surnom dont il a été affublé : les Shuzu, la « tribu des rats »… Je suis allé à sa rencontre dans les boyaux tentaculaires de Pékin. J'ai partagé leur quotidien, par petites immersions, pendant près de deux ans : dans un monde interdit, sans fenêtre, sans eau et sans chauffage, éclairé au néon. Je les ai suivis dans leurs villages d'origine. Je suis allé à la rencontre des dizaines de millions d'enfants qu'ils ont abandonnés dans les campagnes. Car ils sont l'incarnation des paradoxes chinois. Le rêve du président Xi Jinping, apôtre de l'idéologie maoïste, est un lointain mirage pour eux, au pays du capitalisme débridé. Leur vie n'a rien du conte de fée. Pour autant, ils ne sont pas prêts de renverser le système… La propagande du Parti Communiste, l'espoir d'une vie meilleure et la résurgence du confucianisme ont fait des "miracles" ».

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Asia, the location of the world’s fastest-growing economies, is also home to some of the fastest rates of urbanization humanity has ever seen, a process whose speed renders long-term outcomes highly unpredictable. This volume contrasts with much published work on the rural/urban divide, which has tended to focus on single case studies. It provides empirical perspectives from four Asian countries: India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, and includes a wealth of insights that both critique and expand popular notions of the rural-urban divide. The volume is relevant not just to Asian contexts but to social scientific research on population dynamics more generally. Rather than deploying a single study to chart national trends, three chapters on each country make possible much more complex perspectives. As a result, this volume does more than extend our understanding of the interplay between cities and hinterlands within Asia. It enhances our notions of rural/urban cleavages, connections and conflicts more generally, with data and analysis ready for application to other contexts. Of interest to diverse scholars across the social sciences and Asian studies, this work includes accounts ranging from rural youth real estate entrepreneurs in Hyderabad, India, to social development in Aceh province in Indonesia, devastated by the 2004 tsunami, to the relationship between urban space and commonly held notions of the supernatural in Thailand’s northern city of Chiang Mai.

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