Globalisation And The Chinese City

Along with China's re-emergence on the world stage, the Chinese city is evolving into the globalized world. These changes have brought many new dimensions to Chinese urban life. Globalization and the Chinese City introduces readers to the far-reaching global orientation that is now taking place in urban China. The contributors describe overarching globalization through examining the transformation of the built environment in detail. The contributors analyse many urban development processes like urbanization, real estate development, changing landscapes, the industrial restructuring of the second-tier city, and the formation of the city-region in the context of global and local interactions. The geographical coverage of book includes mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan in the Greater China region; border/frontier regions, the cross-boundary city region, and the second tier cities as well as China's globalizing metropolises, such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. In examining city development and local practices as part of globalization processes, the global city is treated as a collection of microcosms and concrete places, overcoming the analytical tension of the dichotomy of the East versus West. This flexible and realistic approach is particularly useful to go beyond the restrictive notion of globalization with dealing with the non-Western world. A comprehensive and well-edited volume, Globalization and the Chinese City is an important reference for all of those interested in contemporary urban changes under globalization and a key text for researchers and students of the Chinese economy and society.Wu, Fulong is the author of 'Globalisation And The Chinese City ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780415351997 and ISBN 0415351995.