This open access book explores new research directions in social inequality and urban segregation. With the goal of fostering an ongoing dialogue between schola

In the last 30 years, China’s record economic growth lifted half a billion people out of poverty, with rapid urbanization providing abundant labor, cheap land

This book covers social inequalities in Chinese cities and provides comparative perspectives on inequality and social polarization, neoliberalization and the po

The trajectory and logic of urban development in post-Mao China have been shaped and defined by the contention between domestic and global capital, central and