From Village to City: Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat

Kipnis, Andrew

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From Village to City: Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat

Date

2016

Authors

Kipnis, Andrew

Publisher

University of California Press

Abstract

Between 1988 and 2013, the Chinese city of Zouping transformed from an impoverished town of 30,000 people to a bustling city of over 300,000, complete with factories, high rises, parks, shopping malls, and all the infrastructure of a wealthy East Asian city. FromVillage toCity paints a vivid portrait of the rapid changes in Zouping and its environs and in the lives of the once-rural people who live there.