China's Poor Regions

Mei Zhang holds a PhD Degree from the University of Cambridge. Her main areas of work are women labour, rural-urban migration and poverty, urbanisation and quantitative analyses of urban environments.

• Introduction1. Poverty and Migration: a theoretical overview2. Poverty and international migration in China3. Case study region and methodology4. Case study analysis: sending areas5. Case study analysis: destinations6. To what extent can rural-urban migration resolve rural poverty?

review in The China Quarterly - 2005