Gentrification in Chinese Cities

Qinran Yang is a lecturer of the School of Architecture, Southwest Jiaotong University, China. She completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia, where she studied gentrification in Chinese cities, urbanization in East Asia, and urban governance. Her work has been published in academic journals such as Urban Studies and Geoforum. She recently won the National Natural Science Foundation of China and started a new research project on the changing social networks of urban poor being dislocated by state-facilitated urban redevelopment.

• Introduction.- Gentrification Studies on a Global Scale.- Grounding Gentrification in the Large Chinese City.- Inner-city Urbanism and the Construction of Consumer Citizenship.- Residential Relocation and the Working Class in Gentrification.- Structural Inequalities in the post-Gentrification Housing Market.- Conclusion.