You-tien Hsing is Associate Professor of Geography at University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Making Capitalism in China: The Taiwan Connection (1998, Oxford University Press) and co-editor (with Ching Kwan Lee) of Reclaiming Chinese Society: Politics of Redistribution, Recognition, and Representation (Forthcoming, Routledge).

• PROLOGUE ; PART I: REDEVELOPMENT OF THE URBAN CORE ; PART II: EXPANSION OF THE METROPOLITAN REGION ; PART III: URBANIZATION OF THE RURAL FRINGE

You-tien Hsing has crafted a broad but concise, coherent but open-ended narrative. Readers who make The Great Urban Transformation their introduction to Chinas urbanisation will gain much from this book, even if they do not see all the implications of its findings and insights. Readers who have worked in the field for some time will find this book suggestive of promising new directions for research and action.

You-tien Hsing is Associate Professor of Geography at University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Making Capitalism in China: The Taiwan Connection (1998, Oxford University Press) and co-editor (with Ching Kwan Lee) of Reclaiming Chinese Society: Politics of Redistribution, Recognition, and Representation (Forthcoming, Routledge).

• PROLOGUE ; PART I: REDEVELOPMENT OF THE URBAN CORE ; PART II: EXPANSION OF THE METROPOLITAN REGION ; PART III: URBANIZATION OF THE RURAL FRINGE

You-tien Hsing has crafted a broad but concise, coherent but open-ended narrative. Readers who make The Great Urban Transformation their introduction to Chinas urbanisation will gain much from this book, even if they do not see all the implications of its findings and insights. Readers who have worked in the field for some time will find this book suggestive of promising new directions for research and action.

You-tien Hsing is Associate Professor of Geography at University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Making Capitalism in China: The Taiwan Connection (1998, Oxford University Press) and co-editor (with Ching Kwan Lee) of Reclaiming Chinese Society: Politics of Redistribution, Recognition, and Representation (Forthcoming, Routledge).

• PROLOGUE ; PART I: REDEVELOPMENT OF THE URBAN CORE ; PART II: EXPANSION OF THE METROPOLITAN REGION ; PART III: URBANIZATION OF THE RURAL FRINGE

You-tien Hsing has crafted a broad but concise, coherent but open-ended narrative. Readers who make The Great Urban Transformation their introduction to Chinas urbanisation will gain much from this book, even if they do not see all the implications of its findings and insights. Readers who have worked in the field for some time will find this book suggestive of promising new directions for research and action.