The emergence of a new urban China : insiders' perspectives / edited by Zai Liang ... [and others].

Inckudes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Zai Liang, Steven F. Messner, Cheng Chen, and Youqin Huang -- Migrant workers and community reaction -- Job mobility of rural migrants in China's urban labor market : the case of Pearl river delta region / Zhen Li and Zai Liang -- Economic deprivation, social networks, and unprotected right : a study on peasant workers' collective action in the Pearl river delta / Xiaojuan Chen and Cheng Chen -- Institutionnel segmentation and psychosocial repellence : urban residents' attitude toward migrants / Jiashun Wang and Steven F. Messner -- New patterns of urbanization -- On not wanting to become urban : ethnographic perspectives from a Pearl River delta urban community transited from rural village / Cuiling Li and Josephine Smart -- The development of rural village in Chinese city : a case study of Zhu village in Guangzhou / Fuping Chen and Eric Fong -- Changing economy and urbanization in a Chinese ethnic minority village : the case of Bai peasants in Xizhou, Yunnan province / Xiongduan Yang and Alan Smart -- Impacts of globalization, technology, and markets on urban China -- The reconstruction of social support system for African merchants in Guangzhou, china / Tao Xu and Zai Liang -- Mobile phone culture among the information have-less : a case study of laid-off workers in Shenyang city, China / Guangxu Ji and Youqin Huang -- Housing property rights disputes in urban Chinese families : an institutional and sociological perspective / Jing Li and Youqin Huang.