The rise of major metropolises across China since the 1990s has been a double-edged sword: although big cities function as economic powerhouses, concentrated urban growth can worsen regional inequalities, governance challenges, and social tensions. Wary of these dangers, China’s national leaders have tried to forestall top-heavy urbanization. However, urban and regional develop...(展开全部)

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics is an authoritative volume on an established subject in political science and the academy more generally: urban politics and urban studies. The editors are all recognized experts, and are well connected to the leading scholars in urban politics. The book covers the major themes that animate the subfield: the politics of space and place; p...(展开全部)

In many discussions of nations' development, we often focus on their economic and social development. Is it becoming wealthier? Is its society modernizing? Is it becoming more technologically sophisticated? Are social outcomes improving for the broad mass of the public? The process of development policy implementation, however, is always and inevitably political. Put simply, re...(展开全部)

Though China's urban history reaches back over five thousand years, it is only in the last quarter century that urbanization has emerged as a force of widespread social transformation while a massive population shift from country to city has brought about a dramatic revolution in China's culture, politics, and economy. Employing a historical perspective, John Friedmann presents...(展开全部)

Why would the removal of authoritarian institutions in some developing countries lead to sustained socio-economic crisis, while others experience explosive growth despite 'persisting' informal, insecure and rent-seeking institutional arrangements? A key to solving this enigma lies in understanding China, a country where the paradoxes of development are highly visible. Peter Ho ...(展开全部)

In "Other Chinas" Ralph A. Litzinger investigates the politics of ethnic identity in post-socialist China. By combining innovative research with extensive fieldwork conducted during the late 1980s and early 1990s in south-central and southwestern China, Litzinger provides a detailed ethnography of the region's Yao population in order to question how minority groups are represen...(展开全部)

There are more than 225 million rural-to-urban migrant workers, and some 20 million migrant children in Chinese cities. Because of policies related to the household registration (hukou) system, migrant students are not allowed a public high school education in the cities, so their urban education stops abruptly at the end of middle school. This book investigates the post-middle...(展开全部)

朱锋，北京大学国际战略研究中心副主任、北京大学国际关系学院教授。曾在美国哈佛大学、美国战略与国际研究中心、英国杜兰大学等多家国际学术机构担任访问学者。其学术专著有《人权与国际关系》（200）、《弹道导弹防御计划与国际安全》（2001）、《东亚安全：理论与政策的分析》（2007）。 罗伯特·阿特(Robert J．Art)，美国布兰代斯大学赦脱国际关系学教授，哈佛大学博士，著名的国际关系学家、国际安全研究专家，也是闻名于国际战略学界的杰出学者。曾在哈佛大学的奥林战略所供职，曾任美国国防部远程计划参谋秘书、麻省理工学院安全研究项目的高级研究员。研究方向是国家安全事务与美国外交政策。

While urban preservation is almost as old as cities themselves, it has become increasingly controversial in modern cities. In this book, Yue Zhang presents a cross-national comparative analysis of the politics of urban preservation. Based on comprehensive archival research and more than two hundred in-depth interviews in Beijing, Chicago, and Paris, Zhang finds that urban prese...(展开全部)

张玥，普林斯顿大学政治学博士，伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校政治学系副教授，主要研究方向为比较政治学与城市政治学，近年来一直致力于关于城市化与城市治理的实证研究，在国际核心学术期刊上发表论文十余篇。