Learning from Shenzhen ：China’s Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City

Publication subTitle ：China’s Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City

Author： Mary Ann O'Donnell  

Publisher： University of Chicago Press‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9780226401263

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780226401096

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780226401126

Subject： K History and Geography

Keyword： 历史、地理

Language： ENG

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Description

This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China’s contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transformed from an experimental site for economic reform into a dominant city at the crossroads of the global economy. The first of China’s special economic zones, Shenzhen is today a UNESCO City of Design and the hub of China’s emerging technology industries.

Bringing China studies into dialogue with urban studies, the contributors explore how the post-Mao Chinese appropriation of capitalist logic led to a dramatic remodeling of the Chinese city and collective life in China today. These essays show how urban villages and informal institutions enabled social transformation through cases of public health, labor, architecture, gender, politics, education, and more. Offering scholars and general readers alike an unprecedented look at one of the world’s most dynamic metropolises, this collective history uses the urban case study to explore critical problems and possibilities relevant for modern-day China and beyond.

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Contents

Foreword - Ezra F. Vogel

Introduction: Experiments, Exceptions, and Extensions - Mary Ann O’Donnell, Winnie Wong, and Jonathan Bach

Part 1. Experiments (1979–92)

1. Shenzhen: From Exception to Rule - Jonathan Bach

2. Heroes of the Special Zone: Modeling Reform and Its Limits - Mary Ann O’Donnell

3. The Tripartite Origins of Shenzhen: Beijing, Hong Kong, and Bao’an - Weiwen Huang

4. How to Be a Shenzhener: Representations of Migrant Labor in Shenzhen’s Second Decade - Eric Florence

Part 2. Exceptions (1992–2004)

5. Laying Siege to the Villages: The Vernacular Geography of Shenzhen - Mary Ann O’Donnell

6. The Political Architecture of the First and Second Lines - Emma Xin Ma and Adrian Blackwell

7. “They Come in Peasants and Leave Citizens”: Urban Villages and the Making of Shenzhen - Jonathan Bach

8. Sex Work, Migration, and Mental Health in Shenzhen - Willa Dong and Yu Cheng

Part 3. Extensions (2004–Present)

9. Shenzhen’s Model Bohemia and the Creative China Dream - Winnie Wong

10. Preparedness and the Shenzhen Model of Public Health - Katherine A. Mason

11. Simulating Global Mobility at Shenzhen “International” Airport - Max Hirsh

Conclusion: Learning from Shenzhen - Mary Ann O’Donnell, Winnie Wong, and Jonathan Bach

A Shenzhen Glossary

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Index

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