Wallace, Jeremy L.,

Cities and stability : urbanization, redistribution, and regime survival in China / Jeremy Wallace. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This title examines the threats that large cities pose to authoritarian regime survival and the ways that regimes respond to those threats, particularly focusing on China's management of urbanization through its household registration (hukou) system.

9780199379019 (ebook) : No price


Cities and towns--China.
Urbanization--China.
Rural-urban migration--Government policy--China.
Recording and registration--Government policy--China.

HT147.C48 / W355 2014

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