Rural transformation and the persistence of rurality in China

Chung, Him

doi:10.1080/15387216.2014.902751

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“…Guldin (1997), having adopted perspective of the discontinuity of traditional practices that was accepted by modernity theorists, also believes that China's rural areas will gradually vanish against the strategic background of urbanization. Chung (2013), however, finds that rurality has not been violently extinguished by urbanization, as otherwise expected. Indeed, traditional practices are intertwined with new life experiences.…”

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confidence: 65%

“…Additionally, traditional rural cultures have power that cannot be overlooked in the rural areas of China that are currently transforming from an agricultural society to a modern society. Deep-rooted rural beliefs, familial relations and geo-relations continue to resist the forces of modernity in many areas (Chung, 2013). We examine how rurality, as a form of everyday life, was reconstructed under the network economy represented by the expansion of Taobao.…”

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Taobao practices, everyday life and emerging hybrid rurality in contemporary China

Geng

Xie

2016

Journal of Rural Studies

115

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a b s t r a c tOver the past decade, e-commerce has spread throughout China, providing an economic advancement opportunity for those in the lower classes of society. Villages who specialise in e-commerce, such as the Taobao villages, are booming. Taobao villages constitute an exciting phenomenon that has changed both the pattern of the rural economy, as well as the social foundation of rural daily life. This paper explores how everyday life in rural China has changed in response to the development of the network economy. Using Junpu village in Guangdong Province as a case study, our findings suggest that the development of e-commerce and network technology has changed the common values held towards rural life, the affection felt for the village, and the pace of life of local people. This development has also led to social separation in rural China. However, the intrusion of this new force of network economy has been resisted by local cultural structures such as family, clans, religion, and gender dynamics, leading to an unprecedented hybrid rurality. While network development has brought about the influence of modernity, the Chaoshan tradition of Junpu village has persisted and continued to be a part of life in this new stage of social life. The social milieu in rural China has been reconstructed and blends the alienation brought on by the operation of a network economy with the resistance felt from the practice of local cultural traditions.

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Section: Separation Of Rural Daily Spacesmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Taobao practices, everyday life and emerging hybrid rurality in contemporary China

Geng

Xie

2016

Journal of Rural Studies

115

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“…One role of a 'rural migrants' settlement' is to allow the continuation of rural migrants' lifestyle (Chung, 2013) or provide connection between migrants' rural background and their new urban background (Li, Zhu, & Li, 2009). …”

Section: Implications For the Need To Have Communal Activities For Rumentioning

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Designing Neighborhood for Communal Activities: The Case of Low-Rent Housing for Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China

Peng

2018

ICONARP

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Few researchers have observed the Chinese rural-to-urban migrants have the need to have communal activities to help them with the process of managing their spatial transition from the rural setting to the urban setting. This study investigates planning strategies regarding low-rent housing for Chinese rural-to-urban migrants through an examination of the intermediary spaces combined with functions shared among such Chinese migrants in their urban settlements. Chinese migrants gradually transfer from their home rural settlements to establish city lives and engage in urban occupations, but their sense of identity and family network remain grounded in a village culture. The high level of communal activities found in the spontaneous urban settlements of rural-to-urban migrants, can be understood as one aspect of the adherence to the lifestyle of their rural settlements. This research employs Canter's place model for organizing a data collection framework to understand the perception of high level of communal activities. As a

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“…An emphasis on export-oriented industries has turned the city into a major manufacturing center that continues to attract migrant workers, most of whom were denied a local urban hukou. Shenzhen's rapid economic growth drives an equally large area where the mass production of the built environment with a certain level of rurality persists along with the presence of pre-existing rural communities (Chung 2014). Spatial expansion of urban land has encroached its rural hinterland, creating 320 chengzhongcun.…”

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The effects of residential patterns and Chengzhongcun housing on segregation in Shenzhen

Hao

2015

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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As cities in China undergo growth and transformation, they continue to absorb migrants from both ends of the economic spectrum, giving rise to socially mixed cities. As this occurs, the cities experience an elevated level of residential segregation due to the emergence of new forms of enclave urbanism, such as gated communities and chengzhongcun (villages-in-the-city). Factors including historical legacy, land institutions, and property-led development have contributed to this divided residential pattern at the neighborhood level. However, at larger geographical scales, the degree of segregation depends on whether the provision of different housing types is systematically segregated among urban districts. This paper, using Shenzhen as a case study, examines the spatial logic of the divided pattern of the population by analyzing the distribution of both urban residents and housing provisions. The analysis explores segregation between the privileged hukou holders and underprivileged non-hukou migrants as well as the spatial separation of formal urban housing and chengzhongcun. As expected, non-hukou migrants are largely segregated from hukou holders due to their much-constrained choice of housing and the widespread availability of chengzhongcun. A rather low degree of segregation is manifest at the sub-district level. The pattern is somewhat more desirable, as it maintains a more spatially equitable setting that enables disadvantaged groups to reside within short distances of jobs and amenities. Nevertheless, urban renewal programs targeted at chengzhongcun are most likely to jeopardize such a pattern of housing, which may aggravate segregation at the larger geographical levels.

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Rural transformation and the persistence of rurality in China

Cited by 33 publications

References 34 publications

Taobao practices, everyday life and emerging hybrid rurality in contemporary China

Taobao practices, everyday life and emerging hybrid rurality in contemporary China

Designing Neighborhood for Communal Activities: The Case of Low-Rent Housing for Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China

The effects of residential patterns and Chengzhongcun housing on segregation in Shenzhen

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