Managing Migrant Contestation. Land appropriation, intermediate agency, and regulated space in Shenzhen

Cheng, Edmund W.

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“…Rural collectives were largely responsible for their own welfare, infrastructure, public security, and sanitation (Han and Huang 2019). In the 1980s, the state severely cut its already very small amount of direct aid for rural collectives (Howard 1986;Wong 1988), and many village communities had to largely fi nance their own infrastructure and other public services even as they started to urbanize their infrastructure and their populations expanded (Jiang 2005;Po 2012;Cheng 2014).…”

Section: China's Urban Villagesmentioning

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From Village Commons to Public Goods

Trémon

2023

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Illuminating the complex processes of China’s uneven urbanization through the lens of the transition from village commons to public goods, this book is set in three urbanized villages in Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Xi’an, which have experienced similar demographic explosions and dramatic changes to their landscapes, the livelihoods of its inhabitants, and the power structures governing their residents. Graduated provision is the delivery of public goods informed by the teleological ideology of urbanization, and by neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics, and has been employed as an answer to the challenges of making public goods, such as welfare provisions, public parks, education, and senior care, equally accessible to all in recently urbanized communities.

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Section: China's Urban Villagesmentioning

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2023

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“…That means, at the core of the Shenzhen municipal governance structure unfolds a complex process of negotiating and struggling over power between the formal administration and the villages. In this struggle, lineage identity becomes a crucial factor because it establishes and expresses an interest group in the urban system that countervails the authority of formal municipal government (Cheng, 2014).…”

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“…The revival of lineages has been mostly interpreted as a transitory phenomenon, presumably reflecting the weak position of native Shenzhen people in the larger setting of the urban political economy (e.g. Cheng, 2014; Chung & Unger, 2013). However, as we have seen, the cases of the Wen and the Huang clearly reflect the ascendance of local power groups.…”

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“…This had huge impact on the development of urban infrastructure, because the original communities had been active in creating the unique phenomenon of “urban villages,” the origin of which has been studied by numerous authors (e.g. Cheng, 2014; Chung & Unger, 2013; Lai et al, 2017; Wang, 2016). Although urban villages also exist in other Chinese cities, they are particularly large in Shenzhen: It is estimated that about 50 percent of Shenzhen population lives in these places (explaining the huge gap between factual and official population figures).…”

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Ritual Spaces, Governmentality and Cultural Governance in Urban Development: The Case of Shenzhen

Guo

Herrmann‐Pillath

2021

Space and Culture

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Recently, the concept of “cultural governance” has gained analytical traction in research on Chinese urban development. This is mostly diagnosed as a top-down process of defining and imposing cultural forms in government-led projects, such as in tourism. We argue that the case of Shenzhen manifests important differences, and is highly significant, considering the national and international status of this mega-city. Based on detailed field studies, supplemented with information about other cases, we show that in Shenzhen local cultural forms show resilience and increasing public presence, while also being shaped by inclusive cultural policies that are informed by the national drive towards reinstating traditional Chinese values as part and parcel of national identity. One manifestation is the enactment of the traditional ritual space of the village in urban architecture, such as the duality of ancestral hall and village temple, often at so-called “cultural squares,” and the expression of territorial ambitions of lineages in competitive projects of redevelopment. We suggest enhancing the concept of cultural governance by the concept of governmentality to grasp these phenomena analytically.

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“…Urban sprawl is swallowing towns and villages on the urban fringes, which has led to 'villages-in-the-city' (Buckingham & Chan, 2018). As the Gini coefficient implies, residents who live in a 'villages-in-the-city' may experience inequity, with lower-income and poor life quality comparing to that higher income and qualified life in urban areas, which may cause crimes (E. W. Cheng, 2014). However, unbalanced incomes attract many migrant workers from rural to urban areas.…”

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Living heritage and place revitalisation: a study of place identity of Lili, a rural historic canal town in China

Zhao¹

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China is confronting intractable challenges during the process of urbanisation. The urban-rural binary structure that has developed since 1958 has led to a gap in development between urban and rural China. Rapid urbanisation has exacerbated the gap between urban and rural areas and has caused the outflow of rural residents seeking employment in cities, which has led to 'hollowed villages', that is, with decreasing populations, in rural China. These issues have attracted much attention from the central Chinese government who have promulgated a series of policies to support rural development, especially economically. In recent decades, developers and governments have increased the economic profits from real estate and tourism economies in rural areas, so that historic cultural landscapes have, in some places, been replaced by modern residential apartments or pseudo-historic districts in rural historic towns and villages. Under this situation, historic cultural landscapes with significant place identities, attachment and collective memories have been impacted, and the cultural and social values within these rural communities are gradually diminishing. In consideration of these issues in rural China, in 2018, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the 'Rural Revitalisation Strategy' for future rural redevelopment. This research examines how such strategies are unfolding in rural China taking Lili, a Chinese rural historic canal as an vii Acknowledgements When I start writing the acknowledgement, I have just realised that my PhD journey at the University of Queensland (UQ) is coming to an end. These four years in UQ trained me to be an early career researcher with generous support from my supervisors, colleagues, friends and family. The thesis would not be possible to be accomplished without your help and I own my deepest debt of gratitude to all of you! I would like to initially express gratitude to my supervisors. Working with them is a great fortune to me during the study at the UQ. I would like to express my deepest appreciation to my principal supervisor Dr Kelly Greenop for her thoughtful and patient supervision, as well as her encouragement whenever I felt confused in my study and life. I was so grateful to her message that cheered me up when I failed in the first confirmation. I would also like to express my gratitude to Associate Professor Chris Landorf, my associate supervisor. She has been extraordinarily inspiring and informative for my research, offering professional guidance and warm encouragement. I still remember the constructive recommendation notes on my thesis chapters and other paper works that written carefully word by word. I also want to thank my co-supervisor Professor John Macarthur who met me during my master study in Nanjing. His professional suggestions and advice inspired me at some difficult stages of this thesis. I also express my gratitude to all the friendly colleagues and staff at the UQ School of Architecture,

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Managing Migrant Contestation. Land appropriation, intermediate agency, and regulated space in Shenzhen

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From Village Commons to Public Goods

From Village Commons to Public Goods

Ritual Spaces, Governmentality and Cultural Governance in Urban Development: The Case of Shenzhen

Living heritage and place revitalisation: a study of place identity of Lili, a rural historic canal town in China

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