Polarized cities: portraits of rich and poor in urban China

Zhao, Yawei

doi:10.1080/15387216.2019.1705174

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Neoliberalism As Graduated Provision1

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“…While the Chinese authorities endeavor to neutralize class struggle by limiting inequalities in access to public goods, so far they have not succeeded. On the contrary, the inequalities are becoming increasingly caste-like as the more privileged members of society continue to benefi t more from public transfers in education, healthcare, and pensions (Wang 2018). Although China's income inequality has declined since 2008, it remains among the highest in the world (Kanbur, Wang, and Zhang 2017;Picke y, Li, and Zuckman 2017;Jain-Chandra et al 2018;Solinger 2018).…”

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From Village Commons to Public Goods

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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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