The Politics of Community Building in Urban China

摘要

The Politics of Community Building in Urban China is empirically rich and theoretically well grounded. To my knowledge, it is the first book-length treatment of the changing nature of urban governance in China. It joins a growing body of literature in Chinese politics that tries to understand how the Chinese party-state adopts different kinds of governance techniques, including seemingly neo-liberal methods of governance, in order to maintain its legitimacy and social stability. The book makes an important contribution, not only to the study of urban politics in the field of Chinese politics, but also to comparative studies of governance and community elsewhere in the world.