http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/1923678038

A Different Place in the Making the Everyday Life Practices of Chinese Rural Migrants in Urban Villages

The last three decades have seen dramatic changes in Chinese cities. While many tend to read these changes as the result of institutional reforms, macro planning, and top-down development, the author of this study focuses on the undercurrent at the bottom, from the margin, and without voice. Based on immersive fieldwork, she explores how a different place was created through the everyday life practices of rural migrants in two Chinese urban villages. Readers are invited to dive into a small, marginal, yet intricate and vibrant neighbourhood, where thousands of ''rural outsiders'' found their s.

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