Understanding Modern China: A New Analysis of Urbanization in China

China’s urbanisation is one of the major events that will affect the development of humankind, according to Joseph Stiglitz, the acclaimed American Nobel prize-winning economist. Urbanisation can act as a benchmark to gauge the economic and societal progress of a country. Since the founding of the PRC, China has witnessed a marked upward spike in the size of its urban population. The authors of this book explore the evolution of the economy, ecology and culture associated with the characteristics of urbanisation in China.