Term | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.advisor | Buck, Daniel | |
dc.contributor.author | Bachrach, David | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-08T15:48:41Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-12-08T15:48:41Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-12-08 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/25906 | |
dc.description.abstract | Studies of urban China often deploy top-down analyses and focus on tier-1 cities such as Beijing and Shanghai. This thesis contributes to a diversifying literature by using a bottom-up analysis to compare the livelihood strategies of peri-urban residents in Taiyuan, a tier-2 city, to those in tier-1 and other lower-tiered cities. The empirical findings elucidate a similar spectrum of livelihood strategies, but unlike tier-1 and some lower-tiered cities, there was an absence of renting to migrant workers in peri-urban Taiyuan. Additionally, social infrastructure, social reproduction, and socio-spatial practices, often overlooked in studies of Chinese livelihoods, are central to understanding livelihood strategies people in peri-urban Taiyuan. Lastly, this thesis suggests that similar comparative studies can produce sharper insights into how processes of urbanization are not bound to specific territories: Chinese and global urban studies are connected through analogous urbanization processes, while also having unique circumstances. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | University of Oregon | |
dc.rights | All Rights Reserved. | |
dc.subject | China | en_US |
dc.subject | Livelihood Strategies | en_US |
dc.subject | Political Economy | en_US |
dc.subject | Shanxi | en_US |
dc.subject | Taiyuan | en_US |
dc.subject | Urban Studies | en_US |
dc.title | Livelihood Strategies in China: Lessons Learned From Taiyuan | |
dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation | |
thesis.degree.name | M.A. | |
thesis.degree.level | masters | |
thesis.degree.discipline | Department of Geography | |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Oregon |