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Urbanization in China in the 1990s: New definition, different series, and revised trends. The China Review 2003
No full textAbstract This paper tackles new problems concerning China's urban population figures and the annual urban population series arising from the use of a new Census 2000 urban definition. The paper extends existing research and incorporates crucial findings not available or previously overlooked. The paper assesses major competing urban annual series for the 1990s, including the latest released in the Zhongguo tongji nianjian 2002 and checks empirically the different series of urban population estimates, by The China Review, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Fall 2003), 49-71 Kam Wing CHAN is Professor, Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. His research focuses mainly on migration, the hukou system, labour market, urbanization and cities in China. He has also served in recent years as a consultant for various international agencies on policy issues in China. 50 Kam Wing Chan and Ying Hu decomposing them and comparing the trends to those derived from migration and employment data from other sources. Based on the examination of several sets of data, revised urbanization and migration trends in the 1990s are presented. The paper also provides guidance on the use of the current urban population data and helps to establish a critical baseline for studying urbanization and migration in the 1990s, which was an important decade of urban change in China
Urbanization in China in the 1990s: New definition, different series, and revised trends. The China Review 2003
No full textAbstract This paper tackles new problems concerning China's urban population figures and the annual urban population series arising from the use of a new Census 2000 urban definition. The paper extends existing research and incorporates crucial findings not available or previously overlooked. The paper assesses major competing urban annual series for the 1990s, including the latest released in the Zhongguo tongji nianjian 2002 and checks empirically the different series of urban population estimates, by The China Review, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Fall 2003), 49-71 Kam Wing CHAN is Professor, Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. His research focuses mainly on migration, the hukou system, labour market, urbanization and cities in China. He has also served in recent years as a consultant for various international agencies on policy issues in China. 50 Kam Wing Chan and Ying Hu decomposing them and comparing the trends to those derived from migration and employment data from other sources. Based on the examination of several sets of data, revised urbanization and migration trends in the 1990s are presented. The paper also provides guidance on the use of the current urban population data and helps to establish a critical baseline for studying urbanization and migration in the 1990s, which was an important decade of urban change in China
The Global Financial Crisis and Migrant Workers in China: 'There is No Future as a Labourer; Returning to the Village has No Meaning'
No full textThis essay examines the impact of the global financial crisis on rural migrant labour in China, with a focus on unemployment. It illustrates the interaction of global and China-specific processes in the context of the worldwide recession. The essay first summarizes China's unique socio-economic system and the mechanisms that have created a system of 'rural migrant labour' and 'super-cheapened' it to help make China the 'world's factory'. The main part of the essay examines the unemployment situation for migrants in late 2008 and the first half of 2009, and the dislocations and problems migrant labourers are facing. The China story is complex but interesting, not only for its rather complicated lexicon and statistics that often confuse outside observers, but also for its distinctive system of exploiting the rural population and internal migrant labour. This system makes the impact of the global crisis on migrant labourers, which are at the bottom of the global supply chain, all the more apparent. The last part of this essay analyses recent governmental fiscal-stimulus policies and measures as well as their impact on rural migrant labour, making some broader observations and linking the crisis to China's model of development. Copyright (c) 2010 The Author. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research(c) 2010 Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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