Social space and governance in urban China : the danwei system from origins to reform / David Bray
- Bib ID:
- 3539497
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bray, David, 1965-
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- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005
- xii, 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0804750386
- Summary:
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"Centered on the urban workplace, the danwei (work unit) was the fundamental social and spatial unit of urban China under socialism. Not only was it the source of employment, wages, and other material benefits for the vast majority of urban residents, it was also the institution through which the urban population was housed, organized, regulated, policed, educated, trained, protected, and surveyed. Furthermore, as the basic unit of urban society, each danwei became a community, providing its members with identity, "face", and social belonging. With particular focus on the link between spatial forms and social organization, this book traces the origins and development of this critical institution to the present day. Recent economic restructuring has seen the danwei lose its dominant role, yet its influence still affects the possibilities for urban transformation.
Moreover, the author argues, the new institutions emerging in its place display important characteristics of the old danwei system."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Walls and compounds : toward a genealogy of danwei spatial practice
- 3. Modernity and social organization before 1949 : the emergence of the proto-danwei
- 4. From the government of space to the spatialization of government : the emergence of revolutionary spatial practice
- 5. Governing urban China : labor, welfare, and the danwei
- 6. Danwei space
- 7. Reforming the danwei
- 8. Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-268) and index.
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