Four theses in the study of China's urbanization
Four theses in the study of China's urbanization
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-2427.2006.00671.x
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发表时间：
2006-06-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Friedmann, John
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作者：
Friedmann, John
这篇文章是专门为非汉学家的中国城市化学生写的。四篇论文应该为他们的研究提供信息。首先，中国是一个古老的城市文明，但我们今天看到的进程是前所未有的。因此，由于历史的连续性和时代的独特性，中国的城市化必须在这两个方面进行研究。第二篇论文认为，城市化是一组多维的社会空间过程，至少有七个不同和重叠的维度，每个维度都有自己的词汇和学术传统。因此，对中国城市化的研究需要跨学科的方法。论文三认为，城市化涉及城乡关系，但与许多早期研究不同的是，这些关系应该从城市而不是农村的角度来研究。最后，也是最有争议的一点是，中国的城市化虽然与全球化进程交织在一起，但主要应被理解为一种内生的进程，导致一种特殊的中国形式的现代性。
This article is written specifically for students of Chinese urbanization who are not sinologists. Four theses should inform their studies. The first is that China is an ancient urban civilization, but the processes we observe today are unprecedented. Thus, China's urbanization must be studied under this dual aspect, giving due to both historical continuities and the unique characteristics of our own era. The second thesis argues that urbanization is a set of multidimensional socio-spatial processes of at least seven different and overlapping dimensions, each with its own vocabulary and traditions of scholarship. The study of China's urbanization thus requires a trans-disciplinary approach. Thesis number three argues that urbanization involves rural-urban relations, but in contrast with many earlier studies, these relationships should be studied from an urban rather than rural perspective. Finally, and most contentiously, China's urbanization, although entwined with globalization processes, is to be understood chiefly as an endogenous process leading to a specifically Chinese form of modernity.