Becoming new urbanites: residents’ self-identification and sense of community in ‘village-turned-community’

Abstract In the process of rapid urbanization, the Chinese have seen the disappearance of a large number of villages and the emergence of ‘village-turned-community’. Many peasants move into newly built communities and become new urbanites. Based on fieldwork and a questionnaire survey, this research...

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Main Author: Ying Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-06-01
Series:The Journal of Chinese Sociology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40711-019-0097-x