Description
By 2010, 260 million citizens were living outside of their permanent hukou location, a major challenge to the constrictive Mao-era system of migration and settlement planning. Jason Young shows how these new forces have been received by the state and documents the process of change and the importance of China’s hukou system. Jason Young 1. Introduction 2. Markets, Migrants and Institutional Change 3. The Hukou System 4. Institutional Change at the National Level 5. Institutional Change in Beijing, Shenzen and Chongqing 6. Hukou Reform for the New Century 7. Conclusion
