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Demolishing Partitions: Back to Beginnings in the Cities?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Dorothy J. Solinger
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Using euphemisms and albeit haltingly, the leaders of the PRC in its 40s began blasting the barricades their forebears had constructed to design what they had considered a fully pristine, orthodoxly socialist, separate urban realm. The result of this recent demolition is that, as the system turns 50, its political elite – along with the markets they have licensed – is remodelling the metropolises into places less distinct socially from the rural areas outside them and much less homogeneous internally than the urban areas from which they are metamorphosing.

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The China Quarterly , Volume 159 , September 1999 , pp. 629 - 639
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1999

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