Urbanization With Chinese Characteristics ― The Hukou System and Migration

Building on his three decades of careful research, Professor Kam Wing Chan expertly dissects the complexity of China’s hukou system, migration, urbanization and their interrelationships in this set of journal articles published in the last ten years. This book examines several fundamental issues in China’s migration and urbanization: the definitions of and statistics about cities and migration, the hukou system, the rural migrant workers, and the government’s 2014 new-type urbanization blueprint.

Kam Wing Chan is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, USA. He is a leading expert on China's urbanization, migration, and the household registration (hukou) system, and author of an important work on China’s urbanization: Cities with Invisible Walls: Reinterpreting Urbanization in Post-1949 China (Oxford University Press, 1994).