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Urbanization in China since 1949

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The China Quarterly , Volume 109 , March 1987 , pp. 101 - 104
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3. Cf. Tongji gongzuo tongxun, No. 8 (November 1954), pp. 1–2; Tongji gongzuo, No. 11 (June 1957), p. 24; “Guojia tongjiju guanyu chengxiang huafen biaozhun ruogan zhuyao wenti di shuoming” (“Explanation of the State Statistical Bureau concerning certain major problems in defining urban and rural areas”), Zhonghua renmin gongheguo fagui huibian (Collected Laws and Decrees of the People's Republic of China) (July-December 1955) pp. 416–17.

4. World Bank (ed.), China: Socialist Economic Development, Annex B (Washington, D.C.: 1981), pp. 65–66, 76.

5. Kam Wing Chan and Xueqiang Xu, “Urban population growth,” pp. 597, 603, Tables 3 and 5. Zhongguo tongji nianjian 1981 (Statistical Yearbook of China, 1981) included the census figure for the urban total of 1953; the editions of 1983 and 1984 deleted it.

6. Kam Wing Chan and Xueqiang Xu, “Urban population growth,” p. 595; R. Kirkby, Urbanisation in China, pp. 107–124.

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13. An example is Jack, Chen, A Year in Upper Felicity (New York: Macmillan, 1973).Google Scholar