Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship

Rezensionen / Stimmen

"A sophisticated, analytically astute, and deeply informed study of local citizenship regimes in China. The book provides multiple new insights into the variable mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion of migrant outsiders moving into the cities of this authoritarian state. It stands as the definitive study of its subject."
-Dorothy J. Solinger, author of Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State, and the Logic of the Market "This book is an important contribution toward updating our understanding of the hukou system. By analyzing this stratified system of citizenship, Vortherms shows how the Chinese people are organized and offers a valuable way to see the strengths, costs, and weaknesses of the PRC way of governance."
-Fei-Ling Wang, author of The China Race: Global Competition for Alternative World Orders "The concept of citizenship is core to politics, but while this is treated as obvious in democracies, it can be overlooked in non-democratic settings. Vortherms' careful, multi-layered analysis of varieties of citizenship in China and institutions like the hukou system that structure them, makes this work important."
-Jeremy Lee Wallace, author of Cities and Stability: Urbanization, Redistribution, and Regime Survival in China "This excellent book provides invaluable insights into local governance, resource management, internal migration, regional gaps, and other key sociopolitical issues in China today. Highly recommended."-Z. Zhu, CHOICE