The Shenzhen Experiment : : The Story of China's Instant City / / Juan Du.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Du, Juan,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2020]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: The Myth of Shenzhen --; PART I. NATIONAL RELEVANCE --; 1. Song for "The Story of Spring" --; 2. The "Southern Tours" That Changed China --; PART II. REGIONAL HISTORY --; 3. Gateway City to the South China Sea --; 4. Oysters of the Pearl River Delta --; PART III. CITY CONSTRUCTION --; 5. Towers by the Hong Kong Border --; 6. Nail House on "Wall Street" --; PART IV. DISTRICT TRANSFORMATION --; 7. Corporate Village in the Central Business District --; 8. "Slum" in the High-Tech Garden City --; Conclusion: City of Critical Experimentation --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Illustration Credits --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674242227; 9783110690057
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674242227?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Juan Du.

A rural borderland just forty years ago, today Shenzhen is a city of twenty million and a technology hub. This success is attributed to its status as a Special Economic Zone, but no other SEZs compare. Juan Du looks to the past to understand why. It turns out that Shenzhen is no prefab "instant city," but a place influenced by deep local history.