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Download or read book Neighborhood Organization and Social Control in Changing Urban China written by Lening Zhang and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopting a cross-cultural perspective, this book utilizes data collected from several large-scale surveys to assess the neighborhood social control system in a changing urban China. It conceptualizes this system through different types of neighborhood social control at private, parochial, semi-public, public, and market levels. The book highlights the importance of cross-cultural studies of neighborhood effects, and discusses several major issues in such studies along with prospects for future research.