By investigating the transformation of Nanjing’s suburban countryside, this paper examines the relationship between the city and its immediate periphery and the political underpinnings of rural-urban integration. It traces the changing status of a suburban village over the last half-century from a vegetable-producing collective to a remnant rural settlement in a predominantly urban landscape. Its evolution brings to light the condition of a protracted, incremental, and still incomplete urbanization. “Becoming urban” is more complex than the measurable shifts to nonagricultural activities and the urban household registration. This paper discusses how the transition has been shaped by changing national policies on rural-urban relations and local development pressures and demands on rural resources
城市化：江蘇省南京的城鄉整合
通過考察南京郊區農村的轉變，本文研究城市及其郊區的關係以及城鄉整合的政治基礎。本文追溯一個郊區的村子在過去半個世紀裏從 蔬菜生產合作社變為一個絕大部分城市化了的殘留農村居民點的轉變過程。這一轉變展示的是一個長久、漸進、尚未完成的城市化過程。”城市化”並不祗是轉向非 農業活動和改為城市戶口等可度量的變化，而是一個更複雜的過程。本文討論了變化中的國家城鄉關係政策、本土發展的壓力以及對農村資源的需求如何影響了這一 轉變。
Leslie Shieh