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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY  2021, Vol. 36 Issue (3): 5-14,36    DOI: 10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2021.03.002
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A REVIEW OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON GENTRIFICATION IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA: CHARACTERISTICS, TOPICS AND PROSPECTS
HUANG Xing1, LIU Yu-ting1,2
1. School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China;
2. State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China

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Abstract  As a phenomenon of socioeconomic spatial reconstruction, gentrification has long been studied by scholars in the Western world. However, against the background of rapid urbanization, empirical research on gentrification has taken off in China since the 2000s. Issues of gentrification research in China have not only shown the similar with the West, but also highlighted their Chinese local characteristics. Through the review of literature on Chinese gentrification, this paper comes to three conclusions about the empirical research on gentrification in contemporary China as follow. First, the importance of empirical research on gentrification in China has been recognized in recent decades, while the case areas mainly focus on the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta region, and then expand to the northeast and western large provincial cities and tourist attractions. Meanwhile, the main research centers are almost located in Nanjing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and other major central cities. Second, the empirical research on gentrification in China has primarily focused on six issues in terms of various forms of gentrification, gentrification and public policy, gentrifiers and cultural elements, gentrification and other urban issues, gentrification and social justice, and educationled gentrification. Finally, along with the tide of world development on gentrification, empirical research on Chinese gentrification focuses on the combination of Chinese context and increasingly forms the localized research of Chinese gentrification. However, the main problem, that putting high attention on research contents but light attention on research theory, is still apparent.
Key wordsgentrification      Chinese characteristics      empirical research      research issues      China     
Received: 30 April 2020     
PACS: C912.8  
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HUANG Xing,LIU Yu-ting. A REVIEW OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON GENTRIFICATION IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA: CHARACTERISTICS, TOPICS AND PROSPECTS[J]. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2021, 36(3): 5-14,36.
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