In this article, population movement forced by administrative power is referred to as policy-induced movement, whereas that caused by economic factors or disasters as spontaneous movement. The author explores China's population movement over a forty-five-year-period since the early 1950s by...

Compared with the advanced countries of Europe where migration from the countryside and urbanization progressed along with industrialization, one sees in the developing countries urbanization taking place both with and without industrialization. In this introduction, the author discusses seven...