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Buck, Daniel Bachrach, David 2020-12-08T15:48:41Z 2020-12-08T15:48:41Z 2020-12-08 https://hdl.handle.net/1794/25906 Studies of urban China often deploy top-down analyses and focus on tier-1 cities such as Beijing and Shanghai. This thesis contributes to a diversifying literature by using a bottom-up analysis to compare the livelihood strategies of peri-urban residents in Taiyuan, a tier-2 city, to those in tier-1 and other lower-tiered cities. The empirical findings elucidate a similar spectrum of livelihood strategies, but unlike tier-1 and some lower-tiered cities, there was an absence of renting to migrant workers in peri-urban Taiyuan. Additionally, social infrastructure, social reproduction, and socio-spatial practices, often overlooked in studies of Chinese livelihoods, are central to understanding livelihood strategies people in peri-urban Taiyuan. Lastly, this thesis suggests that similar comparative studies can produce sharper insights into how processes of urbanization are not bound to specific territories: Chinese and global urban studies are connected through analogous urbanization processes, while also having unique circumstances. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. China Livelihood Strategies Political Economy Shanxi Taiyuan Urban Studies Livelihood Strategies in China: Lessons Learned From Taiyuan Electronic Thesis or Dissertation M.A. masters Department of Geography University of Oregonopen.access