ABSTRACT
Not all of the nation is undergoing the various forms of Chinese urbanization processes—deagriculturization, townization, and citization—at the same speed or depth. Each district that authors visited was of course unique, but looked at in comparison to the others, can be seen to have been caught up in processes that were not peculiar to them alone, but were part of the transformation of China during the last fifth of the 20th century. A few dozen miles north, most of the way to the great provincial capital of Guangzhou, lies the Huangpu District in what's now the far suburbs of that sprawling metropolis. Huangpu District is nowadays a part of Metropolitan Guangzhou administratively, and so Nangang Township is ruled over by that mega-city. The Municipality is the largest and most populous of the fabled "Four Little Tigers," those most prosperous of the Pearl River Delta's economically vibrant districts.
