【英文摘要】Starting with the flow of rural poulation into urban areas, the author adopts a comparative approach to studyurbanization in modern China. Arguing that urbanization inmodern hina was quite different from that in the West, theauthor makes three observations:1)migration to urban areas inthe West was due to the "pull"of the city, while Chineseurbanization was due to the "push"of the countryside; 2) urbanization in the West was coincidental withindustrialization,and the two phenomena spiraledupward, whilein China urbanization was not tied to industrialization andsometimes occurred without it;3)urbanization in modern Chinahas propelled social and economic development in both ruraland urban areas,but with much moresuffering and at greatercost.The author concludes that the social character resultingfrom the "semi-feudal and semi-colonial China"determined thehistorical characteristics of urbanization in modern China.
【正文】
城市化是近代化过程中最富生气和活力的形态之一，产业革命以来城市化浪潮靡满全球的社会现实已充分证明其本身的普遍性。然而，作为一个历史范畴，城市化又必然受到社会政治、经济、文化等多种因素的制约，正如不同的民族和国家具有不同的历史发展道路一样，城市化也会在不同的国家和民族呈现出不同的模式。历史本身就是丰富多样的。