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Article: Planting Houses in Shenzhen: A real estate market without legal titles
Title | Planting Houses in Shenzhen: A real estate market without legal titles |
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Authors | |
Keywords | China law and development market transition property rights small property |
Issue Date | 2014 |
Citation | Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 2014, v. 29, n. 2, p. 253-272 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Can a real estate market operate without legal titles? Th e answer has conventionally been no. But in Shenzhen, the iconic city of China's market economy, an opposite phenomenon exists: half of the buildings within the city, which has 1,993 square kilometers of land and over 10 million people, have no legal titles and have been rented or sold to millions of people illegally. Th ese illegal buildings are called small properties, because their property rights are "smaller" (weaker) than legal properties. Based on my one-year fieldwork, this paper is a first step toward explaining the small-property market. It reveals that legitimate organizations and professionals have developed a network to facilitate impersonal transactions of illegal small properties. Set against the backdrop and context of China's transition, this paper presents a feasible plan for building a market economy in transitional countries, where property laws are oft en less than ideal. © 2014 Canadian Journal of Law and Society. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/202225 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 0.5 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.174 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Qiao, Shitong | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-08-22T02:57:49Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-08-22T02:57:49Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 2014, v. 29, n. 2, p. 253-272 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0829-3201 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/202225 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Can a real estate market operate without legal titles? Th e answer has conventionally been no. But in Shenzhen, the iconic city of China's market economy, an opposite phenomenon exists: half of the buildings within the city, which has 1,993 square kilometers of land and over 10 million people, have no legal titles and have been rented or sold to millions of people illegally. Th ese illegal buildings are called small properties, because their property rights are "smaller" (weaker) than legal properties. Based on my one-year fieldwork, this paper is a first step toward explaining the small-property market. It reveals that legitimate organizations and professionals have developed a network to facilitate impersonal transactions of illegal small properties. Set against the backdrop and context of China's transition, this paper presents a feasible plan for building a market economy in transitional countries, where property laws are oft en less than ideal. © 2014 Canadian Journal of Law and Society. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Canadian Journal of Law and Society | - |
dc.subject | China | - |
dc.subject | law and development | - |
dc.subject | market transition | - |
dc.subject | property rights | - |
dc.subject | small property | - |
dc.title | Planting Houses in Shenzhen: A real estate market without legal titles | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/cls.2013.58 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84904651175 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 247314 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 29 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 253 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 272 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1911-0227 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000216121900008 | - |
dc.identifier.ssrn | 2391012 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0829-3201 | - |