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%T The RuralUrban Fringes in the Local Limelight: Urban Village Redevelopment in Yinchuan, Ningxia %A Malzer, Michael %J Journal of Current Chinese Affairs %N 3 %P 357-377 %V 49 %D 2020 %K Yinchuan; urbanisation; urban villages; resettlement; local governments %@ 1868-4874 %U file:///tmp/Dokumente/10.1177_1868102620912094.pdf %X As urbanisation strategies have been adopted throughout China in recent years, it has become increasingly relevant to study their implementation processes in so-called lower-tier cities away from the well-known regions. Urbanisation has given rise to different types of settlements for landless peasants: planned resettlement neighbourhoods, as well as more or less accidentally grown urban villages. While resettlement is widely adopted and positively propagated, urban villages are usually only seen as soon-to-be demolished "non-places" and their residents are often stigmatised. This article focuses on a case in Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia Hui autonomous region. It analyses the demolition process of Yingnan village and its lead-up and finds that despite this general discursive framework, exposure on a local TV show and low scores on a national "civilised cities" ranking pressured the local government to not ignore Yingnan village as merely a “non-place” but to invest in better sanitary conditions and speed up redevelopment. %C DEU %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info