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² On planetary urbanization, see Brenner, Neil and Schmid, Christian, “Towards a New Epistemology of the Urban?,” City 19, nos. 2–3 (2015): 151–82CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

³ On Taiwan, see James Y. Lin, “Sowing Seeds and Knowledge: Agrarian Development in the US, China, Taiwan, and the World, 1920–1980” (PhD diss., University of California, Berkeley, 2017). On South Korea, see Chung Ho Kim, “Community Resilience of the Korean New Village Movement, 1970–1979: Historical Interpretation and Resilience Assessment” (PhD diss., University of Washington, 2017). On China, see Smith, Nick R., The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021)Google Scholar.

⁴ See, for instance, Fan, Cindy C., China on the Move: Migration, the State, and the Household (New York: Routledge, 2008)Google Scholar.

⁵ For instance, Rigg builds extensively on the desakota hypothesis. See McGee, Terry, “The Emergence of Desakota Regions in Asia: Expanding a Hypothesis,” in The Extended Metropolis: Settlement Transition in Asia, ed. Ginsburg, Norton, Koppel, Bruce, and McGee, Terry (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1991), 3–26Google Scholar.

⁶ This argument for a critical interrogation of the dialectical tension between, on the one hand, urban and rural categories and, on the other, the transformative processes they describe, is further developed in Smith, The End of the Village.