Ergebnisse einer internationalen Konferenz über "Migration and Floating Population in China", die im Mai 1996 in Köln stattfand. Inhalt: Thomas Scharping: Studying Migration in Contemporary China: Models and Methods, Issues and Evidence (9-55); Ma Xia: New Trends in Population Migration in China (56-71); Judith Banister: China: Internal and Regional Migration Trends (72-97); Dorothy J. Solinger: Migrant Petty Entrepreneurs and a Dual Labor Market? (98-118); Jutta Hebel / Günter Schucher: Recent Changes in the Chinese Labour System and New Approaches to Labour Market Policies (119-148); Wang Feng: The Breakdown of a Great Wall: Recent Changes in the Household Registration System of China (149-165); Thomas Scharping / Walter Schulze: Labour and Income Developments in the Pearl River Delta: A Migration Survey of Foshan and Shenzhen (166-200); Sun Changmin: Floating Population in Shanghai - A Perspective of Social Transformation in China (201-215); Cai Fang: Recent Trends of Migration and Population in Shandong (216-235); Wolfgang Taubmann: Migration into Rural Towns (Zhen) - Some Results of a Research Project on Rural Urbanisation in China (236-263); Xu Gailing: Migration and Floating Population in Sichuan (264-277); Hein Mallee: Rural Houshold Dynamics and Spatial Mobility in China (278-296); Delia Davin: Migration, Women and Gender Issues in Contemporary China (297-314); Lutz Bieg: Rural and Urban Values as Mirrored in Contemporary Chinese Literature: Some Preliminary Remarks (315-328); Chen Chaonan: Selectivity of Migration in the Taipei Metropolitan Area - A Comparison with the Chinese Mainland (329-349); Karsten Giese: A Preliminary Study of Irregular Migration from Mainland China to Taiwan (350-374).