Download or read book China's Hukou System written by Jason Young and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 2010, 260 million citizens were living outside of their permanent hukou location, a major challenge to the constrictive Mao-era system of migration and settlement planning. Jason Young shows how these new forces have been received by the state and documents the process of change and the importance of China's hukou system.