The Transformation of Urban Vegetable Retail in China: Wet Markets, Supermarkets, and Informal Markets in Shanghai

• Main Authors: ZHANG, Qian Forrest, PAN, Zi
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: vegetable retail; food price; supermarkets; wet markets; urban space; China; Agribusiness; Asian Studies; Sociology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1038; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2295/viewcontent/ZhangQF2013TransformationUrbanVegetableRetailChina_PP.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The state-monopolised system of vegetable retail in socialist urban China has transformed into a market-based system run by profit-driven actors. Publicly owned wet markets not only declined in number after the state relegated its construction to market forces, but were also thoroughly privatised, b...