The City in China: New perspectives on contemporary urbanism~ Ray FORREST, Julie REN & Bart WISSINK; Robert Park in China: From the Chicago School to Urban China Studies~Xuefei REN (Centre for Chinese Studies, Michigan State University); "Bewitched by the History Behind the Walls": Robert Park and the Arc of Urban Sociology from Chicago to China~Bettina GRANSOW (East Asian Studies, Freie Universitaet Berlin); Moral Order in the Post-Socialist Chinese City: Generating a Dialogue with Robert E. Park's "The City"~Fulong WU and Zheng WANG (Bartlett School, University College, London); Learning from Chicago (and LA)? The Contemporary Relevance of Western Urban Theory for China"Bewitched by the history behind the walls": Robert Park and the arc of urban sociology from Chicago to Shenzhen~Bart WISSINK (Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong); From Chicago to Shenzhen, via Birmingham: Zones of Transition and Dreams of Homeownership~Ray FORREST (Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong); Urbanization and Economic Development: Comparing the Trajectories of China and the United States~Jan NIJMAN (Urban Studies Institute, Georgia State University, USA); The Handshake 302 Village Hack Residency: Chicago, Shenzhen, and the Experience of Assimilation~Mary Ann O'DONNELL (Independent scholar/anthropologist/poet, Shenzhen); Beijing Ring Roads and the Poetics of Excess and Ordinariness~Jeroen DE KLOET (Centre for Globalisation Studies, University of Amsterdam); Pathways to Urban Residency and Subjective Well-Being in Beijing~Juan CHEN and Shenghua XIE (Applied Social Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University); A Study of Socio-spatial Segregation of Rural Migrants in Shenzhen: A Case of Foxconn~Zhigang LI, Shunxian OU and Rong WU (School of Urban Design, Wuhan University, China); The Anxious Middle Class of Urban China: Its Emergence and Formation~Tai-Lok LUI & Shou LIU (Asian and Policy Studies, Education University of Hong Kong); Conclusion: Everyday Cities, Exceptional Cases~Julie REN (Department of Geography, London School of Economics).