Introduction - Lisa M. Hoffman, Jennifer Hubbert, Zhilin Liu Part One: Setting The Stage Chapter 1: Chinese Imperial Cities - Toby Lincoln Chapter 2: The Semi-Colonial Urban - Cole Roskam Chapter 3: The Republican Urban Modern - Mark Baker Chapter 4: Socialist (Anti-)Urbanism in China, 1949-1978 - Duanfang Lu Part Two: Land Matters Chapter 5: Land, Land Reform, and Land as a Means of Reform - Nick R. Smith Chapter 6: Urban Governance - Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang, Handuo Deng Chapter 7: Financialization of Urban Development - Ran Tao & Jun Zhang Chapter 8: China's Economic Zones: Remaking Rural and Urban in the era of Reform - Jonathan Bach Chapter 9: Infrastructure and Territory - Carolyn Cartier & Tim Oakes Chapter 10: The Practice of Urban Planning - Sisi Liang & Dan Abramson Part Three: Configuring Belonging Chapter 11: China's Hukou: Reforms, Mismatch, and Household Strategies - C. Cindy Fan Chapter 12: Internal Migration in China - Sainan Lin & Zhigang Li Chapter 13: Housing as an Engine for Urban Transformation in China:What do we know and what it means to urban and housing studies? - Zhilin Liu, Youqin Huang and Yiping Fang Chapter 14: Spatialization of Class - Jie Shen Chapter 15: Consuming the City - Laura Vermeeren & Jeroen de Kloet Part Four: The Creative And The Disruptive Chapter 16: Subcultures and the indigenisation of creative cities in China - Dr. Xin Gu Chapter 17: Public Space in Contemporary China: Between Contestation and Socialization - Ryanne Flock Chapter 18: Heritage-led Urbanization in China: Architecture and Design, Projecting the Past into the Future.* - Placido Gonzalez Martinez Chapter 19: Citizen Mobilization and Activism: The Search for Civil Society in Urban China - Carolyn L. Hsu Part Five: Negotiating Identities Chapter 20: Urban Family Life in China - Jing Song & Lulu Li Chapter 21: Work and Labor in Post-Socialist China - Xiaoshuo Hou Hou & Bowen Bao Chapter 22: Gender and the Urban in China - Jie Yang, Hope St. John & Lisa Hoffman Chapter 23: Diversification, Commercialization, and Politicization: Sexuality in China's Cities since the 1990s - Penn Tsz Ting IP & Lucetta Y.
L. KAM Part Six: Generating New Geographies Chapter 24: The Urban in China's Environmental Governance: Policies, Practices, and Imaginaries - Alana Boland Chapter 25: Technology and Chinese Cities: Ambivalent urbanism - Alan Smart & June Wang Chapter 26: "Closely United Like Seeds of a Pomegranate": Urbanization, ethnic expression and authoritarian governance in China's ethnic minority communities - David R. Stroup Chapter 27: Surveillance and Policing - Jeffrey T. Martin & Lingxiao Zhou Chapter 28: China's Urban Abroad: Mapping New City Spaces and Relations on a Changing Global Landscape - Monica DeHart Conclusion: Future Research Directions - Lisa M. Hoffman, Jennifer Hubbert, Zhilin Liu.