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chapter 1 An introduction to critical perspectives on Chinese urbanism / Mark Jayne -- part Part I Space and place -- chapter 2 Towards critical urbanism: urban public space in modern China / Junxi Qian -- chapter 3 Urbanism as a state project: lessons from Beijing’s Green Belt / Hyun Bang Shin -- chapter 4 Nature, housing and everyday life in Chinese cities / Junfang Xie -- part Part II Identity, lifestyle and forms of sociability -- chapter 5 Encountering strangers: prostitution and urban life in Dongguan, China / Xiaomei Cai -- chapter 6 Greening the Chinese city: young people, environmental activism and ChinaNet / Alison Hulme -- chapter 7 Interstitial spaces of caring and community: commodification, modernisation and the dislocations of everyday practice within Beijing’s hutong neighbourhoods / Melissa Y. Rock -- part Part III Consumption and urban cultures -- chapter 8 Tasting, savouring, signalling: articulating the luxury brand experience in Chinese cities / Annamma Joy, John F. Sherry, Jr. and Jeff Jianfeng Wang -- chapter 9 Food, alcohol and the ‘ideal’ home in urban China / Chen Liu -- chapter 10 Pop-up urbanism: selling Old Beijing to the creative class / Amy Yueming Zhang -- part Part IV (Im)mobilities and materialities -- chapter 11 Urban cross-border mobilities: geopolitical encounters and bordering practices of ‘Taiwanese compatriots’ in China / J. J. Zhang -- chapter 12 Contested (im)mobilities and rhythms of Chinese cities: urban transformation and ‘slow life’ in Sanya / Jingfu Chen -- chapter 13 Chinese urban informality and migrant workers’ negotiation of work/life balance / Gengzhi Huang -- part Part V Bodies, emotions and atmospheres -- chapter 14 Embodying Chinese urbanism / Mark Jayne -- chapter 15 Noisy cities / Jie Zhang -- chapter 16 Creativity and Chinese urbanism: the moral atmosphere of Lishui Barbizon / Jun Wang -- chapter 17 Afterword: critical Chinese urbanism for the twenty-first century / Mark Jayne.

This book provides a definitive overview of contemporary developments in our understanding of urban life in China. Multidisciplinary perspectives outline the most significant critical, theoretical, methodological and empirical developments in our appreciation of Chinese cities in the context of an increasingly globalized world. Each chapter includes reviews and appraisals of past and current theoretical development and embarks on innovative theoretical directions relating to Marxist, feminist, post-structural, post-colonial and ‘more-than-representational’ thinking. The book provides an in-depth insight into urban change and considers in what ways theoretical engagement with Chinese cities contributes to our understanding of ‘global urbanism’.Chapters explorehow new critical perspectives on economic, political, social, spatial, emotional, embodied and affective practices add value to our understanding of urban life in, and beyond, China.