“Theoretically engaged and empirically rich, this volume takes an innovative approach to
enhance our understanding of China through the study of Dongbei, China's North-East …

Shanghai and Taipei, two of Greater China's most vibrant cities, increasingly vie with one
another for recognition as international hubs and regional economic powers. Physically …

As urbanisation and 'townisation', initiated in concerted efforts by the Chinese government
and real estate developers, forcefully shape and reshape rural space, redevelopment calls …

In China under reform, mobility has become a leitmotif of social and economic change. Rural
migrants have surged into cities, hukou-for-investment policies have fueled sales of upscale …

In 1892, Liu Dapeng of Chiqiao Village, Taiyuan County in Shanxi province was reflecting
on the difficulties of academic study. It was, he said, like seeing a series of maps: first one …

All over the world, people are compelled to sever their connections with their hometowns
due to employment, warfare, urban planning and other reasons. In China, millions of …

The post-Mao urban reforms of the past decade have physically and psychologically
transformed China's cities. Urban Spaces in Contemporary China explores how the …

Is Chinatown a ghetto, an area of exotic sensations or a business venture? What makes a
European Chinese, Chinese? The histories of Chinese communities in Europe are diverse …

This dissertation seeks a better understanding of the lived quality of the spatial and class
division known as China's rural/urban divide through an ethnographic inspection of daily …

The book seeks to address how movements across cultures shape the different ways in
which China and Chineseness have been imagined and represented since the beginning of …