Critical scholarly attention to vertical urbanism has expanded greatly in recent years but has
seldom engaged with the variety of high-rise urban forms developed in mainland Chinese …

What does it mean to be young in a country that is changing so fast? What does it mean to
be young in a place ruled by one Party, during a time of intense globalization and exposure …

This paper argues that “the urban” has emerged as the most significant ideological realm in
contemporary China. In developing this argument, I suggest an alternative approach to how …

Thames Town—an English-like village built in Shanghai—is many places at once: a
successful tourist destination, an affluent residential cluster, a city of migrant workers, and a …

China has long positioned itself as the ancient civilization of the Far East, which only makes
geographical sense through the lens of the West. The literature on China resonates with this …

GLOBAL CINEMATIC CITIES 96 film's intervention into the urban imaginary. For
architectural critic Christopher Hawthorne, the film positively invoked a world in which 'a …

Women of the lower working-class in Shanghai are seemingly invisible in Chinese urban
scholarship. Drawing on fieldwork conducted between 2017 and 2021 in Shanghai, this …

Introduction China is generally perceived as the manufacturer of the world. Whereas
“created in China” has become one prime focus of national cultural policy (Keane 2013), the …

Since 1978, China has experienced an unprecedented urban and economic growth under
the central government's imperative to become a global power. Whereas the central …

1. Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid,“The 'Urban Age'in Question,” International Journal of
Urban and Regional Research 38, no. 3 (2014): 731–755; and Brendan Gleeson,“Critical …