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