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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)