Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao is Distinguished Research Fellow and Director of the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

• Part 1: Overview 1. Characterizing the Middle Classes in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, and Urban China Part 2: Changing Profiles 2. Profiling Middle-Classes in Today's Taiwan 3. The Profile of Hong Kong’s Middle Classes: Continuities and Discontinuities 4. Profiling the Middle Classes in Today's Macao 5. Profile of Middle Classes in Today’s China Part 3: Emerging Ethos and Lifestyles 6. Getting Uneasy: The Hong Kong Middle Class’s Changing Psychology 7. Comparing Socio-economic Attitudes of the Middle Classes in Taiwan and Hong Kong 8. Homemaking and Middle Class Formation in Urban China Part 4: Mobility 9. Taiwanese Middle Classes in Shanghai: Causes and Consequences of Skilled Migration 10. Professional Mainlanders in Hong Kong: Profile, Prospect, and Problem 11. Reality and Expectations: Social Mobility of the Macao Middle Classes Part 5: New Politics? 12. The Political Ambiguity of Middle-Class Activism in Taiwan: The Case of Urban Conservationists in Kaohsiung City 13. Emergence of Middle Classes in Today’s Urban China: Will They Contribute to Democratization in China? 14. The Making of Hong Kong Middle Class in the 1977 Transition and Beyond: A Conflict Perspective

"The book is the first to systematically provide an overview into the emergent ethos and lifestyles, mobility, and political ideals of the Chinese middle classes." - W R. Jankowiak, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Choice "The richness, breadth and quality of the essays clearly show that this volume is of great importance to scholars of Chinese middle classes, as well as Chinese societies." - Kai Chen, Xiamen University, Asian Journal of Social Science