The Sage Handbook of Urbanization in China

Lisa M. Hoffman is Professor in the School of Urban Studies at University of Washington Tacoma and faculty in China Studies at UW.  Trained as a cultural anthropologist, she describes her interdisciplinary work as anthropology of the urban. Her scholarship has focused on questions of power, governing and social change, with a particular interest in subjectivity and its intersections with spatiality.  Research projects include studies of professionals/ism and volunteers/ism in urban China, anthropology of neoliberalism, and regimes of green urbanisms and rural urbanization in China.  Her work has been published in journals such as Economy and Society; Territory, Politics, Governance; IJURR, Pacific Affairs, and Hau. Book publications include Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China (2010, Temple UP), Spaces of Danger: Culture and Power in the Everyday (2015, UGeorgia Press, co-edited with Heather Merrill), and Becoming Nisei: Japanese American Urban Lives in Prewar Tacoma (2020, UW Press, co-authored with Mary Hanneman). Jennifer Hubbert is Professor of Anthropology at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She received her BA and MA from Stanford University and an MA and PhD from Cornell University. She is the author of China in the World: An Anthropology of Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and Globalization (Hawaii, 2019). Her research on public culture, nationalism, the nation-state, public diplomacy, and global relations in China has been published in American Ethnologist, The Asia Pacific Journal, Visual Anthropology, PoLAR, Modern China, positions, and City & Society, among others. Hubbert’s recent research, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, explores the cultural worlds of liberal gun owners and has been published in Social Science Quarterly.Zhilin Liu is Professor in the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University. Her research interests include urban planning and governance, housing policy, rural-to-urban migration, and sustainable urbanization. She has published widely in English and Chinese peer-reviewed journals. She currently serves as a co-editor of Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, is Chair of the board of directors for the International Association for China Planning, and Vice Chair of the Asian-Pacific Network for Housing Research, and a board member for various journals or academic associations including the Urban China Research Network and the Behavioral Geography Committee of China Geographical Society. She received her bachelor and master degrees in urban geography from Peking University and PhD in city and regional planning from Cornell University.

• Introduction - Lisa M. Hoffman, Jennifer Hubbert, Zhilin LiuPart One: Setting The StageChapter 1: Chinese Imperial Cities - Toby LincolnChapter 2: The Semi-Colonial Urban - Cole RoskamChapter 3: The Republican Urban Modern - Mark BakerChapter 4: Socialist (Anti-)Urbanism in China, 1949-1978 - Duanfang LuPart Two: Land MattersChapter 5: Land, Land Reform, and Land as a Means of Reform - Nick R. SmithChapter 6: Urban Governance - Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang, Handuo DengChapter 7: Financialization of Urban Development - Ran Tao & Jun ZhangChapter 8: China’s Economic Zones: Remaking Rural and Urban in the era of Reform - Jonathan BachChapter 9: Infrastructure and Territory - Carolyn Cartier & Tim OakesChapter 10: The Practice of Urban Planning - Sisi Liang & Dan AbramsonPart Three: Configuring BelongingChapter 11: China’s Hukou: Reforms, Mismatch, and Household Strategies - C. Cindy FanChapter 12: Internal Migration in China - Sainan Lin & Zhigang LiChapter 13: Housing as an Engine for Urban Transformation in China:What do we know and what it means to urban and housing studies? - Zhilin Liu, Youqin Huang and Yiping FangChapter 14: Spatialization of Class - Jie ShenChapter 15: Consuming the City - Laura Vermeeren & Jeroen de KloetPart Four: The Creative And The DisruptiveChapter 16: Subcultures and the indigenisation of creative cities in China - Dr. Xin GuChapter 17: Public Space in Contemporary China: Between Contestation and Socialization - Ryanne FlockChapter 18: Heritage-led Urbanization in China: Architecture and Design, Projecting the Past into the Future.* - Plácido González MartínezChapter 19: Citizen Mobilization and Activism: The Search for Civil Society in Urban China - Carolyn L. HsuPart Five: Negotiating IdentitiesChapter 20: Urban Family Life in China - Jing Song & Lulu LiChapter 21: Work and Labor in Post-Socialist China - Xiaoshuo Hou & Bowen BaoChapter 22: Gender and the Urban in China - Jie Yang, Hope St. John & Lisa HoffmanChapter 23: Diversification, Commercialization, and Politicization: Sexuality in China’s Cities since the 1990s - Penn Tsz Ting Ip & Lucetta Y. L. KamPart Six: Generating New GeographiesChapter 24: The Urban in China’s Environmental Governance: Policies, Practices, and Imaginaries - Alana BolandChapter 25: Technology and Chinese Cities: Ambivalent urbanism - Alan Smart & June WangChapter 26: “Closely United Like Seeds of a Pomegranate”: Urbanization, ethnic expression and authoritarian governance in China’s ethnic minority communities - David R. StroupChapter 27: Surveillance and Policing - Jeffrey T. Martin & Lingxiao ZhouChapter 28: China’s Urban Abroad: Mapping New City Spaces and Relations on a Changing Global Landscape - Monica DeHartConclusion: Future Research Directions - Lisa M. Hoffman, Jennifer Hubbert, Zhilin Liu

This Sage Handbook disrupts the binary frameworks—state vs. market, urban vs. rural—that have long defined China scholarship. By compelling scholars to analyze China’s urban development through a comparative lens and situate its cities within a global context, the volume makes a vital contribution not only to China studies but also to global urban studies across the humanities and social sciences.