Tim Oakes is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Louisa Schein is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA

• 1. Translocal China: An Introduction  2. The Original Translocal Society and its Modern Fate: Historical and Post-Reform South China  3. Shanxi as Translocal Imaginary: Reforming the Local  4. Openness, Change and Translocality: New Migrants’ Identification with Hainan  5. How Local are Local Enterprises?: Privatization and Translocality of Small Firms in Zhejiang and Jiangsu  6. Urban Transformation and Professionalization: Translocality and Rationalities of Enterprise in Post-Mao China  7. Symbolic City/Regions and Gendered Identity Formation in South China  8. "Net-Moms": A New Place and a New Identity – Parenting Discussion Forums on the Internet in China  9. The Village as Theme Park: Mimesis and Authenticity in Chinese Tourism  10. The Flows of Heroin, People, Capital, Imagination and the Spread of HIV in Southwest China  11. Negotiating Scale: Miao Women at a Distance  12. The Leaving of Anhui: The Southward Journey Towards the Knowledge Class

'This is an excellent collection of essays on the translocal flows of people and images within China, the construction of a translocal imaginary, and its implications for local identities.' - China Journal'Elucidations of the connections among location, culture, politics, economics, bodies, gender and technology, and their representations of the fluidity of contemporary China make this a must-read book.' - Yajing Li, Cultural Geographies 2008