Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Shanghai Parks in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: Architectural and Cultural Exchanges Between the East and the West

Chapter 3 A City of Workers, a City for Workers? Remaking Beijing Urban Space in the Early PRC

Chapter 4 Changchun Across 1949: Rebuilding a Colonial Capital City Under Socialism in the Early 1950s

Chapter 5 Tunxi: Urban Sectoral Agglomeration in a Regional Centre of Tea Trade

Chapter 7 A Comparison of Politics of Street Names in Taipei and Shanghai

Chapter 8 Disneyfication or Self-Referentiality: Recent Conservation Efforts and Modern Planning History in Datong

Chapter 9 The Politics of Aesthetics in Tianjin Between Past and Present

Chapter 10 Living in the “Past”: The Effects of a Growing Preservation Discourse in Contemporary Urban China