Modern industrial development commenced in Shanghai in the late 19th century, with the
incursion of Western settlements. Soon afterwards cultural activities associated with a …

Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the
backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China. In 2008, the total of Internet …

From the years 2004 to 2008, Beijing and Shanghai witnessed the construction of an
extraordinary number of new buildings, many of which were designed by architectural firms …

China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 ignited a race to capture new global
media audiences. Hollywood moguls began courting Chinese investors to create …

China's ideological transition from a communist country toward a consumer society provides
an unprecedented context in which to explore the rise of consumerism in a contemporary …

Moving beyond conventional accounts of gated communities and housing segregation, this
book interrogates the moral politics of urban place-making in China's commodity housing …

Substantial effort has been devoted to exploring the transfer of human resource
management practices within multinational companies. Particular attention has been paid to …

This book argues that regional food culture is intrinsic to how Chinese connect to the past,
live in the present, and imagine their future. It focuses on Shanghai—a food lover's paradise …

This book explores the play of international forces and international ideas about Shanghai,
looking backward as far as its transformation into a subdivided treaty port in the 1840s, and …

This book contributes to a critical understanding of how Chinese same-sex identity in urban
China is variously imagined; how it is transformed; and how it presents its resistances as …