Introduction. -- Reclaiming authority : The narrative politics of lost privilege in contemporary China. -- The gendered effects of market reforms. -- Developing minority nationalities in contemporary urban China. -- Abstracting the city: urbanization and the "Opening-Up" process in China. -- The dual system of land use policy and its related problems in contemporary China. -- Contesting urban space: development of Chengzhongcun in China's transitional cities. -- A state creation? civil society and migrant organizations. -- Stretching away from the state: NGO emergence and dual identity in a Chinese government institution. -- Red capitalist: the rising Chinese private entrepreneurs. -- The Taiwanese business community: a catalyst or virus for Chinese development? -- China's cyber forums and their influence on foreign policymaking.

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