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CHINESE URBANISM This book provides a definitive overview of contemporary developments in our understanding of urban life in China. Multidisciplinary perspectives outline the most significant critical, theoretical, methodological and empirical developments in our appreciation of Chinese cities in the context of an increasingly globalized world. Each chapter includes reviews and appraisals of past and current theoretical development and embarks on innovative theoretical directions relating to Marxist, feminist, post-structural, post-colonial and ‘more-than-representational’ thinking. The book provides an in-depth insight into urban change and considers in what ways theoretical engagement with Chinese cities contributes to our understanding of ‘global urbanism’. Chapters explore how new critical perspectives on economic, political, social, spatial, emotional, embodied and affective practices add value to our understanding of urban life in, and beyond, China. Chinese Urbanism offers valuable insights which will be of interest to students and scholars alike working in geography, urban studies, Asian studies, economics, political studies and beyond. Mark Jayne is Professor of Human Geography at Cardiff University, UK. He is a social and cultural geographer whose research interests include consumption, the urban order, city cultures and cultural economy and has published over 80 journal articles, book chapters and official reports. Mark is author of Cities and Consumption (Routledge, 2005), co-author of Alcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness: (Dis)Orderly Spaces (Ashgate, 2011) and Childhood, Family, Alcohol (Ashgate, 2015). Mark is also co-editor of City of Quarters: Urban Villages in the Contemporary City (Ashgate, 2004), Small Cities: Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis (Routledge, 2006), Urban Theory Beyond the West: A World of Cities (Routledge, 2012) and Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2017). CHINESE URBANISM Critical Perspectives Edited by Mark Jayne First published 2018 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2018 selection and editorial matter, Mark Jayne; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Mark Jayne to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-1-138-20171-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-138-20172-9 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-50585-5 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Apex CoVantage, LLC CONTENTS List of illustrations viii List of contributors x Acknowledgements xv 1 An introduction to critical perspectives on Chinese urbanism 1 Mark Jayne PART I Space and place 15 2 Towards critical urbanism: urban public space in modern China 17 Junxi Qian 3 Urbanism as a state project: lessons from Beijing’s Green Belt 30 Hyun Bang Shin and Yimin Zhao 4 Nature, housing and everyday life in Chinese cities 47 Junfang Xie PART II Identity, lifestyle and forms of sociability 63 5 Encountering strangers: prostitution and urban life in Dongguan, China 65 Xiaomei Cai and Xiaobo Su vi Contents 6 Greening the Chinese city: young people, environmental activism and ChinaNet 74 Alison Hulme 7 Interstitial spaces of caring and community: commodification, modernisation and the dislocations of everyday practice within Beijing’s hutong neighbourhoods 86 Melissa Y. Rock PART III Consumption and urban cultures 107 8 Tasting, savouring, signalling: articulating the luxury brand experience in Chinese cities 109 Annamma Joy, John F. Sherry, Jr. and Jeff Jianfeng Wang 9 Food, alcohol and the ‘ideal’ home in urban China 121 Chen Liu 10 Pop-up urbanism: selling Old Beijing to the creative class 137 Amy Yueming Zhang PART IV (Im)mobilities and materialities 149 11 Urban cross-border mobilities: geopolitical encounters and bordering practices of ‘Taiwanese compatriots’ in China 151 J. J. Zhang 12 Contested (im)mobilities and rhythms of Chinese cities: urban transformation and ‘slow life’ in Sanya 165 Jingfu Chen 13 Chinese urban informality and migrant workers’ negotiation of work/life balance 175 Gengzhi Huang, Tao Lin and Desheng Xue PART V Bodies, emotions and atmospheres 187 14 Embodying Chinese urbanism 189 Mark Jayne and Ho Hon Leung Contents vii 15 Noisy cities 202 Jie Zhang 16 Creativity and Chinese urbanism: the moral atmosphere of Lishui Barbizon 208 Jun Wang and Yan Li 17 Afterword: critical Chinese urbanism for the twenty-first century 221 Mark Jayne Bibliography 225 Index 259 ILLUSTRATIONS Figures 2.1 Teahouse in Chengdu 24 2.2 Collective red-song singing in Guangzhou 26 3.1 A golf course in the planned second green belt 39 3.2 The street view of the resettlement community in Sunhe 43 4.1 The first public park in Shanghai 53 4.2 Cao Yang new residential district Shanghai, c. 1950 54 4.3 Tube-shaped apartment housing, c.1960 55 4.4 Beijing’s QianSanMen high-rise residential housing, c.1976 57 4.5 New urban residential district housing, c. 1980s 57 4.6 Shijiazhuang private residential housing, c. 1992 58 4.7 ‘Vanke’ scene garden housing in Guangdong, c. 2000 58 7.1 Clothes drying on a makeshift clothes-line in an alleyway, Beijing 93 7.2 Carving out their own social space 94 7.3 Public exercise equipment in a Beijing hutong 95 7.4 Cars parked in a hutong alleyway, Beijing 96 7.5 Bicycles locked to fixtures on the side of the road 98 7.6 Hand painted sign on garage 99 7.7 Foot traffic and an elderly man sitting on a dengzi (small stool) 99 7.8 The many private uses of a narrow hutong alleyway 100 7.9 Sign posted on courtyard door 103 7.10 Hand written sign posted on courtyard door 103 7.11 Sign posted on courtyard door 104 9.1 The open kitchen 126 9.2 and 9.3 The dining area 129 9.4 A box of Mao-tai 132 Illustrations ix 9.5 A plant that is fertilised by food waste 134 10.1 and 10.2 A pop-up shop during and after Beijing Design Week 143 10.3 A design idea experimented during Beijing Design Week 144 10.4 Pop-up uses with an emphasis on book design 145 10.5 A long-established gallery close to Yangmeizhuxiejie 146 10.6 A construction site in Yangmeizhuxiejie 146 11.1 The Taiwan Passport and the Taiwan Compatriot Permit 155 11.2 Taiwanese tourists at the arrival lounge of the Dong Du Ferry Terminal 161 12.1 Real estate projects near the beach 169 12.2 Two officials having an afternoon nap at the beach 171 12.3 Father Tea 173 13.1 The location of the leather industry in Guangzhou 179 13.2 Informal workers in global leather production networks 180 13.3 A typical informal factory in Shiling, Guangzhou 181 13.4 Members of a knitting group 184 14.1 Young people celebrating National Children’s Day 194 14.2 ‘Dancing-as-advertisement’ by commercial massage staff 194 14.3 Older people exercising in urban parks 195 14.4 Older women dancing in a public shopping street 195 14.5 Older people night-time ballroom dancing in urban parks 196 14.6 Examples of massage venues in Chinese cities 199 16.1 Lishui Old Street 213 16.2 ‘Best photo spot’ 214 16.3 Us and them: encounters between painters and tourists 216 16.4 ‘Yet-to-be authorised’ artist Wang in the studio 218 Tables 4.1 Typology of urban green space 60 4.2 Classification of residential area and public and private green space 61

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