Cities as emerging institution -- Beyond gradualism: China's urban revolution and emerging cities / Fulong Wu -- Land property rights regime in China: a comparative study of Suzhou and Dongguan / You-Ren Yang and Hung-Kai Wang -- Public-private partnership in the urban water sector of Shanghai / Seungho Lee -- The dialectics of urban planning in China / Daniel B. Abramson -- Transitioning economic and social spheres -- Hong kong and Taiwan investment in Dongguan: divergent trajectories and impacts / Chun Yang -- Urban labor market changes and social protection for urban informal workers: challenges for China and India / Sunil Kumar and Bingqin Li -- Ageing urban society: discourse and policy / Ian G. Cook and Jason L. Powell -- Transition to homeownership: implications for wealth redistribution / Si-ming Li -- Rebuilding residential space -- Residential redevelopment and social impacts in Beijing / Hyun Bang Shin -- Neighborhood changes and residential differentiation in Shanghai / Shenjing He and Fulong Wu -- Large urban redevelopment projects and socio-spatial stratification in Shanghai / Ying Ying Tian and Cecilia Wong -- Emerging leisure, retailing and consumption practices -- Spaces of leisure: gated golf communities in China / Guillaume Giroir -- A tale of two cities: restructuring of retail capital and production of new consumption spaces in Beijing and Shanghai / Shuguang Wang and Chongyi Guo -- When local meets global: residential differentiation, global connections and consumption in Shanghai / Jiaming Sun and Xiangming Chen.