Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-254) and index.
Introduction -- The political economy of Chinese urbanization -- "Seeing like a state" : the urbanization project in post-1978 China -- Representing urbanization in China : official and unofficial readings of the urban process -- City core and the periphery : the emerging Hong Kong-Guangzhou metropolitan region -- Urbanization of the Pearl River Delta : the case of Dongguan -- Manipulating the margins : the case of Shanghai -- Rural agglomeration and urbanization in the lower Yangzi delta : the urban echo in Kunshan -- Divergent urbanization paths in the Shenyang-Dalian urban corridor, Liaoning Province -- Reviewing the case studies : dimensions of scale in the Chinese urbanization process -- Conclusion : rewriting China's urban future.