Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Series Foreword / Huaiyin Li 李怀印 and Chongqing Wu 吴重庆 -- Contributors -- Introduction: Time to Rethink Key Concepts in Urban Chinese Politics and Society? / William Hurst -- The Stratification of Urban Residential Space and Community Interaction: The Case of Dongshan New Town in Nanjing / Yuanxing Li and Junfeng Chen -- Changes in Assets Held by the Middle Class during Social Transition: An Analysis Based on Surveys of Urban Residents in the Pearl River Delta from 1986 to 2004 / Yi Liu -- The Age of Individualization: Chinese Paradox and Resolution – The Experience of One Metropolis / Wansheng Xiong , Kuan Li and Chunqing Dai -- Community Economic Structure and the Social Capital of the Individual: Examples among Poor Residents in Guangzhou and Lanzhou / Ningxin Liang -- From Social Capital to Guanxi: A Study of Small and Medium Enterprise Growth in China / Xuewei Zhai -- Politics in Residence: An Empirical Study of Owners’ Rights Defense and Community Construction in B City / Yuhua Guo and Yuan Shen -- The “Interstitial Production” of Civil Society: Lawsuits Involving “Neighborhood Agency Rights” in Nanyuan / Xiaoxing Huang.

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