Includes bibliographical references.

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Series Foreword / Huaiyin Li (李怀印) and Chongqing Wu (吴重庆) -- Contributors -- Shifting Structures and Agendas in Urban Chinese Governance and Resistance in a New Era / William Hurst -- Manufacturing Consent: How Grassroots Government Assimilates Public Resistance / Yonghong Zhang and Ching Kwan Lee -- Pluralistic Governance: Reflecting on Participatory Development Theory in Post-disaster Community Reconstruction – a Case Study of the Post-Wenchuan Earthquake New Home Plan / Jiangang Zhu and Ming Hu -- Between Home and Society: Urban Women in Environmental Contention – the Example of Opposition to Building a Waste Incineration Power Plant in G City / Xiaoyun Chen and Ran Duan -- Media Contact, Public Participation, and Political Efficacy in Sudden Public Incidents: an Empirical Study of the PX Incident in Xiamen / Baohua Zhou -- Performative Protests: Landscapes, Challenges, and Opportunity Mechanisms – Two Case Studies from the Pearl River Delta / Zhenhui Huang -- The Political Economy of Sex and the Gender Secret of Capitalism: Thoughts on the Debate Surrounding the 2014 Crackdown on Prostitution in Dongguan / Shaopeng Song -- Gray Governance and the Reproduction of Urban Violence: Analysis of the Mechanisms of “Urban Management” Practice on Lumo Road / Dewen Lü -- Back Matter -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Authors.

This collection includes seven essays translated from the leading Chinese-language journal Open Times. Bringing together a wide range of leading experts across several disciplines, this book offers critical insights on some of the most important questions of contemporary urban Chinese politics and society. Drawing on extensive research across different localities and issues in China, the chapters offer rich data and fresh analyses of the shifting contours of urban governance, social mobilization and contention, and mechanisms of social control in the new Millennium. Taken together, this collection represents the most comprehensive look in some years at how urban Chinese political institutions have adapted and responded to challenges and how social actors and groups have mobilized to press for redress of substantial new grievances.