Introduction: urban China in comparative perspective / John R. Logan and Susan Fainstein
Part I. Market transition in work units and the labor market : Two decades of reform: the changing organization dynamics of Chinese industrial firms / Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima
The myth of the "new urban poverty"?: trends in urban poverty in China, 1988-2002 / Simon Appleton and Lina Song
Class structure and class inequality in urban China and Russia: effects of institutional change or economic performance? / Yanjie Bian and Theodore P. Gerber
Gender and the labor market in China and Poland / C. Cindy Fan and Joanna Regulska
Part II. Changing places : Urbanization, institutional change, and sociospatial inequality in China: 1990-2001 / Michael J. White, Fulong Wu, and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen
Growth on the edge: the new Chinese metropolis / Yixing Zhou and John R. Logan
Mirrored reflections: place identity formation in Taipei and Shanghai / Jennifer Rudolph and Hanchao Lu
Is gating always exclusionary?: a comparative analysis of gated communities in American and Chinese cities / Youqin Huang and Setha M. Low
Part III. Impacts of migration : Urbanization in China in the 1990s: patterns and regional variations / Zai Liang, Hy Van Luong and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen
Trapped in neglected corners of a booming metropolis: residential patterns and marginalization of migrant workers in Guangzhou / Min Zhou and Guoxuan Cai
Migration and housing: comparing China with the United States / Weiping Wu and Emily Rosenbaum
Part IV. Social control in the new Chinese city : Economic reform and crime in contemporary urban China: paradoxes of a planned transition / Steven F. Messner, Jianhong Liu, and Susanne Karstedt
Migration, urbanization, and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases: empirical and theoretical observations in China and Indonesia / Christopher J. Smith and Graeme Hugo
The state's evolving relationship with urban society: China's neighborhood organizations in comparative perspective / Benjamin L. Read and Chun-Ming Chen.
