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This Sage Handbook disrupts the binary frameworks—state vs. market, urban vs. rural—that have long defined China scholarship. By compelling scholars to analyze China’s urban development through a comparative lens and situate its cities within a global context, the volume makes a vital contribution not only to China studies but also to global urban studies across the humanities and social sciences.

China’s dramatically increased urbanisation since the late 1970s has not surprisingly led to the growth of studies of its urban environment and development as a major sub-field of China Studies.  This Handbook is more than an introduction to the literature and research on the topic. It challenges past dichotemies between socialism and the market, the state and society, the rural and the urban, and between tradition and modernity. Instead, it depicts a complex, diverse and constantly changing view of the processes of urbanisation and city life.