Introduction: Negotiating Geographical Knowledges: Region of Reform

Representing South China: Special Zone 'Experiment' Meets 'Miracle' Development

Area Studies Debates: China's 'Response to the West'

Restructuring Area Studies

China Area Studies and the 'Macroregion'

Transboundary Cultural Economy

Region, Place / Space, and Scale: Scaling Social Processes

Contextual Geographics

Region and Representations: Geographical Representations: Northern Vantage

Coastal Imaginaries

Coming into Difference

Rewriting South China: Bai Yue

Kingdom of Chu

Region as Greater China: Myth of 'Ungrounded Empire'

Transboundary Economies and the Territorial Trap

History of the North and the South

Regional Thinking

Maritime Frontier / Mercantile Region: Region and Nature-Society Relations

Fringe of Empire

Early Coastal Settlement: Cities of Min

Quanzhou and Ningbo

The Deltas and Land Reclamation

Mercantile Region: The Zheng He Voyages

Zheng He and Tianhou

The Amoy Network

The Junk Trade

Open Ports and the Treaty System: 'Semicolonialism': The Treaty Settlements

Opium for Tea

The Open Ports: Foreign Settlement

The Spirit of Min

Commercial Organization:

Ningbo: The Pivotal Port

Xiamen: Remittance Economies

Infrastructural Development: Rebuilding Xiamen

Mercantile Society and Mercantile Cities

Revolution and Diaspora: The Southern Revolutionary Axis: From Guangzhou to Shanghai

Revolution and the Overseas Chinese

Southeast Asian Chinese Communities

Malaysia and the National Culture Debates

Melaka: The Bukit China Movement:

Rise of a Social Movement

Region as Homeland

Negotiating Absolute Space

The Social Construction of Place

Constructing the Nationscape

Place and National Culture

Gendered Industrialization:

Who Cares?: Regional Economy

Engendering Industrialization: Male Bias in the Development Process

Gendered Reform Policies: Rural Reform and the Feminization of the Agricultural Labor Force

The Export-Oriented Industrialization Regime

The New Services Sector: Prostitution

Redirections

Zone Fever:

The Proliferation of Special Development Zones: 'Model' Development

The Land Conversion Moratorium

Rapid Development and the 'Arable Land Problem': Policy Shifts and Arable Land Loss

The Contradictions: Administrative Hierarchy Contradictions

Land Monitoring Contradictions

Rural-Urban Contradictions

Real Estate Fever and Financial Collapse

Urban Triumphant: 1997 and the Hong Kong Handover:

One Country, All Kinds of Systems

Geographies of Globalization: Cosmopolitics

Property Development in Hong Kong

Exhibitionary Complex

New Environmental Movements

Rebuilding Shanghai

New Cosmopolitanisms?

Globalizing Cities

Epilogue:.Region and Globalization

Region, State and Identity

Index