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Gated Communities in China Class, Privilege and the Moral Politics of the Good Life
1. Introduction: Gated Communities and the Lure of the Good Life 2. Making Middle-Class Spaces: Privilege, Territoriality and the Moral Geographies of Exclusion 3. Urban Reform, the New Middle-Class and the Emergence of Gated Communities in Shanghai 4. Imagineering Suburbia: Contested Representations of the Chinese Dream Home 5.Seeking Privacy and Seclusion: Private Property, Individualism and Neoliberal Subjectivities 6. Maintaining Order and Civility: Purified Spaces and the Paradox of Gated Living 7. Beyond the Gates: A Geographical-moral Critique 8. Conclusion
Biography
Pow Choon-Piew is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore.
"Most studies adopt a macroscopic perspective of political and economic changes. Gated Communities in China is a rare exception and thus an important and timely contribution to the understanding of residential development, especially 'commodity housing enclaves', in China [...] I admire Pow's cultural sensitivity, keen and detailed observations, and grounded approach [...] Pow's Gated Communities in China is a truly substantive and noteworthy addition to the literature on Chinese housing development and social changes and I enthusiastically recommend this book to researchers in gated communities and Chinese urban studies." - Fulong Wu, Environment and Planning A 2010, volume 42
