Acknowledgements
Introduction: Imagining Chinese Cities
JEROEN DE KLOET AND LENA SCHEEN
1 Speed and Spectacle in Chinese Cities
ACKBAR ABBAS
2 Planned Demimonde and its Aestheticisation in Singapore City
CHUA BENG HUAT
3 Coming of Age in RMB City
ROBIN VISSER
4 The Architecture of Utopia: From Rem Koolhaas’ Scale Models to RMB City
YOMI BRAESTER
5 Fantasies of a Disappearing and Reappearing Chinese City
JEROEN DE KLOET
6 Tuning Urban China
JEROEN GROENEWEGEN
7 The City’s (Dis)appearance in Propaganda
STEFAN LANDSBERGER
8 Claiming the Past, Presenting the Present, Selling the Future: Imagining a New Beijing, Great Olympics
GLADYS PAK LEI CHONG
9 Shanghai in Film and Literature: The Danger of Nostalgia
GREGORY BRACKEN
10 Nostalgia, Place, and Making Peace with Modernity in East Asia
MARGARET HILLENBRAND
11 Femme Fatales and Male Narcissists: Shanghai Spectacle Narrated,
Packaged and Sold
LENA SCHEEN
12 City Regeneration and Its Opposition
OU NING
13 Law, Embodiment, and the Case of “Harborcide”
JOHN NGUYET ERNI