Remaking China's Great Cities

<p>This book focuses on the urban transformations of three mega cities: Beijing Shanghai and Guangzhou. It examines the cities' continuous urban legacies since 1949 in relation to state governance economic reforms and cultural production. By adopting local historical perspectives it offers more nuanced accounts of the current urban change than the modernization/globalization paradigm and conceptualizes the change in the context of the cities' socialist colonial and imperial legacies. </p>