In this book, Stephan Feuchtwang and his contributors offer a set of historical, anthropological and scale-mediated studies from China - a country that includes a subcontinental variety of cultures and landscapes.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Theorising Place, Stephan Feuchtwang; Part 1 Urban Places; Chapter 2 Mapping 'Chaos', Wang Mingming; Chapter 3 Breathing New Life into Beijing Culture, Florence Graezer; Chapter 4 Establishing 'Home' Away from Home, Graham E Johnson; Chapter 5 Traditional Territories in a Contemporary City, Elizabeth Lominska Johnson; Part 2 Rural Places; Chapter 6 'The Place where the Sage Wouldn't Go' and 'The Place where the Sage was born', Zhao Bingxiang; Chapter 7 Hmong Places and Locality, Nicholas Tapp; Chapter 8 Senses of Local Place and the Temples of West Hunan, Mary Rack; Chapter 9 Curves and the Urbanisation of Meifa Village, Stephan Feuchtwang; Part 3 Afterword; Chapter 10 Space and Place, Laurie Kain Hart;