In 2010 Shanghai hosted the largest, most spectacular and most expensive expo ever. Attracting a staggering 73 million visitors, and costing around US$45 billion dollars, Shanghai Expo broke the records in the history of world's fairs and universal expositions. The thirteen essays in Shanghai Expo, written by a team of interdisciplinary researchers, offer a uniquely detailed analysis of this globally significant event.

Tim Winter is is a Professor in the School of Social Sciences at The University of Western Australia. He has published widely on heritage, development, modernity and tourism in Asia.

1. A Forum on the Futures of Cities Part One: In Context 2. Shanghai 2010, in a Tradition of Mega Events, Nation-building and Modernity 3. I Wish I Knew: Comprehending China's Cultural Reform 4. Better City, Better Life? Visioning a Sustainable Shanghai 5. On Expo's Hinterlands, Extrastatecraft and Migrant Workers 6. The 'Economic Olympics'? Shanghai 2010 after Beijing 2008 Part Two: Encounter 7. On Display: The State of the World 8. Ordinary City, Ordinary Life: Off the Expo Map 9. Cultural Exotica: From the Colonial to Global in World's Fairs 10. Culture, Nation and Technology: Immersive Media and the Saudi Arabia Pavilion 11. Tracing the Future: Child's play and the Free Fall of Imagination 12. Video Assemblages of Shanghai 13. Afterword. Bibliography. Index