Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: learning from Shenzhen: experiments, exceptions, and extensions / Mary Ann O'Donnell, Winnie Wong, and Jonathan Bach
  • Experiments (1979-92). Shenzhen: from exception to rule / Jonathan Bach ; Heroes of the special zone: modeling reform and its limits / Mary Ann O'Donnell ; The tripartite origins of Shenzhen: Beijing, Hong Kong, and Bao'an / Weiwen Huang ; How to be a shenzhener: representations of migrant labor in Shenzhen's second decade / Eric Florence
  • Exceptions (1992-2004). Laying siege to the villages: the vernacular geography of Shenzhen / Mary Ann O'Donnell ; The political architecture of the first and second lines / Emma Xin Ma and Adrian Blackwell ; "They come in peasants and leave citizens": urban villages and the making of Shenzhen / Jonathan Bach ; Sex work, migration, and mental health in Shenzhen / Willa Dong and Yu Cheng
  • Extensions (2004-present). Shenzhen's model Bohemia and the creative China dream / Winnie Wong ; Preparedness and the Shenzhen model of public health / Katherine A. Mason ; Simulating global mobility at Shenzhen Iinternational Airport / Max Hirsh
  • Conclusion: learning from Shenzhen / Mary Ann O'Donnell, Winnie Wong, and Jonathan Bach