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The process of reconfiguration of Chinese cities [...] includes not only a physical restructuring of urban spaces but also a challenge to established configurations of land ownership and control, space-based consumption, and entitlements on the part of urban citizens. Thus Chinese cities, and the spaces that constitute them, have become arenas of heightened contestation, from both within and without the city itself. China Perspectives 2014/2. Issue edited by Bettina Gransow.Bettina GransowEditorial [Full text PDF]Aurore MerleHomeowners of Beijing, Unite! The construction of a collective mobilisation [Full text PDF]Bettina GransowReclaiming the Neighbourhood. Urban redevelopment, citizen activism, and conflicts of recognition in GuangzhouEdmund W. ChengManaging Migrant ContestationLand appropriation, intermediate agency, and regulated space in ShenzhenRyanne FlockPanhandling and the Contestation of Public Space in GuangzhouAmy ZhangRational Resistance: Homeowner contention against waste incineration in GuangzhouIam-chong IpUrbanisation, the State, and Community Activism in the Pearl River Delta. The case of a land dispute in DongguanMore information on the issueWebsite of the journal 