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 A special symposium focusing on new geographies of urban China will be held as a part of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) annual meeting in Los Angeles, to take place April 9-13, 2013.Relational understanding of space and the “new mobilities paradigm” that emerged in the past decade or so have helped generate much new insight on many phenomena of interest to geographers. Informed by the mobilities/relational turn, organizers of this symposium suggest that a fruitful direction for future research on urban China is one that is attentive to mobility, movement, flow, travel, and other relational transactions in space-time that shape or transform the urban fabric of China, while remaining cognizant of the particularities of China’s social, political, cultural, economic, and institutional context. As the complex interactions among individual urban actors/agents have considerable potential to bring forth drastic or unexpected emergent shifts, new conceptualizations and analytical methods capable of addressing these changes in fine spatial and temporal scales are needed.Symposium organizersMei-Po Kwan: mpk654@gmail.comYanwei Chai: chyw@pku.edu.cnDonggen Wang: dgwang@hkbu.edu.hk&#160;More informationSymposium on new geographies of urban ChinaAAG 2013 annual meeting&#160;