Anne-Christine Trémon is director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She has recently published Diaspora Space-Time: Transformations of a Chinese Emigrant Community (Cornell University Press, 2022).

“This is an excellent book, well researched, clearly written and taking an original approach to an important issue, China’s urban villages. The originality lies particularly in using the public goods/commons debates to provide a new lens on urban China.” • Alan Smart, University of Calgary“Urban China is an excellent setting to rethink the commons and public goods... The discussion is informed by a serious reading of relevant theory and is ethnographically rich.” • Niko Besnier, University of Amsterdam

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNote on AnonymizationGlossaryIntroduction: Graduated Provisioning in China’s Urbanized VillagesChapter 1. Three Villages-in-the-cityChapter 2. From Villages Commons to Public Urban GoodsChapter 3. Creating Visual and Public OrderChapter 4. Building Moral CommunitiesChapter 5. Segregated Public Space and the Right to the CityConclusion: Exclusion and Rivalry, Lasting Inequalities and Neoliberal ProvisionReferencesIndex