Billy K. L. So (PhD, Australian National University, 1983) is Chair Professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He published extensively on Chinese legal and business history including Prosperity, Region, and Institutions in Maritime China (Harvard, 2000). Madeleine Zelin (PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 1979) is Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies at Columbia University. She has published extensively on Chinese economic and legal history, including The Merchants of Zigong, Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China (Columbia, 2005).

"The chapters reveal trends that complicate the quest to locate Habermasian public spaces in the volatile urban formations of a politically fragmented and conflict-ridden nation."Brian Tsui, The Australian National University, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 15.2 (December 2013)

• Chapter 1 Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities as Seen Through Cultural Narratives: A PrologueBilly K.L. So and Madeleine ZelinPart 1. Social OrderChapter 2 Changing Spaces and Civilized Weddings in Republican ChinaAntonia FinnaneChapter 3 City-building, the New Life Movement, and the "Making of the Citizen" in 1930s NanchangFederica FerlantiChapter 4 Wartime Refugee Relief in Chinese Cities and Women's Political Activism, 1937-1940Harriet ZurndorferPart 2. Law and OrderChapter 5 Unorganized Crime: Forgers, Soldiers, and Shopkeepers in Beijing, 1927, 1928Brett SheehanChapter 6 The Ordering of Crime in Republican Beijing from the 1910s to the 1930sMichael Hoi Kit NgChapter 7 Dangerous Cities: Judicial Authorities, Criminologists, and the Perception of Crime Zones in 1920s and 1930s ChinaJan KielyPart 3. Goverance OrderChapter 8 British Concessions and Chinese Cities, 1910-1930sRobert BickersChapter 9 Provincializing the City: Canton and the Reshaping of Guangdong Provincial Administration, 1912-1937John FitzgeraldChapter 10 Xi'an, 1900-1940: From Isolated Backwater to Resistance CenterPierre-Etienne Will

Billy K. L. So (PhD, Australian National University, 1983) is Chair Professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He published extensively on Chinese legal and business history including Prosperity, Region, and Institutions in Maritime China (Harvard, 2000). Madeleine Zelin (PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 1979) is Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies at Columbia University. She has published extensively on Chinese economic and legal history, including The Merchants of Zigong, Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China (Columbia, 2005).

"The chapters reveal trends that complicate the quest to locate Habermasian public spaces in the volatile urban formations of a politically fragmented and conflict-ridden nation."Brian Tsui, The Australian National University, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 15.2 (December 2013)

• Chapter 1 Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities as Seen Through Cultural Narratives: A PrologueBilly K.L. So and Madeleine ZelinPart 1. Social OrderChapter 2 Changing Spaces and Civilized Weddings in Republican ChinaAntonia FinnaneChapter 3 City-building, the New Life Movement, and the "Making of the Citizen" in 1930s NanchangFederica FerlantiChapter 4 Wartime Refugee Relief in Chinese Cities and Women's Political Activism, 1937-1940Harriet ZurndorferPart 2. Law and OrderChapter 5 Unorganized Crime: Forgers, Soldiers, and Shopkeepers in Beijing, 1927, 1928Brett SheehanChapter 6 The Ordering of Crime in Republican Beijing from the 1910s to the 1930sMichael Hoi Kit NgChapter 7 Dangerous Cities: Judicial Authorities, Criminologists, and the Perception of Crime Zones in 1920s and 1930s ChinaJan KielyPart 3. Goverance OrderChapter 8 British Concessions and Chinese Cities, 1910-1930sRobert BickersChapter 9 Provincializing the City: Canton and the Reshaping of Guangdong Provincial Administration, 1912-1937John FitzgeraldChapter 10 Xi'an, 1900-1940: From Isolated Backwater to Resistance CenterPierre-Etienne Will