3. The Tripartite Origins of Shenzhen: Beijing, Hong Kong, and Bao’an

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction: Experiments, Exceptions, and Extensions 1
5. Part I. Experiments (1979–92)
6. 1. Shenzhen: From Exception to Rule 23
7. 2. Heroes of the Special Zone: Modeling Reform and Its Limits 39
8. 3. The Tripartite Origins of Shenzhen: Beijing, Hong Kong, and Bao’an 65
9. 4. How to Be a Shenzhener: Representations of Migrant Labor in Shenzhen’s Second Decade 86
10. Part II. Exceptions (1992–2004)
11. 5. Laying Siege to the Villages: The Vernacular Geography of Shenzhen 107
12. 6. The Political Architecture of the First and Second Lines 124
13. 7. “They Come in Peasants and Leave Citizens”: Urban Villages and the Making of Shenzhen 138
14. 8. Sex Work, Migration, and Mental Health in Shenzhen 171
15. 9. Shenzhen’s Model Bohemia and the Creative China Dream 193
16. 10. Preparedness and the Shenzhen Model of Public Health 213
17. 11. Simulating Global Mobility at Shenzhen “International” Airport 228
18. Conclusion: Learning from Shenzhen 250
19. A Shenzen Glossary 261
20. Contributors 265
21. Acknowledgments 269
22. Index 271