Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Domestic Empires
6. 1 Unraveling the Chinese Empire 17
7. 2 Family in Ideology and Practice 47
8. 3 Property, Power, and Identity in a Colonial-Capitalist City 80
9. Part 2 At Home in the World
10. 4 Choosing a House 123
11. 5 Designing House and Home 154
12. 6 Living at Home 189
13. Part 3 Chinese Social Spaces
14. 7 Engendering the Chinese City 217
15. 8 The Chinese Bourgeois Home in the Socialist World 242
16. Epilogue Historical Erasures and China’s New Middle Class 264
17. Notes 271
18. Bibliography 315
19. Index 337