Introduction -- The Impact of Outward-Oriented Economic Reform on Income Inequality in China: 1978 – 2007 -- The continuity and changes of the hukou system since the 1990s: a critical review -- Land Reform, urban development and Migrant Housing in Contemporary China -- The Urban Village of Huanggang: A Successful Communal Model? -- China’s Not-in-My-Backyard Protest in the Process of Urbanization -- China’s Urban Environmental Governance in Transition: A Tale of Two Cities -- The New Generation of Migrant Workers in Urban China -- The Ethnic Minority Experience in the Urban Labour Market -- Returns to Education in China’s Urban Labour Market: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data for Shanghai -- List of Contributors.