Urban agency in early modern and modern China

I am what Chinese would call a waihang (outsider to the guild) in this discussion, neither a specialist in European urban history nor up-To-date on the body of critical social theory that informs much of the discussion in the roundtable. Therefore, I see my role here as primarily presenting a comparative case-China-and only incidentally engaging with the theoretical aspects of the discussion. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016.