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Foreword: Qingqing and Mr. Yang, a Social Anthropology; Dramatis Personae: The Main Characters Met in the Book; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Preparing for the Fieldwork; 1.1 Initial Questions; 1.2 Why Hutong?; 1.3 Fieldwork Methods; 1.4 Theoretical Origins; 1.4.1 Anthropology of China; 1.4.2 Anthropology of Space; 1.5 Chapter Links: Outcomes; References; Chapter 2: 'Trembling in Another's Fulfilment': The Space of the Hutong and Its Significance to Mr. Yang; 2.1 Emotional Link with Land; 2.2 Emotional Links with the Items Grow Up from the Land Within One's Living Area
2.3 Differentiated Familiarity (Chaxu Familiarity)2.4 Emotional Integration with the Social Network; 2.5 What the City Is and Will Be; 2.6 Bricks and Stones or Mentality and Emotion?; References; Chapter 3: 'Peace in the Noise': Harmony, Face and Reciprocity in Hutong Spaces; 3.1 What Is 'Siheyuan'?; 3.2 Life in an Independent Courtyard; 3.3 The Concept of 'Home'; 3.4 Mingled Reciprocation at Dazayuan; 3.5 A Harmonised Way of Life; References; Chapter 4: 'Enter the Solemnity': Social Space in the High-Rise Apartment; 4.1 On First Moving In; 4.2 Loose Compound; 4.3 Life Within the Building
4.4 Lack of Public Space for Interacting4.5 A Fresh Stream in the Compound; Chapter 5: 'Things Have Been Socialised': The Variable Allocations of Value in the City; 5.1 The Value of Laowujian ('Old Things') to Mr. Yang; 5.2 Gaining Face Through a Thing's Physical Existence; 5.3 Make a Life with Old Things; 5.4 Language and Ways of Expression as 'Old'; 5.5 The Name of a Place as Having Value; 5.6 The Contextual Value of 'Old Things'; 5.7 How Old Things Are Dealt Within the Hutong and the High-Rise Apartment; 5.8 Valuing the "Old"; Reference
Chapter 6: 'Out of Space, Out of Speech': The Relationship Between Language and Space in the City6.1 Houhai Park; 6.2 Dinner with Two Families: Hotpot; 6.3 TV Time with Xiaojun; 6.4 A Casual Chat with Mr. Yang: How This Li-Based Space Has Been Created; 6.5 Strict Boundaries in Between Spaces; 6.6 Space Classification; 6.7 The Communal Area; 6.8 Inside Mrs. Li's Apartment; 6.9 "High Culture" vs "Low Culture"; References; Chapter 7: 'Soft and Hard, Bendy and Fixed, Vase and Funnel': The Experience and Conceptualization of Living Space in the City; 7.1 The Bamboo Curtain on the Door
7.2 A Transparent Community7.3 How Residents Individualise the Public Space; 7.4 Stretchable Space; 7.5 Solid Space; 7.6 Meaning of Home; References; Chapter 8: 'Urbanised by Specialised': The Decrease in 'Overlapping Space' in the City; 8.1 Specialised City; 8.2 Community-Based Compounds; 8.3 The Way of Being Polite Within the Hutong Courtyard; 8.4 The Individually Based Compound; 8.5 Overlapping Space; 8.6 Consequences of Overlapping Spaces; 8.7 Challenging the Concept of "Human Ecology"; References; Chapter 9: A Conversation with Henri Lefebvre-The Dynamics of Space; Reference
2.3 Differentiated Familiarity (Chaxu Familiarity)2.4 Emotional Integration with the Social Network; 2.5 What the City Is and Will Be; 2.6 Bricks and Stones or Mentality and Emotion?; References; Chapter 3: 'Peace in the Noise': Harmony, Face and Reciprocity in Hutong Spaces; 3.1 What Is 'Siheyuan'?; 3.2 Life in an Independent Courtyard; 3.3 The Concept of 'Home'; 3.4 Mingled Reciprocation at Dazayuan; 3.5 A Harmonised Way of Life; References; Chapter 4: 'Enter the Solemnity': Social Space in the High-Rise Apartment; 4.1 On First Moving In; 4.2 Loose Compound; 4.3 Life Within the Building
4.4 Lack of Public Space for Interacting4.5 A Fresh Stream in the Compound; Chapter 5: 'Things Have Been Socialised': The Variable Allocations of Value in the City; 5.1 The Value of Laowujian ('Old Things') to Mr. Yang; 5.2 Gaining Face Through a Thing's Physical Existence; 5.3 Make a Life with Old Things; 5.4 Language and Ways of Expression as 'Old'; 5.5 The Name of a Place as Having Value; 5.6 The Contextual Value of 'Old Things'; 5.7 How Old Things Are Dealt Within the Hutong and the High-Rise Apartment; 5.8 Valuing the "Old"; Reference
Chapter 6: 'Out of Space, Out of Speech': The Relationship Between Language and Space in the City6.1 Houhai Park; 6.2 Dinner with Two Families: Hotpot; 6.3 TV Time with Xiaojun; 6.4 A Casual Chat with Mr. Yang: How This Li-Based Space Has Been Created; 6.5 Strict Boundaries in Between Spaces; 6.6 Space Classification; 6.7 The Communal Area; 6.8 Inside Mrs. Li's Apartment; 6.9 "High Culture" vs "Low Culture"; References; Chapter 7: 'Soft and Hard, Bendy and Fixed, Vase and Funnel': The Experience and Conceptualization of Living Space in the City; 7.1 The Bamboo Curtain on the Door
7.2 A Transparent Community7.3 How Residents Individualise the Public Space; 7.4 Stretchable Space; 7.5 Solid Space; 7.6 Meaning of Home; References; Chapter 8: 'Urbanised by Specialised': The Decrease in 'Overlapping Space' in the City; 8.1 Specialised City; 8.2 Community-Based Compounds; 8.3 The Way of Being Polite Within the Hutong Courtyard; 8.4 The Individually Based Compound; 8.5 Overlapping Space; 8.6 Consequences of Overlapping Spaces; 8.7 Challenging the Concept of "Human Ecology"; References; Chapter 9: A Conversation with Henri Lefebvre-The Dynamics of Space; Reference