Preface and acknowledgments.- Introduction: City Branding and Cultural Facilities-boosting Chinese cities .- Development of Theaters and the City in Beijing: the 1950s and After the 1980s.- To Be Cultural Capital-grand theaters in Shanghai.- Guangzhou Opera House: Building a Gated Public Space.- City Center Shifting and Cultural Facilities
Performance Space in Shenzhen.- Growing with the City: Theatrical Buildings in Chongqing.- The Henan Art Center: From Dilemma to Ambition.- The Shanxi Grand Theater: 'Renaissance' of Chinese Drama Land.- A Butterfly by the Lake
Wuxi Grand Theater.- The National Taichung Theater: experimenting publicity of metropolitan urbanism.- From Colonial to Global-performance space in Hong Kong.- Appendix.- Bibliography.- Index.