Gated communities in China [electronic resource] : class, privilege and the moral politics of the good life / Pow Choon-Piew.

Introduction: gated communities and the lure of the good life
Making middle-class spaces: privilege, territoriality and the moral geographies of exclusion
Urban reform, the new middle-class and the emergence of gated communities in Shanghai
Imagineering suburbia: contested representations of the Chinese dream home
Seeking privacy and seclusion: private property, individualism and neoliberal subjectivities
Maintaining order and civility: purified spaces and the paradox of gated living
Beyond the gates: a geographical-moral critique.