This book provides a comprehensive account of the global, regional and urban dimensions of China's development, and the resulting socio-economic and political outcomes. Shin begins by documenting and analysing China's changing position in the world economy before turning to the development challenges that urban China faces. This book will be suitable for use on upper lever undergraduate and postgraduate courses on China's development, Chinese geographyand urban China, as well as related courses insociology, urban studies, anthropology, international development and political science.