I heard about this new book through the <a href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/chinaplanningnetwork">China Urban Planning Network mailing list</a>:

<quote>Laurence J. C. Ma and Fulong Wu, eds. 2005. Restructuring the Chinese city: Changing society, economy and space. London and New York: Routledge. xv and 283 pp. Figures, tables and photos. Index. Hardbound, $132; 75 British pounds.

    * Laurence J. C. Ma and Fulong Wu, <span class="chapter title">Restructuring the Chinese city:  Diverse processes and reconstituted spaces</span>
    * Carolyn Cartier, <span class="chapter title">City-space: Scale relations and China's spatial administrative hierarchy</span>
    * Jianfa Shen, <span class="chapter title">Space, scale and the state: Reorganizing urban space in China</span>
    * Anthony Gar-On Yeh, <span class="chapter title">Dual land market and internal spatial structure of Chinese cities</span>
    * Alan Smart and Wing-Shing Tang, <span class="chapter title">Irregular trajectories: Illegal building in mainland China and Hong Kong</span>
    * Piper Gaubatz, <span class="chapter title">Globalization and the development of new central business districts in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou</span>
    * Tianshu Pan, <span class="chapter title">Historical memory, community-building and place-making in neighborhood Shanghai</span>
    * Tingwei Zhang, <span class="chapter title">Uneven development among Shanghai's three urban districts</span>
    * Huaiting Yin, Xiaoping Shen and Zhe Zhao, <span class="chapter title">Industrial restructuring and urban spatial transformation in Xi'an</span>
    * Si-ming Li, <span class="chapter title">Residential mobility and urban change in China: What have we learned so far?</span>
    * Youqin Huang, <span class="chapter title">From work-unit compounds to gated communities: Housing inequality and residential segregation in transitional Beijing</span>
    * Weiping Wu, <span class="chapter title">Migrant residential distribution and metropolitan spatial development in Shanghai</span>
    * Li Zhang, <span class="chapter title">Migrant enclaves and impacts of redevelopment policy in Chinese cities</span>
    * Fulong Wu and Laurence J. C. Ma, <span class="chapter title">The Chinese city in transition:  Towards theorizing China's urban restructuring</span>
</quote>

Sounds intriguing.

##Here Comes the Bus

--I really liked the Liuzhou Laowai's <a href="http://liuzhou.blog-city.com/read/968263.htm" title="Liuzhou Laowai:  All Aboard!">latest post</a> because it deals with a topic lose to my heart:  public transportation!

<quote>Now I come to a little known fact about the Chinese language. Chinese has no word for 'full'. Actually, that is completely untrue, but the concept of fullness does not apply to buses. Bus drivers have 'fullness' surgically removed from their consciousnesses and traces of the word 'full' erased.</quote>

That is pretty descriptive of my bus ride home from work today (and most every day).  I was able to hold my backpack in one hand and cellphone in the other hand on a lurching bus, because the crowd kept me standing up.

Researchers invented a machine for autistic people that presses them between two boards.  The physical stimulation is soothing to them.  Am I autistic for preferring the bus?

##Hemlock Feed

A few weeks ago I put together <a href="http://feeds.wubi.org/hemlock/" title="Hemlock">an RSS feed</a> for the <a href="http://www.geocities.com/hkhemlock/papers.html" title="">Hong Kong weblog</a> published by a writer pen-named "Hemlock".  I don't believe I publicized it at all, so it's interesting to see that it already has <a href="http://bloglines.com/userdir?siteid=482751" title="Hemlock Subscribers with Public Profiles">two other Bloglines subscribers</a> (and my <a href="http://www.bloglines.com/userdir?siteid=796367">Angry Asian Man feed</a> has 3 other subscribers!  All feeds I create are in the <a href="http://feeds.wubi.org/">Wubi feed directory</a>). 

Potential subscribers keep in mind that this feed is scraped from a very messy page of HTML, so sometimes the entry-separating algorithm chokes and Bloglines records an entry twice.  In other words, it's not a perfect feed, but it works!