Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- : basic institutions of the Chinese societies -- The Chinese society in pre-reform China -- The institutional changes in post-reform China -- Socioeconomic changes in the Chinese societies -- Chinese family and kinship : yesterday and today -- Chinese women...

Introduction : from vice to the virtue of owning private property -- Exit, or evict : re-grounding rights in need -- Bargaining demolition : when needs and desires meet -- Investing citizens : embracing desires and risks -- Affective ownership : situating rights in desires -- The property...