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...

This book is selection of author’s articles about China’s reform and development. The earliest article of the anthology was written in 1986 and the latest in 2017. The author studies the changes in property rights and system based on the practical experience of China’s reform. In the first...