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Sze, Julie,

Fantasy Islands : chinese dreams and ecological fears in an age of climate crisis. / txt Julie Sze - 235 p. ill. ; 20 cm. book

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219).

Contents:
Introduction 1 --
1. Fear, loathing, eco-desire : Chinese pollution in transnational world 23 --
2. Changing Chongming 55 --
3. Dreaming green : engineering the eco city 81 --
4. It's a green world after all? : marketing nature and nation in suburban Shanghai 103 --
5. Imagining ecological urbanism at the World Expo 130 --
Conclusion 159 --
Notes 165 --
Acknowledgments 201 --
Select Bibliography 205 --
Index 221 --

ISBN: 9780520262485 0520262484 9780520284487 0520284488 9780520959828 0520959825

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Urban ecology (Sociology)--China--Shanghai
Urban ecology (Sociology)--United States
Urban renewal--China--Shanghai
Sustainable development--China--Shanghai

LC Class. No.: HT243.C62 / S477 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 307.760