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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- List of Illustrations -- PART 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1 China in the Post-Utopian Age -- Introduction: China's New Great Transformation -- Is China Losing Its Way at the End of the Millennium? -- Comparative Postsocialisms: Life in the Post-Utopian Age -- An Outline of the Book -- 2 China and the Geographical Imagination -- Introduction: Geographical Imperatives in Contemporary China -- Space, Place, and the Geographical Imagination -- Standing Up or Keeping Silent? -- PART 2 SPACE, SOCIETY, AND THE STATE IN CHINA -- 3 Culture Change in Contemporary China -- Introduction: Mao Zedong Makes a Comeback -- Guanxi and Gift-Giving in China: The Resilience of an Ancient Custom -- Locating the Chinese Cross-Culturally -- Modernization and Culture Change -- The Four Modernizations and the Commodification of Personal Relationships -- New Cultural Trends in China -- 4 China's Political Economy and the Transition out of Socialism -- Introduction: China's Transition -- China's Marxism -- Political Economy and the Socialist Transformation in China -- Politics and Reform in Post-Mao China -- Deconstructing Deng Xiaoping and His Legacy -- 5 China's Population: Resistance, Compliance, and the National Interest -- Introduction: The Politics of Reproduction -- A Brief Population Geography -- Implementing the One-Child Policy: A Description -- Resisting the One-Child Policy: An Evaluation -- Compliance with the One-Child Policy: An Interpretation -- Side Effects of the One-Child Policy -- Population Policy in the Future: Reducing Coercion, Solving Contradictions -- 6 Life, Death, and the Commodification of Health Care in China -- Introduction: The Health Care a Society Deserves? -- The People's Medicine: Health Care in the Maoist Era -- Medicine and Reform: Health Care Concerns in the Dengist Era.

This article describes and interprets some of the events associated with the demographic and economic restructuring that has occurred in Flushing, in the Borough of Queens in New York City. Since the liberalization of the U.S. immigration laws in 1965, many of New York's neighborhoods have been transformed by the rapid influx of immigrants. In the case of Flushing, the majority of newcomers have been Asians, particularly from China, Korea, and the Indian subcontinent. The introduction of Asian capital and enterprise into the neighborhood has revitalized what was considered to be an ailing economy and a sluggish housing market. From the perspective of some of the long-term residents, however, the costs of progress have outweighed the benefits. The paper examines the public discourse accompanying the Asianization of Flushing, centering on the conflicts that have emerged between capital and community, immigrants and long-term residents, Asians and non-Asians.