本书是时尚中国丛书之一，主要介绍了中国社会当前最热点的话题之一——中国房地产业。全书共分5个部分，内容包括：中国老建筑，产权和梦想，乐事和担忧，组织——变化中的家庭和变化中的生活，城市环的新成长等。本书是全英文版。

Memories of Old Residences

Dazayuan (Residential Compound)

Shikumen (Stone-arched Houses)

Tongzilou (Tube-shaped Building)

Uniform Houses

Property Rights and Dreams

Last Bus for Welfare Housing Distribution

Earlier Happiness

Pleasures and Worries

New Space for Dwelling

Buyers versus Developers

Various Opinions about Housing Prices

Community: Changing Homes, Changing Lives

Familiar Stranger

New Relations:Property Manager vefstis

proprietor

The New Growth Rings of Cities

Besieged City

City or Countryside