ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how gated communities constitute exclusive privileged living of China’s new middle class in general, as well as the diversities of gated communities and their residents. Middle-class gated communities in China present much diversity instead of a unified set of urban forms, which include different types of ownership and different forms of property management. This chapter discusses three types of urban gated communities, namely, commodity-housing communities, work-unit communities and mixed communities. These three types of gated communities have resulted from the distribution and mobilization of urban housing resources in a housing market with strong intervention by the socialist state. The most crucial outcome of this is the making of two groups of urban middle classes who enjoy different access to resources.
