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1 online resource (253 pages) |
| Series |
China Today |
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China today.
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| Contents |
China Today series -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Tables -- Maps -- Chronology -- Preface -- Abbreviations, Measures and Note on Chinese Names and Transliteration -- 1: Introduction Understanding Class in China -- Understanding China and Class -- Revolutionary Class Analysis -- The Bourgeoisie within the Party -- Class by Ideology -- Class by Occupation -- Analysing Class in Contemporary China -- 2: Social Stratification under Reform -- Markers of Change -- Rural-urban Relations -- Reform and Inequality -- Stratification and Class -- The Emergent Class Structure |
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3: The Dominant Class -- The Political Elite -- The Economic Elite -- Power and Wealth -- 4: The Middle Classes -- Considering the Middle Class -- Size and Wealth -- The Aspirational Middle Class -- The Intermediate Middle Classes -- 5: The Subordinate Classes -- Public-sector Workers -- Workers in the Non-public Sector -- Peasants -- 6: The Political Economy of Change -- Market Transition -- Democratization -- A New Working Class -- Peasant Activism -- Inequality and Regime Legitimacy -- 7: Conclusion Inequality and Class -- Inequality -- Class -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
More than three decades of economic growth have led to significant social change in the People's Republic of China. This timely book examines the emerging structures of class and social stratification: how they are interpreted and managed by the Chinese Communist Party, and how they are understood and lived by people themselves. David Goodman details the emergence of a dominant class based on political power and wealth that has emerged from the institutions of the Party-state; a well-established middle class that is closely associated with the Party-state and a not-so-well-established entrepreneurial middle class; and several different subordinate classes in both the rural and urban areas. In doing so, he considers several critical issues: the extent to which the social basis of the Chinese political system has changed and the likely consequences; the impact of change on the old working class that was the socio-political mainstay of state socialism before the 1980s; the extent to which the migrant workers on whom much of the economic power of the PRC since the early 1980s has been based are becoming a new working class; and the consequences of China's growing middle class, especially for politics. The result is an invaluable guide for students and non-specialists interested in the contours of ongoing social change in China |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social classes -- China.
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Social change -- China.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780745687285 |
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0745687288 |
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9780745653365 |
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0745653367 |
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9780745653372 |
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0745653375 |
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