Introduction -- Class and class conflict in socialist China (1949-1978) -- Class and class conflict in post-socialist China since 1978 -- The making of a cadre-capitalist class -- The transformation of the Maoist working class in urban China -- The making of the new migrant working class in South China -- The making and the remaking of the Maoist peasantry -- The making of the new middle class -- Conclusion
Summary
This book uses a state-centered approach to trace the historical origins, developments, and evolutions of different patterns of class conflict among workers, peasants, capitalists, and the middle class in socialist and post-socialist China
