Title One country, two societies : rural-urban inequality in contemporary China / edited by Martin King Whyte

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010 ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 445 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Harvard contemporary China series ; 16 Harvard contemporary China series ; 16. Contents The paradoxes of rural-urban inequality in contemporary China / Martin King Whyte -- Small-town China : a historical perspective on rural-urban relations / Hanchao Lu -- Rural migrant workers and China's differential citizenship : a comparative institutional analysis / Wu Jieh-min -- How large is China's urban-rural income gap? / Terry Sicular [and others] -- Reestimating the income gap between urban and rural households in China / Li Shi and Luo Chuliang -- Rural-urban disparities in access to primary and secondary education under market reforms / Emily Hannum, Meiyan Wang, and Jennifer Adams -- Disparities in health care and health status : the rural-urban gap and beyond / Winnie Yip -- The narrowing digital divide : a view from rural China / Rachel Murphy -- The impact of variations in urban registration within cities / Li Limei and Li Si-ming -- Boundaries of inequality : perceptions of distributive justice among urbanites, migrants, and peasants / Wang Feng -- Rural prejudice and gender discrimination in China's urban job market / Lei Guang and Fanmin Kong -- Gender and citizenship inequality: the story of two migrant women / Arianne Gaetano -- Ethnicity, rurality, and status : Hukou and the institutional and cultural determinants of social status in Tibet / Xiaojiang Hu and Miguel A. Salazar -- Bringing the city back in : the Chinese debate on rural problems / Lei Guang -- Renovating the great floodgate : the reform of China's Hukou system / Fei-ling Wang Summary This timely and important collection of original essays analyses China's foremost social cleavage: the rural-urban gap. The contributors examine the historical background or rural-urban relations; and the size and trend in the income gap between rural and urban residents in recent years Subject Cities and towns -- China -- Congresses Villages -- China -- Congresses Rural-urban migration -- China -- Congresses Cities and towns Rural conditions Rural-urban migration Social conditions Villages SUBJECT China -- Rural conditions -- Congresses China -- Social conditions -- 1949- -- Congresses Subject China Genre/Form Electronic books Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Whyte, Martin King, editor. ISBN 9781684171156 1684171156 9780674054820 0674054822

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