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Title Social stratification in Chinese societies / editors, Chan Kwok-bun, Agnes S. Ku, Chu Yin-wah ; book review editors, Ruan Danching and Wang Cangbai ; editorial assistant, Vivien W.W. Chan ; guest editor, Wu Xiaogang
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) : illustrations
Series Social transformations in Chinese societies, 1871-2673 ; v. 5
Social transformations in Chinese societies ; v. 5.
Contents Institution, culture, and social stratification : towards a comparative study of Chinese societies / Wu Xiaogang -- How angry are Chinese citizens about current inequalities? : evidence from a national survey / Martin King White and Guo Maocan -- Durable inequality : who are China's new urban poor? / Wang Feng, Tai Tsui-o and Wang Uoujuan -- The transformation of the Chinese class structure, 1978-2005 / Lin Thunghong and Wu Xiaogang -- The effects of human capital on job promotions in Taiwan : a comparison of schooling, tenure and training / Tsay Ruey-Ming, Jennifer Yeh Hsiu-Jen and Chuang Chih-Chia -- Hong Kong's changing opportunity structures : political concerns and sociological observations / Lui Tai-Lok -- Cultural location and its local discontents : contested evaluations of cantopop electronic dance music / Matthew M. Chew -- A comparative study on the corporatization of higher education in Hong Kong and Singapore / David Chan Kin-Keung -- Researching Korean children's schooling experience behind the model minority stereotype in China : an ethnographica approach / Gao Fang
Book reviews: Women in China's long twentieth century, by Gail Hershatter / Gina Lai -- The China price : the true cost of Chinese competitive advantage, by Alexandra Harney / Pun Ngai -- Colonial Hong Kong and modern China : interaction and reintegration, edited by Lee-Pui-tak / Lars Peter Laamann -- The first decade : the Hong Kong SAR in retrospective and introspective perspectives, edited by Yeung Yue-man / Marcus Chu -- In search of an identity : the politics of history as a school subject in Hong Kong, 1960s-2005, bu Edward Vickers / Bernard H.K. Luk -- Transnational identities and practices in Canada, edited by Vic Satzewich and Lloyd Wong / Janet Salaff
Summary The annual is a venue of publication for sociological studies of Chinese societies and the Chinese all over the world. The main focus is on social transformations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the mainland, Singapore and Chinese overseas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Social stratification -- China
Social classes -- China
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
Social classes
Social stratification
Soziale Klasse
China
China
Form Electronic book
Author Chan, Kwok B.
Ku, Agnes S. M.
Chu, Yin-wah.
Ruan, Danching.
Wang, Cangbai.
Chan, Vivien W. W
Wu, Xiaogang, 1969-
ISBN 9789004182615
9004182616