| Description |
xii, 302 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Why China has no new middle class: cadres, managers and entrepreneurs / David S.G. Goodman -- Class, stratum and group: the politics of description and prescription / Yingjie Guo -- Market transition, wealth and status claims / Xiaowei Xang -- Richer than before: the cultivation of middle class taste: education choices in urban China / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Zheng Yi -- Corporate CEOs as cultural promoters / Colin Hawes -- From coal black to hospital white: new welfare entrepreneurs and the pursuit of a cleaner status / Beatriz Carrillo -- Entrepreneurial women: personal wealth, local politics and tradition / Minglu Chen -- The professional middle classes: management and politics / Ivan Cucco -- Professors, doctors, and lawyers: the variable wealth of the professional classes / Jingqing Yang -- The forest city: homeownership and new wealth in Shenyang / Luigi Tomba and Beibei Tang -- The Shanghai-Hong Kong connection: fine jewelry consumption and the demand for diamonds / Carolyn Cartier -- Issue-based politics: feminism with Chinese characteristics or the return of bourgeois feminism? / Louise Edwards -- Men, women and the maid: at home with the new rich / Wanning Sun -- Advanced producers or moral polluters: China's bureaucrat-entrepreneurs and sexual corruption / Elaine Jeffreys |
| Summary |
Summary: "Three decades of reform since 1978 in the Peopleʼs Republic of China have resulted in the emergence of new social groups which have included new occupations and professions generated as the economy has opened up and developed and, most spectacularly given the legacy of state socialism, the identification of those who are regarded as wealthy. However, although Chinaʼs new rich are certainly a consequence of globalization, there remains a need for caution in assuming either that Chinaʼs new rich are a middle class, or that if they are they should immediately be equated with a universal middle class. Including sections on class, status and power, agency and structure and lifestyle The New Rich in China investigates the political, socio-economic and cultural characteristics of the emergent new rich in China, the similarities and differences to similar phenomenon elsewhere and the consequences of the new rich for China itself. In doing so it links the importance of China to the world economy and helps us understand how the growth of Chinaʼs new rich may influence our understanding of social change elsewhere. This is a subject that will become increasingly important as China continues its development and private entrepreneurship continues to be encouraged and as such The New Rich in China will be an invaluable volume for students and scholars of Chinese studies, history and politics and social change."--Publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-291) and index |
| Subject |
Middle class -- China.
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Wealth -- China.
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Social classes -- China.
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Social change -- China.
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Power (Social sciences) -- China.
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| Author |
Goodman, David S. G.
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| LC no. |
2007045216 |
| ISBN |
9780415455640 hardback |
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0415455642 hardback |
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9780415455657 paperback |
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0415455650 paperback |
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