ISBN:
9781783470648
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Handbooks of research on contemporary China
Parallel Title:
Print version Guo, Yingjie Handbook on Class and Social Stratification in China
DDC:
307.720951
Keywords:
Social classes Handbooks, manuals, etc
;
Social stratification Handbooks, manuals, etc
;
Social classes ; China ; History ; 20th century ; Congresses
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This comprehensive, interdisciplinary Handbook illustrates the patterns of class transformation in China since 1949, situating them in their historical context. Presenting detailed case studies of social stratification and class formation in a wide range of settings, the expert contributors provide valuable insights into multiple aspects of China's economy, polity and society. The Handbook on Class and Social Stratification in China explores largely neglected contemporary topics such as women's social mobility in relation to marriage and the high school entrance exam as a class sorter, placing
Abstract:
Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: class and stratification in the People's Republic of China -- PART I HISTORY -- 1. Reconfiguring China's class order after the 1949 Revolution -- 2. The Cultural Revolution: class, culture and revolution -- 3. Class and inequality in the post-Mao era -- PART II DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND CLASS FORMATION -- 4. State power as a determinant of life chances -- 5. Cultural politics of class: workers and peasants as historical subjects
Abstract:
6. Women's social mobility in China: marriage and class -- 7. Ethnic minority status, class, and the urban labour market -- PART III WELFARE INDEXES -- 8. Education, social stratification and class in China -- 9. The high school entrance exam and/as class sorter: working class youth and the HSEE in contemporary China -- 10. Housing China's inequality -- 11. Class, stratification and health inequities in contemporary China -- PART IV THE RULING CLASS -- 12. China's emerging ruling class: power, wealth, and status under market socialism -- 13. China's top leading cadres: more red, expert, or gold?
Abstract:
PART V MIDDLE CLASSES -- 14. Transformation of China's socialist brick: reproduction and circulation of ordinary cadres -- 15. The growth of Chinese professionals: a new middle class in the making -- 16. China's private entrepreneurs and the Party-state: mutual dependence and political institutionalization -- PART VI WORKING CLASSES -- 17.Working class re-formation and de-formation in the PRC -- 18. China's rural migrant workers and labour politics -- 19. A predictable end? China's peasantry as a class, past, present and imagined future -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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