ISBN:
9780815704058
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 396 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. China's emerging middle class
DDC:
305.5/50951
Keywords:
Mittelschicht
;
Sozialstruktur
;
China
;
Middle class
;
Potenzial
;
Politische Beteiligung
;
Wohnungspolitik
;
Hochschule
;
Staat
;
Gesellschaft
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Volksrepublik China Sozialstruktur
;
Mittelschicht
;
Potential
;
Politische Partizipation
;
Wohnungspolitik
;
Hochschulsystem
;
Verhältnis Gesellschaft - Staat
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
China Economic conditions 2000-
;
China Social conditions 2000-
;
China
;
Konferenzschrift 2009
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
China
;
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
;
Mittelstand
;
Klassenstruktur
;
Sozialer Wandel
Abstract:
As recently as two decades ago there was no distinct middle class in the People's Republic of China. Today, any meaningful discussion of China's economy, politics, or society must take into account the rapid emergence and explosive growth of the Chinese middle class. Cheng Li, a Brookings scholar and noted expert on China, leads a team of experts in detailing the origins and characteristics of this dramatic change, assessing its current effects on Chinese society and discussing what it portends for the future
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Copyright Information; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I: The Global Significance of China's Emerging Middle Class; Introduction: The Rise of the Middle Class in the Middle Kingdom; The New Global Middle Class: A Crossover from West to East; Part II: The Chinese Perspective: Social Stratification and Political Ideology; Chinese Scholarship on the Middle Class: From Social Stratification to Political Potential; Globalization, Social Transformation, and the Construction of China's Middle Class; The Chinese Middle Class and Xiaokang Society
Description / Table of Contents:
Part III: Issues of Definition: Compositional Differences and Internal Divisions in China's Middle ClassCharacterizing China's Middle Class: Heterogeneous Composition and Multiple Identities; China's New Upper Middle Classes: The Importance of Occupational Disaggregation; Part IV: Expanding China's Middle Class: Housing Reform and Educational Development; China's Housing Reform and the Emerging Middle Class; The Housing Effect: The Making of China's Social Distinctions; Higher Education Expansion and China's Middle Class; Part V: The Chinese Middle Class in Comparative Perspective
Description / Table of Contents:
Placing China's Middle Class in the Asia-Pacific ContextMiddle-Class Grassroots Identity and Participation in Citizen Initiatives, China and South Korea; Part VI: China's Middle Class: An Agent of the Status Quo or a Force for Change?; China's Cooperative Capitalists: The Business End of the Middle Class; What Do Chinese Lawyers Want? Political Values and Legal Practice; Attitudes toward Democracy and the Political Behavior of China's Middle Class; Bibliography; Contributors; Index; Back Cover
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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