Class and social stratification in post-revolution China / edited by James L. Watson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watson, James L.

University of London. Contemporary China Institute.

Joint Committee on Contemporary China.

Series:

Contemporary China Institute publications

Contemporary China Institute publications.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social classes--China--Congresses.

Social classes.

China.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Contents:

Introduction : class and class formation in Chinese society / James L. Watson

Chinese views of social classification / Philip A. Kuhn

Classes, old and new, in Mao Zedong's thought, 1949-1976 / Stuart R. Schram

The decline of virtuocracy in China / Susan L. Shirk

Destratification in China / William L. Parish

The class system in rural China / Jonathan Unger

Bourgeois radicalism in the "new class" of Shanghai, 1949-1969 / Lynn T. White III

Marriage choice and status groups in contemporary China / Elisabeth Croll

Sexual inequality under socialism / Martin King Whyte.

Notes:

Papers based on a conference held in Windsor Park, England, from June 30th to July 4, 1980; sponsored by the Contemporary China Institute and the Joint Committee on Contemporary China.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521260620

OCLC:

9762046