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Contesting citizenship in urban China : peasant migrants, the state, and the logic of the market / Dorothy J. Solinger.
LIBRA HB2114.A3 S65 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Solinger, Dorothy J.
- Series:
- Studies of the East Asian Institute
- Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural-urban migration--China.
- Rural-urban migration.
- Peasants--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Peasants.
- Citizenship.
- Urban poor.
- China.
- Urban poor--China.
- Citizenship--China.
- Peasants--Legal status, laws, etc--China.
- Labor market--China.
- Labor market.
- Communism--China.
- Communism.
- China--Economic conditions--1976-.
- Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 444 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- Post-Mao market reforms in China have led to a massive migration of rural peasants toward the cities. Officially denied residency in the cities, the over 80 million members of this "floating population" provide labor for the economic boom in urban areas but are largely denied government benefits that city residents receive. In an incisive and original study that goes against the grain of much of the current discussion on citizenship, Dorothy J. Solinger challenges the notion that markets necessarily promote rights and legal equality in any direct or linear fashion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-412) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520213475
- 0520217969
- OCLC:
- 39223537
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