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Class in contemporary China / David S. G. Goodman.
Van Pelt Library HN740.Z9 S6146 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodman, David S. G.
- Series:
- China today series (Cambridge, England)
- China today series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social classes--China.
- Social classes.
- Social stratification.
- China.
- Social stratification--China.
- Social structure--China.
- Social structure.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- More than three decades of economic growth have led to significant social change in the People's Republic of China. This timely book examines the emerging structures of class and social stratification: how they are interpreted and managed by the Chinese Communist Party, and how they are understood and lived by people themselves. David Goodman details the emergence of a dominant class based on political power and wealth that has emerged from the institutions of the Partystate, with a well-established middle class that is closely associated with the Party-state and a not-so-well-established entrepreneurial middle class, as well as several different subordinate classes in both the rural and urban areas. In doing so, he considers several critical issues: the extent to which the social basis of the Chinese political system has changed and they likely consequences; the impact of change on the old working class that was the socio-political mainstay of state socialism before the 1980s; the extent to which the migrant workers - on whom much of the economic power of the People's Republic of China since the early 1980s has been based - are becoming a new working class; and the consequences of China's growing middle class, especially for politics. The result is an invaluable guide for researchers and students, as well as non-specialists interested in the contours of ongoing social change in China. Book jacket.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-220) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0745653375
- 9780745653372
- OCLC:
- 889646112
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