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Contesting citizenship in urban China : peasant migrants, the state, and the logic of the market / Dorothy J. Solinger.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Solinger, Dorothy J.
- Series:
- Studies of the East Asian Institute.
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural-urban migration--China.
- Rural-urban migration.
- Urban poor--China.
- Urban poor.
- Citizenship--China.
- Citizenship.
- Peasants--Legal status, laws, etc--China.
- Peasants.
- Labor market--China.
- Labor market.
- Communism--China.
- Communism.
- Rural-urban migration--Legal status, laws, etc--China.
- Peasants--China.
- China--Economic conditions--1976-2000.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 444 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction Citizenship, Markets, and the State
- Appendix: What Is the Floating Population?
- PART ONE Structure
- 2 State Policies I: Turning Peasants into Subjects
- 3 Urban Bureaucracies I: Migrants and Institutional Change
- 4 The Urban Rationing Regime I: Prejudice and Public Goods
- PART TWO Agency
- 5 State Policies II: The Floating Population Leaves Its Rural Origins
- 6 Urban Bureaucracies II: Peasants Enter Urban Labor Markets
- 7 The Urban Rationing Regime II: Coping Outside It and Alternate Citizenship
- Conclusion: Floating to Where? Citizenship and the Logic of the Market in a Time of Systemic Transition
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-412) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-92261-1
- 0-585-27487-8
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb09177 hdl
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