Boundaries and Categories : Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist Urban China / Feng Wang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wang, Feng, Author.

Series:

Studies in Social Inequality

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.) : 26 tables, 18 figures.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the last two decades of the twentieth century, following the worldwide collapse of communism, China ascended from being one of the most egalitarian societies in the world to one of the more unequal. Wang Feng documents the process of rising inequality in urban China during this period, and explores the underlying structural forces that define China's emerging social landscape. By treating social categories created under socialism, such as cities and work organizations, as explicit forces generating inequality, the author reveals a pattern that embodies both enlarging inequality between social categories and persistent equality within them. This pattern is traced to China's post-socialist political economy and to a long-existing cultural tradition that places a premium on harmony and group solidarity. China's great reversal from equality to inequality is a powerful example of how social categories, not individual traits and preferences, structure and maintain inequality.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

TABLES AND FIGURES

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE From Equality to Inequality

CHAPTER TWO Categorical Sources of Inequality

TRENDS AND PATTERNS

CHAPTER THREE Prosperity and Inequality

CHAPTER FOUR Enlarging Inequality: Categories

EXPLANATIONS

CHAPTER FIVE Maintaining Equality: Boundaries

CHAPTER SIX Varieties of Inequality

APPENDIX: CHINA'S URBAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME AND EXPENDITURE SURVEY DATA

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2694-6

OCLC:

1294425893