Polarized Cities

Portraits of Rich and Poor in Urban China
Herausgeber: Solinger, Dorothy J.

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Produktbeschreibung

This powerful book brings to life the human dimension of the social and economic divides in urban China. Leading scholars explore the increasing rigidity of class and social boundaries and analyze of the process of polarization and its outcomes by focusing on two new "castes" in contemporary China-the extravagantly wealthy and the profoundly poor.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9781538116487
• ISBN-10: 1538116480
• Artikelnr.: 52419741

Autorenporträt

Dorothy J. Solinger is professor emerita of political science at the University of California, Irvine.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: State Policies, Castes, and Agency Dorothy J. Solinger Part
I: Polarization: Scope, Causes, Manifestations 1 China's Uphill Battle
Against Inequality Wang Feng 2 Convergence and Divergence Among the Rich
and the Poor Li Zhang Part II: Portraits of the Urban Poor 3 Banish the
Impoverished Past: The Predicament of the Abandoned Urban Poor Dorothy J.
Solinger 4 The Passionate Poor: Foxconn Workers Invited as Volunteers Mun
Young Cho 5 On the Rough Edge of Prosperity: Informal Migrant Recyclers in
Beijing Joshua Goldstein Part III: The Upper Reaches of the Urban Rich 6
China's Party Kings: Shanghai Club Cultures and Status Consumption,
1920s-2010s Andrew David Field and James Farrer 7 Corruption,
Anti-Corruption, and the Dynamics of Class: Formation in Post-Mao China
John Osburg Urban Polarities: Inequality, Social Mobility, and the Role of
the State David S. G. Goodman About the Contributors