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.
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.
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
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
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