E. Tsang

The New Middle Class in China

Consumption, Politics and the Market Economy

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on interviews with entrepreneurs, professionals and regional party cadres' from a range of age groups, this book argues that Western class categories do not directly apply to China and that the Chinese new middle class is distinguished more by socio-cultural than by economic factors.

Produktdetails

• Frontiers of Globalization
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-35444-9
• 2014
• Seitenzahl: 225
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 425g
• ISBN-13: 9780230354449
• ISBN-10: 0230354440
• Artikelnr.: 36541793

Autorenporträt

Eileen Yuk-Ha Tsang  is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: China Engages the Middle Class Society in the 21st Century? (Re) Framing Class Analysis in Post-Reform China Class Boundaries of the Older Generation of the Chinese New Middle Class Generational Effects in the Chinese New Middle Class Guanxi Networks and the Chinese New Middle Class Middle Class Culture and Political Development Conclusion: A China in the Making with a New Middle Class?