Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China

Name: Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China
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ISBN: 9780804761161

ISBN-10: 0804761167

ISBN-13: 9780804761161

Edition: 2008

Authors: Deborah S. Davis, Feng Wang

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 12/9/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Wang Feng is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Irvine.



Illustrations


Acknowledgements


Contributors



Poverty, Wealth, and Stratification: The Interconnections



Poverty and Wealth in Postsocialist China: An Overview




Market versus Social Benefits: Explaining China's Changing Income Inequality




Market and Gender Pay Equity: Chinese Reforms Narrowed the Gap?




The Labor of Luxury: Gender and Generational Inequality in a Beijing Hotel




The Changing Structure of Employment in Contemporary China




Postsocialist Power and Property Relations



Institutional Basis of Social Stratification in Transitional China




Rethinking Corporatist Basis of Stratification in Rural China




Creating Wealth: Land Seizure, Local Government, and Farmers




Resolution Mechanisms for Land Rights Disputes




Postsocialist Life Chances



Regional Inequality in China: Mortality and Health




Beyond Cost: Rural Perspective on Barriers to Education




Urban Occupational Mobility and Employment Institutions: Hierarchy, Market, and Networks in a Mixed System




Interpreting Postsocialist Wealth and Poverty



The Social Contours of Distributive Injustice Feeling in Contemporary China




From Inequality to Inequity: Popular Conceptions of Social (In)justice in Beijing




Social Stratification: The Legacy of the Late Imperial Past



Reference Matter


Notes


References


Index