One Country, Two Societies: Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China: 16 (Harvard Contemporary China Series) - Tapa blanda

 
9780674036321: One Country, Two Societies: Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China: 16 (Harvard Contemporary China Series)
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ISBN 10: 0674036328 ISBN 13: 9780674036321
Editorial: Harvard University Press, 2010

Sinopsis

This timely and important collection of original essays analyzes China’s foremost social cleavage: the rural–urban gap. It is now clear that the Chinese communist revolution, though professing dedication to an egalitarian society, in practice created a rural order akin to serfdom, in which 80 percent of the population was effectively bound to the land. China is still struggling with that legacy. The reforms of 1978 changed basic aspects of economic and social life in China’s villages and cities and altered the nature of the rural-urban relationship. But some important institutions and practices have changed only marginally or not at all, and China is still sharply divided into rural and urban castes with different rights and opportunities in life, resulting in growing social tensions.

The contributors, many of whom conducted extensive fieldwork, examine the historical background of rural–urban relations; the size and trend in the income gap between rural and urban residents in recent years; aspects of inequality apart from income (access to education and medical care, the digital divide, housing quality and location); experiences of discrimination, particularly among urban migrants; and conceptual and policy debates in China regarding the status and treatment of rural residents and urban migrants.

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Martin K. Whyte is John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Sociology, Emeritus, Harvard University.

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

Wu Jieh-min is a research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

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Editorial
Harvard University Press
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0674036328
ISBN 13 
9780674036321
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
460
Editor
Whyte
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ISBN 10:  0674036301 ISBN 13:  9780674036307
Editorial: Harvard University Press, 2010
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