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Miao, Ying

 
9781138595736: Being Middle Class in China: Identity, Attitudes and Behaviour (Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy)
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ISBN 10: 113859573X ISBN 13: 9781138595736
Editorial: Routledge, 2018

Sinopsis

Many studies of the Chinese middle class focus on defining it and viewing its significance for economic development and its potential for sociopolitical modernisation. This book goes beyond such objective approaches and considers middle class people’s subjective understanding and diverse experiences of class. Based on extensive original research including social surveys and detailed interviews, the book explores who the middle class think they are, what they think about a wide range of socioeconomic and sociopolitical issues, and why they think as they do. It examines attitudes towards the welfare state, social inequality, nationalism, relations with foreign countries and opinions on many social controversies, thereby portraying middle class people as more than simply luxury consumers and potential agents of democracy. The book concludes that a clear class identity and political consciousness have yet to emerge, but that middle class attitudes are best characterised as searching for a balance between old and new, the traditional and the foreign, the principled and the pragmatic.

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Ying Miao is a Lecturer in China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
113859573X
ISBN 13 
9781138595736
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
168
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