Boundaries and Categories

Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist Urban China

By:

Feng Wang

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Hardback

Series:

Studies in Social Inequality

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In the last two decades of the twentieth century, following the worldwide collapse of communism, China ascended from being one of the most egalitarian societies in the world to one of the more unequal. Wang Feng documents the process of rising inequality in urban China during this period, and explores the underlying structural forces that define China's emerging social landscape. By treating social categories created under socialism, such as cities and work organizations, as explicit forces generating inequality, the author reveals a pattern that embodies both enlarging inequality between social categories and persistent equality within them. This pattern is traced to China's post-socialist political economy and to a long-existing cultural tradition that places a premium on harmony and group solidarity. China's great reversal from equality to inequality is a powerful example of how social categories, not individual traits and preferences, structure and maintain inequality.

Author Biography:

Wang Feng is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the co-author of One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities (1999), which received best scholarship awards from the American Sociological Association and the Social Science History Association.

Release date NZ

December 4th, 2007

Author

Feng Wang

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

264

Series

Studies in Social Inequality

Dimensions

165x235x20

ISBN-13

9780804757942

Product ID

3901291

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