Class and social stratification in post-revolution China
By: edited by James L. Watson.
Contributors: Watson, James L.; University of London. Contemporary China Institute.; Joint Committee on Contemporary China.
Series: Contemporary China Institute publications
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Social classes -- China -- Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers based on a conference held in Windsor Park, England, from June 30th to July 4, 1980; sponsored by the Contemporary China Institute and the Joint Committee on Contemporary China.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : class and class formation in Chinese society / James L. Watson; title: Chinese views of social classification / Philip A. Kuhn; title: Classes, old and new, in Mao Zedong's thought, 1949-1976 / Stuart R. Schram; title: The decline of virtuocracy in China / Susan L. Shirk; title: Destratification in China / William L. Parish; title: The class system in rural China / Jonathan Unger; title: Bourgeois radicalism in the "new class" of Shanghai, 1949-1969 / Lynn T. White III; title: Marriage choice and status groups in contemporary China / Elisabeth Croll; title: Sexual inequality under socialism / Martin King Whyte.