One country, two societies
Subtitle: rural-urban inequality in contemporary China
By: edited by Martin King Whyte.
Contributors: Whyte, Martin King.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9780674036307; 9780674036321
Subjects: Cities and towns -- China; Villages -- China; Rural-urban migration -- China; China -- Rural conditions; China -- Social conditions -- 1949-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The paradoxes of rural-urban inequality in contemporary China / Martin King Whyte; title: Small town China : a historical perspective on rural-urban relations / Hanchao Lu; title: Rural migrant workers and China's differential citizenship : a comparative institutional analysis / Wu Jieh-min; title: How large is China's urban-rural income gap? / Terry Sicular ... [et al.]; title: Re-estimating the income gap between urban and rural households in China / Li Shi and Luo Chuliang; title: Urban-rural disparities in access to primary and secondary education under market reforms / Emily Hannum, Meiyan Wang, and Jennifer Adams; title: Disparities in health care and health status : the rural-urban gap and beyond / Winnie Yip; title: The narrowing digital divide : the view from rural China / Rachel Murphy; title: The impact of variations in urban registration within cities / Li Limei and Li Si-ming; title: Boundaries of inequality : perceptions of distributive justice among urbanites, migrants, and peasants / Wang Feng; title: Rural prejudice and gender discrimination in China's urban job market / Lei Guang and Fanmin Kong; title: Gender and citizenship inequality: the story of two migrant women / Arianne Gaetano; title: Ethnicity, rurality, and status : Hukou and the institutional and cultural determinants of social status in Tibet / Xiaojiang Hu and Miguel Salazar; title: Bringing the city back in : the Chinese debate on rural problems / Lei Guang; title: Renovating the great floodgate : the reform of China's Hukou system / Fei-ling Wang.