Class and class conflict in post-socialist China
By: by Alvin Y. So (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9789814449649
Subjects: Social classes; History; Social conflict; Social conditions
Description: "Class and Class Conflict in Post-Socialist China traces the origins and the profound changes of the patterns of class conflict in post-socialist China since 1978. The first of its kind in the field of China Studies that offers comprehensive overviews and traces the historical evolutions of different patters of class conflict (among workers, peasants, capitalists, and the middle class) in post-socialist China, the book provides comprehensive overview of different patterns of class conflict. It uses a state-centered approach to study class conflict, i.e., study how the communist party-state restructures the patterns of class conflict in Chinese society, and brings in a historical dimension by tracing the origins and developments of class conflict in soicalist and post-socialist China."--Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-198) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Class and class conflict in socialist China (1949-1978); title: Class and class conflict in post-socialist China since 1978; title: The making of a cadre-capitalist class; title: The transformation of the Maoist working class in urban China; title: The making of the new migrant working class in South China; title: The making and the remaking of the Maoist peasantry; title: The making of the new middle class; title: Conclusion.