Creating wealth and poverty in postsocialist China / edited by Deborah S. Davis and Wang Feng.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-287) and index.

Poverty and wealth in postsocialist China : an overview / Deborah Davis and Wang Feng -- Market vs. social benefits : explaining China's changing income inequality / Qin Gao and Carl Riskin -- Market and gender pay equity : have Chinese reforms narrowed the gap? / Philip N. Cohen and Wang Feng -- The two faces of luxury : gender and generational inequality in a Beijing hotel / Eileen Otis -- The changing structure of employment in contemporary China / Peter Evans and Sarah Staveteig -- Institutional basis of socialist stratification in transitional China / Liu Xin -- Rethinking corporatist bases of stratification in rural China / Xueguang Zhou -- Creating wealth : land seizure, local government and farmers / Zhou Feizhou -- Resolution mechanisms for land rights disputes / Zhang Jing -- Regional inequality in China : mortality and health / Yong Cai -- Beyond cost : rural perspectives on barriers to education / Emily Hannum and Jennifer Adams -- Urban occupational mobility and employment institutions / Yanjie Bian -- Social contours of distributive injustice feelings in contemporary China / Chunping Han and Martin King Whyte -- From inequality to inequity : popular conception of social (in)justice in Beijing / Ching Kwan Lee -- Social stratification : the legacy of the late imperial past / R. Bin Wong.

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Presents an up-to-date look at the social processes and consequences of China's rapid economic growth.

English.

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