This timely and important collection of original essays analyzes ChinaÕs foremost social cleavage: the rural-urban gap. It is now clear that the Chinese communist revolution, though professing dedication to an egalitarian society, in practice created a rural order akin to serfdom, in which 80 percent of the population was effectively bound to the land. China is still struggling with that legacy. The reforms of 1978 changed basic aspects of economic and social life in ChinaÕs villages and cities

First Author: Whyte, Martin King; Adams, Jennifer; Gaetano, Arianne; Guang, Lei; Gustafsson, Bjorn; Hannum, Emily; Xiaojiang, Hu; Kong, Fanmin; Limei, Li; Shi, Li
Attributed to:  British Inter-University China Centre funded by ESRC

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Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: One Country, Two Societies: Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China (2010)

ISBN: 9780674036321