Boundaries and Categories: Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist Urban China

by Feng Wang

In the last two decades of the twentieth century, following the worldwide collapse of communism, China ascended from being one of the most egalitarian societies in the world to one of the more unequal. Wang Feng documents the process of rising inequality in urban China during this period, and explores the underlying structural forces that define China's emerging social landscape.

By treating social categories created under socialism, such...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804757941
• ISBN13: 9780804757942
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"