Class and Social Stratification in Post-Revolution China

Book Overview

This 1984 book deals with those social transformations which occurred in Chinese society since the revolution in 1949. During the 1950s the Chinese Communist Party introduced a rigid system of class labels (e.g. landlord, rich peasant, middle peasant, landless labourer) based on pre-revolutionary notions of exploitation and property ownership. The class label system was a source of much social discontent during the 1960s and mid-1970s; the official...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521143845
• ISBN13: 9780521143844
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"