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China's Emerging Middle Class : Beyond Economic Transformation /

As recently as two decades ago there was no distinct middle class in the People's Republic of China. Today, any meaningful discussion of China's economy, politics, or society must take into account the rapid emergence and explosive growth of the Chinese middle class. Cheng Li, a Brookings...

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Otros Autores: Li, Cheng, 1956- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Foreword / Kenneth Lieberthal -- The global significance of China's emerging middle class. Introduction : the rise of the middle class in the Middle Kingdom / Cheng Li -- The new global middle class : a crossover from West to East / Homi Kharas and Geoffrey Gertz -- The Chinese perspective : social stratification and political ideology. Chinese scholarship on the middle class : from social stratification to political potential / Cheng Li -- Globalization, social transformation, and the construction of China's middle class / Zhou Xiaohong and Qin Chen -- The Chinese middle class and xiaokang society / Lu Hanlong -- Issues of definition : compositional differences and internal divisions in China's middle class. Characterizing China's middle class : heterogeneous composition and multiple identities / Li Chunling -- China's new upper middle classes : the importance of occupational disaggregation / Jianying Wang and Deborah Davis -- Expanding China's middle class : housing reform and educational development. China's housing reform and emerging middle class / Joyce Yanyun Man -- The housing effect : the making of China's social distinctions / Luigi Tomba -- Higher education expansion and China's middle class / Jiang Lin and Xiaoyan Sun -- The Chinese middle class in comparative perspective. Placing China's middle class in the Asia-Pacific context / Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao -- Middle-class grassroots identity and participation in citizen initiatives, China and South Korea / Han Sang-Jin -- China's middle class : an agent of the status quo or a force for change?. China's cooperative capitalists : the business end of the middle class / Bruce J. Dickson -- What do Chinese lawyers want? Political values and legal practice / Ethan Michelson and Sida Liu -- Attitudes toward democracy and the political behavior of China's middle class / Jie Chen. 
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