Class and social stratification in post-revolution China
This 1984 book deals with those social transformations which occurred in Chinese society since the revolution in 1949. The book will interest a wide range of readers, not just those who specialise in Chinese social history. Contributors include two anthropologists, one historian, three political scientists, and three sociologists.
Print Book, English, 1984
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], 1984
Congress
vii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780521260626, 0521260620
9762046
Introduction : class and class formation in Chinese society / James L. Watson
Chinese views of social classification / Philip A. Kuhn
Classes, old and new, in Mao Zedong's thought, 1949-1976 / Stuart R. Schram
The decline of virtuocracy in China / Susan L. Shirk
Destratification in China / William L. Parish
The class system in rural China / Jonathan Unger
Bourgeois radicalism in the "new class" of Shanghai, 1949-1969 / Lynn T. White III
Marriage choice and status groups in contemporary China / Elisabeth Croll
Sexual inequality under socialism / Martin King Whyte
Includes a chapter by Elisabeth Croll, New Zealand author
Papers based on a conference held in Windsor Park, England, from June 30th to July 4, 1980; sponsored by the Contemporary China Institute and the Joint Committee on Contemporary China