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Polarized cities : portraits of rich and poor in urban China
Title
Polarized cities : portraits of rich and poor in urban China / edited by Dorothy J. Solinger, University of California, Irvine.
ISBN
9781538116470
1538116472
9781538116487
1538116480
Publication
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]
Physical Description
v, 199 pages ; 24 cm
Other formats
Online version: Polarized cities Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 22, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: state policies, castes, and agency / Dorothy J. Solinger
Polarization: scope, causes, manifestations
China's uphill battle against inequality / Wang Feng
Convergence and divergence among the rich and the poor / Li Zhang
Portraits of the urban poor
Banish the impoverished past : the predicament of the abandoned urban poor / Dorothy J. Solinger
The passionate poor : foxconn workers invited as volunteers / Mun Young Cho
On the rough edge of prosperity : informal migrant recyclers in Beijing / Joshua Goldstein
The upper reaches of the urban rich
China's party kings: Shanghai club cultures and status consumption, 1920s-2010s / Andrew David Field and James Farrer
Corruption : anti-corruption, and the dynamics of class formation in post-Mao China / John Osburg
Conclusion: urban polarities : inequality, social mobility, and the role of the state / David S. G. Goodman
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