Polarized cities : portraits of rich and poor in urban China /: portraits of rich and poor in urban China. ([2019])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Polarized cities : portraits of rich and poor in urban China /: portraits of rich and poor in urban China. ([2019])
- Main Title:
- Polarized cities : portraits of rich and poor in urban China
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Dorothy J. Solinger, University of California, Irvine.
- Editors:
- Solinger, Dorothy J
- 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 -- Index -- About the contributors.
- Publisher Details:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Copyright Date:
- 2019
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 305.5/2340951091732
Urban poor -- China
Poverty -- China
Rich people -- China
Wealth -- China
Social classes -- China
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
Poverty
Rich people
Social classes
Urban poor
Wealth
China
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781538116494
1538116499 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781538116470
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed October 4, 2018). - Access Rights:
- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.318817
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