Polarized cities : portraits of rich and poor in urban China /: portraits of rich and poor in urban China. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• 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).
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