Chinese Urban Life Under Reform - The Changing Social Contract

Klappentext This book examines how urban China is experiencing the shift from a planned to a market economy. Zusammenfassung This book provides a rare glimpse into how the Chinese urban population is experiencing the rapid shift from a planned to a market economy as workers! civil servants! intellectuals! and women report their grievances and joys at home! at work! and in the public sphere. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction: 1. Socialist and market social contracts; 2. The urban social world; Part II. Group Interests: 3. Life chances: education and jobs; 4. Economic rewards; 5. Popular reactions to the changing social contract; 6. Labor-management relations; 7. Civil servants and bureaucratic behavior; 8. Political participation and interest articulation; Part III. Gender: 9. Gender and work William L. Parish and Sarah Busse; 10. Gender and family William L. Parish and James Farrer; Part IV. Comparisons and Conclusions: 11. Taiwan and China compared; 12. Conclusion; Appendices; References; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: William L. Parish, William L. (University of Chicago) Parish, Parish William L., Wenfang Tang, Wenfang (University of Pittsburgh) Tang, Wenfang (University of Pittsburgh) Parish Tang, Wenfang Parish Tang, Tang Wenfang
• Mitarbeit: William Kirby (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 28.01.2000
• EAN: 9780521778657
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77865-7
• Seiten: 412
• Serien: Cambridge Modern China Series; Cambridge Modern China (Paperb; Cambridge Modern China Series
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Asia / China, Asian History, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology