Class and Class Conflict in Post-Socialist China

Class and Class Conflict in Post-Socialist China traces the origins and the profound changes of the patterns of class conflict in post-socialist China since 1978.The first of its kind in the field of China Studies that offers comprehensive overviews and traces the historical evolutions of different patterns of class conflict (among workers, peasants, capitalists, and the middle class) in post-socialist China, the book provides comprehensive overviews of different patterns of class conflict. It uses a state-centered approach to study class conflict, i.e., study how the communist party-state restructures the patterns of class conflict in Chinese society, and brings in a historical dimension by tracing the origins and developments of class conflict in socialist and post-socialist China.

List of contents

Introduction; Historical Review of Class and Class Conflict in Maoist China; Post-Socialist Developmental Policies since 1978; The Capitalist Class; The Working Class; The Peasantry; The Middle Class; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Alvin Y So, Alvin Y So, Alvin Y. So
• Publisher: World Scientific
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.08.2013
• EAN: 9789814449649
• ISBN: 978-981-4449-64-9
• No. of pages: 214
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 468 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories