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This collection of articles selected from
Blue Book of Chinese Society 2017 published in Chinese reviews China's social condition from 2016 to 2017. The articles cover a wide range of social issues, including employment, income and consumption, social security, education, health, food and drug safety, and others. Findings are presented and analyzed from a number of social surveys on topics such as the impact of industrial structure on employment, new social class, value and belief system of youth, and public attitudes toward genetic modification. Each article ends with policy suggestions, and a statistical overview of China's social development is given in the last chapter.
About the author
LI Peilin is Director of Academic Division of Social, Political and Legal Studies of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Vice President of the Chinese Sociological Association, and Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Studies. Li received his Master's degree from Université de Lyon in 1984 and Ph.D. from Paris-Sorbonne in 1987. He has published extensively in sociology, including
Social Stratification in China,
Social Conflict and Class Consciousness, and
Social Transformation and Chinese Experiences.
CHEN Guangjin is Director of the Institute of Sociology, CASS, Vice President of the Chinese Sociological Association. Chen has published extensively in studies of Chinese society.
ZHANG Yi is Deputy Director of the Institute of Sociology, CASS.
