Tsang The New Middle Class in China

Consumption, Politics and the Market Economy
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-29744-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 225 Seiten

Reihe: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection

Based on interviews with entrepreneurs, professionals and regional party cadres' from a range of age groups, this book argues that Western class categories do not directly apply to China and that the Chinese new middle class is distinguished more by socio-cultural than by economic factors.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tsang, E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: China Engages the Middle Class Society in the 21st Century? (Re) Framing Class Analysis in Post-Reform China Class Boundaries of the Older Generation of the Chinese New Middle Class Generational Effects in the Chinese New Middle Class Guanxi Networks and the Chinese New Middle Class Middle Class Culture and Political Development Conclusion: A China in the Making with a New Middle Class?

Über Autor(innen)

Eileen Yuk-Ha Tsang is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong