Descript |
xii, 302 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
Contents |
Why China has no new middle class: cadres, managers and entrepreneurs / David S.G. Goodman -- Class, stratum and group: the politics of description and prescription / Yingjie Guo -- Market transition, wealth and status claims / Xiaowei Xang -- Richer than before: the cultivation of middle class taste: education choices in urban China / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Zheng Yi -- Corporate CEOs as cultural promoters / Colin Hawes -- From coal black to hospital white: new welfare entrepreneurs and the pursuit of a cleaner status / Beatriz Carrillo -- Entrepreneurial women: personal wealth, local politics and tradition / Minglu Chen -- The professional middle classes: management and politics / Ivan Cucco -- Professors, doctors, and lawyers: the variable wealth of the professional classes / Jingqing Yang -- The forest city: homeownership and new wealth in Shenyang / Luigi Tomba and Beibei Tang -- The Shanghai-Hong Kong connection: fine jewelry consumption and the demand for diamonds / Carolyn Cartier -- Issue-based politics: feminism with Chinese characteristics or the return of bourgeois feminism? / Louise Edwards -- Men, women and the maid: at home with the new rich / Wanning Sun -- Advanced producers or moral polluters: China's bureaucrat-entrepreneurs and sexual corruption / Elaine Jeffreys. |
ISBN |
9780415455657 (pbk.) |
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0415455650 (pbk.) |
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0415455642 (hbk.) |
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9780415455640 (hbk.) |
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