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Title

Contesting citizenship in urban China : peasant migrants, the state, and the logic of the market / Dorothy J. Solinger.

Author

Solinger, Dorothy J.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.

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Description

xix, 444 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Post-Mao market reforms in China have led to a massive migration of rural peasants toward the cities. Officially denied residency in the cities, the over 80 million members of this "floating population" provide labor for the economic boom in urban areas but are largely denied government benefits that city residents receive. In an incisive and original study that goes against the grain of much of the current discussion on citizenship, Dorothy J. Solinger challenges the notion that markets necessarily promote rights and legal equality in any direct or linear fashion.

Series Statement

Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Uniform Title

Studies of the East Asian Institute

Subject

• China > Economic conditions > 1976-2000
• Citizenship > China
• Communism > China
• Labor market > China
• Peasants > Legal status, laws, etc. > China
• Rural-urban migration > China
• Urban poor > China

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-412) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Citizenship, markets, and the state -- State policies I: turning peasants into subjects -- Urban bureaucracies I: migrants and institutional change -- The urban rationing regime I: prejudice and public goods -- State policies II: the floating population leaves its rural origins -- Urban bureaucracies II: peasants enter urban labor markets -- The urban rationing regime II: coping outside it and alternate citizenship.

ISBN

• 0520213475 (alk. paper)
• 0520217969 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98008337^

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Harvard Library