Research Catalog

Title

Social stratification in Chinese societies / editors, Chan Kwok-bun, Agnes S. Ku, Chu Yin-wah ; book review editors, Ruan Danching and Wang Cangbai ; editorial assistant, Vivien W.W. Chan ; Guest editor, Wu Xiaogang.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Chan, Kwok B.
• Ku, Agnes S. M.
• Chu, Yin-wah.
• Ruan, Danching.
• Wang, Cangbai.
• Chan, Vivien W. W.
• Wu, Xiaogang, 1969-

Description

xiv, 268 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Social transformations in Chinese societies, 1871-2673 ; v. 5

Uniform Title

Social transformations in Chinese societies ; v. 5.

Subject

• Social stratification > China
• Social classes > China
• Social classes
• Social stratification
• Soziale Schichtung
• China

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Institution, culture, and social stratification : towards a comparative study of Chinese societies / Wu Xiaogang -- How angry are Chinese citizens about current inequalities? : evidence from a national survey / Martin King White and Guo Maocan -- Durable inequality : who are China's new urban poor? / Wang Feng, Tai Tsui-o and Wang Uoujuan -- The transformation of the Chinese class structure, 1978-2005 / Lin Thunghong and Wu Xiaogang -- The effects of human capital on job promotions in Taiwan : a comparison of schooling, tenure and training / Tsay Ruey-Ming, Jennifer Yeh Hsiu-Jen and Chuang Chih-Chia -- Hong Kong's changing opportunity structures : political concerns and sociological observations / Lui Tai-Lok -- Cultural location and its local discontents : contested evaluations of cantopop electronic dance music / Matthew M. Chew -- A comparative study on the corporatization of higher education in Hong Kong and Singapore / David Chan Kin-Keung -- Researching Korean children's schooling experience behind the model minority stereotype in China : an ethnographica approach / Gao Fang.
• Book reviews: Women in China's long twentieth century, by Gail Hershatter / Gina Lai -- The China price : the true cost of Chinese competitive advantage, by Alexandra Harney / Pun Ngai -- Colonial Hong Kong and modern China : interaction and reintegration, edited by Lee-Pui-tak / Lars Peter Laamann -- The first decade : the Hong Kong SAR in retrospective and introspective perspectives, edited by Yeung Yue-man / Marcus Chu -- In search of an identity : the politics of history as a school subject in Hong Kong, 1960s-2005, bu Edward Vickers / Bernard H.K. Luk -- Transnational identities and practices in Canada, edited by Vic Satzewich and Lloyd Wong / Janet Salaff.

ISBN

• 900418192X
• 9789004181922

LCCN

3120955

OCLC

• ocn634847492
• 634847492
• SCSB-8803604

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library