Middle Class China: Identity and Behaviour (CSC China Perspectives series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781005702 ISBN 13: 9781781005705

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

A general expectation has developed that China's middle class will generate not only social but also political change. This expectation often overlooks the reality that there is no single Chinese middle class with a common identity or will to action. This timely volume examines the behaviour and identity of the different elements of China's middle class entrepreneurs, managers, and professionals - in order to understand their centrality to the wider processes of social and political change in China.

The expert contributors seek to identify the social space occupied by the Chinese middle class rather than identifying social backgrounds and attitudes. In so doing they explore socio-political issues, the development of a consumer society, relationships between gender and class in the workplace, home-ownership and the appearance of gated communities, and the political interaction between the Party-state and the entrepreneurial middle classes and their impact on the new institutional economics.

Providing a more nuanced understanding of the structure of the middle class in China and identifying dynamic elements in their behaviour, this unique book will prove a fascinating and thought provoking read for academics, students and researchers with an interest in Asian studies and public policy.

Contributors include: C. Cartier, M. Chen, L. Chunling, D.S.G. Goodman, H. Hendrischke, D. Jianzhong, Y. Jing, J. Liu, J.L. Rocca, B. Tang, J. Unger

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Edited by Minglu Chen and David S.G. Goodman, University of Sydney, Australia

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781005702
• ISBN 13: 9781781005705
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Chen Minglu, Goodman David S.G.