Title & Author:

One country, two societies : rural-urban inequality in contemporary China / edited by Martin King Whyte.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.

Description:

xi, 445 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Series:

Harvard contemporary China series ; 16

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
The paradoxes of rural-urban inequality in contemporary China / Martin King Whyte -- Small-town China : a historical perspective on rural-urban relations / Hanchao Lu -- Rural migrant workers and China's differential citizenship : a comparative institutional analysis / Wu Jieh-min -- How large is China's urban-rural income gap? / Terry Sicular [and others] -- Reestimating the income gap between urban and rural households in China / Li Shi and Luo Chuliang -- Rural-urban disparities in access to primary and secondary education under market reforms / Emily Hannum, Meiyan Wang, and Jennifer Adams -- Disparities in health care and health status : the rural-urban gap and beyond / Winnie Yip -- The narrowing digital divide : a view from rural China / Rachel Murphy -- The impact of variations in urban registration within cities / Li Limei and Li Si-ming -- Boundaries of inequality : perceptions of distributive justice among urbanites, migrants, and peasants / Wang Feng -- Rural prejudice and gender discrimination in China's urban job market / Lei Guang and Fanmin Kong -- Gender and citizenship inequality: the story of two migrant women / Arianne Gaetano -- Ethnicity, rurality, and status : Hukou and the institutional and cultural determinants of social status in Tibet / Xiaojiang Hu and Miguel A. Salazar -- Bringing the city back in : the Chinese debate on rural problems / Lei Guang -- Renovating the great floodgate : the reform of China's Hukou system / Fei-ling Wang.
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Summary:

This timely and important collection of original essays analyses China's foremost social cleavage: the rural-urban gap. The contributors examine the historical background or rural-urban relations; and the size and trend in the income gap between rural and urban residents in recent years.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780674036307
0674036301
9780674036321 (pbk.)
0674036328 (pbk.)

Subject:

Landflucht
Cities and towns China Congresses.
Villages China Congresses.
Rural-urban migration China Congresses.
Villes Chine Congrès.
Villages Chine Congrès.
Exode rural Chine Congrès.
71.60 social problems and social conflicts: general.
71.14 urban society.
Cities and towns.
Rural conditions.
Rural-urban migration.
Social conditions
Villages.
Stadt
Ländlicher Raum
Ungleichheit
Gesellschaft
Entwicklung
Urban sociology.
Agricultural sociology.
Social problems.
Social inequality.
Migration (demography)
Social situation.
Stadt Land China.
Soziale Gleichheit China.
Equality China.
China Rural conditions Congresses.
China Social conditions 1949- Congresses.
Chine Conditions sociales 1949- Congrès.
China.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Conference papers (document genres)
Essays.
Conference papers and proceedings.

Added entries:

Whyte, Martin King.
Harvard contemporary China series ; 16.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266536
Call No.: BIB 198463
Status: Available