Chinese Urban Life Under Reform: The Changing Social Contract

By Wenfang Tang

Book Overview

This book provides a rare glimpse into how the Chinese urban population is experiencing the rapid shift from a planned to a market economy. The authors, using a dozen recent national social surveys, give voice to workers, civil servants, intellectuals, and women, who report their grievances and joys at home, at work, and in the public sphere. With fresh data on newly emerging patterns of economic inequality, labor-management relations, popular grievances, political participation, and gender inequality, the book comprehensively analyzes how the shifting social contract influences ordinary people's lives. With comparative data from the more market-based Taiwan, the book illuminates the directions in which China might be headed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521778654
• ISBN13: 9780521778657
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

very valuable information

The authors gathered a massive amount of data of their own and also used previously published statistics to describe "life under reform." For anyone interested in China or in the effects of reform on any socialist society, this book has valuable information. It offers details that a non-Chinese expert can really value. Recommend for people studying transitions in Eastern Europe besides just Asian scholars.