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,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521778654
• ISBN13: 9780521778657
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 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.