Organizing Through Division and Exclusion: China's Hukou System

by Fei-Ling Wang

This book is the first comprehensive examination of China's hukou (household registration) system. The hukou system registers and governs the 1.3 billion Chinese, while creating deep and rigid divisions and exclusions; in many domains the system determines how the Chinese live and shapes China's sociopolitical structure and socioeconomic development. This book shows that the system has made both positive and negative contributions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804750394
• ISBN13: 9780804750394
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"