Polarized Cities
Regular price
€47.99
Asian studies
Billionaires
caste
Category=JP
Chinese cities
Chinese economic inequality
Chinese poverty
Chinese state
Chinese urban studies
class
Class dynamics
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Fuerdai kids
Inequality
Internal migrants
Poor
Poor Chinese
Poverty
Rich Chinese
Rich second generation
social mobility
Social polarization
Society
Urban
Wealth
Product details
- ISBN 9781538116487
- Weight: 322g
- Dimensions: 152 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 14 Sep 2018
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
This powerful book presents a fresh and compelling set of portraits that bring to life the human dimension of the vast and growing social and economic divides in urban China. Leading scholars explore the increasing rigidity of class and social boundaries, focusing on two new “castes” in contemporary China’s cities—the immensely wealthy and the abjectly poor. Much has been made of the rise in incomes, the elimination of much rural poverty, and the expansion of an urban middle class over almost forty years of spectacular economic growth. But what often has been overlooked is the polarization, exclusion, and exclusiveness in cities that have accompanied this rise, along with the threat that these trends will extend to future generations. The book considers five cases that emblematize these castes and depict their varying degrees of agency. Highlighting the social groups at opposite ends of the social hierarchy, the contributors illuminate the growing inequality in urban China today.
Dorothy J. Solinger is professor emerita of political science at the University of California, Irvine.
