Contesting citizenship in urban China : peasant migrants, the state, and the logic of the market

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Contesting citizenship in urban China : peasant migrants, the state, and the logic of the market

Dorothy J. Solinger

(Studies of the East Asian Institute)

University of California Press, c1999

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-412) and index

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: hbk ISBN 9780520213470

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Post-Mao market reforms in China have led to a massive migration of rural peasants toward the cities. Officially denied residency in the cities, the over 80 million members of this "floating population" provide labor for the economic boom in urban areas but are largely denied government benefits that city residents receive. In an incisive and original study that goes against the grain of much of the current discussion on citizenship, Dorothy J. Solinger challenges the notion that markets necessarily promote rights and legal equality in any direct or linear fashion.
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: pbk ISBN 9780520217966

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Post-Mao market reforms in China have led to a massive migration of rural peasants toward the cities. Officially denied residency in the cities, the over 80 million members of this "floating population" provide labor for the economic boom in urban areas but are largely denied government benefits that city residents receive. In an incisive and original study that goes against the grain of much of the current discussion on citizenship, Dorothy J. Solinger challenges the notion that markets necessarily promote rights and legal equality in any direct or linear fashion.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Citizenship, Markets, and the State Appendix: What Is the Floating Population? PART ONE: STRUCTURE 2 State Policies I: Turning Peasants into Subjects 3 Urban Bureaucracies I: Migrants and Institutional Change 4 The Urban Rationing Regime I: Prejudice and Public Goods PART TWO: AGENCY 5 State Policies II: The Floating Population Leaves Its Rural Origins 6 Urban Bureaucracies II: Peasants Enter Urban Labor Markets 7 The Urban Rationing Regime II: Coping Outside It and Alternate Citizenship Conclusion: Floating to Where? Citizenship and the Logic of the Market in a Time of Systemic Transition Notes Bibliography Index

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