Polarized cities : portraits of rich and poor in urban China
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Polarized cities : portraits of rich and poor in urban China
Rowman & Littlefield, c2019
- : pbk
- : cloth
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: State Policies, Castes, and Agency
Dorothy J. Solinger
Part I: Polarization: Scope, Causes, Manifestations
1 China's Uphill Battle Against Inequality
Wang Feng
2 Convergence and Divergence Among the Rich and the Poor
Li Zhang
Part II: Portraits of the Urban Poor
3 Banish the Impoverished Past: The Predicament of the Abandoned Urban Poor
Dorothy J. Solinger
4 The Passionate Poor: Foxconn Workers Invited as Volunteers
Mun Young Cho
5 On the Rough Edge of Prosperity: Informal Migrant Recyclers in Beijing
Joshua Goldstein
Part III: The Upper Reaches of the Urban Rich
6 China's Party Kings: Shanghai Club Cultures and Status Consumption, 1920s-2010s
Andrew David Field and James Farrer
7 Corruption, Anti-Corruption, and the Dynamics of Class: Formation in Post-Mao China
John Osburg
Urban Polarities: Inequality, Social Mobility, and the Role of the State
David S. G. Goodman
About the Contributors
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