1st Edition
Class and the Communist Party of China, 1978-2021 Reform and Market Socialism
Introduction: Class, Stratification, Market Socialism
David S G Goodman
1. Class in Themselves and Classes for Themselves: Social Consciousness Divorced from Social Existence
Yingjie Guo
2. Class and Social Mobility: Stratification and Social Change since 1978
Beibei Tang
3. The Performance of Class: Lifestyles and Behaviour
Beibei Tang
4. The Peasant Class under the Impact of Industrialisation, Urbanisation, and Household Registration
Yingjie Guo
5. Economic Growth and Working Class Decline: Structural reform and social change after 1978
Marc Blecher
6. The Middle Class in Reforming China: The dream of a classless society
Jean-Louis Rocca
7. The Dominant Class after 1978: Elite Persistence and the Ironies of Social Change
David S G Goodman
Biography
Marc Blecher is James Monroe Professor of Politics and East Asian Studies at Oberlin College, USA.
David S. G. Goodman is Professor of Chinese Politics and Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Yingjie Guo is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Jean-Louis Rocca is a professor and researcher at the Center for International Studies, Sciences Po Paris, France.
Beibei Tang is Senior Associate Professor in the Department of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China.
