1st Edition
Unequal China The political economy and cultural politics of inequality
Introduction, Wanning Sun and Yingjie Guo 1. Political power and social inequality: the impact of the state, Yingjie Guo 2. Inequality and culture: a new pathway to understanding social inequality, Wanning Sun 3. Between social justice and social order: the framing of inequality, David Kelly 4. Temporality as trope in delineating inequality: progress for the prosperous, time warp for the poor, Dorothy Solinger 5. Uneven development and the time/space economy, Carolyn Cartier 6. The great divide: institutionalized inequality in market socialism, Beibei Tang and Luigi Tomba 7. Education and inequality: education and equality, Andrew Kipnis 8. (In)equality under the law in China today, Colin Hawes 9. Between entitlement and stigmatization: the lessons of HIV/AIDS for China’s medical reform, Johanna Hood 10. Grassroots activism: non-normative sexual politics in post-socialist China, Lisa Rofel 11. Gender as a categorical source of property inequality in urbanizing China, Sally Sargeson 12. Law of the land or land law? notions of inequality and inequity in rural Anhui , Graeme Smith 13. Conclusion: What’s wrong with inequality: power, culture and opportunity, David S. G. Goodman
Biography
Wanning Sun is Professor of Chinese Media and Cultural Studies in the China Research Centre at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.
Yingjie Guo is Associate Professor in Chinese Studies at University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.
