The New Middle Class in China

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: China Engages a Middle-Class Society in the 21st Century?

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   Pages 1-17

3. (Re) Framing Class Theories: Class Analysis in Post-Reform China

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   Pages 18-54

4. Class Boundaries of the Old Generation of the Chinese New Middle Class

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5. Generational Effects in the Chinese New Middle Class

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6. Guanxi Networks and the Chinese New Middle Class

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7. Class Formation and Political Development

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8. Conclusion: A China in the Making with a New Middle Class?

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9. Back Matter

   Pages 183-225

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Based on interviews with entrepreneurs, professionals and regional party cadres' from a range of age groups, this book argues that Western class categories do not directly apply to China and that the Chinese new middle class is distinguished more by socio-cultural than by economic factors.

• China
• consumption
• culture
• development
• economy
• Generation
• interview
• market economy
• networks
• politics

• City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  Eileen Yuk-Ha Tsang

Eileen Yuk-Ha Tsang  is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong

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