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One Country, Two Societies(Updated)
Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China (Harvard Contemporary China Series)
by Jennifer Adams, Arianne Gaetano, Lei Guang, Emily Hannum, Hu Xiaojiang, Fanmin Kong, Li Limei, Li Shi, Hanchao Lu, Luo Chuliang, Rachel Murphy, Miguel Salazar, Terry Sicular, Wang Feng, Björn Gustafsson, Meiyan Wang, Winnie Yip, Yue Ximing, Martin King Whyte, Li Si-Ming, Fei-Ling Wang, Wu Jieh-Min, Bjoern Gustafsson
Paperback, 460 Pages, Published 2010 by Harvard University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-03632-1, ISBN: 0-674-03632-8
" This timely and important collection of original essays analyzes China’s foremost social cleavage: the rural-urban gap. It is now clear that the Chinese communist revolution, though professing dedication to an egalitarian society, in practice created a rural order akin to serfdom, in which 80 percent of the population was effectively bound to the land. China is still struggling with that legacy. The reforms of 1978 changed basic aspect ..."
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