03030nam a2200289Ia 4500 308316 20160527185747.0 120426s2010 dcua b 001 0 eng 2010037417 9780815704058 (pbk. : alk. paper) ocn491905343 (OCoLC)491905343 DLC DLC YDX BTCTA YDXCP DBI CDX IOG PBR PBRA sl slci rec l HT690.C55 C398 2010 305.550951 C5395 22 China's emerging middle class beyond economic transformation Cheng Li, editor. China's emerging middle class Washington, D.C. Brookings Institution Press c2010. xviii, 396 p. ill. 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-372) and index. Foreword / Kenneth Lieberthal -- PART 1. The Global Significance of China's Emerging Middle Class -- 1. Introduction : the rise of the middle class in the Middle Kingdom / Cheng Li -- 2. The new global middle class : a crossover from West to East / Homi Kharas and Geoffrey Gertz -- PART II. The Chinese Perspective : Social Stratification and Political Ideology -- 3. Chinese scholarship on the middle class : from social stratification to political potential / Cheng Li -- 4. Globalization, social transformation, and the construction of China's middle class / Zhou Xiaohong and Qin Chen -- 5. The Chinese middle class and xiaokang society / Lu Hanlong -- PART III. Issues of Definition : Compositional Differences and Internal Divisions in China's Middle Class -- 6. Characterizing China's middle class : heterogeneous composition and multiple identities / Li Chunling -- 7. China's new upper middle classes : the importance of occupational disaggregation / Jianying Wang and Deborah Davis -- PART IV. Expanding China's Middle Class : Housing Reform and Educational Development -- 8. China's housing reform and emerging middle class / Joyce Yanyun Man -- 9. The housing effect : the making of China's social distinctions / Luigi Tomba -- 10. Higher education expansion and China's middle class / Jiang Lin and Xiaoyan Sun -- PART V. The Chinese Middle Class in Comparative Perspective -- 11. Placing China's middle class in the Asia-Pacific context / Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao -- 12. Middle-class grassroots identity and participation in citizen initiatives, China and South Korea / Han Sang-Jin -- PART VI. China's Middle Class : An Agent of the Status Quo or a Force for Change? -- 13. China's cooperative capitalists : the business end of the middle class / Bruce J. Dickson -- 14. What do Chinese lawyers want? Political values and legal practice / Ethan Michelson and Sida Liu -- 15. Attitudes toward democracy and the political behavior of China's middle class / Jie Chen Middle class China. 136190 Local China Economic conditions 2000- 32106 LEMB China Social conditions 2000- 32106 LEMB Li, Cheng 1956- 246270 Local 226506 226506 0 0 ddc 0 305_550951000000000_C5395 0 evl 94741 10 10 1 2016-05-27 AbeBooks 32.64 493953 0 305.550951 C5395 80000002462540 2016-05-27 00:00:00 r:308316 z:Presup. 2011-12 6