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Title: Polarized Cities
Condition: New
EAN: 9781538116470
ISBN: 9781538116470
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 14/09/2018
Item Height: 237mm
Item Length: 159mm
Item Width: 21mm
Item Weight: 445g
Contributor: Dorothy J. Solinger (Edited by)
Author: Dorothy J. Solinger
Language: English
Subtitle: Portraits of Rich and Poor in Urban China
ISBN-10: 1538116472
Description: This powerful book presents a fresh and compelling set of portraits that bring to life the human dimension of the vast and growing social and economic divides in urban China. Leading scholars explore the increasing rigidity of class and social boundaries, focusing on two new “castes” in contemporary China’s cities—the immensely wealthy and the abjectly poor. Much has been made of the rise in incomes, the elimination of much rural poverty, and the expansion of an urban middle class over almost forty years of spectacular economic growth. But what often has been overlooked is the polarization, exclusion, and exclusiveness in cities that have accompanied this rise, along with the threat that these trends will extend to future generations. The book considers five cases that emblematize these castes and depict their varying degrees of agency. Highlighting the social groups at opposite ends of the social hierarchy, the contributors illuminate the growing inequality in urban China today.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Release Year: 2018

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