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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 Missing Information?
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