(Hardback)

This powerful book brings to life the human dimension of the social and economic divides in urban China. Leading scholars explore the increasing rigidity of class and social boundaries and analyze of the process of polarization and its outcomes by focusing on two new castes in contemporary Chinathe extravagantly wealthy and the profoundly poor.

(Paperback)

This powerful book brings to life the human dimension of the social and economic divides in urban China. Leading scholars explore the increasing rigidity of class and social boundaries and analyze of the process of polarization and its outcomes by focusing on two new castes in contemporary Chinathe extravagantly wealthy and the profoundly poor.