The New Middle Class in China: Consumption, Politics and the Market Economy

by E. Tsang

Overview

Based on interviews with entrepreneurs, professionals and regional party cadres' from a range of age groups, this book argues that Western class categories do not directly apply to China and that the Chinese new middle class is distinguished more by socio-cultural than by economic factors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349346455
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Series:	Frontiers of Globalization
Edition description:	1st ed. 2014
Pages:	225
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Eileen Yuk-Ha Tsang is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong

Table of Contents

Introduction: China Engages the Middle Class Society in the 21st Century? (Re) Framing Class Analysis in Post-Reform China Class Boundaries of the Older Generation of the Chinese New Middle Class Generational Effects in the Chinese New Middle Class Guanxi Networks and the Chinese New Middle Class Middle Class Culture and Political Development Conclusion: A China in the Making with a New Middle Class?