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The Making of the Chinese Middle Class. Small Comfort and Great Expectations.
Jean-Louis Rocca
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Description for The Making of the Chinese Middle Class. Small Comfort and Great Expectations.
Hardback. Series: The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy. Num Pages: 281 pages, 3 colour illustrations, 3 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPR; 3JM; JFSC; JPA; KCM; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 514.
This book analyses the making of the Chinese middle class that started in the 1990s using a constructivist approach. With the development of the Chinese economy, a new group of middle wage earners appeared. Chinese social scientists and state institutions promoted the idea that China needs a middle class to achieve modernization. Middle class members are defined—and define themselves—as good consumers, educated people, politically engaged but reasonable citizens. As such, the making of the middle class is the result of three convergent phenomena: an attempt to define the middle class, a process of civilization, and the development of protest movements. ... Read more
This book analyses the making of the Chinese middle class that started in the 1990s using a constructivist approach. With the development of the Chinese economy, a new group of middle wage earners appeared. Chinese social scientists and state institutions promoted the idea that China needs a middle class to achieve modernization. Middle class members are defined—and define themselves—as good consumers, educated people, politically engaged but reasonable citizens. As such, the making of the middle class is the result of three convergent phenomena: an attempt to define the middle class, a process of civilization, and the development of protest movements. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
281
Condition
New
Series
The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy
Number of Pages
281
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137393388
SKU
V9781137393388
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About Jean-Louis Rocca
Jean-Louis Rocca is Professor at Sciences Po, France, and Researcher at the Center for International Studies, Sciences Po, France. A specialist of Chinese society, he is the author of A Sociology of Modern China (2015) and co-author (with Françoise Mengin) of Politics in China: Moving Frontiers (2002). Rocca is member of the editorial board of The China Quarterly.
Reviews for The Making of the Chinese Middle Class. Small Comfort and Great Expectations.
“A major contribution to the literature not only on the middle-class phenomenon in China, but also on the industrialized and industrializing world's understandings of class more generally. It will be useful reading for students on courses in China studies, sociology and politics, and should be mandatory for any researcher interested in social change in China, not only for its analysis ... Read more