Social Stratification In Chinese Societies

✍ Scribed by Chan Kwok-Bun; Agnes S. Ku; Chu Yin-wah

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 284
Series: Social Transformations In Chinese Societies
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The annual is a venue of publication for sociological studies of Chinese societies and the Chinese all over the world. The main focus is on social transformations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the mainland, Singapore and Chinese overseas.

✦ Table of Contents

From the Editor
Authors' Biographies
Special Focus: Social Stratification in Chinese Societies Guest Editor: Wu Xiaogang
Introduction: Institution, Culture, and Social Stratification: Towards a Comparative Study of Chinese Societies (Wu Xiaogang)
How Angry Are Chinese Citizens About Current Inequalities? Evidence from A National Survey (Martin King Whyte and Guo Maocan)
Durable Inequality: Who Are China's New Urban Poor? (Wang Feng, Tai Tsui-o and Wang Youjuan)
The Transformation of the Chinese Class Structure, 1978–2005 (Lin Thunghong and Wu Xiaogang)
The Effects of Human Capital on Job Promotions in Taiwan: A Comparison of Schooling, Tenure and Training (Tsay Ruey-Ming, Jennifer Yeh Hsiu-Jen and Chuang Chih-Chia)
Hong Kong's Changing Opportunity Structures: Political Concerns and Sociological Observations (Lui Tai-lok)
Articles
Cultural Localization and Its Local Discontents: Contested Evaluations of Cantopop Electronic Dance Music (Matthew M. Chew)
A Comparative Study on the Corporatization of Higher Education in Hong Kong and Singapore (David Chan Kin-keung)
Researching Korean Children's Schooling Experience Behind the Model Minority Stereotype in China: An Ethnographic Approach (Gao Fang)
Book Reviews
Women in China's Long Twentieth Century, by Gail Hershatter (Gina Lai)
The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage, by Alexandra Harney (Pun Ngai)
Colonial Hong Kong and Modern China: Interaction and Reintegration, edited by Lee Pui-tak (Lars Peter Laamann)
The First Decade: The Hong Kong SAR in Retrospective and Introspective Perspectives, edited by Yeung Yue-man (Marcus Chu)
In Search of an Identity: The Politics of History as a School Subject in Hong Kong, 1960s–2005, by Edward Vickers (Bernard H.K. Luk)
Transnational Identities and Practices in Canada, edited by Vic Satzewich and Lloyd Wong (Janet Salaff)
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