One Country, Two Societies : : Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China / / ed. by Martin K. Whyte.

• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Jennifer,; Chuliang, Luo,; Feng, Wang,; Gaetano, Arianne,; Guang, Lei,; Gustafsson, Björn A.,; Gustafsson, Björn,; Hannum, Emi Ly,; Hannum, Emily,; Hu, Xiaojiang,; Iang, Luo Chul,; Jieh-Min, Wu,; Kong, Fanmin,; Limei, Li,; Lu, Hanchao,; Murphy, Rachel,; Salazar, Miguel A.,; Salazar, Miguel,; Shi, Li,; Si-Ming, Li,; Si-ming, Li,; Sicular, Terry,; Wang, Fei-Ling,; Wang, Fei-ling,; Wang, Meiyan,; Whyte, Martin King,; Wu, Jieh-min,; Xiaojiang, Hu,; Ximing, Yue,; Yip, Winnie,
• HerausgeberIn: Whyte, Martin K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard Contemporary China Series ; 16
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (460 p.)

This timely and important collection of original essays analyzes China’s foremost social cleavage: the rural–urban gap. It is now clear that the Chinese communist revolution, though professing dedication to an egalitarian society, in practice created a rural order akin to serfdom, in which 80 percen...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• 1 The Paradoxes of Rural- Urban In e quality in Contemporary China
• I China’s Rural- Urban Gap: Setting the Context
• 2 Small- Town China: A Historical Perspective on Rural- Urban Relations
• 3 Rural Migrant Workers and China’s Differential Citizenship: A Comparative Institutional Analysis
• II China’s Rural- Urban Income Gap
• 4 How Large Is China’s Rural- Urban Income Gap?
• 5 Reestimating the Income Gap between Urban and Rural House holds in China
• III The Rural- Urban Gap in Access to Social Resources
• 6 Rural- Urban Disparities in Access to Primary and Secondary Education under Market Reforms
• 7 Disparities in Health Care and Health Status: The Rural- Urban Gap and Beyond
• 8 The Narrowing Digital Divide: A View from Rural China
• 9 The Impact of Variations in Urban Registration within Cities
• IV The Experience of Being a Migrant in Contemporary China
• 10 Boundaries of Inequality: Perceptions of Distributive Justice among Urbanities, Migrants, and Peasants
• 11 Rural Prejudice and Gender Discrimination in China’s Urban Job Market
• 12 Gender and Citizenship Inequality: The Story of Two Migrant Women
• 13 Ethnicity, Rurality, and Status: Hukou and the Institutional and Cultural Determinants of Social Status in Tibet
• V Evolving Policy toward Rural Migrants and the Rural- Urban Gap
• 14 Bringing the City Back In: The Chinese Debate on Rural Problems
• 15 Renovating the Great Floodgate: The Reform of China’s Hukou System
• Notes
• Contributors