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A general expectation has developed that China's middle class will generate not only social but also political change. This expectation often overlooks the reality that there is no single Chinese middle class with a common identity or will to action. This timely volume examines the behaviour and identity of the different elements of China's middle class entrepreneurs, managers, and professionals in order to understand their centrality to the wider processes of social and political change in China. The expert contributors seek to identify the social space occupied by the Chinese middle class rather than identifying social backgrounds and attitudes. In so doing they explore socio-political issues, the development of a consumer society, relationships between gender and class in the workplace, home-ownership and the appearance of gated communities, and the political interaction between the Party-state and the entrepreneurial middle classes and their impact on the new institutional economics. Providing a more nuanced understanding of the structure of the middle class in China and identifying dynamic elements in their behaviour, this unique book will prove a fascinating and thought provoking read for academics, students and researchers with an interest in Asian studies and public policy

A general expectation has developed that China's middle class will generate not only social but also political change. This expectation often overlooks the reality that there is no single Chinese middle class with a common identity or will to action. This timely volume examines the behaviour and identity of the different elements of China's middle class - entrepreneurs, managers, and professionals - in order to understand their centrality to the wider processes of social and political change in China. The expert contributors seek to identify the social space occupied by the Chinese middle clas

Existing scholarship regards the collusion between the Chinese government and the private sector as 'informal' and a series of 'economic alliances', without considering the private sector's institutionalized participation in the process of government policy formulation. This article takes an alternative perspective and examines such institutionalized efforts in interest expression and policy promotion. In the authoritarian regime, state institutions that previously functioned to co-opt and corporatize the private sector have also become forums in which private entrepreneurs can have an impact on policy-making. This change results from the state's initiative in developing formal channels of participation based on the united front work remnant and interaction between 'state control' and the 'business lobby'. The shift from 'state control' to the 'business lobby' reveals a unique pathway for private interest to have an impact on public policy formulation.

Academic commentary has long emphasised the asymmetry in Mexico-China relations. In particular, much attention has focussed since the early 1990s particularly from the Mexican side on the economic imbalance in trade and investment that has become and remains acute with the expansion of the economy of the People's Republic of China. This is though far from the only sense in which the relationship between the two countries is asymmetrical. There is also a severe imbalance in the relative importance of politics and economics as determinants of this relationship for both China and Mexico. The Mexican Government seems to be more concerned with its economic relationship with China. In contrast, the PRC Government seems more concerned with its political relationship with Mexico. Moreover, there is a further asymmetry in the respective significance that each appears to have to the other as a partner. Mexico plays a small role in China's outlook but China looms large in Mexico's worldview. Identification of a number of cross-cutting asymmetrical relationships suggests that a bilateral perspective may not be the most effective for understanding the interaction or potential interaction between Mexico and China. On the contrary, there is more logic to the elements of cooperation and conflict between Mexico and China when their relationship is viewed in the wider, multilateral context of globalisation. (Pac Rev/GIGA)

This book focuses on a representative group of contemporary Chinese female celebrities including actors, directors, writers and reports, notably personalities such as Liu Xiaoqing, Hong Huang, Chai Jing and the most sought after young generation actors, Yang Mi and Guan Xiaotong. It analyzes the on- and off-screen roles of these famous Chinese women,a nd the cultural, gender and social impact and significance embedded in them, whilst highlighting controversial social and cultural concerns and debates in contemporary China. The book furthers the understanding of the role played by contemporary female celebrities who are considered as social, cultural and feminist icons in present-day China, as reflected in their work, careers and private lives, and whose experiences help to understand Chinese women's attitudes towards key issues such as career trajectories, marriage and family, gender identity, social changes, civil debates and political transformations, all of which are at the center of societal transformation in China

Introduction: Class and Stratification in the People's Republic of China - Yingjie Guo, S. 1. - PART I HISTORY. - 1. Reconfiguring China's Class Order after the 1949 Revolution - Joel Andreas, S. 21. - 2. The Cultural Revolution: Class, Culture and Revolution - Mobo Gao, S. 44. - 3. Class and Inequality in the Post-Mao Era - Li Chunling, S. 59. - PART II DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND CLASS FORMATION. - 4. State Power as a Determinant of Life Chances - Yingjie Gao, S. 85. - 5. Cultural Politics of Class: Workers and Peasants as Historical Subjects - Wanning Sun, S. 107. - 6. Women's Social Mobility in China: Marriage and Class - Song Yu, S. 128. - 7. Ethnic Minority Status, Class, and the Urban Labour Market - Reza Hasmath, S. 142. - PART III WELFARE INDEXES. - 8. Education, Social Stratification and Class in China - Liang Du, S. 161. - 9. The High School Entrance Exam And/As Class Sorter: Working Class Youth and the HSEE in Contemporary China - T. E. Woronov, S. 178. - 10. Housing China's Inequality - Luigi Tomba, S. 197. - 11. Class, Stratification and Health Inequities in Contemporary China - Beatriz Carrillo Garcia, S. 213. - PART IV THE RULING CLASS. - 12. China's Emerging Ruling Class: Power, Wealth, and Status under Market Socialism - David S. G. Goodman, S. 243. - 13. China's Top Leading Cadres: More Red, Expert, or Gold? - Peng Lu, S. 262. - PART V MIDDLE CLASSES. - 14. Transformation of China's Socialist Brick: Reproduction and Circulation of Ordinary Cadres - Peng Lu, S. 279. - 15. The Growth of Chinese Professionals: A New Middle Class in the Making - Zhuoni Zhang and Xiaogang Wu, S. 292. - 16. China's Private Entrepreneurs and the Party-state: Mutual Dependence and Political Institutionalization - Minglu Chen, S. 314. - PART VI WORKING CLASSES. - 17. Working Class Re-formation and De-formation in the PRC - Marc Blecher, S. 335. - 18. China's Rural Migrant Workers and Labour Politics - Jenny Chan and Mark Selden, S. 362. - 19. A Predictable End? C