This comprehensive and interdisciplinary Handbook illustrates the patterns of class transformation in China since 1949, situating them in their historical conte

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Presents an up-to-date look at the social processes and consequences of China's rapid economic growth.

This 1984 book deals with those social transformations which occurred in Chinese society since the revolution in 1949. During the 1950s the Chinese Communist Pa

There have been two great shifts of power on the world stage during the past five centuries: the rise of Europe following the Industrial Revolution, and the ris