Harvard University Press (February 25, 2010)
Harvard Contemporary China Series 16
One Country, Two Societies
Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China
Edited by Martin King Whyte
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Publication Date: 02/25/2010
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460 pages
6 x 9 inches
1 map, 12 charts, 60 tables
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HISTORY: Asia: China
HISTORY: Modern: 20th Century
SOCIAL SCIENCE: Sociology: Rural
SOCIAL SCIENCE: Sociology: Urban
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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 percent of the population was effectively bound to the land. China is still struggling with that legacy. The reforms of 1978 changed basic aspects of economic and social life in China’s villages and cities and altered the nature of the rural-urban relationship. But some important institutions and practices have changed only marginally or not at all, and China is still sharply divided into rural and urban castes with different rights and opportunities in life, resulting in growing social tensions.
The contributors, many of whom conducted extensive fieldwork, examine the historical background of rural–urban relations; the size and trend in the income gap between rural and urban residents in recent years; aspects of inequality apart from income (access to education and medical care, the digital divide, housing quality and location); experiences of discrimination, particularly among urban migrants; and conceptual and policy debates in China regarding the status and treatment of rural residents and urban migrants.
Preface
1. The Paradoxes of Rural–Urban Inequality in Contemporary China [Martin King Whyte]
I. China’s Rural–Urban Gap: Setting the Context
2. Small-Town China: A Historical Perspective on Rural–Urban Relations [Hanchao Lu]
3. Rural Migrant Workers and China’s Differential Citizenship: A Comparative Institutional Analysis [Wu Jieh-min]
II. China’s Rural–Urban Income Gap
4. How Large Is China’s Rural–Urban Income Gap? [Terry Sicular, Yue Ximing, Björn A. Gustafsson, and Li Shi]
5. Reestimating the Income Gap between Urban and Rural Households in China [Li Shi and Luo Chuliang]
III. The Rural–Urban Gap in Access to Social Resources
6. Rural–Urban Disparities in Access to Primary and Secondary Education under Market Reforms [Emily Hannum, Meiyan Wang, and Jennifer Adams]
7. Disparities in Health Care and Health Status: The Rural–Urban Gap and Beyond [Winnie Yip]
8. The Narrowing Digital Divide: A View from Rural China [Rachel Murphy]
9. The Impact of Variations in Urban Registration within Cities [Li Limei and Li Si-ming]
IV. The Experience of Being a Migrant in Contemporary China
10. Boundaries of Inequality: Perceptions of Distributive Justice among Urbanites, Migrants, and Peasants [Wang Feng]
11. Rural Prejudice and Gender Discrimination in China’s Urban Job Market [Lei Guang and Fanmin Kong]
12. Gender and Citizenship Inequality: The Story of Two Migrant Women [Arianne Gaetano]
13. Ethnicity, Rurality, and Status: Hukou and the Institutional and Cultural Determinants of Social Status in Tibet [Xiaojiang Hu and Miguel A. Salazar]
V. Evolving Policy toward Rural Migrants and the Rural–Urban Gap
14. Bringing the City Back In: The Chinese Debate on Rural Problems [Lei Guang]
15. Renovating the Great Floodgate: The Reform of China’s Hukou System [Fei-Ling Wang]
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