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Making Class and Place in Contemporary China

Gilded Age, 2018, p.40

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Making Class and Place in Contemporary China
Author: Roberta Zavoretti
Ivan Franceschini ; Nicholas Loubere
Subjects: Behavioral sciences ; Cities ; Citizenship ; Civics ; Economic disciplines ; Economic liberalism ; Economic theory ; Economics ; Employment ; Housing ; Human geography ; Human societies ; Labor ; Labor economics ; Metropolitan areas ; Migrant labor ; Political geography ; Political science ; Social dynamics ; Social inequality ; Social sciences ; Sociology ; Workforce
Is Part Of: Gilded Age, 2018, p.40
Description: In the People’s Republic of China the media, official state policies, and propaganda, as well as the policies of market organisations, define rural-to-urban migrants (nongmingong) as essentially lacking ‘human quality’ (suzhi). They are depicted as being poor, uncivilised, backwards, and hopelessly bound to their rural roots. In China, thenongmingongparadigm also evokes the spectre of Maoist egalitarianism. This implicitly reminds Chinese people that post-Mao inequality should be recognised as the motor of ‘development’, and that it has allowed people to get rich or, to paraphrase Deng Xiaoping, it has allowed some to ‘get rich first’. Western media and academia
Publisher: ANU Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 1760461989
ISBN: 9781760461980
EISBN: 1760461997
EISBN: 9781760461997
Source: DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books
JSTOR eBooks: Open Access

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