China’s rapid economic transformation is similar in some ways to those that have occurred in other East Asian nations.But the changing structure of perceived class identity that occurs in many rapidly growing economi...China’s rapid economic transformation is similar in some ways to those that have occurred in other East Asian nations.But the changing structure of perceived class identity that occurs in many rapidly growing economies is found to be absent in China,and in fact as China has continued to grow such change as has occurred is found to be downward,despite the immense material improvement there.Objective data on income distribution in China do not explain this phenomenon,but anomalies in China’s urban real-estate market might.展开更多
文摘China’s rapid economic transformation is similar in some ways to those that have occurred in other East Asian nations.But the changing structure of perceived class identity that occurs in many rapidly growing economies is found to be absent in China,and in fact as China has continued to grow such change as has occurred is found to be downward,despite the immense material improvement there.Objective data on income distribution in China do not explain this phenomenon,but anomalies in China’s urban real-estate market might.